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Bringing Your Soul to Work
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Bringing Your Soul to Work

by Alan Briskin, Cheryl Peppers
August 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
260 pages
5h 7m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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image3Soul As a Chorus of Inner Voices

How queer to have so many selves.

How bewildering.

—VIRGINIA WOOLF

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IN THE 1920s, English fiction writer Virginia Woolf made a major contribution toward understanding the structure of the personality through her technique of character development. Moving beyond dialogue between people, Woolf brought forward the dialogue within oneself as a way to reveal the inner complexity of a character. Through stream of consciousness, the reader could listen in on the protagonist’s interior dialogue. Thus the story shifts to an inner drama, played out among the character’s multiplicity of selves. Woolf’s appeal, no doubt, ...

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ISBN: 9781605096179