409011206 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SiN 17 Hb 15 9789027226570 06 10.1075/sin.17 13 2012045236 00 BB 08 540 gr 10 01 JB code SiN 02 1568-2706 02 17.00 01 02 Studies in Narrative Studies in Narrative 01 01 Rethinking Narrative Identity Persona and Perspective Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective 1 B01 01 JB code 761179767 Claudia Holler Holler, Claudia Claudia Holler Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/761179767 2 B01 01 JB code 787179768 Martin Klepper Klepper, Martin Martin Klepper Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/787179768 01 eng 11 215 03 03 vi 03 00 209 03 01 23 808/.036 03 2013 PN3383.N35 04 Narration (Rhetoric) 04 Identity (Psychology) 10 LAN009000 12 CFB 24 JB code LIN.NAR Narrative Studies 24 JB code LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB code LIN.SOCIO Sociolinguistics and Dialectology 24 JB code LIT.THEOR Theoretical literature & literary studies 01 06 02 00 Why is it that we tend to think about our lives as stories? Why do we strive to create coherent narratives that reflect a particular perspective? What happens when we discover multiple, perhaps conflicting perspectives in our narratives? This title deals with these questions. 03 00 Why is it that we tend to think about our lives as stories? Why do we strive to create coherent narratives that reflect a particular perspective? What happens when we discover multiple, perhaps conflicting perspectives in our narratives? Following groundbreaking work in the study of narrative identity in the last 20 years, the scholars of this volume have expanded and merged their theories of narrative identity with new perspectives in fields such as narratology, literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, gender studies and history. Their contributions focus on the significance of perspective in the formation of narrative identities, probing the stratagems and narrative means of individuals in testing out personae for themselves. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/sin.17.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027226570.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027226570.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/sin.17.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/sin.17.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/sin.17.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/sin.17.hb.png 01 01 JB code sin.17.01kle 06 10.1075/sin.17.01kle 1 31 31 Article 1 01 04 Introduction. Rethinking narrative identity Introduction. Rethinking narrative identity 01 04 Persona and perspective Persona and perspective 1 A01 01 JB code 894183542 Martin Klepper Klepper, Martin Martin Klepper 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/894183542 01 eng 01 01 JB code sin.17.02meu 06 10.1075/sin.17.02meu 33 48 16 Article 2 01 04 Chapter 1. Identity and empathy Chapter 1. Identity and empathy 01 04 On the correlation of narrativity and morality On the correlation of narrativity and morality 1 A01 01 JB code 554183543 Norbert Meuter Meuter, Norbert Norbert Meuter 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/554183543 01 eng 03 00

In Oneself as Another Ricœur speaks of the “ethical implication of the narrative” (p. 163). In the meantime, a “Narrative Ethics” has formed around the question of whether such implications exist and how they might appear. Narratives are not merely permeated by specific moral contents, values and norms but – such is the more fundamental thesis – the phenomenon of morality as such is constituted only in and through narratives. The following considerations aim to contribute to this subject. The terms narrativity (1) and morality (2) are to be defined in a way indicating possible correlations (3). The central thesis is: Moral experience and acting are fundamentally based on processes of identity and empathy formation, and narratives enable, create, stabilize and energize both identity and empathy.

01 01 JB code sin.17.03fre 06 10.1075/sin.17.03fre 49 68 20 Article 3 01 04 Chapter 2. Axes of identity Chapter 2. Axes of identity 01 04 Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards's) Life Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards’s) Life 1 A01 01 JB code 192183544 Mark Freeman Freeman, Mark Mark Freeman 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/192183544 01 eng 03 00

