Impersonality [electronic resource] : seven essays / Sharon Cameron.

By: Cameron, SharonContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007Description: xx, 260 p. : illSubject(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)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 814/.3 LOC classification: PS169.S425 | C36 2007Online resources: Click to View
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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