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Desire without History@@@Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
Jules Law,Peter Brooks +1 more
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This article is published in Novel: A Forum on Fiction.The article was published on 1985-01-23. It has received 815 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative & Reading (process).read more
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Oncology and narrative time
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good,Tseunetsugu Munakata,Yasuki Kobayashi,Cheryl Mattingly,Byron J. Good +4 more
TL;DR: The distinctiveness of the American pattern is highlighted through comparison with Japanese exemplar cases and stories of therapeutic practices in oncology and concepts drawn from narrative analysis of temporality and the construction of the therapeutic plot are employed.
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Narrative and Religious Experience
TL;DR: This article argued that sociologists cannot study religious experience in real time and its physical, mental, and emotional constituents and therefore must study retrospective accounts - linguistic representations - of religious experiences, and proposed an alternative, narrative approach to studying religious experience which is sensitive to its unique ontology.
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The biotechnical embrace.
TL;DR: Three interpretive concepts that link bioscience and biotechnology to society: the medical imaginary, the biotechnical embrace, and the clinical narrative are discussed.
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Hegemonic Masculinity and the Experience of Prostate Cancer: A Narrative Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the narratives of three men with prostate cancer and found that men were forced to renegotiate their performances of masculinity, with this renegotiation mostly occurring within the parameters of performance consistent with hegemonic masculinity.
On the Ontological Status of the State
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that if we give the state a transcendental status, it disappears from the world; if we see it merely as a set of empirical attributes, then it disappears in the world, and the way out of this dilemma is to stop talking about what states really are and start instead to talk about what things they resemble.