Impersonality: Seven Essays

by Sharon Cameron

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226091325
• ISBN13: 9780226091327
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"