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Author(s): Sharon Cameron
ISBN(s): 9780226091310, 0226091317
Edition: annotated edition
File Details: PDF, 1.05 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0226091317

ISBN 13: 9780226091310 

Author: Sharon Cameron

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 imaginary. In essays on William Empson, Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, T. S. Eliot, and Simone Weil, Cameron examines the impulse to hollow out the core of human distinctiveness, to construct a voice that is no one’s voice, to fashion a character without meaningful attributes, a being that is virtually anonymous.

“To consent to being anonymous,” Weil wrote, “is to bear witness to the truth. But how is this compatible with social life and its labels?” Throughout these essays Cameron examines the friction, even violence, set in motion from such incompatibility—from a “truth” that has no social foundation. Impersonality investigates the uncompromising nature of writing that suspends, eclipses, and even destroys the person as a social, political, or individual entity, of writing that engages with personal identity at the moment when its usual markers vanish or dissolve.

Table of contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction by Way of William Empson’s Buddha Faces
2. What Counts as Love: Jonathan Edwards’s True Virtue
3. Representing Grief: Emerson’s “Experience”
4. “The Way of Life by Abandonment”: Emerson’s Impersonal
5. The Practice of Attention: Simone Weil’s Performance of Impersonality
6. “The Sea’s Throat”: T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets 
7. “Lines of Stones”: The Unpersonified Impersonal in Melville’s Billy Budd 
Notes
Index

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