Rethinking narrative identity: person and perspective
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013
Schriftenreihe:Studies in narrative 17
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This paper addresses identity construction in confessional poetry and explores three poems by Anne Sexton in closer detail. It shows that identity in lyrical texts can be discussed more poignantly by using the concept of narrative identity. A close reading of the three poems reveals three different self-concepts, the possibility of multiple selves, and the notion of permanent self-actualization through narrative. Furthermore, this paper suggests that narrative identity theory concentrates too much on conventional narratological frames such as narrative coherence. The reading of lyric poetry ex
1. Introduction. Rethinking narrative identity: Persona and perspective (by Klepper, Martin), p1-31; 2. Chapter 1. Identity and empathy: On the correlation of narrativity and morality (by Meuter, Norbert), p33-48; 3. Chapter 2. Axes of identity: Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards's) Life (by Freeman, Mark), p49-68; 4. Chapter 3. The quest for a third space: Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity (by Kraus, Wolfgang), p69-83; 5. Chapter 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self (by Lucius-Hoene, Gabriele), p85-101; 6. Chapter 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist's life story: A socionarratological perspective on narrative identity (by Mildorf, Jarmila), p103-116; 7. Chapter 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities? (by Heinze, Rudiger), p117-127; 8. Chapter 7. "Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated": Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex (by Frey Buchel, Nicole), p129-146; 9. Chapter 8. Creative confession: Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan's Atonement (by Worthington, Kim), p147-169; 10. Chapter 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity: Quentin Crisp's life story -- A successful failure (by Kilian, Eveline), p171-186; 11. Chapter 10. Confessional poetry: A poetic perspective on narrative identity (by Brunner, Eva), p187-202; 12. Contributors, p203-205; 13. Index, p207-209
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