For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals - Softcover

Booth, Wayne C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226065863 ISBN 13: 9780226065861

Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2000

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For the Love of It is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it.

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Wayne C. Booth (1921&;2005) was the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction, A Rhetoric of Irony, The Power and Limits of Pluralism, The Vocation of a Teacher, and Forthe Love of It, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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For the Love of It is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it.

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For the Love of It is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226065863
• ISBN 13: 9780226065861
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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