Narrative and Consciousness

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Contributors1. Introduction, Gary D. Fireman, Ted E. McVay, Jr., and Owen FlanaganPART I: THE ROLE OF NARRATIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSCIOUS AWARENESS 2. Narrative and the Emergence of a Consciousness of Self, Katherine Nelson3. The Development of the Self, Valerie Gray HardcastlePART II: NARRATIVE AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY 4. The Role of Narrative in Recollection: A View from Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology, David C. Rubin and Daniel L. Greenberg5. Material Selves: Bodies, Memory, and Autobiographical Narrating, Sidonie A. SmithPART III: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE, FICTION, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF 6. Rethinking the Fictive, Reclaiming the Real: Autobiography, Narrative Time, and the Burden of Truth, Mark Freeman7. Dual Focalization, Retrospective Fictional Autobiography, and the Ethics of Lolita, James PhelanPART IV: NARRATIVE DISRUPTIONS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF...