Narrative identity
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This paper deals with different approaches to narrative identity and questions related to this subject. The first part discusses Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutical conception, which provides an apt point of departure for further examinations; Ricoeur’s analysis also employs narratological concepts and tools. The second part deals with the notion of narrative identity as examined by cognitive and narrative psychology (Jerome Bruner, Dan McAdams), sociolinguistics (Charlotte Linde), and the theory of autobiography (Paul John Eakin). The paper also discusses selected critical responses to the narrative approach to identity (Galen Strawson, Dan Zahavi) and the relation of the problem of narrative identity to the narratological concepts of the “narrating I” and the “narrated I.” |