“Virtual Fictional/Factual Positioning”

Mediating dialogical concepts in psychological and literary studies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20401366
AutoresForough Barani (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya (0000-0002-2266-7856, Universiti Putra Malaysia), Rosli Talif (0000-0001-8547-2020, Universiti Putra Malaysia), Rosli Bin Talif (Universiti Putra Malaysia)
Año2014
Volumen24
Número6
Páginas755-774
Fecha de publicación2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTheory & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0959-3543 • E-ISSN: 1461-7447
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0959354314553048
OpenAlexW2120074300
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas44

At the intersection of psychological and literary studies and acknowledging dialogical aspects of the self in Herman’s Dialogical Self Theory (DST), we coined the concept of “Virtual Fictional/Factual Positioning” (VFP), which is also guided by Bakhtin’s discussion on the author-hero relation. VFP evaluates the possible dialogical coalition of the author’s positions as “I-as-artist/novelist” and “I-as-the-hero-of-my-story,” amongst other positions in literary narratives. Evaluation of the existing literature on DST and the few adaptations of this theory for literary purposes highlights the insufficient consideration paid to the dialogical possibilities of the self in literary studies. To develop our argument based on our new model, we present a textual analysis of Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark and examine the protagonist’s narratives and his relation with his hero in the story within the story. Furthermore, we address the question of whether this protagonist/author’s self consists of polyphonized dialogical voices or merely a cacophony of various thoughts with fewer logical and no dialogical qualities

Aesthetics · Art · Dialogical self · Epistemology · HERO · Literature · Narrative · Self · Sociology · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity