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My many selves : the quest for a plausible harmony /
In his autobiography, My Many Selves, Wayne C. Booth is less concerned with his professional achievements--though the book by no means ignores his distinguished career--than with the personal vision that emerges from a long life lived thoughtfully. For Booth, even the autobiographical process become...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
©2006.
©2006 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. My toughest 'self-splits' and what produced them
- A devout Mormon is challenged by rival selves
- A pious moralist confronts a cheater
- The cheerful poser comforts a griever, or, A would-be tough buy meets grief and conceals the tears
- My many selves confront the man who believes in love
- Ambition vs. teaching fro the love of it
- The hypocritical Mormon missionary becomes a skilled masker, and discovers 'hypocrisy-upward'
- The puritan preaches at the luster while the hypocrite covers the show
- The lover becomes a trapped army private
- An egalitarian quarrels scornfully with a hypocritical bourgeois
- A college dean struggles to escape
- Part 2. The splits multiply- in somewhat less torturous form
- The quarrel between the cheater and the moralist produces gullible-Booth
- A wandering generalist longs to be a true scholar
- A would-be novelist mourns behind the would-be lover and would-be scholar
- The committed father and husband, as lover, shouts 'For same!' at all the other selves
- The man of peace tries to tame the slugger
- Interlude: A potpourri of chapters I refuse to write (let alone include)
- Part 3. Aging, religion, and-surprise!-the quest for a plausible harmony
- The old fart debates with a bunch of young Booths, while posing as younger than 84
- Harmony at last?