Letting Stories Breathe

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. This title offers both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful method for analyzing them. It uses literary concepts to ask social scientific questions: how do stories make life better, and when do they endanger it? Zusammenfassung Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. This title offers both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful method for analyzing them. It uses literary concepts to ask social scientific questions: how do stories make life better! and when do they endanger it?

Product details

• Authors: Arthur W Frank, Arthur W. Frank, FRANK ARTHUR W, Frank Arthur W.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2012
• EAN: 9780226004839
• ISBN: 978-0-226-00483-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 232 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Folklore, myths & legends, Literary studies: general, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)