Holler / Klepper Rethinking Narrative Identity

Persona and Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-7225-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 17, 215 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Narrative

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holler, Claudia

Klepper, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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