The self in moral space : life narrative and the good / David Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, David, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography--Moral and ethical aspects.

Autobiography.

Identity (Psychology)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

ix, 195 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Making the best sense of lives

Wang Shih-min's "self-account" : an exemplary life

Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and the limits of life narrative

Nietzsche's Ecce homo : inescapable frameworks of the good

Narratives of supersession : Augustine's Confessions

Narratives of supersession : Wordsworth's Prelude

Narrative of authenticity : Gosse's Father and son

Authenticity and recognition : Steedman's Landscape for a good woman

Difference and its discontents

Common humanity and its limits : Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father

Seamus Heaney : recognizing the other

Coetzee's Boyhood : toward an aesthetics of life narrative.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index.

ISBN:

9780801445613

0801445612

OCLC:

76939888