Narrative and consciousness
Subtitle: literature, psychology, and the brain
By: edited by Gary D. Fireman, Ted E. McVay, Jr., and Owen J. Flanagan
Contributors: Fireman, Gary D; McVay, Ted E; Flanagan, Owen J
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Consciousness -- Congresses; First person narrative -- Congresses; Autobiographical memory -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Role of narrative in the development of conscious awareness; title: Narrative and the emergence of a consciousness of self; title: The development of the self; title: The role of narrative in recollection : a view from cognitive and neuropsychology; title: Material selves : bodies, memory, and autobiographical narrating; title: Rethinking the fictive, reclaiming the real : autobiography, narrative time, and the burden of truth; title: Dual-focalization, retrospective fictional autobiography, and the ethics of Lolita; title: The pursuit of death in Holocaust narrative; title: Community and coherence : narrative contributions to the psychology of conflict and loss; title: Empirical evidence for a narrative concept of self; title: Sexual identities and narratives of self