Rethinking Narrative Identity
Persona and Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2013
VI, 209 pages
978-90-272-7225-6 (ISBN)
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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.
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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
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
