Nursing our narratives: towards a dynamic understanding of nurses in narrative tales.
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 the narratological concepts of the chronotope and the donor are used, resulting in a dynamic and powerful reading of nurses in narrative tales.
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St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco Western Australia, Australia.
D019513:Feminism; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D009726:Nurses; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000379:methods*; D011639:Public Opinion; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design; D012586:Science; D012938:Social Perception