Rethinking Narrative Identity
Subtitle: Person and perspective
By: Edited by Claudia Holler, Humboldt University Berlin ; Martin Klepper, Humboldt University Berlin
Series: Studies in Narrative -- 17
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9789027226570; 9789027272256
Subjects: Narration (Rhetoric); Identity (Psychology)
Description: "Why is it that we tend to think about our lives as stories? Why do we strive to create coherent narratives that reflect a particular perspective? What happens when we discover multiple, perhaps conflicting perspectives in our narratives? Following groundbreaking work in the study of narrative identity in the last 20 years, the scholars of this volume have expanded and merged their theories of narrative identity with new perspectives in fields such as narratology, literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, gender studies and history. Their contributions focus on the significance of perspective in the formation of narrative identities, probing the stratagems and narrative means of individuals in testing out personae for themselves."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.