Self-narrative autobiography and identity construction essay

Life as Narrative" Revisited

Matti Hyvärinen

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 2008

is undoubtedly one of the most influential and debated narrative theorists in cultural studies and an important figure in transmitting ideas between literature, cultural studies and psychology.

Recently, his work on narrative cognition and "folk psychology" has received new vitality in David Herman's (2002, 2008) work; whereas Galen Strawson (2004) has foregrounded Bruner's thought by targeting him, among others, in his own criticism of narrativity.

Narrative and identity: Studies in autobiography, self and culture / edited by Jens.

Narrative and identity: Studies in autobiography, self and culture / edited by Jens.

This essay considers how identity is represented through narrative, specifically autobiographical animation.

This article is a proposal of identity research through its process and narrative character.

In life stories, autobiographical facts are subjected to selective choice and interpretation, in order to design one's own life and communicate with others.

Play between visual and textual media.

The purpose of this article is not to evaluate the whole debate, nor Bruner's whole contribution to cultural psychology or narrative theory. Instead, my modest intention is to study one single article, "Life as Narrative" (Bruner 1987), and one of its key arguments.

I want to try out the idea that this article, far from expressing some permanent