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Autobiography narrative of transformation of energy

          Using stories narratives and storytelling in energy and climate change research.

          Carolyn A. Barros, Autobiography: Narrative of Transformation.

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          Barros, Autobiography: Narrative of Transformation (U of Michigan P, 1998), 248 pp., $42.50 cloth.

          Autobiographical theory has, since Georges Gusdorf arguably initiated it and James Olney carved its importance into the literary theory totem, debated how the self is constructed and presented to the reading public.

          Gusdorf maintained that an autobiographer fashions his/her history into a unified entity; Olney emphasized in his first theoretical analysis the importance of metaphor as a means by which the lifewriter artistically creates him/herself.

          Climate communication and storytelling

        1. Transforming the stories we tell about climate change: from ‘issue’to ‘action’
        2. Using stories narratives and storytelling in energy and climate change research
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        4. Reading spiritual autobiographies invites this process of stepping into the narrative of another.
        5. Since then, theorists have asked such questions as: To what extent does the self even exist? To what degree does our Western, patriarchal culture create the myth of the self?. Can an autobiographer be trusted? Is memory reliable?

          Is the value of an autobiography found in its successful grounding in the referential? Such