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Albright, Daniel. 1994. "Literary and psychological models of the self," in In U. Neisser & R. Fivush (Eds.), The remembering self: Construction and accuracy in the self-narrative New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 19-40.

Allegra, Antonio. 1999. Identitie racconto. Forme di ricerca nel pensiero contemporaneo (Identity and narration. Patterns of research in contemporary thought). Naples: Esi. (Includes chapters on MacIntyre, Ricoeur, Derrida, philosophy of history, and so forth).

Barclay, C. R. 1994. "Composing protoselves through improvisation." In U. Neisser & R. Fivush (Eds.), The remembering self: Construction and accuracy in the self-narrative New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 55-77.

Barclay, C. R. & Smith, T. S. 1993. "Autobiographical remembering and self-composing," International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology 15: 1-25.

Barresi, John, and Tim J. Juckes. 1997. Personology and the Narrative Interpretation of Lives. Journal of Personality 65: 693-719

Benzon, William L. 1993. "The Evolution of Narrative and the Self," Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems , 16(2): 129-155.

Bickle, John. 2003/ Empirical evidence for a narrative concept of self. In G. Fireman, T. McVay, and O. Flanagan (eds.), Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 195-208.

Brooks, Linda Marie (ed). 1995. Alternative identities : the self in literature, history, theory. New York: Garland.

Budwig, Nancy. 1997. "Language and the Construction of Self: Developmental Reflections."

Bruner, J. 1993. "The autobiographical process." In R. Folkenflik (Ed.), The culture of autobiography: Constructions of self-representations . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. pp. 38-56.

Bruner, J. 1994. "The 'remembered' self." In U. Neisser & R. Fivush (Eds.), The remembering self: Construction and accuracy in the self-narrative . New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 41-54.

Bruner, J., & Weisser, S. (in press). Autobiography and the construction of the self. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Carlson, R. 1988. Exemplary lives: The uses of psychobiography for theory development. Journal of Personality 56: 105-138.

Carr, David. 1986. Time, Narrative and History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Cohler, B. J. 1982. Personal narrative and the life course. In P. Baltes and O. G. Brim (eds). Life span development and behavior (Vol 4: 205-241). New York: Academic Press.

Conway, M. A., Rubin, D. C., Spinnler, H., & Wagenaar, W. A. (Eds.). 1992. Theoretical perspectives on autobiographical memory . Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Cushman, P. 1990 . "Why the self is empty: Toward a historically situated psychology." American Psychologist 45: 599-611.

Cushman, P. 1995. Constructing the self, contstructing America: A cultural history of psychotherapy . Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.

Davies, Bronwyn and Rom Harre. 1997. "Positioning: The Discursive Production of Selves."

Dennett, Daniel. 1990. "The Reality of Selves," in Dennett Consciousness Explained . Boston: Little, Brown and Company: pp. 412-430.

Dennett, Daniel. 1988. "Why everyone is a novelist," Times Literary Supplement, 4459 (Sept.16-22, 1988): 1016, 1028-29; Note: Dennett himself sometimes cites this as "Why we are all novelists," which is not the published title. This also appears as "The Self as the Center of Narrative Gravity," in F. Kessel, P. Cole, and D. Johnson, eds., Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1992. Danish translation, "Selvet som fortællingens tyngdepunkt," Philosophia, 15, 275-88, 1986.

Eder, Rebecca, A. 1994. "Comments on children's self-narratives," In U. Neisser & R. Fivush (Eds.), The remembering self: Construction and accuracy in the self-narrative New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 180-90.

Erikson, E. H. 1959. Identity and the life cycle . New York: Norton, 1980.

Fireman, Gary D., Ted E. McVay and Owen J. Flanagan 2003. Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fivush, Robyn. 1994. "Constructing narrative, emotion, and self in parent-child conversations about the past," In U. Neisser & R. Fivush (Eds.), The remembering self: Construction and accuracy in the self-narrative New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 136-157.

Fivush, Robyn. 1991. "The social construction of personal narratives." Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 37: 59-82.

Fogel, A. 1993. Developing through Relationships: Origins of Communication, Self, and Culture. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Press.

Freeman, M. 1993. Rewriting the self: History, memory, narrative . New York: Routledge.

Geertz, Clifford. 1966. Person, Time and Conduct in Bali . Southeast Asia Studies, no 14. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Gergen, Kenneth J. 1997. "Narrative, Moral Identity and Historical Consciousness: a Social Constructionist Account," Draft copy for an edited volume on narrative and historical consciousness, University of Bielefeld, forthcoming.

Gergen, Kenneth. 1994. "Mind, text, and society: Self-memory in social context," In U. Neisser & R. Fivush (Eds.), The remembering self: Construction and accuracy in the self-narrative New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 78-104.

Gergen, Kenneth J. 1991. The saturated self: dilemmas of identity in contemporary life. New York: Basic Books.

Gergen Kenneth J. 1991. "Conversation on personal identity," U.S. news & world report 111 # 1 (July 1, 1991): 59-59

Giddens, Anthony. 1991. Modernity and self-identity : self and society in the late modern age. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Glicksberg, C. (1963), The Self in Modern Literature .Pennsylvania: State University Press.

Gregg, Gary S. 1991. Self-representation: life narrative studies in identity and ideology. New York: Greenwood Press.

Hevern, V. W. (1998). Narrative psychology: Internet and resource guide. Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY

Hermans, H. J. M., and Kempen, H. J. G. 1993. The diological self: Meaning as movement . San Diego: Academic Press.

