An epistemic case study: Identification and attitude change in John McPhee's<i>coming into the country</i>

Rhetoric Review Mar 1993

An epistemic case study: Identification and attitude change in John McPhee's<i>coming into the country</i>

Elizabeth Giddens Auburn University

Abstract

My other self-as he might be called in a brief, ambiguous novelwas in this instance a bush pilot several hundred feet above Third Matagamon Lake, face to face with a strong winter wind. The plane was a Super Cub, scarcely large enough for the two of us. We sat in tandem and talked through an intercom. There is a lot of identification, even transformation, in the work I do-moving along from place to place, person to person, as a reporter, a writer, repeatedly trying to sense another existence and in some ways to share it. Never had that been more true than now, in part because he was sitting there with my life in his hands while placing (in another way) his life in mine. (249)

Journal: Rhetoric Review
Published: 1993-03-01
DOI: 10.1080/07350199309389013
Open Access: Closed
Topics: qualitative research

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