Letting Stories Breathe by Arthur W Frank

Letting Stories Breathe by Arthur W Frank

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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?

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Letting Stories Breathe by Arthur W Frank

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?
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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ISBN 13 9780226004839
ISBN 10 022600483X
Title Letting Stories Breathe
Author Arthur W Frank
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 2012-10-22
Number of pages 224
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