The Rhetoric of Self-Change: Illness Experience as Narrative

1993-03-01articleSociological Quarterly235 citationsclosed

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Qualitative research in health Autobiographical and Biographical Writing Rhetoric and Communication Studies

Abstract

A rhetoric formulating the self as a project for change has developed in our century. Within this rhetoric certain events and experiences are understood as occasions for changing the self; illness is a prime example. In most narratives of illness the author makes some claim for self-change, though these claims vary. The paper identifies several types of claims for self-change and then considers the relation of rhetorical structures to personal experience.

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