Inspecting the Interview : a companion / Carsten Junker.

Introduction.-- The Interview as Genre: Notes on Form, Praxeology, and Epistemology.-- Staging Culture and the Interview as Form.-- The Literary Interview and the Critical Interview: History, Uses, and Lessons.-- Little Questions: The Interview and Literary Studies.--Performing the Literary Interview: Body and Decorum.-- The Imagined Interview: A Literary Genre.-- Essayistic Interviews: The Interview as Collaborative Essayism.-- The Secret Subject: Michel Foucault, Death and the Labyrinth, and the Interview as Genre Creating.-- Knowledge and the Interview as Praxis/Practice.-- The Interview as a Philosophical Method: Irritations, Functions, and Potentials.--The Interview as an Assessment Method in Psychology.--Research Interviews as Interaction and Therapeutic Possibility: A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach.--Interviews as Life Writing? A Literary Scholar's Field Notes on Reciprocal Witnessing in an Oral History Project.--Sounds of Democracy: The Interview as an Instrument of Heuristic Attention to Discursive Voices.-- Tech-talk in Oral History: Tracing, Catching, and Capturing Information on Music Technology.

Interviews are omnipresent in scholarship and public discourses. They play a crucial role in various spheres, from collecting research data to providing persons in the public eye a platform in print and online media. Interviews do not only capture a dialogue; they provide a framework in which dialogue gets staged. As such a framework, the interview protocols experiential knowledge and personal experience in certain ways, according interlocutors different degrees of authority to speak. The volume contributes state-of-the-art research on what conclusions can be drawn from these and further reflections for a general assessment of the interview as method and form; it offers fundamental conceptualizations of the interview as a structured and mediated site of knowledge production. Theoreticians and practitioners assembled here conceptualize the interview from perspectives in different fields of the humanities and social sciences such as linguistics, literary and cultural studies, musicology, psychology, and philosophy.