Living autobiographically : how we create identity in narrative / Paul John Eakin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eakin, Paul John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

Identity (Psychology).

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

xvii, 184 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2008.

Contents:

1 Talking about Ourselves: The Rules of the Game 1

Jolting Events 3

The Case against Narrative Identity 8

Truth or Consequences on Oprah 17

The Narrative Identity System 22

Narrative Rules, Identity Rules 31

"My Father's Brain" 52

2 Autobiographical Consciousness: Body, Brain, Self, and Narrative 60

Antonio Damasio and the "Movie-in-the-Brain" 61

Doing Consciousness 79

3 Identity Work: People Making Stories 87

Looking at Vermeer: "Inner" Lives and "Outer" Forces 90

Everyday Lives 103

"'My Father ...'" 130

The Pressure of Circumstances, the Power of Story 143

4 Living Autobiographically 149

The Homeostatic Machine 152

"Arbitrage": Andre Aciman and "Remembering Remembering" 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-179) and index.

ISBN:

9780801447242

0801447240

9780801474781

0801474787

OCLC:

227000209