Exam Topics B - REL 407 Narrative
Selves

The exam will be the readings and lectures. If you will not be
here on Tuesday, February 25 to take the exam, you must make prior
arrangements by Tuesday, February 18. You must receive prior
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Week 4: Memories of the Self: Christian and Freudian

According to Mark Freeman in Rewriting the Self, what
makes Augustine's The Confessions the prototype for the
modern Western autobiographical narrative self?

According to Freeman, what are recognition, distanciation, and
appropriation? (44-45).

According to Freeman, why was the idea of the story inherent in
clinical case histories so troubling for Freud (231).

According to Marin Conway in Autobiographical Memory, what
is Freud's notion of "past as dictator"? (23-24).

Week 5: Zhuangzi's Daoism: Narrative, Perpectivalism, and the
Dao.

The story of how the Zhuangzi was compiled

Who was Zhuangzi - lifestyle, family, contradictions in his story

The relation between perspectivalism, illusion, and oneness in
CT's view of language, truth, and reality

The narrative significance of figures like Cook Ting and
Woodworker Ch'ing

The narrative significance of figures like the Woman Crookback,
Crippled Shu and the Madman of Ch'u