Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 230 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 418 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 230 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 418 g
Reihe: CAT - Cultures in America in Transition
ISBN: 978-3-86821-283-9
Verlag: Wissenschaftlicher Trier
The present theory of self-narration is compiled from tenets from autobiography theory, narrative psychology, reader response criticism, and Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of the self. It also considers recent discourses of subjectivity - narrative performativity and the ethical turn - to assess how each fictional narrator builds his or her own story into a scaffolding of culturally available plots, generic frameworks, and forms of reader address. In self-narration, this book argues, we not only have to address the reasons for telling one’s story, but also how it is told and to whom. Narrator and audience are both engaged in calling to life the narrative self: The self-narrating I is brought forth by ‘just the two of us.’