This chapter explores the notion of persona, focusing on two interrelated “axes” of identity, the first tied to time and the second to what might be termed “relatedness to the Other.” Drawing especially on William James’s seminal reflections on self and identity, it is suggested herein that an important aspect of identity concerns the degree of congruence, or lack thereof, between the various stories told by oneself and others about the meaning and movement of one’s life. Also important, in James’s view, is the issue of personal continuity and how it might best be understood. These ideas, taken together, lead him to conceptualize identity in essentially narrative terms. In order to address the notion of persona via the idea of narrative identity, I turn to Keith Richards’s recent book Life (2010), which provides a vivid illustration of the process of negotiating one’s own and others’ perspectives on who and what one is. For Richards, the widely-circulated public images that had been on display throughout much of his life had been in tension with what he regarded as his innermost interests and desires: In Jamesian terms, his Spiritual Self had been belied by the rather more colorful Social Selves on view. By Richards’s own account, these images had been folded into his identity, such that it became difficult to disentangle the authentic person from the persona. Ultimately, there may be no way of doing so. This does not mean abandoning the idea and ideal of personal authenticity, however. On the contrary, it means reimagining it, in full recognition of the multiple paths through which narrative identity comes into being.

01 01 JB code sin.17.04kra 06 10.1075/sin.17.04kra 69 83 15 Article 4 01 04 Chapter 3. The quest for a third space Chapter 3. The quest for a third space 01 04 Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity 1 A01 01 JB code 748183545 Wolfgang Kraus Kraus, Wolfgang Wolfgang Kraus 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/748183545 01 eng 03 00

While a narrative approach to the construction of identity opens up quite “naturally” to the question of who I am in time, i.e. to a temporal order, it is inclined to neglect the question of who I am part of, i.e. of belonging. This essay argues that the adherence to a plurality of social worlds provides the teller with options of self-positioning in his or her self-narratives. Even within the confinement of a limited story world a whole variety of self-positions is regularly evoked. Social exclusion, on the other hand, can be described in positioning theory as the experience of other positioning, of being positioned by dominant others. Other positioning endangers the possibility of narrating oneself as an agent in one’s own self-stories and consequently obstructs the process of identity construction. This raises the question how individuals manage to maintain the dynamics of self-positioning in self stories, which are largely shaped by the experience of social exclusion. To answer this question, Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopias as used by Kevin Hetherington is discussed as the conceptualization of a – real – social world, which is related to the dominant social order in an ambivalent way. Heterotopias offer the experience of a third space, beyond the binary logics of an “either-or” or “in-out” and thus allow for the development of self-positions beyond these oppositions. Two empirical examples of heterotopic self-positioning are presented. The characteristics of these narratives are discussed.

01 01 JB code sin.17.05luc 06 10.1075/sin.17.05luc 85 101 17 Article 5 01 04 Chapter 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self Chapter 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self 1 A01 01 JB code 257183546 Gabriele Lucius-Hoene Lucius-Hoene, Gabriele Gabriele Lucius-Hoene 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/257183546 01 eng 03 00

Perspectivation – verbal practices to represent perspectives – can be used in personal storytelling to negotiate moral claims which are crucial to the teller’s self. The perspectives of different interactants in the story-world can show up in complicated fusions or as contested battlefields, contrasting, backing or commenting each other. Preferably in reported speech and scenic re-stagings of episodes, the narrator as “almighty author” can shape or frame the voices of problematic interactants within the story by means of rhetorical devices, which enables him to gain authentification and persuasive power while refraining from explicit evaluations.

01 01 JB code sin.17.06mil 06 10.1075/sin.17.06mil 103 116 14 Article 6 01 04 Chapter 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist's life story Chapter 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist’s life story 01 04 A socionarratological perspective on narrative identity A socionarratological perspective on narrative identity 1 A01 01 JB code 936183547 Jarmila Mildorf Mildorf, Jarmila Jarmila Mildorf 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/936183547 01 eng 03 00

This chapter explores the roles perspective can play in conversational storytelling (e.g. creating involvement, sympathy and bonding) and to what extent literary narratology can offer useful terms to describe perspective-taking in such contexts. The chapter traces instances of focalization in the referential frameworks of a craft artist’s life interview. It illustrates how the interviewee positions himself within the interview and in his narrative and how he also invites the interviewer to partially adopt his position.

