| Description |
xvii, 184 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cornell paperbacks |
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Cornell paperbacks.
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| Contents |
1. Talking about Ourselves: The Rules of the Game -- Jolting Events -- The Case against Narrative Identity -- Truth or Consequences on Oprah -- The Narrative Identity System -- Narrative Rules, Identity Rules -- "My Father's Brain" -- 2. Autobiographical Consciousness: Body, Brain, Self, and Narrative -- Antonio Damasio and the "Movie-in-the-Brain" -- Doing Consciousness -- 3. Identity Work: People Making Stories -- Looking at Vermeer: "Inner" Lives and "Outer" Forces -- Everyday Lives -- "'My Father ... '" -- The Pressure of Circumstances, the Power of Story -- 4. Living Autobiographically -- The Homeostatic Machine -- "Arbitrage": Andre Aciman and "Remembering Remembering" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Autobiography.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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| LC no. |
2008019570 |
| ISBN |
9780801447242 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0801447240 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780801474781 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0801474787 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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