| Title: | Self as Narrative in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook |
| Author: | Anca Georgescu |
| Publication: | Annals of „Valahia” University of Târgovişte. Letters Section, VI |
| p-ISSN: | 2066-6373 |
| Publisher: | Valahia University Press |
| Place: | Târgoviște |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to explore the self as narrative in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook in order to understand how narrative accommodates the concept of self. I will follow the three dimensions of the self - the temporal, the moral and the social as suggested by Anthony Kerby, Charles Taylor and Anthony Giddens. Based on their arguments, I construct the three dimensions of the self to facilitate the exploration of the main character’s identity crisis and to demonstrate the importance of narrative as an expressive embodiment of our experience, as a mode of communication, and as a form of understanding the world and ultimately our self. |
| Key words: | self narrative, identity crisis, self-identity |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf |
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