Narrative and consciousness : literature, psychology, and the brain / edited by Gary D. Fireman, Ted E. McVay, Jr., Owen J. Flanagan.

Contributor Fireman, Gary D.

Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Descriptionxi, 252 p. ; 25 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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