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Narrative and Self-Understanding (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Narrative and Self-Understanding (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between
narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is
of universal interest; the nature or character of its achievement
has been one continuing thread in our philosophical tradition for
millennia. Likewise the nature of storytelling, the assembly of
individual parts of a potential story into a coherent narrative
structure, has been central to the study of literature. But how do
we gain knowledge from an artform that is by definition fictional,
by definition not a matter of ascertained fact, as this applies to
the understanding of our lives? When we see ourselves in the
mimetic mirror of literature, what we see may not just be a matter
of identifying with a single protagonist, but also a matter of
recognizing long-form structures, long-arc narrative shapes that
give a place to - and thus make sense of - the individual bits of
experience that we place into those structures. But of course at
precisely this juncture a question arises: do we make that sense,
or do we discover it? The twelve chapters brought together here
lucidly and steadily reveal how the matters at hand are far more
intricate and interesting than any such dichotomy could
accommodate. This is a book that investigates the ways in which
life and literature speak to each other.
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