TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Andrew H. TI - On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives SN - 9780674245204 PY - 2020///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - PHILOSOPHY / Social KW - bisacsh KW - Adam Phillips KW - British novel KW - English professors KW - Ian McEwan Atonement KW - It's a Wonderful Life KW - Philip Larkin KW - Rachel Cusk KW - Robert Frost KW - Virginia Woolf KW - existentialism in literature KW - literary criticism KW - literature and film KW - psychology in literature N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Chapter One. One Person, Two Roads --; Chapter Two. Tales of Our Adulthood --; Chapter Three. All the Difference --; Works Consulted --; Acknowledgments --; Credits --; Index; restricted access N2 - The alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, poets and novelists—and readers—are fascinated by paths not taken. In an elegant and provocative rumination, Andrew H. Miller lingers with other selves, listening to what they have to say about our stories and our lives UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674245204 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674245204 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674245204/original ER -