Narrative and identity : studies in autobiography, self and culture / edited by Jens Brockmeier, Donal Carbaugh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brockmeier, Jens.

Carbaugh, Donal A.

Series:

Studies in narrative ; v. 1.

Studies in narrative, 1568-2706 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

vi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2001]

Contents:

Part I Narrative and Self Construction: Theoretical Perspectives

2. Self-making and world-making / Jerome Bruner 25

3. Narrative: Problems and promises of an alternative paradigm / Jens Brockmeier, Rom Harre 39

4. Metaphysics and narrative: Singularities and multiplicities of self / Rom Harre 59

5. Narrative integrity: Autobiographical identity and the meaning of the "good life" / Mark Freeman, Jens Brockmeier 75

Part II Worlds of Identity: Life Stories in Cultural Context

6. "The people will come to you": Blackfeet narrative as a resource for contemporary living / Donal Carbaugh 103

7. Narratives of national identity as group narratives: Patterns of interpretive cognition / Carol Fleisher Feldman 129

8. "You're marked": Breast cancer, tattoo, and the narrative performance of identity / Kristin M. Langellier 145

Part III Between Past and Present: Autobiographical Memory and Narrative Identity

9. 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 187

10. Identity and narrative in Piaget's autobiographies / Jacques Voneche 219

11. From the end to the beginning: Retrospective teleology in autobiography / Jens Brockmeier 247

12. From substance to story: Narrative, identity, and the reconstruction of the self / Mark Freeman 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1588110567

9027226415

OCLC:

46504859