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Author Parker, David, 1943-

Title The self in moral space : life narrative and the good / David Parker
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007

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Description ix, 195 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Making the best sense of lives -- Wang Shih-Min's "self-account" : an exemplary life -- Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and the limits of life narrative -- Nietzsche's Ecce homo : inescapable frameworks of the good -- Narratives of supersession : Augustine's Confessions -- Narratives of supersession : Wordsworth's Prelude -- Narrative of authenticity : Gosse's Father and son -- Authenticity and recognition : Steedman's Landscape for a good woman -- Difference and its discontents -- Common humanity and its limits : Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father -- Seamus Heaney : recognizing the other -- Coetzee's Boyhood : toward an aesthetics of life narrative
Summary The author states that to some extent his line of argument may be seen as part of the turn to ethics in literary studies, and more recently in studies of life writing. --introd
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index
Subject Self in literature.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Autobiography -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Identity (Psychology) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
LC no. 2006039786
ISBN 9780801445613 cloth alkaline paper
Other Titles Life narrative and the good