This book traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of the autobiographical self - the self that is made of memories of the personal pa

Annotation This text evolved out of a December 1995 conference at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, attended by scholars f

Our memories, many believe, make us who we are. But most of our experiences have been forgotten, and the memories that remain are often wildly inaccurate. How,

Autobiographical memory is constituted from the integration of several memory skills, as well as the ability to narrate. This all helps in understanding our rel

This book gives answers to questions surrounding the rise of autobiographical writing from the sixteenth to the twentieth century by analyzing texts varying fro