Narrative and Self-Understanding

1. ​Introduction: Literary Experience and Self-Reflection, Garry L. HagbergPart I: Self, Self-Description, Story2.The (Literary) Stories of Our Lives, Jukka Mikkonen3. Literature and Moral Change- Rupture, Universality and Self-Understanding, Nora Hamalainen4. Rationalism about Autobiography, Samuel ClarkPart II: The Examined Mind5. Exploring Self and Emotion: Unamuno's Narrative Fiction as Thought Experiment, Ingrid Vendrell Ferran6. Emerson's Dialectic of Self-Knowledge, Jeff Wieand7. Self-Knowledge in Nitezsche and in Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, Antonio Cardioelle & Paolo StellinoPart III: Negotiations of Selfhood8. A Professional Conscience: On an Episode of Self-Accusation in Raymon Queneau's The Last Days, Sam McAuliffe9. Self-Deception as a Philosophical Problem, Zeyneo Talay Turner10. Self-Forgiveness and the Moral Perspective of Humanity: Ian McEwan's Atonement, John Lippitt.- Part IV: Character, Transformative Reading, and Self-Reflective Consciousness11. Fragility of Character in Primo Levi's Story of a Coin, Catherine Mooney12. Transformative Fictions: Literature as Care of the Self, Daniel Just13. Wittgenstein, Consciousness and The Golden Bowl: James's Maggie Verver and the Linguistic Mind, Garry L. Hagberg.