Open secrets : the literature of uncounted experience (Record no. 33780)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780804752893 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 809.9353 |
| Item number | FRA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Francois, Anne-Lise |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Open secrets : the literature of uncounted experience |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Stanford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2008 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Stanford : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxiv, 290 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 32.00 |
| Price type code | $ |
| Unit of pricing | 90.60 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Meridian |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Open Secrets identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves (1678), Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (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 Open Secrets 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | American literature |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History and criticism |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Passivity |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Silence |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Romanticism |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type | Books |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | DAU | DAU | 11/03/2025 | KBD | 2899.20 | 2 | 1 | 809.9353 FRA | 035296 | 21/07/2025 | 16/05/2025 | Books |