01 01 JB code sin.17.07hei 06 10.1075/sin.17.07hei 117 127 11 Article 7 01 04 Chapter 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities? Chapter 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities? 1 A01 01 JB code 456183548 Rüdiger Heinze Heinze, Rüdiger Rüdiger Heinze 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/456183548 01 eng 03 00

Narrative is a constitutive element of our knowledge of and communication about world and self. A key element of narrative and our understanding of it is the (re-)construction of perspective and the specific kind of narrative identity this perspective projects and pre-figures. If our understanding of fictional narratives is based on real-world experiential cognitive parameters, how do we deal with texts that cannot be fully grasped in accordance with these parameters, and what effects do these “unnatural” texts have on everyday storytelling? This essay discusses fictional narratives and narrative perspectives that transcend mimetic and experiential theories of interpretation and narrative in various forms and manners. It asks how, why and with which consequences for our conceptions of narrative identity fictional narratives go beyond our everyday experiences and cannot be fully explained in terms of real-world experiential cognitive parameters. This essay aims to show how fictional narratives and “unnatural” perspectives open up new horizons and narrative identities, specifically ways of world-making, and that our appreciation for this “unnaturalness” leads to a more profound understanding of these narratives as well as our knowledge of world and self.

01 01 JB code sin.17.08fre 06 10.1075/sin.17.08fre 129 146 18 Article 8 01 04 Chapter 7. "Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated" Chapter 7. “Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated” 01 04 Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex 1 A01 01 JB code 102183549 Nicole Frey Büchel Frey Büchel, Nicole Nicole Frey Büchel 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/102183549 01 eng 03 00

Jeffrey Eugenides’s epic novel Middlesex raises the overarching questions of how a comprehensive understanding of selfhood can be gained and to what extent the construction of a coherent identity by means of language is possible. In his attempt to make conclusive sense of his self, Cal, the intersexual narrator and protagonist of the novel, takes refuge in the idea that constructing a narrative identity will lead to self-coherence. While this wish for unity is understandable from a psychological perspective, a poststructuralist approach to Middlesex shows that Cal’s endeavour to fix selfhood in narrative ironically results in making it even more indeterminate. Narratives continually and inevitably communicate with pre-existing texts which results in the constant deferral of their final meaning, and narratives are revealed to be incapable of providing a definite selfhood. Middlesex shows that the primary aim is not the achievement of a coherent self but rather the constructive process of telling the narrative. The novel thus reformulates the concept of narrative identity in terms of constant, ultimately open-ended performance.

01 01 JB code sin.17.09wor 06 10.1075/sin.17.09wor 147 169 23 Article 9 01 04 Chapter 8. Creative confession Chapter 8. Creative confession 01 04 Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan's Atonement Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan’s Atonement 1 A01 01 JB code 834183550 Kim Worthington Worthington, Kim Kim Worthington 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/834183550 01 eng 03 00

This essay explores the act of self-authorising confession represented in Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and the ethical considerations that are raised in consequence. Drawing on the work of Peter Brooks, J. M. Coetzee, Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas (and others) I argue that in Atonement McEwan points up the impossibility of attaining either truth or self-forgiveness via acts of (confessional) self-writing. McEwan’s probing portrayal of the limitations of individual perspective result in ethical insights that extend beyond the realm of (fiction) writing and cut to the heart of interpersonal engagement. He invites readers to recognised the extent to which even our most empathetic attempts to imagine the interiority of others are always, and inevitably, acts of authoritative appropriation. At the same time, however, McEwan encourages recognition of the limits and consequences of (self) authority; he suggests the ongoing need, of the self-narrating self, for the re-cognition of (reading) others. Briony, the novel’s protagonist and narrator, ultimately realises the impossibility of herself writing the forgiveness she desires and acknowledges the authority of the others who will finally write her in their (retrospective) readings.

