Narrative Self-Reference and Autobiographical Language-Games in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory

چکیده مقاله

The field of autobiographical studies has exceeded the boundaries of literature and textual productions as autobiographical memory is considered a fundamental cognitive function related to a sense of personal identity As best evidences of our narrative self communications and identity language games, autobiographies disclose the illusive power of language in purporting a unitary self This article studies the significance of the first person pronoun in the narrative structure of autobiographical memory and its connection to sense of self in Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography Speak, Memory Drawing upon Later Wittgenstein’s no reference view of “I”, this research examines how Speak, Memory illustrates the lack of reference of the first person pronoun in autobiographical memory and explores its formal and inventive emergence in narrative compositions As the title conveys, the self does not speak in memory; it is spoken in the compositions of autobiographical memory

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نویسندگان

Sara Nazockdast

PhD Graduate and Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Zohreh Ramin

Assistant Professor of English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Nazockdast, Sara and Ramin, Zohreh,1400,Narrative Self-Reference and Autobiographical Language-Games in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory,Ninth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and History

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