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Telling Stories: Narrative Approaches in Qualitative Research
Author(s) -
Sandelowski Margarete
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1991.tb00662.x
Subject(s) - narrative , narrative criticism , narrative inquiry , qualitative research , narrative network , meaning (existential) , narrative psychology , epistemology , subject (documents) , psychology , sociology , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , social science , library science
There is a new attention across disciplines to narrative knowing—the impulse to story life events into order and meaning. In this paper, narrative is presented as a framework for understanding the subject and interview data in qualitative research. Examples of narrative approaches are offered, narrative analyses are contrasted with other kinds of qualitative analyses, and truth in narratives is considered.