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Impersonality

- Seven Essays
Af: Sharon Cameron Engelsk Paperback

Impersonality

- Seven Essays
Af: Sharon Cameron Engelsk Paperback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226091327
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0226091325
Kategori: Litteraturstudier: generelt
Udg. Dato: 15 feb 2007
Længde: 2mm
Bredde: 16mm
Højde: 23mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 15 feb 2007
Forfatter(e): Sharon Cameron
Forfatter(e) Sharon Cameron

Kategori Litteraturstudier: generelt

ISBN-13 9780226091327

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 2mm

Bredde 16mm

Højde 23mm

Udg. Dato 15 feb 2007

Oplagsdato 15 feb 2007

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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