01 01 JB code sin.17.10kil 06 10.1075/sin.17.10kil 171 186 16 Article 10 01 04 Chapter 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity Chapter 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity 01 04 Quentin Crisp's life story - A successful failure Quentin Crisp’s life story – A successful failure 1 A01 01 JB code 157183551 Eveline Kilian Kilian, Eveline Eveline Kilian 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/157183551 01 eng 03 00

This paper focuses on queer subjects as heteronormativity’s marginalized others and the consequences of this subject position for autobiographical structures and queer concepts of time. My literary examples are Quentin Crisp’s life writings, notably his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, and with the help of Judith Butler’s theory of subject formation as well as recent queer theories on negativity and failure (Lee Edelman, Judith Halberstam), I show how Crisp expressly inhabits the position of the abject, of negativity, and develops a lifestyle of failure, which he is able to turn into a success later in his life.

01 01 JB code sin.17.11bru 06 10.1075/sin.17.11bru 187 202 16 Article 11 01 04 Chapter 10. Confessional poetry Chapter 10. Confessional poetry 01 04 A poetic perspective on narrative identity A poetic perspective on narrative identity 1 A01 01 JB code 729183552 Eva Brunner Brunner, Eva Eva Brunner 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/729183552 01 eng 03 00

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 self-concepts, the possibility of multiple selves, and the notion of permanent self-actualization through narrative. Furthermore, this paper suggests that narrative identity theory concentrates too much on conventional narratological frames such as narrative coherence. The reading of lyric poetry extends the narratological settings especially with respect to time. Therefore, this paper suggests that analyzing narrative identity in literary texts contributes to our general understanding of narrative identity. In addition, it draws attention to the connection between identity and emotion. It shows that lyric poetry evokes emotions not only through narrative, but also with the help of non-narrative devices. As a result, the paper demonstrates that emotions influence the identity-process and challenge a purely rational understanding of narrative identity.

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In Oneself as Another Ricœur speaks of the “ethical implication of the narrative” (p. 163). In the meantime, a “Narrative Ethics” has formed around the question of whether such implications exist and how they might appear. Narratives are not merely permeated by specific moral contents, values and norms but – such is the more fundamental thesis – the phenomenon of morality as such is constituted only in and through narratives. The following considerations aim to contribute to this subject. The terms narrativity (1) and morality (2) are to be defined in a way indicating possible correlations (3). The central thesis is: Moral experience and acting are fundamentally based on processes of identity and empathy formation, and narratives enable, create, stabilize and energize both identity and empathy.

01 01 JB code sin.17.03fre 06 10.1075/sin.17.03fre 49 68 20 Article 3 01 04 Chapter 2. Axes of identity Chapter 2. Axes of identity 01 04 Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards's) Life Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards’s) Life 1 A01 01 JB code 192183544 Mark Freeman Freeman, Mark Mark Freeman 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/192183544 01 eng 03 00

This chapter explores the notion of persona, focusing on two interrelated “axes” of identity, the first tied to time and the second to what might be termed “relatedness to the Other.” Drawing especially on William James’s seminal reflections on self and identity, it is suggested herein that an important aspect of identity concerns the degree of congruence, or lack thereof, between the various stories told by oneself and others about the meaning and movement of one’s life. Also important, in James’s view, is the issue of personal continuity and how it might best be understood. These ideas, taken together, lead him to conceptualize identity in essentially narrative terms. In order to address the notion of persona via the idea of narrative identity, I turn to Keith Richards’s recent book Life (2010), which provides a vivid illustration of the process of negotiating one’s own and others’ perspectives on who and what one is. For Richards, the widely-circulated public images that had been on display throughout much of his life had been in tension with what he regarded as his innermost interests and desires: In Jamesian terms, his Spiritual Self had been belied by the rather more colorful Social Selves on view. By Richards’s own account, these images had been folded into his identity, such that it became difficult to disentangle the authentic person from the persona. Ultimately, there may be no way of doing so. This does not mean abandoning the idea and ideal of personal authenticity, however. On the contrary, it means reimagining it, in full recognition of the multiple paths through which narrative identity comes into being.

