Régine Battiston, a professor of German at the Université de Haute-Alsace, has an
impressive list of publications in her self-proclaimed fields of interest in Swiss-German and …

These letters, though in part marketed as a love story between Bachmann and Hamesh,
more likely tell the story of a fading, short-term romance and a bourgeoning friendship. It is …

We are storytellers by default. We hold a great reverence for eloquent rhetoric. If we were to
try and define what narrative is and how it should be structured, it would be the same task as …

[Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing Company]. In the age of postmodern theorizing, the
narrative turn is an alternative paradigm that has become mainstream, or at least accepted …

Opening with the contention that the invention of the self is one of the most fun? damental
aims of literature in the modern period, this book sets out to show how fiction was used in the …

In the last decades, a number of philosophical and psychological theories have made
serious attempts to discover and make use of various aspects of different types of narratives …

CONCLUSIONS AND PROJECTIONS At the end of this long itinerary, we come back to the
problem we posed at the beginning of this stu Page 1 CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSIONS AND …

In narrative theories of personal identity there is a lack of clarity on how explicit an identity
constituting narrative must be. In the Narrative Self Constitution View (Schechtman 1996) …

Reviewed by David Block his volume appears in the midst of a good number of books about
narrative (eg Clandinin 2007; Reismann 2008), identity (eg Riley 2007; Block 2007; Caldas …

This article critically examines the recent turn to narratives as tools for identity construction
and identity analysis. While self and sense of self will be used largely as synonyms, the …