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Chapter One Narrative As Rhetoric And The Art Of Medicinechapter Two Principles And Activities Of Rhetorical Reading: Understanding, Overstanding, And Springboardingchapter Three Character And Progression I: Understanding And Overstanding Richard Selzer⁰́₉s Imelda Chapter Four Character And Progression Ii: Colm Toibin⁰́₉s One Minus One As Portrait Narrativechapter Five Somebody Telling I: Authors, Narrators, Characters, And Occasionschapter Six Somebody Telling Ii: Perspective And Voicechapter Seven Timechapter Eight Spacechapter Nine From Print To Comics: Toward A Rhetoric Of Graphic Medicinechapter Ten Fictionalitychapter Eleven Rhetorical Narrative Medicine Workshops: Understanding, Overstanding, Springboarding James Phelan. Electronic Reproduction. London Available Via World Wide Web. James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor Of English At Ohio State University, Is The Author, Co-author, Editor, Or Co-editor Of More Than 20 Books, Including Narrative As Rhetoric (1996), Living To Tell About It (2005), Experiencing Fiction (2007), Reading The American Novel, 1920-2010 (2013), Somebody Telling Somebody Else (2017), And, With Matthew Clark, Debating Rhetorical Narratology (2020). He Has Been The Editor Of Narrative, The Journal Of The International Society For The Study Of Narrative, Since Its Inception In 1993. He Has Received An Honorary Doctorate From Aarhus University In Denmark And Been Elected Into The Norwegian Academy Of Letters And Science. In 2021 He Received The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award From The International Society For The Study Of Narrative.