Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture (Studies in Narative, Volume 1)

Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Self-making and world-making......Page 32
Narrative: Problems and promises of an alternative paradigm......Page 46
Metaphysics and narrative: Singularities and multiplicities of self......Page 66
Narrative integrity: Autobiographical identity and the meaning of the “good life”......Page 82
“The people will come to you” Blackfeet narrative as a resource for contemporary living......Page 110
Narratives of national identity as group narratives: Patterns of interpretive cognition......Page 136
“You’re marked” Breast cancer, tattoo, and the narrative performance of identity......Page 152
Richard Wagner ’s creative vision at La Spezia......Page 194
Identity and narrative in Piaget ’s autobiographies......Page 226
From the end to the beginning: Retrospective teleology in autobiography......Page 254
From substance to story: Narrative, identity, and the reconstruction of the self......Page 290
List of contributors......Page 306
Credits and acknowledgements......Page 308
Index......Page 310