Impersonality : seven essays / Sharon Cameron.
By: Cameron, Sharon
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Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007Description: xx, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0226091317 (cloth : acidfree paper); 9780226091310 (cloth : acid-free paper); 0226091325 (pbk. : acid-free paper); 9780226091327 (pbk. : acid-free paper).Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 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)DDC classification: 814/.3
Contents:
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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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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