Stories and Portraits of the Self -- Contents -- Introduction: Signposts of the Self in Modernity -- Part I The Representational Dilemma -- The Self as a Work of Art: Proust's Scepticism -- (Re-)Constructing, (Re-)Membering Postcolonial Selves -- 'Doing Identity' in Fiction: Identity Construction as a Dialogue between Individuals and Cultural Narratives -- Self-Representation and Temporality: 'Parabasis' in Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas -- New Man: Marie Kessels' Inner Portrait of a Writing Self -- Good Intentions, Ethical Commitment, and Impersonal Poetry: The Work of Gerrit Kouwenaar -- 'For-Getting' Plural Selves: Narrative and Identity in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore -- The Straitjacket of Normality. The Interaction with the Psychiatrist in Maurits Dekker's Waarom ik niet krankzinnig ben -- The Self's Struggle for Recognition: August Strindberg and the Other -- Unshaded Shadows: Performances of Gender in Emily Dickinson and Luiza Neto Jorge1 -- PART II Signalling Identity -- The Identity Paradigm -- The Global I -- Staining the Past with Ink in Lorenzo Da Ponte's Memorie (1830): The Fallacies of Autobiographical 'Writing' -- Between Autobiography and Fiction: Narrating the Self in Gabriel García Márquez's Vivir para contarla -- The Passion of Lena Christ: From Fictionalized Autobiography to Biographical Novel -- Dreams in the Mirror: George Steiner by George Steiner -- PART III Images of the Self Across the Arts -- Reading W. G. Sebald with Alberto Giacometti -- The Impossible Self-Portrait -- Between Literature and the Visual Arts: Portraits of the Self in William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Fernando -- Photography and Shadow-Writing: Henry James's Revisions of the Self in the New York Edition -- Consumed by the Audience. Inhibition, Fear, and Anxiety in the Oeuvre of Bruce Nauman.

There Was Something about Mary: Mary Pickford's Perfect 'Little American' -- Paint it Red: Death Artistry as a Portrait of the Self.