Rethinking narrative identity : person and perspective

Rethinking narrative identity : person and perspective / edited by Claudia Holler, Humboldt University Berlin ; Martin Klepper, Humboldt University Berlin.

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...

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Other Authors: Holler, Claudia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Series:Studies in narrative ; 17.
Subjects:
Narration (Rhetoric)
Identity (Psychology)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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