TY - JOUR
AU1 - Kelly, Michael P.
AU2 - Dickinson, Hilary
AB - The paper analyzes autobiographical accounts of the experience of chronic illness and its treatment to develop a sociological theory of the self. It is suggested that ‘self’ is not a biologistic or psychologistic thing. Rather self is autobiographical narrative – hence the narrative self. It is argued that four elements constitute such narrative selves in autobiographical discourse: evaluative relationships between events in time; cosmology; power relationships; and conceptualisation of self as object.
TI - The Narrative Self in Autobiographical Accounts of Illness
JF - The Sociological Review
DO - 10.1111/1467-954X.00064
DA - 1997-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-narrative-self-in-autobiographical-accounts-of-illness-Cuj0V27Up0
SP - 254
EP - 278
VL - 45
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -