American Impersonal: Essays With Sharon Cameron - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1623567599 ISBN 13 : 9781623567590

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic USA, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of America s leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron has articulated throughout her career, most notably her late work on the question of impersonality. In doing so, it provides responses to questions fundamental to literary criticism, such as: the nature of personhood; the logic of subjectivity in depersonalized communities; the question of the human within the problematic of the impersonal; how impersonality relates to the 'posthuman.'

Additionally, some essays respond to the current 'aesthetic turn' in literary scholarship and engage with the lyric, currently much debated, as well as the larger questions of poetics and the logic of genre.

These crucial issues are addressed from the perspective of an American literary and philosophical tradition, and progress chronologically, starting from Melville and Emerson and moving via Dickinson, Thoreau and Hawthorne to Henry James and Wallace Stevens. This historical perspective adds the appeal of revisiting the American nineteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, and even rewriting it.

Revue de presse :

Coiling and uncoiling, at once lucid and unrecognizable, these essays turn what is marvelous in Sharon Cameron into a collective marvel. --Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies, Yale University, USA

A remarkable and remarkably diverse collection of essays that registers the singular influence of Sharon Cameron s unique body of work on how we read, and write about, American literature. The very spine of that canon from Edwards to Melville, Emerson and Dickinson to James, Stevens and more is represented here in readings that call upon us to reimagine the ethics of literature and aesthetic experience in light of Cameron s searching meditations on the 'impersonal.' --Cary Wolfe, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University, USA

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic USA
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1623567599
• ISBN 13: 9781623567590
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 376