01 01 JB code sin.17.04kra 06 10.1075/sin.17.04kra 69 83 15 Article 4 01 04 Chapter 3. The quest for a third space Chapter 3. The quest for a third space 01 04 Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity 1 A01 01 JB code 748183545 Wolfgang Kraus Kraus, Wolfgang Wolfgang Kraus 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/748183545 01 eng 03 00

While a narrative approach to the construction of identity opens up quite “naturally” to the question of who I am in time, i.e. to a temporal order, it is inclined to neglect the question of who I am part of, i.e. of belonging. This essay argues that the adherence to a plurality of social worlds provides the teller with options of self-positioning in his or her self-narratives. Even within the confinement of a limited story world a whole variety of self-positions is regularly evoked. Social exclusion, on the other hand, can be described in positioning theory as the experience of other positioning, of being positioned by dominant others. Other positioning endangers the possibility of narrating oneself as an agent in one’s own self-stories and consequently obstructs the process of identity construction. This raises the question how individuals manage to maintain the dynamics of self-positioning in self stories, which are largely shaped by the experience of social exclusion. To answer this question, Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopias as used by Kevin Hetherington is discussed as the conceptualization of a – real – social world, which is related to the dominant social order in an ambivalent way. Heterotopias offer the experience of a third space, beyond the binary logics of an “either-or” or “in-out” and thus allow for the development of self-positions beyond these oppositions. Two empirical examples of heterotopic self-positioning are presented. The characteristics of these narratives are discussed.

01 01 JB code sin.17.05luc 06 10.1075/sin.17.05luc 85 101 17 Article 5 01 04 Chapter 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self Chapter 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self 1 A01 01 JB code 257183546 Gabriele Lucius-Hoene Lucius-Hoene, Gabriele Gabriele Lucius-Hoene 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/257183546 01 eng 03 00

Perspectivation – verbal practices to represent perspectives – can be used in personal storytelling to negotiate moral claims which are crucial to the teller’s self. The perspectives of different interactants in the story-world can show up in complicated fusions or as contested battlefields, contrasting, backing or commenting each other. Preferably in reported speech and scenic re-stagings of episodes, the narrator as “almighty author” can shape or frame the voices of problematic interactants within the story by means of rhetorical devices, which enables him to gain authentification and persuasive power while refraining from explicit evaluations.

01 01 JB code sin.17.06mil 06 10.1075/sin.17.06mil 103 116 14 Article 6 01 04 Chapter 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist's life story Chapter 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist’s life story 01 04 A socionarratological perspective on narrative identity A socionarratological perspective on narrative identity 1 A01 01 JB code 936183547 Jarmila Mildorf Mildorf, Jarmila Jarmila Mildorf 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/936183547 01 eng 03 00

This chapter explores the roles perspective can play in conversational storytelling (e.g. creating involvement, sympathy and bonding) and to what extent literary narratology can offer useful terms to describe perspective-taking in such contexts. The chapter traces instances of focalization in the referential frameworks of a craft artist’s life interview. It illustrates how the interviewee positions himself within the interview and in his narrative and how he also invites the interviewer to partially adopt his position.

