Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines
Edited by Franziska Gygax and Miriam A. Locher
[Studies in Narrative, 20] 2015. vii, 217 pp.
Franziska Gygax
List of John Benjamins publications for which Franziska Gygax plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Articles
2015 “Woundable, around the bounds”: Life (beyond) writing and terminal illness Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines, Gygax, Franziska and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 33–46 | Article
Writing about death and inscribing it into their texts is a way of exploring a realm neither dying autobiographers nor their readers can know about. Since writing about death seems to fall out of the paradigm of representation, writing about it means writing about what cannot be known, and yet, in… read more
2015 Introduction to narrative matters in medical contexts across disciplines Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines, Gygax, Franziska and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
This chapter introduces the collection on Narrative Matters across Disciplines in Medical Contexts and positions the interdisciplinary research subject. The chapter discusses the importance of narrative practices and supports the claim that ‘narrative’ should be given a central position within the… read more