About this title: In this title, the author draws on accounts of illness by Oliver Sacks, Norman Cousins, Gilda Radner, Steward Alsop, and many others to illustrate that seriously ill people are wounded in both body and voice. He asserts that they need to become storytellers to recover the voices that illness and its treatment have taken away.
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13:9780226259932ISBN:0226259935
Description: Very Good. 0226259935 Quality used book. Clean inside with very little cover wear. Ships quickly with free tracking! Questions or concerns? Contact me or check my feedback. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780226259925ISBN:0226259927
Description: Good+ in Very Good jacket. Light shelfwear to dust jacket. Underlining/notations to less than 10% of pgs. Spine is tight. From Library Journal: "At the conclusion of At the Will of the Body (LJ 3/15/91), Frank (sociology, Univ. of Calgary) wrote that "remission society is new. " Members of this group are those who, like himself, all live with severe illness or disability and know firsthand "the value of the everyday. " In his latest work, Frank expands his narrative from the particular to the ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780226259932ISBN:0226259935
Description: New. Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine; they are wounded storytellers, Frank argues. People tell stories to make sense of their suffering; when they turn their diseases into stories, they find healing. Drawing on the work... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: "university Of Chicago Press (October 15, 1995) "
Date Published: 10/15/1995
ISBN-13:9780226259925ISBN:0226259927
Description: Very Good. 0226259927. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear. Inside pages are clean. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780226259932ISBN:0226259935
Description: New. This work argues that people tell stories in order to make sense of their suffering; ill people are wounded storytellers. Frank recounts a collection of illness stories ranging from the well-known to the private testimonials of people with cancer, chr... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1995-10-15
ISBN-13:9780226259925ISBN:0226259927
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780226259925ISBN:0226259927
Description: F- in F- jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 213 pp, hardbound, 1st printing, close to new--no folds, no creases, no soiling, no markings--NOT EXLIB, NOT PC. read more
"Arthur W. Frank's The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics is not a craft book for writers. It is a meticulously constructed, yet elegant and impassioned, examination of the centrality of storytelling as a way of deriving and communicating meaning, by and among individuals. Frank, a sociologist as well as a cancer and heart attack survivor and memoirist, concerns himself with the stories people tell when serious illness disrupts a life story, severing the present from a past that was supposed to lead elsewhere and a future that no longer seems plausible or even possible. For this work, he is as interested in the stories an individual might tell her friend over the phone as with a published story, with the person listening to the story as with the storyteller. Yet, it is precisely this effort to understand and analyze what happens at the very core of communicating through stories that makes Frank's theoretical lens a helpful writer's tool to reflect on how illness stories work."
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