Narrative and consciousness [electronic resource] : literature, psychology, and the brain / edited by Gary D. Fireman, Ted E. McVay, Jr., Owen J. Flanagan.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: xi, 252 pISBN:- 0195140052 (alk. paper)
- 0195161726 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 153 21
- BF311 .N26 2003eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Role of narrative in the development of conscious awareness -- Narrative and the emergence of a consciousness of self -- The development of the self -- The role of narrative in recollection : a view from cognitive and neuropsychology -- Material selves : bodies, memory, and autobiographical narrating -- Rethinking the fictive, reclaiming the real : autobiography, narrative time, and the burden of truth -- Dual-focalization, retrospective fictional autobiography, and the ethics of Lolita -- The pursuit of death in Holocaust narrative -- Community and coherence : narrative contributions to the psychology of conflict and loss -- Empirical evidence for a narrative concept of self -- Sexual identities and narratives of self.
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