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Nursing our narratives: towards a dynamic understanding of nurses in narrative tales
Author(s) -
Buchanan Tanya
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
nursing inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.66
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1800
pISSN - 1320-7881
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1997.tb00081.x
Subject(s) - narrative , chronotope , reading (process) , context (archaeology) , representation (politics) , situational ethics , psychology , order (exchange) , narrative inquiry , sociology , nursing , epistemology , social psychology , linguistics , medicine , history , philosophy , politics , political science , archaeology , finance , economics , law
Previous research on the representation of nurses in literature has tended to rely on a ‘quasi‐scientific’ method that ultimately produces catalogues of static images. This paper argues that literary representations of nurses must be analysed in terms of situational context. In order to accomplish this die narratological concepts of the chronotope and the donor are used, resulting in a dynamic and powerful reading of nurses in narrative tales.