Narratives from the Crib

with a new foreword by Emily Oster, the child in the crib

Edited by Katherine Nelson

Foreword by Emily Oster

    Introduction: Monologues in the Crib
    Katherine Nelson

    Part I: Constructing a World

    1. Monologue as Representation of Real-Life Experience
    Katherine Nelson

    2. Monologue as Narrative Recreation of the World
    Jerome Bruner and Joan Lucariello

    3. Monologue as Problem-Solving Narrative
    Carol Fleisher Feldman

    Part II: Constructing a Language

    4. Monologue as Development of the Text-Forming Function of Language
    Elena Levy

    5. Monologue as a Speech Genre
    Julie Gerhardt

    6. Monologue as Reenvoicement of Dialogue
    John Dore

    Part III: Constructing a Self

    7. Monologue, Dialogue, and Regulation
    Rita Watson

    8. Monologue as the Linguistic Construction of Self in Time
    Katherine Nelson

    9. Crib Monologues from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
    Daniel N. Stern

    Notes

    References

    Contributors

    Index

  • Cover: Narratives from the Crib
  • A photo of the author

Katherine Nelson is Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.