Impersonality seven essays - Cameron, Sharon; ebrary, Inc. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-245) and index.
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Keywords: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation; Eliot, T. S. -- 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); Electronic books