Overview
Explores the missing link between the study of narrative and philosophical questions about the self
Investigates the ways in which life and literature speak to each other
Offers a nuanced and cross-disciplinary approach that will appeal to both narrative theorists and metaphysicians
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Self, Self-description, Story
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Character, Transformative Reading, and Self-reflective Consciousness
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Back Matter
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About this book
When we see ourselves in the mimetic mirror of literature, what we see may not just be a matter of identifying with a single protagonist, but also a matter of recognizing long-form structures, long-arc narrative shapes that give a place to – and thus make sense of – the individual bits of experience that we place into those structures. But of course at precisely this juncture a question arises: do we make that sense, or do we discover it? The twelve chapters brought together here lucidly and steadily reveal how the matters at hand are far more intricate and interesting than any such dichotomy could accommodate. This is a book that investigates the ways in which life and literature speak to each other.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, USA, and has also held a Chair in the School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. Author of numerous books and articles at the intersection of the philosophy of the arts and the philosophy of language and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, his most recent book is Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narrative and Self-Understanding
Editors: Garry L. Hagberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28289-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28288-2Published: 26 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28291-2Published: 26 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28289-9Published: 15 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 274
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, Literary Theory, Self and Identity