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Autor:
Thomas S. Frentz
Publikováno v:
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. 4:35-56
This is the story of my three-year odyssey trying to diagnose and treat an ever-increasing neck pain. It begins with a mistake, moves through a year in a pain management clinic, tells of a cancer scare, chronicles visits with a world-renowned neurosu
Autor:
Thomas S. Frentz
Publikováno v:
Qualitative Inquiry. 20:15-22
This is a story about how my obsessive lifestyle inhibits the development of a new intimate relationship. The story unfolds in three parts—the first, documenting obsessive disorders from two medical perspectives; the second, personalizing the disor
Autor:
Thomas S. Frentz
Publikováno v:
Qualitative Inquiry. 17:798-804
This is a story of my impending retirement brought about by three synchronistic events. As the story unfolds, I come to see retirement as a form of symbolic death. That insight teaches me three important lessons. First, that I can forestall this form
Autor:
Joyce L. Hocker, Thomas S. Frentz
Publikováno v:
Qualitative Inquiry. 16:621-629
In this work, the authors develop a dialogical method for generating layered reflections about a written story. The authors then apply this method to an existing narrative so as to discover important, but nonobvious meanings that might facilitate the
Autor:
Thomas S. Frentz, Joshua Gunn
Publikováno v:
Western Journal of Communication. 74:269-291
Drawing on the insights of Lacanian psychoanalysis, we argue that the film Fight Club can be understood as a mediation of a larger, cultural psychosis. In general, psychosis represents the failure of a paternal figure to bisect the intimate relation
Autor:
Thomas S. Frentz, Thomas Rosteck
Publikováno v:
Quarterly Journal of Speech. 95:1-19
Contesting interpretations of An Inconvenient Truth that treat it as political jeremiad, autobiography, or science documentary, we contextualize the film within Joseph Campbell's monomyth and argue that its rhetorical efficacy arises in part because
Autor:
Thomas S. Frentz
Publikováno v:
Qualitative Inquiry. 15:820-842
Grounded within Donna Haraway's theory of feminist objectivity that foregrounds split selves, embodied vision, and situated knowledges, the author tells of his experiences with the medical practitioners who performed his hip replacement surgery. The
Autor:
Thomas S. Frentz, Joshua Gunn
Publikováno v:
Western Journal of Communication. 72:213-238
In this essay we argue that Dan Brown's mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, functions as an alchemical rhetoric in five basic ways, two of which are most conspicuous. First, the fictional narrative supposedly reveals a subversive “fact” protected f
Autor:
Thomas S. Frentz
Publikováno v:
Qualitative Inquiry. 14:742-766
In January 2000, I was diagnosed with cancer. This story tells of my relationships with the medical professionals who treated me. Like Arthur Frank, my goal was to receive the treatment I needed without sacrificing the humanity I valued. Being social