01 01 JB code sin.17.07hei 06 10.1075/sin.17.07hei 117 127 11 Article 7 01 04 Chapter 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities? Chapter 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities? 1 A01 01 JB code 456183548 Rüdiger Heinze Heinze, Rüdiger Rüdiger Heinze 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/456183548 01 eng 03 00

Narrative is a constitutive element of our knowledge of and communication about world and self. A key element of narrative and our understanding of it is the (re-)construction of perspective and the specific kind of narrative identity this perspective projects and pre-figures. If our understanding of fictional narratives is based on real-world experiential cognitive parameters, how do we deal with texts that cannot be fully grasped in accordance with these parameters, and what effects do these “unnatural” texts have on everyday storytelling? This essay discusses fictional narratives and narrative perspectives that transcend mimetic and experiential theories of interpretation and narrative in various forms and manners. It asks how, why and with which consequences for our conceptions of narrative identity fictional narratives go beyond our everyday experiences and cannot be fully explained in terms of real-world experiential cognitive parameters. This essay aims to show how fictional narratives and “unnatural” perspectives open up new horizons and narrative identities, specifically ways of world-making, and that our appreciation for this “unnaturalness” leads to a more profound understanding of these narratives as well as our knowledge of world and self.

01 01 JB code sin.17.08fre 06 10.1075/sin.17.08fre 129 146 18 Article 8 01 04 Chapter 7. "Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated" Chapter 7. “Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated” 01 04 Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex 1 A01 01 JB code 102183549 Nicole Frey Büchel Frey Büchel, Nicole Nicole Frey Büchel 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/102183549 01 eng 03 00

Jeffrey Eugenides’s epic novel Middlesex raises the overarching questions of how a comprehensive understanding of selfhood can be gained and to what extent the construction of a coherent identity by means of language is possible. In his attempt to make conclusive sense of his self, Cal, the intersexual narrator and protagonist of the novel, takes refuge in the idea that constructing a narrative identity will lead to self-coherence. While this wish for unity is understandable from a psychological perspective, a poststructuralist approach to Middlesex shows that Cal’s endeavour to fix selfhood in narrative ironically results in making it even more indeterminate. Narratives continually and inevitably communicate with pre-existing texts which results in the constant deferral of their final meaning, and narratives are revealed to be incapable of providing a definite selfhood. Middlesex shows that the primary aim is not the achievement of a coherent self but rather the constructive process of telling the narrative. The novel thus reformulates the concept of narrative identity in terms of constant, ultimately open-ended performance.

01 01 JB code sin.17.09wor 06 10.1075/sin.17.09wor 147 169 23 Article 9 01 04 Chapter 8. Creative confession Chapter 8. Creative confession 01 04 Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan's Atonement Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan’s Atonement 1 A01 01 JB code 834183550 Kim Worthington Worthington, Kim Kim Worthington 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/834183550 01 eng 03 00

This essay explores the act of self-authorising confession represented in Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and the ethical considerations that are raised in consequence. Drawing on the work of Peter Brooks, J. M. Coetzee, Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas (and others) I argue that in Atonement McEwan points up the impossibility of attaining either truth or self-forgiveness via acts of (confessional) self-writing. McEwan’s probing portrayal of the limitations of individual perspective result in ethical insights that extend beyond the realm of (fiction) writing and cut to the heart of interpersonal engagement. He invites readers to recognised the extent to which even our most empathetic attempts to imagine the interiority of others are always, and inevitably, acts of authoritative appropriation. At the same time, however, McEwan encourages recognition of the limits and consequences of (self) authority; he suggests the ongoing need, of the self-narrating self, for the re-cognition of (reading) others. Briony, the novel’s protagonist and narrator, ultimately realises the impossibility of herself writing the forgiveness she desires and acknowledges the authority of the others who will finally write her in their (retrospective) readings.

