Cameron, Sharon.

Impersonality : seven essays / Sharon Cameron. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xx, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. NFIC

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-245) and index.

Introduction by way of William Empson's Buddha faces -- What counts as love : Jonathan Edwards's "True virtue" -- Representing grief : Emerson's "Experience" -- The way of life by abandonment : Emerson's Impersonal -- The practice of attention : Simone Weil's Performance of impersonality -- "The sea's throat" : T. S. Eliot's Four quartets -- "Lines of stones" : the unpersonified impersonal in Melville's Billy Budd.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 --Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965 --Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Criticism and interpretation.
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 --Criticism and interpretation.


American literature--History and criticism.
Self in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Persona (Literature)

PS169.S425 / C36 2007

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