Living in words: literature, autobiographical language, and the composition of selfhood

Garry Hagberg investigates the role that literature plays in the constitution of a human being, and the connection between the language we see at work in imaginative fiction and the language we develop to describe ourselves. He asks whether self-descriptive or autobiographical language itself plays...

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Main Author: Hagberg, Garry 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Oxford University Press [2023]
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Summary:Garry Hagberg investigates the role that literature plays in the constitution of a human being, and the connection between the language we see at work in imaginative fiction and the language we develop to describe ourselves. He asks whether self-descriptive or autobiographical language itself plays an active role in shaping our identities
Physical Description:xxx, 262 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9780198841210

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