01 01 JB code sin.17.10kil 06 10.1075/sin.17.10kil 171 186 16 Article 10 01 04 Chapter 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity Chapter 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity 01 04 Quentin Crisp's life story - A successful failure Quentin Crisp’s life story – A successful failure 1 A01 01 JB code 157183551 Eveline Kilian Kilian, Eveline Eveline Kilian 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/157183551 01 eng 03 00

This paper focuses on queer subjects as heteronormativity’s marginalized others and the consequences of this subject position for autobiographical structures and queer concepts of time. My literary examples are Quentin Crisp’s life writings, notably his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, and with the help of Judith Butler’s theory of subject formation as well as recent queer theories on negativity and failure (Lee Edelman, Judith Halberstam), I show how Crisp expressly inhabits the position of the abject, of negativity, and develops a lifestyle of failure, which he is able to turn into a success later in his life.

01 01 JB code sin.17.11bru 06 10.1075/sin.17.11bru 187 202 16 Article 11 01 04 Chapter 10. Confessional poetry Chapter 10. Confessional poetry 01 04 A poetic perspective on narrative identity A poetic perspective on narrative identity 1 A01 01 JB code 729183552 Eva Brunner Brunner, Eva Eva Brunner 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/729183552 01 eng 03 00

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 self-concepts, the possibility of multiple selves, and the notion of permanent self-actualization through narrative. Furthermore, this paper suggests that narrative identity theory concentrates too much on conventional narratological frames such as narrative coherence. The reading of lyric poetry extends the narratological settings especially with respect to time. Therefore, this paper suggests that analyzing narrative identity in literary texts contributes to our general understanding of narrative identity. In addition, it draws attention to the connection between identity and emotion. It shows that lyric poetry evokes emotions not only through narrative, but also with the help of non-narrative devices. As a result, the paper demonstrates that emotions influence the identity-process and challenge a purely rational understanding of narrative identity.

