Narrative and consciousness :literature, psychology, and the brain
Oxford ; New York
Oxford University Press
Includes bibliographical references and index
edited by Gary D. Fireman, Ted E. McVay, Jr., Owen J. Flanagan
Role of narrative in the development of conscious awareness -- Narrative and the emergence of a consciousness of self -- The development of the self -- The role of narrative in recollection : a view from cognitive and neuropsychology -- Material selves : bodies, memory, and autobiographical narrating -- Rethinking the fictive, reclaiming the real : autobiography, narrative time, and the burden of truth -- Dual-focalization, retrospective fictional autobiography, and the ethics of Lolita -- The pursuit of death in Holocaust narrative -- Community and coherence : narrative contributions to the psychology of conflict and loss -- Empirical evidence for a narrative concept of self -- Sexual identities and narratives of self