American Impersonal : essays with Sharon Cameron / edited by Branka Arsic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arsić, Branka, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameron, Sharon--Criticism and interpretation.

Cameron, Sharon.

Criticism.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: James D. Lilley - Being Singularly Impersonal: Jonathan Edwards and the Aesthetics of Consent

Chapter 2: Colin Dayan - Melville's Creatures, or Seeing Otherwise

Chapter 3: Paul Grimstad - On Ecstasy: Sharon Cameron's Reading of Emerson

Chapter 4: Johannes Voelz - The Recognition of Emerson's Impersonal: Reading Alternatives in Sharon Cameron

Chapter 5: Vesna Kuiken - On the Matter of Thinking: Margaret Fuller's Beautiful Work

Chapter 6: George Kateb - Reading Nature

Chapter 7: Branka Arsic - What Music Shall We Have? Thoreau on the Aesthetics and Politics of Listening

Chapter 8: Kerry Larson - Hawthorne's Fictional Commitments: The Early Tales

Chapter 9: Theo Davis - Hawthorne's Rage: On Form and the Dharma

Chapter 10: Shira Wolosky - Formal, New, and Relational Aesthetics: Dickinson's Multitexts

Chapter 11: Michael Moon - Beyond Sense: Portraits and Objects in Henry James's Late Writings

Chapter 12: Shari Goldberg - Believing in Maud-Evelyn: Henry James and the Obligation to Ghosts

Chapter 13: Mark Noble - The Ends of Imagination: Stevens' Impersonal

Note on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781628926897

1628926899

9781623563752

1623563755

OCLC:

869736045