Identity And Story: Creating Self in Narrative (The Narrative Study of Lives)

ISBN 10: 159147356X / ISBN 13: 9781591473565

Published by Amer Psychological Assn, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Identity And Story: Creating Self in Narrative (The Narrative Study of Lives)
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159147356X
• ISBN 13: 9781591473565
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

An increasing number of psychologists argue that people give meaning to their lives by constructing and internalizing self-defining stories. The contributors to this volume explore how, beginning in adolescence and young adulthood, our narrative identities become the stories we live by. This volume addresses the most important and difficult issues in the study of narrative identity, including questions of unity and multiplicity in stories, the controversy over individual versus societal authorship of stories, and the extent to which stories typically show stability or growth in the narrator.