Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Literary Experience and Self-Reflection, Garry L. Hagberg.- Part I: Self, Self-Description, Story.- 2.The (Literary) Stories of Our Lives, Jukka Mikkonen.- 3. Literature and Moral Change- Rupture, Universality and Self-Understanding, Nora Hamalainen.- 4. Rationalism about Autobiography, Samuel Clark.- Part II: The Examined Mind.- 5. Exploring Self and Emotion: Unamuno's Narrative Fiction as Thought Experiment, Ingrid Vendrell Ferran.- 6. Emerson's Dialectic of Self-Knowledge, Jeff Wieand.- 7. Self-Knowledge in Nitezsche and in Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, Antonio Cardioelle & Paolo Stellino.- Part III: Negotiations of Selfhood.- 8. A Professional Conscience: On an Episode of Self-Accusation in Raymon Queneau's The Last Days, Sam McAuliffe.- 9. Self-Deception as a Philosophical Problem, Zeyneo Talay Turner.- 10. Self-Forgiveness and the Moral Perspective of Humanity: Ian McEwan's Atonement, John Lippitt.- Part IV: Character, Transformative Reading, and Self-Reflective Consciousness.- 11. Fragility of Character in Primo Levi's Story of a Coin, Catherine Mooney.- 12. Transformative Fictions: Literature as Care of the Self, Daniel Just.- 13. Wittgenstein, Consciousness and The Golden Bowl: James's Maggie Verver and the Linguistic Mind, Garry L. Hagberg. 

About the Author

Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, USA, and has also held a Chair in the School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. Author of numerous books and articles at the intersection of the philosophy of the arts and the philosophy of language and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, his most recent book is Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood.