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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fireman, Gary D., editor.

McVay, Ted E., editor.

Flanagan, Owen, Jr., 1949- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First person narrative--Congresses.

First person narrative.

Consciousness--Congresses.

Consciousness.

Autobiographical memory--Congresses.

Autobiographical memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact. Narrative pervades our lives--conscious experience is not merely linked to the number and variety of personal stories we construct with each other within a cultural frame, but is subsumed by them. The claim, however, that narrative constructions are essential to conscious experience is not useful or informative unless we can also begin to provide a distinct, organized, and empirically consistent explanation for narrative in relation to consciousness. Understanding the role of nar

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; PART I: THE ROLE OF NARRATIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSCIOUS AWARENESS; 2. Narrative and the Emergence of a Consciousness of Self; 3. The Development of the Self; PART II: NARRATIVE AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; 4. The Role of Narrative in Recollection: A View from Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology; 5. Material Selves: Bodies, Memory, and Autobiographical Narrating; PART III: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE, FICTION, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF; 6. Rethinking the Fictive, Reclaiming the Real: Autobiography, Narrative Time, and the Burden of Truth

7. Dual Focalization, Retrospective Fictional Autobiography, and the Ethics of LolitaPART IV: NARRATIVE DISRUPTIONS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF; 8. The Pursuit of Death in Holocaust Narrative; 9. Community and Coherence: Narrative Contributions to the Psychology of Conflict and Loss; PART V: THE NEURAL SUBSTRATE OF NARRATIVE AND CONSCIOUSNESS REALIZATION (OR THE NATURALIST MODEL); 10. Empirical Evidence for a Narrative Concept of Self; 11. Sexual Identities and Narratives of Self; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610481354

1-60256-434-5

1-4175-8758-X

0-19-534989-X

1-280-48135-8

OCLC:

935227382