Hermans, H. J. M., Kempen, H. J. G. and van Loon, R. J. P. 1992. The dialogical self: Beyond individualism and rationalism. American Psychologist 47: 23-33.

Hinchman, Lewis P. and Sandras K. Hinchman (Eds). 1997. Memory, Identity, Community : The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences . Albany: State Univ of New York Press.

Honess, Terry and Krysia Yardley. 1987. Self and identity: perspectives across the lifespan. London & New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Jacques, Francis. 1991. Difference and subjectivity : dialogue and personal identity, translated by Andrew Rothwell. New Haven: Yale University Press. Translation of: Difference et subjectivite. Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-365) and index.

Josselson, R. 1994. "Identity and relatedness in the lifecycle." In H. A. Bosma, T. L. G. Graafsma, H. D. Grotevant, and D. J. De Levita (Eds.), Identity and development: An interdisciplinary approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Leiber, Justin. 1988. "Re(ed) Me; Re(ad) Myself" Philosophy and Literature (1988): 134-139.

Lloyd, Genevieve. 1994. Being in Time: Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature . London: Routledge.

Ludwig, Arnold M. 1997. How Do We Know Who We Are? : A Biography of the Self . Oxford: Oxford Univ Press.

Luntley, Michael. 1995. Reason, Truth and the Self: Getting to Know The Truth About Postmodernism . New York: Routledge.

MacIntyre, A. 1984. After virture (2nd ed.). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

Markus, H., & Nurius, P. 1986. "Possible selves." American Psychologist 41: 954-969.

McAdams, D. P. 1995. The person: An introduction to personality psychology (2nd ed.). Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace.

McAdams, D. P. 1993. The stories we live by: Personal myths and the making of the self. New York: William Morrow and Company.

McAdams, D. P. 1990. Unity and purpose inhuman lives: The emergence of identity as a life story. In A. I. Rabin, R. A. Zuker, R. A. Emmons, and S. Frank (eds). Studying persons and their lives (pp. 148-200). New York: Springer.

McAdams, D. P. 1985. Power, intimacy and the life story: Personological inquiries into identity . New York: Guilford.

McDonald, Christie, Wihl, Gary, and Skilleas, Ole Martin. 1996. "Transformations in Personhood and Culture After Theory: The Languages of History, Aesthetics, and Ethics," The British journal of aesthetics 36 # 1: 83-

Miller, Peggy, J. 1994. "Narrative practices: Their role in socialization and self-construction," In U. Neisser & R. Fivush (Eds.), The remembering self: Construction and accuracy in the self-narrative New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 158-79.

Miller, Peggy J.; Mintz, Judith; Hoogstra, Lisa; Fung, Heidi & Potts, Randolph. 1992. The narrated self: Young children's construction of self in relation to others in conversational stories of personal experience. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 38: 45-67.

Miyoshi, M. (1969), The Divided Self: A Perspective on the Literature of the Victorians. New York: New York University Press.

Modell, A. H. 1993. The private self . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Neisser, U. 1994. "Self-narratives: True and false." In U. Neisser & R. Fivush (Eds.), The remembering self: Construction and accuracy in the self-narrative . New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-18

Neisser, U. and R. Fivush (eds). 1994. The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in the Self Narrative . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

O'Connell, Sean P. 2000. Outspeak: Narrative identities that matter. Albany: SUNY Press.

Olney, J. (1972), The Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography . Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Parati, Graziella. 1996. Public History, Private Stories: Italian Women's Autobiography . Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press.

Perreault, Jeanne. 1995. Writing Selves, Contemporary Feminism Autography. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press.

Polkinghorne, D. 1988. Narrative knowing and the human sciences . Albany: SUNY Press.

Prust, Richard C. 1997. '"When She Comes Into a Room...": Reflections on Wholeness and Personal Presence,' Soundings 80.1: 63-82

Rabin, A. I., R. A. Zuker, R. A. Emmons, and S. Frank (eds). 1990. Studying persons and their lives (pp. 148-200). New York: Springer.

Ricoeur, Paul. 1992. Oneself as another [Soi-meme comme un autre], translated by Kathleen Blamey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Rosenwald, G. C., & Ochberg, R. L. (Eds.). 1992. Storied lives: The cultural politics of self-understanding . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Rubin, David C., ed. 1986. Autobiographical Memory . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Runyan, W. M. 1982. Life histories and psychobiography: Explorations in theory and method . New York: Oxford University press.

Sampson, E. E. 1985. The decentralization of identity: toward a revised concept of personal and social order. American Psychologist 40: 1203-1211.

Sarbin, T. R. 1986. The narrative as a root metaphor for psychology. In T. R. Sarbin (ed). Narrative psychology: The storied nature of human conduct (pp. 3-21). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Schectman, Marya. 1996. The Constitution of Selves . Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press.

Smith, J. A. 1994. "Reconstructing selves: An analysis of discrepancies between women's contemporaneous and retrospective accounts of the transition to motherhood." British Journal of Psychology 85: 371-392.

Taylor, Charles. 1989. Sources of the self: the making of the modern identity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Venema, H. I. 2000. Identifying Selfhood: Imagination, Narrative, and Hermeneutics in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur. Albany: SUNY Press.

Wallulis, Jerald. 1990. The hermeneutics of life history : personal achievement and history in Gadamer, Habermas, and Erikson. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press

Widdershoven, G. A. M. 1994. Identity and development: A narrative perspective." In H. A. Bosma, T. L. G. Graafsma, H. D. Grotevant, and D. J. De Levita (Eds.), Identity and development: An interdisciplinary approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.


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