01 01 JB code sin.17.12con 06 10.1075/sin.17.12con 203 205 3 Miscellaneous 12 01 04 Contributors Contributors 01 eng 01 01 JB code sin.17.13ind 06 10.1075/sin.17.13ind 207 209 3 Miscellaneous 13 01 04 Index Index 01 eng
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647014806 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SiN 17 GE 15 9789027272256 06 10.1075/sin.17 00 EA E133 10 01 JB code SiN 02 JB code 1568-2706 02 17.00 01 02 Studies in Narrative Studies in Narrative 01 01 Rethinking Narrative Identity Rethinking Narrative Identity 1 B01 01 JB code 761179767 Claudia Holler Holler, Claudia Claudia Holler Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 2 B01 01 JB code 787179768 Martin Klepper Klepper, Martin Martin Klepper Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 01 eng 11 215 03 03 vi 03 00 209 03 24 JB code LIN.NAR Narrative Studies 24 JB code LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB code LIN.SOCIO Sociolinguistics and Dialectology 24 JB code LIT.THEOR Theoretical literature & literary studies 10 LAN009000 12 CFB 01 06 02 00 Why is it that we tend to think about our lives as stories? Why do we strive to create coherent narratives that reflect a particular perspective? What happens when we discover multiple, perhaps conflicting perspectives in our narratives? This title deals with these questions. 03 00 Why is it that we tend to think about our lives as stories? Why do we strive to create coherent narratives that reflect a particular perspective? What happens when we discover multiple, perhaps conflicting perspectives in our narratives? Following groundbreaking work in the study of narrative identity in the last 20 years, the scholars of this volume have expanded and merged their theories of narrative identity with new perspectives in fields such as narratology, literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, gender studies and history. Their contributions focus on the significance of perspective in the formation of narrative identities, probing the stratagems and narrative means of individuals in testing out personae for themselves. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/sin.17.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027226570.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027226570.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/sin.17.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/sin.17.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/sin.17.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/sin.17.hb.png 01 01 JB code sin.17.01kle 06 10.1075/sin.17.01kle 1 31 31 Article 1 01 04 Introduction. Rethinking narrative identity Introduction. Rethinking narrative identity 01 04 Persona and perspective Persona and perspective 1 A01 01 JB code 894183542 Martin Klepper Klepper, Martin Martin Klepper 01 01 JB code sin.17.02meu 06 10.1075/sin.17.02meu 33 48 16 Article 2 01 04 Chapter 1. Identity and empathy Chapter 1. Identity and empathy 01 04 On the correlation of narrativity and morality On the correlation of narrativity and morality 1 A01 01 JB code 554183543 Norbert Meuter Meuter, Norbert Norbert Meuter 01 01 JB code sin.17.03fre 06 10.1075/sin.17.03fre 49 68 20 Article 3 01 04 Chapter 2. Axes of identity Chapter 2. Axes of identity 01 04 Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards's) Life Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards’s) Life 1 A01 01 JB code 192183544 Mark Freeman Freeman, Mark Mark Freeman 01 01 JB code sin.17.04kra 06 10.1075/sin.17.04kra 69 83 15 Article 4 01 04 Chapter 3. The quest for a third space Chapter 3. The quest for a third space 01 04 Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity 1 A01 01 JB code 748183545 Wolfgang Kraus Kraus, Wolfgang Wolfgang Kraus 01 01 JB code sin.17.05luc 06 10.1075/sin.17.05luc 85 101 17 Article 5 01 04 Chapter 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self Chapter 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self 1 A01 01 JB code 257183546 Gabriele Lucius-Hoene Lucius-Hoene, Gabriele Gabriele Lucius-Hoene 01 01 JB code sin.17.06mil 06 10.1075/sin.17.06mil 103 116 14 Article 6 01 04 Chapter 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist's life story Chapter 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist’s life story 01 04 A socionarratological perspective on narrative identity A socionarratological perspective on narrative identity 1 A01 01 JB code 936183547 Jarmila Mildorf Mildorf, Jarmila Jarmila Mildorf 01 01 JB code sin.17.07hei 06 10.1075/sin.17.07hei 117 127 11 Article 7 01 04 Chapter 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities? Chapter 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities? 1 A01 01 JB code 456183548 Rüdiger Heinze Heinze, Rüdiger Rüdiger Heinze 01 01 JB code sin.17.08fre 06 10.1075/sin.17.08fre 129 146 18 Article 8 01 04 Chapter 7. "Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated" Chapter 7. “Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated” 01 04 Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex 1 A01 01 JB code 102183549 Nicole Frey Büchel Frey Büchel, Nicole Nicole Frey Büchel 01 01 JB code sin.17.09wor 06 10.1075/sin.17.09wor 147 169 23 Article 9 01 04 Chapter 8. Creative confession Chapter 8. Creative confession 01 04 Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan's Atonement Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan’s Atonement 1 A01 01 JB code 834183550 Kim Worthington Worthington, Kim Kim Worthington 01 01 JB code sin.17.10kil 06 10.1075/sin.17.10kil 171 186 16 Article 10 01 04 Chapter 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity Chapter 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity 01 04 Quentin Crisp's life story - A successful failure Quentin Crisp’s life story – A successful failure 1 A01 01 JB code 157183551 Eveline Kilian Kilian, Eveline Eveline Kilian 01 01 JB code sin.17.11bru 06 10.1075/sin.17.11bru 187 202 16 Article 11 01 04 Chapter 10. Confessional poetry Chapter 10. Confessional poetry 01 04 A poetic perspective on narrative identity A poetic perspective on narrative identity 1 A01 01 JB code 729183552 Eva Brunner Brunner, Eva Eva Brunner 01 01 JB code sin.17.12con 06 10.1075/sin.17.12con 203 205 3 Miscellaneous 12 01 04 Contributors Contributors 01 01 JB code sin.17.13ind 06 10.1075/sin.17.13ind 207 209 3 Miscellaneous 13 01 04 Index Index 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20130228 C 2013 John Benjamins D 2013 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027226570 WORLD 03 01 JB 17 Google 03 https://play.google.com/store/books 21 01 00 Unqualified price 00 90.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 00 76.00 GBP 01 00 Unqualified price 00 135.00 USD