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My many selves : the quest for a plausible harmony
- Title
- My many selves : the quest for a plausible harmony / Wayne C. Booth.
- Author
- Booth, Wayne C.
- Publication
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN75.B62 A3 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 321 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Wayne C. Booth's memoir, My Many Selves, is both an incisive self-examination and a creative approach to retelling his life. Writing his autobiography became a quest to harmonize the diverse, discordant parts of his identity and resolve the conflicts in what he thought and believed. To see himself clearly and whole, he broke his self down, personified the fragments, uncovered their roots in his life, and engaged his multiple identities and experiences in dialogue. Basic to his story and to its lifelong concern with ethics and rhetoric was his youth in rural Utah. He valued that background, while acknowledging its ambiguous influence on him, and continued to identify himself as Mormon, though he renounced most Latter-day Saint doctrines. Wayne Booth died in October 2005, soon after completing work on his autobiography."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 0874216311 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0874216338 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005031116
- OCLC
- OCM62281452
- SCSB-5243077
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries