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02017aam a2200349 i 4500 001 BC395260AAD011EE853AF3262BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240104011316 008 220405t20222020maua e 001 0 eng d 010 $a jb2022045878 020 $a 0674271181 020 $a 9780674271180 (paperback) 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $e rda $d BTCAT $d SILO 050 4 $a PN56.S46 $b M55 2022 082 04 $a 153.83 $2 23 100 1 $a Miller, Andrew H., $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a On not being someone else : $b tales of our unled lives / $c Andrew H. Miller. 250 $a First Harvard University Press paperback edition. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xvii, 207 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a We live one life, formed by paths taken and untaken. Choosing a job, getting married, deciding on a place to live or whether to have children-every decision precludes another. But what if you'd gone the other way? From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, Jane Hirshfield to Carl Dennis, storytellers of every stripe consider the roads not taken, the lives we haven't led. What is it that compels us to identify with fictional and poetic voices tantalizing us with the shadows of what might have been? Not only poets and novelists, but psychologists and philosophers have much to say on this question. Miller finds wisdom in all of these, revealing the beauty, the allure, and the danger of sustaining or confronting our unled lives. 650 0 $a Choice (Psychology) 650 0 $a Conduct of life. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry $2 bisacsh. 650 7 $a LIT014000 $2 bisacsh. 650 0 $a Self in literature. 650 0 $a Existentialism in literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240104011820.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BC395260AAD011EE853AF3262BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search