Narrative and Self-Understanding

Chapter 1 Introduction: Literary Experience and Self-Reflection

Chapter 2 The (Literary) Stories of Our Lives

Chapter 3 Literature and Moral Change: Rupture, Universality and Self-Understanding

Chapter 4 Rationalism About Autobiography

Chapter 5 Exploring Self and Emotion: Unamuno’s Narrative Fiction as Thought Experiment

Chapter 6 Emerson’s Dialectic of Self-Knowledge

Chapter 7 Self-Knowledge in Nietzsche and in Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet

Chapter 8 A Professional Conscience: On an Episode of Self-Accusation in Raymond Queneau’s The Last Days

Chapter 9 Self-deception as a Philosophical Problem

Chapter 10 Self-forgiveness and the Moral Perspective of Humility: Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Chapter 11 Fragility of Character in Primo Levi’s “Story of a Coin”

Chapter 13 Wittgenstein, Consciousness, and The Golden Bowl : James’s Maggie Verver and the Linguistic Mind