Rethinking Narrative Identity -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction. Rethinking narrative identity: Persona and perspective -- The power and reach of narrative -- The limits of narrative: Decomposition -- The limits of narrative: Multiplication -- The origins of narrative identity: Biography generators, schemata, protocols -- From time to space? Performance, iteration, deferral and symbolization -- Embodiment and ethics -- Persona and perspective -- References -- 1. Identity and empathy: On the correlation of narrativity and morality -- 1. Narrativity -- 2. Morality -- 3. Narrativity and morality -- References -- 2. Axes of identity: Persona, perspective, and the meaning of (Keith Richards's) Life -- The riddle of identity -- Narrative identity -- Persona personified -- Eros and thanatos -- Persona, authenticity, identity -- References -- 3. The quest for a third space: Heterotopic self-positioning and narrative identity -- Identity, social space, belonging -- Two modes of identity construction -- Performing identity: The negotiation of self-positions in narrative and discourse -- Other-positioning as identity threat -- Identity construction in the zone of vulnerability -- Overcoming opposites - looking for a "third" -- Heterotopia as space of otherness -- Self-positioning in heterotopias -- Heterotopias as choice and construction -- Narrating heterotopic experience -- Heterotopic positioning as "work on the impossible" -- References -- 4. Constructing perspectives as positioning resources in stories of the self -- References -- 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist's life story: A socionarratological per -- Craft artists' stories -- Socionarratology: A brief outline -- Perspective in narrative: Focalization -- A moment of epiphany: Analysis of an exemplary narrative -- Conclusion.

References -- Appendix -- 6. Strange perspectives = strange (narrative?) identities? -- References -- 7. "Indefinite, sketchy, but not entirely obliterated:" Narrative identity in Jeffrey Eugenides's Mi -- References -- 8. Creative confession: Self-writing, forgiveness and ethics in Ian McEwan's Atonement -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- References -- 9. The queer self and the snares of heteronormativity: Quentin Crisp's life story - A successful fai -- References -- 10. Confessional poetry: A poetic perspective on narrative identity -- Narrative identity and its narratological frames -- Confessional poetry -- Reading Anne Sexton -- Conclusion -- References -- Contributors -- Index.