Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative: Volume 2 by Mark Freeman

By Mark Freeman

Originally released in 1993. This booklet explores the method during which contributors reconstruct the that means and importance of previous adventure. Drawing at the lives of such remarkable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth in addition to at the mixed insights of psychology, philosophy and literary idea, the booklet sheds mild at the intricacies and dilemmas of self-interpretation specifically and interpretive mental enquiry extra generally.


The writer attracts upon chosen, almost always autobiographical, literary texts which will research concretely the method of rewriting the self. one of the concerns addressed are the connection of rewriting the self to the idea that of improvement, where of language within the development of selfhood, the adaptation among residing and telling approximately it, the matter of evidence in lifestyles background narrative, the importance of the subconscious in reading the private previous, and the liberty of the narrative mind's eye.



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