{"product_id":"open-secrets-the-literature-of-uncounted-experience-paperback","title":"Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne-Lise François\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's \u003ci\u003eLa Princesse de Clèves\u003c\/i\u003e (1678), Jane Austen's \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e (1814), and poems by William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and Thomas Hardy. The author argues that these works locate fulfillment not in narrative fruition, but in grace understood both as a simplicity of formal means and a freedom from work, in particular that of self-concealment and self-presentation. Declining the twin pressures of self-actualization and self-denial defining modernity's call to make good on one's talents, the subjects of the \"literature of uncounted experience\" do nothing so heroic as renounce ambitions of self-expression; they simply set aside the fantasy of the all-responsible subject. The originality of \u003ci\u003eOpen Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e is thus to imagine the non-instrumental without casting it as a heavy ethical burden. Non-appropriation emerges not as what is difficult to do but as the path of least resistance. The book offers a valuable counterpoint to recent anti-Enlightenment revaluations of passivity that have made non-mastery and non-appropriation the fundamental task of the ethical subject. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne-Lise François is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 8.94 x 6.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737434525759,"sku":"9780804752893","price":48.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0970e76910a97656e613d2d8b12e9539.webp?v=1765149972","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/open-secrets-the-literature-of-uncounted-experience-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}