Ethnography and the Representation of Reality

by: Paul Atkinson

edited by: Robert M Emerson

pp. 89-101.

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Todorov: "Vraisemblance: the production of "reality-like" effects - the ways in which an account's "authenticity," grounded in an everyday shared reality, is guaranteed."

...As Todorov also remarks, "there are as many versions of vraisemblance as there are genres." There is, therefore, another facet to such verisimilitude: the extent to which texts recognizably conform to the canons of an appropriate mode of organization for a give genre.

Parallelism: It is abundantly clear that while they differ in many respects, such texts share many similar stylistic devices, used to achieve parallel effects. In the rest of this chapter I intend both to illustrate and to exploit such parallelism.

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