Narrative and consciousness : literature, psychology, and the brain / edited by Gary D. Fireman, Ted E. McVay, Jr., and Owen J. Flanagan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fireman, Gary D.

McVay, Ted E.

Flanagan, Owen, Jr., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness--Congresses.

Consciousness.

First person narrative--Congresses.

First person narrative.

Autobiographical memory--Congresses.

Autobiographical memory.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 252 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Role of narrative in the development of conscious awareness

Narrative and the emergence of a consciousness of self

The development of the self

The role of narrative in recollection : a view from cognitive and neuropsychology

Material selves : bodies, memory, and autobiographical narrating

Rethinking the fictive, reclaiming the real : autobiography, narrative time, and the burden of truth

Dual-focalization, retrospective fictional autobiography, and the ethics of Lolita

The pursuit of death in Holocaust narrative

Community and coherence : narrative contributions to the psychology of conflict and loss

Empirical evidence for a narrative concept of self

Sexual identities and narratives of self.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195140052

0195161726

OCLC:

50270582