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Narrative and identity : studies in autobiography, self and culture /

How does narrative give shape and meaning to human life? And what special role do narratives play in identifying one as a person in the world? This book explores these questions from the vantage points of various human and cultural sciences, with special attention to the importance of narrative as e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brockmeier, Jens, Carbaugh, Donal A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001.
Colección:Studies in narrative ; v. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jens Brockmeier, Donal Carbaugh
  • PART I. NARRATIVE AND SELF CONSTRUCTION: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
  • Self-making and world-making / Jerome Bruner
  • Narrative: problems and promises of an alternative paradigm / Jens Brockmeier, Rom Harré
  • Metaphysics and narrative: singularities and multiplicities of self / Rom Harré
  • Narrative integrity: autobiographical identity and the meaning of the "good life" / Mark Freeman, Jens Brockmeier
  • PART II. WORLDS OF IDENTITY: LIFE STORIES IN CULTURAL CONTEXT
  • "People will come to you": Blackfeet narrative as a resource for contemporary living / Donal Carbaugh
  • Narratives of national identity as group narratives: patterns of interpretive cognition / Carol Fleisher Feldman
  • "You're marked": breast cancer, tattoo, and the narrative performance of identity / Kristin M. Langellier
  • PART III. BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY AND NARRATIVE IDENTITY
  • Richard Wagner's creative vision at La Spezia: or The retrospective interpretation of experience in autobiographical memory as a function of an emerging identity / Jerome R. Sehulster
  • Identity and narrative in Piaget's autobiographies / Jacques Vonèche
  • From the end to the beginning: retropective teleology in autobiography / Jens Brockmeier
  • CONCLUDING COMMENTARY
  • From substance to story: narrative, identity, and the reconstruction of the self / Mark Freeman.