Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative (review)
Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative (review)
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自传式生活：我们如何在叙事中创造身份（评论）
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2009
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D. Mccooey
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文章预览：自1985年出版《自传小说》以来，保罗·约翰·埃金一直是自传研究领域的重要人物。与他的其他专着一样，埃金的最新著作《自传式生活：我们如何在叙事中创造身份》将优雅与广度、清晰度与概念复杂性融为一体。与他的其他作品一样，《自传式生活》涵盖了广泛的理论和自传文本。虽然埃金对文学理论本身并不漠不关心（这一点已经有一段时间了），但他不仅受到文学理论的深刻启发，而且还受到人文学科的理论的启发。本专着中最值得注意的是埃金对神经生物学最新研究的运用。至于他选择的讨论自传文本，大多数是美国的，尽管埃金确实讨论了澳大利亚作家大卫·马卢夫（埃金长期以来的最爱），以及玛丽安·古勒斯塔德的《日常生活哲学家：挪威的现代性、道德和自传》（1996）中分析的挪威自传叙述。埃金对古勒斯塔德作品的兴趣表明他不仅仅关心所谓的“文学”文本，这一点也可以从他对 9/11 事件后《纽约时报》上出现的“悲伤肖像”系列的讨论中看出。将这些不同的文本、自传/传记程序和理论问题汇集在一起是一项雄心勃勃的事业。最雄心勃勃的是，《自传式生活》将“文化主义”和生物学框架结合在一起，作为回答这个问题的一种方式
Preview of the article : Ever since the publication of Fictions in Autobiography in 1985, Paul John Eakin has been a major presence in the field of autobiography studies. As with his other monographs, Eakin’s latest work, Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative, brings together elegance and range, as well as clarity and conceptual complexity. Like his other works, too, Living Autobiographically covers a wide range of theoretical and autobiographical texts. While not indifferent to literary theory per se, Eakin (as has been apparent for some time) is profoundly stimulated by theory that goes beyond not only the literary but also the humanities. Most notable in this monograph is Eakin’s use of recent research in neurobiology. With regard to his choice of autobiographical texts for discussion, most are American, though Eakin does discuss the Australian writer David Malouf (a long-time favorite of Eakin’s), as well as the Norwegian autobiographical narratives analyzed in Marianne Gullestad’s Everyday Life Philosophers: Modernity, Morality, and Autobiography in Norway (1996). Eakin’s interest in Gullestad’s work, which is based on a project that elicited autobiographical narratives from “ordinary” individuals, shows that he is not solely concerned with so-called “literary” texts, something also seen in his discussion of the “Portraits of Grief ” series that appeared in the New York Times in the wake of 9/11. Bringing together such disparate texts, auto/biographical procedures, and theoretical concerns is an ambitious enterprise. Most ambitious of all is that Living Autobiographically brings “culturalist” and biological frameworks together as a way of answering the question