@article {480,
	title = {Illness and heroics: On counter-narrative and counter-metaphor in the discourse on cancer},
	journal = {Frontiers of Narrative Studies},
	volume = {4},
	year = {2018},
	month = {2018///},
	pages = {s213 - s228},
	abstract = {This article explores the nexus between narrative and metaphor by examining a specific and widespread metaphor in the discourse on cancer, namely {\textquotedblleft}the war against cancer{\textquotedblright}, and paying attention to the function it has in the narratives we tell about cancer {\textendash} personally as well as culturally and politically. Of special interest is how this dominant metaphor has a negative consequence in relation to the seriously and incurably ill, who are necessarily positioned as {\textquoteleft}losers{\textquoteright}. The concepts of master and counter-narrative are applied to describe this and show how the war metaphor can be generatively turned against itself and function as the basis for counter-narratives of being ill. In the final part of the article, attention is paid to Danish author Maria Gerhardt{\textquoteright}s autofictional novel Transfervindue. Fort{\ae}llinger om de raskes fejl (2017) [Transfer Window: Narratives about the flaws of the healthy] as an example of a productive extension of the war metaphor. The general aim is to argue that the {\textquoteleft}war against cancer{\textquoteright} metaphor is complex and simultaneously plays a positive and negative role in health discourse. On the one hand, it structures the general effort for treatment of and research on cancer. On the other hand, it positions the incurable as losers. It is, however, argued that we cannot eradicate this metaphor from language, and that we should instead find examples of extensions of the metaphor where e. g. {\textquoteleft}protection{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}peace-keeping{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}exile{\textquoteright} are active.},
	keywords = {cancer, counter-narrative, metaphor},
	isbn = {2509-4882},
	url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/fns.2018.4.issue-s1/fns-2018-0039/fns-2018-0039.xml?format=INT},
	author = {Hansen, Per Krogh}
}
@book {hansen_emerging_2017,
	title = {Emerging Vectors of Narratology},
	series = {Narratologia},
	number = {57},
	year = {2017},
	publisher = {De Gruyter},
	organization = {De Gruyter},
	address = {Berlin, Boston},
	abstract = {Narratology has been flourishing in recent years thanks to investigations into a broad spectrum of narratives, at the same time diversifying its theoretical and disciplinary scope as it has sought to specify the status of narrative within both society and scientific research. The diverse endeavors engendered by this situation have brought narrative to the forefront of the social and human sciences and have generated new synergies in the research environment.Emerging Vectors of Narratology brings together 27 state-of-the-art contributions by an international panel of authors that provide insight into the wealth of new developments in the field. The book consists of two sections. "Contexts" includes articles that reframe and refine such topics as the implied author, narrative causation and transmedial forms of narrative; it also investigates various historical and cultural aspects of narrative from the narratological perspective. "Openings" expands on these and other questions by addressing the narrative turn, cognitive issues, narrative complexity and metatheoretical matters.The book is intended for narratologists as well as for readers in the social and human sciences for whom narrative has become a crucial matrix of inquiry.},
	keywords = {comparative narrative studies, narrative cognition, narrative turn, Narratology},
	isbn = {978-3-11-055515-8},
	url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/491438},
	author = {Hansen, Per Krogh and Pier, John and Roussin, Philippe and Schmid, Wolf}
}
