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STORYTELLING AS AN ACT OF REMEMBERING EPISODIC ...

The past is an ever-flowing and never-dying river in human consciousness. Any single piece of
our memories is a constituent part of this river. By our remembering acts  we continuously and
intermittently become connected to our stream of consciousness. Therefore  remembering is an
integrated part of our mind. Similarly  it is a salient property of fictional minds  too. The
past is a defining element for the characters' sense of identity in narrative fiction. This is
the case in the three narratives analysed in the present book. The Sea (2005) by John Banville
The Gathering (2007) by Anne Enright  and Milkman (2018) by Anna Burns are post-millennial
Irish narratives in which remembrance of the things past is indexed to the first-person
narrators' sense of identity. In its three parts and by drawing on the theories of memory and
remembering  this book explores how the storytellers' acts of recollecting  retrieving 
recalling  as well as retelling eventful episodes from the past bring about constructive
emotional and cognitive outputs for them.

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