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Open Secrets: The Literature Of Uncounted Experience (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics),New
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Open Secrets identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clves (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 selfconcealment and selfpresentation. Declining the twin pressures of selfactualization and selfdenial 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 selfexpression; they simply set aside the fantasy of the allresponsible subject. The originality of Open Secrets is thus to imagine the noninstrumental without casting it as a heavy ethical burden. Nonappropriation emerges not as what is difficult to do but as the path of least resistance. The book offers a valuable counterpoint to recent antiEnlightenment revaluations of passivity that have made nonmastery and nonappropriation the fundamental task of the ethical subject.
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