Narrative and identity : studies in autobiography, self and culture /
How does narrative give shape and meaning to human life? And what special role do narratives play in identifying one as a person in the world? This book explores these questions from the vantage points of various human and cultural sciences, with special attention to the importance of narrative as e...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2001.
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| Series: | Studies in narrative ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Jens Brockmeier, Donal Carbaugh
- PART I. NARRATIVE AND SELF CONSTRUCTION: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
- Self-making and world-making / Jerome Bruner
- Narrative: problems and promises of an alternative paradigm / Jens Brockmeier, Rom Harré
- Metaphysics and narrative: singularities and multiplicities of self / Rom Harré
- Narrative integrity: autobiographical identity and the meaning of the "good life" / Mark Freeman, Jens Brockmeier
- PART II. WORLDS OF IDENTITY: LIFE STORIES IN CULTURAL CONTEXT
- "People will come to you": Blackfeet narrative as a resource for contemporary living / Donal Carbaugh
- Narratives of national identity as group narratives: patterns of interpretive cognition / Carol Fleisher Feldman
- "You're marked": breast cancer, tattoo, and the narrative performance of identity / Kristin M. Langellier
- PART III. BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY AND NARRATIVE IDENTITY
- Richard Wagner's creative vision at La Spezia: or The retrospective interpretation of experience in autobiographical memory as a function of an emerging identity / Jerome R. Sehulster
- Identity and narrative in Piaget's autobiographies / Jacques Vonèche
- From the end to the beginning: retropective teleology in autobiography / Jens Brockmeier
- CONCLUDING COMMENTARY
- From substance to story: narrative, identity, and the reconstruction of the self / Mark Freeman.
