Who Speaks in Memory? Self-Reference, Life-Story, and the Autobiography-Game in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory

As best evidences of our narrative identity language-games, autobiographies unveil the illusive power of language in purporting a unitary self. Drawing upon Ludwig Wittgenstein’s no-reference view of “I” and studying its use as a necessary formal tie in autobiographical memory, it is contended that...

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Main Authors: Zohreh Ramin, Sara Nazockdas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of English Studies 2022-09-01
Series:Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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