Narratable and unnarratable lives
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Folklore approaches to personal narrative reflect the belief in a fixed identity separate from representation whereas the modern view of the self is more problematic. Typical folklore narratives relate conversion experiences which highlight significant moments regarded as formative of personal identity. In the modern view, there is no separate self constituted by privileged moments, but rather the self is constructed through its representation. In truth, however, each life no doubt contains both narratable and unnarratable, or real and fictional, elements.
Publication Name: Western Folklore
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0043-373X
Year: 1992
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'Dead letters!... Dead men?': The rhetoric of the office in Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'
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Research examining critical discourses in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville is presented. Particular attention is given to discourses representing the economic orders of the American market-place which are voiced through the lawyer-narrator.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2000
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