| Description |
xx, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-245) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Persona (Literature)
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| Subject |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. |
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Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. |
| ISBN |
0226091325 paperback acid-free paper |
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0226091317 cloth acid-free paper |
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9780226091310 cloth acid-free paper |
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9780226091327 paperback acid-free paper |
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