Rethinking Narrative Identity

Introduction. Rethinking narrative identity: Persona and perspective
Martin Klepper

Chapter 1. Identity and empathy: On the correlation of narrativity and morality
Norbert Meuter

Chapter 2. Axes of identity: Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards's) Life
Mark Freeman

Chapter 3. The quest for a third space: Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity
Wolfgang Kraus

Chapter 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self
Gabriele Lucius-Hoene

Chapter 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist's life story: A socionarratological perspective on narrative identity
Jarmila Mildorf

Chapter 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities?
Rüdiger Heinze

Chapter 7. "Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated": Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex
Nicole Frey Büchel

Chapter 8. Creative confession: Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan's Atonement
Kim Worthington

Chapter 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity: Quentin Crisp's life story - A successful failure
Eveline Kilian

Chapter 10. Confessional poetry: A poetic perspective on narrative identity
Eva Brunner

Contributors

Index