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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779578603321

Titolo

Rethinking narrative identity [[electronic resource] ] : persona and perspective / / edited by Claudia Holler, Martin Klepper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013

ISBN

90-272-7225-5

1-299-19041-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Studies in narrative ; ; v. 17

Altri autori (Persone)

HollerClaudia

KlepperMartin

Disciplina

808/.036

Soggetti

Narration (Rhetoric)

Identity (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rethinking Narrative Identity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction. Rethinking narrative identity: Persona and perspective; The power and reach of narrative; The limits of narrative: Decomposition; The limits of narrative: Multiplication; The origins of narrative identity: Biography generators, schemata, protocols; From time to space? Performance, iteration, deferral and symbolization; Embodiment and ethics; Persona and perspective; References; 1. Identity and empathy: On the correlation of narrativity and morality; 1. Narrativity; 2. Morality

3. Narrativity and moralityReferences; 2. Axes of identity: Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards's) Life; The riddle of identity; Narrative identity; Persona personified; Eros and thanatos; Persona, authenticity, identity; References; 3. The quest for a third space: Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity; Identity, social space, belonging; Two modes of identity construction; Performing identity: The negotiation of self-positions in narrative and discourse; Other-positioning as identity threat; Identity construction in the zone of vulnerability

Overcoming opposites - looking for a "third"Heterotopia as space of otherness; Self-positioning in heterotopias; Heterotopias as choice and construction; Narrating heterotopic experience; Heterotopic positioning



as "work on the impossible"; References; 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self; References; 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist's life story: A socionarratological per; Craft artists' stories; Socionarratology: A brief outline; Perspective in narrative: Focalization

A moment of epiphany: Analysis of an exemplary narrativeConclusion; References; Appendix; 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities?; References; 7. "Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated:" Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides's Mi; References; 8. Creative confession: Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan's Atonement; I; II; III; IV; V; References; 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity: Quentin Crisp's life story - A successful fai; References; 10. Confessional poetry: A poetic perspective on narrative identity

Narrative identity and its narratological framesConfessional poetry; Reading Anne Sexton; Conclusion; References; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This paper addresses identity construction in confessional poetry and explores three poems by Anne Sexton in closer detail. It shows that identity in lyrical texts can be discussed more poignantly by using the concept of narrative identity. A close reading of the three poems reveals three different self-concepts, the possibility of multiple selves, and the notion of permanent self-actualization through narrative. Furthermore, this paper suggests that narrative identity theory concentrates too much on conventional narratological frames such as narrative coherence. The reading of lyric poetry ex