LEADER 03124nam 2200481 450 001 9910467171703321 005 20191127082846.0 010 $a1-5017-1183-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501711831 035 $a(CKB)4100000008730847 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5963605 035 $a(DE-B1597)535282 035 $a(OCoLC)1126214592 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501711831 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5963605 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008730847 100 $a20191127d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHow our lives become stories $emaking selves /$fPaul John Eakin 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d[1999] 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (223 pages) 311 $a1-5017-1184-9 311 $a0-8014-3659-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. Registers of Self --$t2. Relational Selves, Relational Lives: Autobiography and the Myth of Autonomy --$t3. Storied Selves: Identity through Self-Narration --$t4. "The Unseemly Profession": Privacy, Inviolate Personality, and the Ethics of Life Writing --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aThe popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir as exhibitionistic and self-aggrandizing, literary theorists are now beginning to look seriously at this profusion of autobiographical literature. Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, How Our Lives Become Stories enhances knowledge of the complex forces that shape identity, and confronts the equally complex problems that arise when we write about who we think we are. Using life writings as examples-including works by Christa Wolf, Art Spiegelman, Oliver Sacks, Henry Louis Gates, Melanie Thernstrom, and Philip Roth-Paul John Eakin draws on the latest research in neurology, cognitive science, memory studies, developmental psychology, and related fields to rethink the very nature of self-representation. After showing how the experience of living in one's body shapes one's identity, he explores relational and narrative modes of being, emphasizing social sources of identity, and demonstrating that the self and the story of the self are constantly evolving in relation to others. Eakin concludes by engaging the ethical issues raised by the conflict between the authorial impulse to life writing and a traditional, privacy-based ethics that such writings often violate. 606 $aAutobiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAutobiography. 676 $a920 700 $aEakin$b Paul John$0251370 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467171703321 996 $aHow our lives become stories$92444513 997 $aUNINA