Impersonality : seven essays /

Philosophers have long debated the subjects of person and personhood. Sharon Cameron ushers this debate into the literary realm by considering impersonality in the works of major American writers and figures of international modernism--writers for whom personal identity is inconsequential and even i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cameron, Sharon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Temas:
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.
Edwards, Jonathan, > 1703-1758
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891
American literature > History and criticism.
Self in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Persona (Literature)
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Persona (Littérature)
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
American literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Self in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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