Paul John Eakin. How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves ...
In this book, noted life-writing scholar Paul John Eakin explores the intimate, dynamic connection between our selves and our stories, between narrative and identity in everyday life. Review: Living Autobiography: How we create identity in ... In this way we "live autobiographically"; we have narrative identities. In this book, noted life-writing scholar Paul John Eakin explores the intimate, dynamic connection between our selves and our stories, between narrative and identity in everyday life.How Our Lives Become Stories - De Gruyter Paul John Eakin is Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University. He is the author of How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves, also from Cornell; The New England Girl: Cultural Ideals in Hawthorne, Stowe, Howells, and James; Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention; and Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography.Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in ... 122 Paul John Eakin autobiography could relate. Developmental psychologists convince me, though, that we are trained as children to attach special importance to one kind of selfhood, that of the extended self, so much so that we do in fact regard it as identity's signature. The extended self is the self of memory and anticipation, extending. LIVING AUTOBIOGRAPHICALLY How We Create Identity in Narrative
Shared subjects come together in the literature of Paul John Eakin, a Professor Emeritus of English and author of the book, Living Autobiography: How we create identity in narrative in which P. J. Eakin poses one question, “Why do people tell and sometimes write their life stories? (p. ). Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self ...
Following Paul John Eakins’ proposal that identity is a narrative construction, and the project of the self is malleable, then autobiographical writing has become the genre par excellence for. Fictions in Autobiography : Studies in the Art of Self-Invention
In this intriguing book, Paul John Eakin problematizes the notion of autobiography as 'the story of the self' and argues that in the act of narration one is engaged in a process of making a self. How Our Lives Become Stories is a concise and engaging synopsis of the state of the art for anyone interested in the subject. Living Autobiographically is a major work by a major critic in the field of autobiography studies. Paul John Eakin has always been a few steps ahead of the rest of us. Now, with How Our Lives Become Stories, he has contributed another indispensable reassessment of the field of autobiography, this time keyed to the disturbingly fluid sense of the self that has emerged from recent research throughout the cognitive sciences.
Eakin clearly and succinctly delineates the established expectations, conventions and "rules" of autobiography: truth telling, respecting privacy, and. As Emeritus Professor of English Paul John Eakin observes, 'Narrative is not merely about self but is in some profound way a constituent part of self. ' 46 In this sense, autobiography is always.
Autobiography is not merely something we read in a book; rather, as a discourse of identity, delivered bit by bit in the stories we tell about ourselves day in. Eakin, Paul John. Living autobiographically; how we create identity in narrative I Paul John E."lkin. p.cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-4724-2 (cloth; alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8014-7478-1 (pbk.; alk. paper) I. Autobiography. 2. Identity (Psychology) 3. Narration (Rhetoric) I. Title. CT25.E26 2008 809'.93592--dc22.
Living Autobiographically : How We Create Identity in Narrative
Eakin goes on to discuss autobiographical accounts by Leslie Marmon Silko and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as examples of how identity shaping takes place in communities. 
What Are We Reading When We Read Autobiography? - JSTOR
Eakin repeatedly speculates that autobiography is not simply “something we read in a book,” but is also “a discourse of identity, delivered bit by bit, in the stories we tell ourselves day.
Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative
Meaning of Narratives, ed. Ruthellen josselson and Amia Lieblich, The Narrative Study of Lives 6 (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, ), ; "Breaking Rules: The Conse quences of Self-Narration," Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 24 (): ; "Living Autobiographically,".
Book Review: How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves ...
"Paul John Eakin's Fictions in Autobiography does so many things so well that it is difficult to know where to begin to praise the book As autobiography has been the dominant mode in literature of the twentieth century, so critical attention to the questions posed by the autobiographical act has become the principal preoccupation of theorists across the entire critical spectrum.