Examining the constitutive role of language and narration in key areas of human experience, Narrative and the Self articulates a view of the self as the implied

The editors bring together an interdisciplinary and international group of creative researchers and theorists to examine the way the stories we tell create our

This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is of universal interest; the nature

Annotation This text evolved out of a December 1995 conference at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, attended by scholars f

Is each of us the main character in a story we tell about ourselves, or is this narrative understanding of selfhood misguided and possibly harmful? Are selves a