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The Field of Selves: Wayne Booth's Defense of Hypocrisy Upward

The Field of Selves: Wayne Booth's Defense of Hypocrisy Upward The Field of Selves: Wayne Booth’s Defense of Hypocrisy Upward Robert D. Denham From the beginning of his distinguished and productive career, Wayne Booth was attentive to the many selves contained in each of us — the masks we wear, the poses we assume, the concealments and projections we engage in either deliberately or unconsciously. Our various personae, of course, show up in our fictions, and one of Booth’s signal contributions was his well-known distinction in The Rhetoric of Fiction ([1961] 1983) among the real author, the implied author (the projected “second self ” of the creator of story as pictured by the reader), and the narrator or dramatized teller of the story. One of the earliest second selves Booth revealed publicly was his ironic alter ego, disclosed in a series of satires he published in F urioso (and its later incarnation as the Carleton Miscellany) in the early 1950s. Some of these pieces, which he called “ironies,” were collected in Now Don’t Try to Reason with Me (1970). Booth enjoyed playing the role of thee iron. When he lectured at my college some thirty years ago, he arose after the introduction to declare that Wayne Booth, alas, was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

The Field of Selves: Wayne Booth's Defense of Hypocrisy Upward

Denham, Robert D.; Phelan, James
Pedagogy , Volume 7 (1) – Jan 1, 2007
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The Field of Selves: Wayne Booth’s Defense of Hypocrisy Upward Robert D. Denham From the beginning of his distinguished and productive career, Wayne Booth was attentive to the many selves contained in each of us — the masks we wear, the poses we assume, the concealments and projections we engage in either deliberately or unconsciously. Our various personae, of course, show up in our fictions, and one of Booth’s signal contributions was his well-known distinction in The Rhetoric of Fiction ([1961] 1983) among the real author, the implied author (the projected “second self ” of the creator of story as pictured by the reader), and the narrator or dramatized teller of the story. One of the earliest second selves Booth revealed publicly was his ironic alter ego, disclosed in a series of satires he published in F urioso (and its later incarnation as the Carleton Miscellany) in the early 1950s. Some of these pieces, which he called “ironies,” were collected in Now Don’t Try to Reason with Me (1970). Booth enjoyed playing the role of thee iron. When he lectured at my college some thirty years ago, he arose after the introduction to declare that Wayne Booth, alas, was

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