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<p>This paper presents narrative-biographic research conducted with participation of women who declare that they have introduced important changes into their lives. The qualitative data was collected using narrative interviews as well as a tool to examine changes in the biographic perspective; namely, <italic>Line of life</italic>. In the presented paper, the authors reconstructed biographical self-creation, meaning the ways of life in which important changes are a central category of a story about life. The authors reconstruct three different ways of narrators’ lives – “spreading one’s wings,” “milestones,” “deus ex machina,” and a case study that describes the process of self-creation and introduction of important changes into a life in more detail.</p>
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This paper presents narrative-biographic research conducted with participation of women who declare that they have introduced important changes into their lives. The qualitative data was collected using narrative interviews as well as a tool to examine changes in the biographic perspective; namely, Line of life. In the presented paper, the authors reconstructed biographical self-creation, meaning the ways of life in which important changes are a central category of a story about life. The authors reconstruct three different ways of narrators’ lives – “spreading one’s wings,” “milestones,” “deus ex machina,” and a case study that describes the process of self-creation and introduction of important changes into a life in more detail.

Spreading one’s Wings, Milestones, Deus ex Machina: Self-creation as a Process of Changing Your Life with the Examples of Narrations Provided by Women

Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications

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This paper presents narrative-biographic research conducted with participation of women who declare that they have introduced important changes into their...

Spreading one’s Wings, Milestones, Deus ex Machina: Self-creation as a Process of Changing Your Life with the Examples of Narrations Provided by Women

Published Online: Nov 20, 2021

Page range: 67 - 84

Received: Jan 29, 2020

Accepted: Jun 11, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2021-0018

Keywords
narrative-biographic research, life changes, women, manners of self-creation

© 2021 Aleksandra Chmielińska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Spreading one’s Wings, Milestones, Deus ex Machina: Self-creation as a Process of Changing Your Life with the Examples of Narrations Provided by Women

Published Online: Nov 20, 2021

Page range: 67 - 84

Received: Jan 29, 2020

Accepted: Jun 11, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2021-0018

Keywordsnarrative-biographic research, life changes, women, manners of self-creation

© 2021 Aleksandra Chmielińska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
narrative-biographic research, life changes, women, manners of self-creation