Rethinking narrative identity : persona and perspective / edited by Claudia Holler, Martin Klepper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holler, Claudia.

Klepper, Martin, 1963-

Series:

Studies in Narrative

Studies in narrative ; v. 17

Studies in Narrative ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper addresses identity construction in confessional poetry and explores three poems by Anne Sexton in closer detail. It shows that identity in lyrical texts can be discussed more poignantly by using the concept of narrative identity. A close reading of the three poems reveals three different self-concepts, the possibility of multiple selves, and the notion of permanent self-actualization through narrative. Furthermore, this paper suggests that narrative identity theory concentrates too much on conventional narratological frames such as narrative coherence. The reading of lyric poetry ex

Contents:

Rethinking Narrative Identity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction. Rethinking narrative identity: Persona and perspective; The power and reach of narrative; The limits of narrative: Decomposition; The limits of narrative: Multiplication; The origins of narrative identity: Biography generators, schemata, protocols; From time to space? Performance, iteration, deferral and symbolization; Embodiment and ethics; Persona and perspective; References; 1. Identity and empathy: On the correlation of narrativity and morality; 1. Narrativity; 2. Morality

3. Narrativity and moralityReferences; 2. Axes of identity: Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards's) Life; The riddle of identity; Narrative identity; Persona personified; Eros and thanatos; Persona, authenticity, identity; References; 3. The quest for a third space: Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity; Identity, social space, belonging; Two modes of identity construction; Performing identity: The negotiation of self-positions in narrative and discourse; Other-positioning as identity threat; Identity construction in the zone of vulnerability

Overcoming opposites - looking for a "third"Heterotopia as space of otherness; Self-positioning in heterotopias; Heterotopias as choice and construction; Narrating heterotopic experience; Heterotopic positioning as "work on the impossible"; References; 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self; References; 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist's life story: A socionarratological per; Craft artists' stories; Socionarratology: A brief outline; Perspective in narrative: Focalization

A moment of epiphany: Analysis of an exemplary narrativeConclusion; References; Appendix; 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities?; References; 7. "Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated:" Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides's Mi; References; 8. Creative confession: Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan's Atonement; I; II; III; IV; V; References; 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity: Quentin Crisp's life story - A successful fai; References; 10. Confessional poetry: A poetic perspective on narrative identity

Narrative identity and its narratological framesConfessional poetry; Reading Anne Sexton; Conclusion; References; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027272256

9027272255

9781299190412

1299190413

OCLC:

829245212