The phrase "narrative of self" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a story or other form of writing that reflects an individual's personal experience, perspective or journey. For example, "This essay is a narrative of self, reflecting on my experience growing up in a small town."
"It's about the narrative of self and seeing oneself in a certain light.
But to the degree that they derive identity from the unreconstructed, unreformed Islamic narrative of self, they tend to have an Us-versus-Them worldviewin which other Muslims frequently become the "other".
But to the degree that they derive identity from the unreconstructed, unreformed Islamic narrative of self, they tend to have an Us-versus-Them worldviewin which other Muslims frequently become the "other". If the Army is too sensitive to take the argument to Muslims in its ranks, we cannot lay blame there.
You see it very clearly in the narrative of Self Portrait with Swans (1992-3) Amissmins in the Abyss (1989).
The examples of the rape victim and the young man who saw himself as a loser illustrate that creating an authentic and coherent narrative of self is an important part of the complex enterprise of psychotherapy -- and one that pays great dividends an in unfolding life story.
Develop your public narrative: story of self, story of us, story of now.
In these cases, learning to write fiction is inextricable from a larger narrative of self-discovery.
Americans have always been able to identify with Eliza's Horatio Alger narrative of self-creation, but the priggish Higgins stands at a distance from our affections.
And because Iraqis now have their own narrative of self-liberation, it appears to be giving more legitimacy and self-confidence to the Shiite-dominated Iraqi Army and the Maliki regime.
After prosecutors probed inconsistencies in Mr. Zimmerman's story — he said that Mr. Martin had jumped out of the bushes, although no bushes were found at the place he indicated — two police officers who took the stand said that the discrepancies were slight and that the broad narrative of self-defense offered by Mr. Zimmerman remained largely unchanged.
A very distinguished Iranian photographer"), his last serious war assignment was in 1982, and he gives the impression that in the intervening time he has marinated in guilt, developing a tidy narrative of self-flagellation, slow redemption, that is somewhat undercut by a troubling faciliity.
