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Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology
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Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology Hardback - 2010

by Arthur W. Frank

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Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us--they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can imagine being. Stories connect people, but they can also disconnect, creating boundaries between people and justifying violence. In Letting Stories Breathe, Arthur W. Frank grapples with this fundamental aspect of our lives, offering both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful method for analyzing them. Along the way he also tells stories: from folktales to research interviews to remembrances.

Frank's unique approach uses literary concepts to ask social scientific questions: how do stories make life good and when do they endanger it? Going beyond theory, he presents a thorough introduction to dialogical narrative analysis, analyzing modes of interpretation, providing specific questions to start analysis, and describing different forms analysis can take. Building on his renowned work exploring the relationship between narrative and illness, Letting Stories Breathe expands Frank's horizons further, offering a compelling perspective on how stories affect human lives.

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  • Title Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology
  • Author Arthur W. Frank
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2010
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226260136 / 0226260135
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Storytelling - Social aspects, Narration (Rhetoric) - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009053092
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.393

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2011, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/29/2010, Page 18

About the author

Arthur W. Frank is professor of sociology at the University of Calgary and the author of At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness; The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics; and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live, the latter two also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology

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