Open Secrets

Zusatztext "The greatest merit of Open Secrets is the way in which its attention to the intrinsic sufficiency of minimal experiences allows us to appreciate the continuity between many of the dominant critical paradigms in postmodern thought and Enlightenment models of action-as-production Francois's readings of literature not only reveal a stunning capacity to concentrate on formal details, but also to manage to put forward interpretations that future critics of the works in question will likely have to contend with for a long time to come." Informationen zum Autor Anne-Lise François is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Anne-Lise Fran s is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Zusammenfassung Open Secrets contests the dominant influences of utilitarianism, expressive individualism, and imperatives to self-improvement by examining a series of texts in which "nothing happens" and arguing that these works, far from hiding from narrative demands, make an open secret of fulfilled experience and yield a revelation without insistence or rhetorical underscoring.

"The greatest merit of Open Secrets is the way in which its attention to the intrinsic sufficiency of minimal experiences allows us to appreciate the continuity between many of the dominant critical paradigms in postmodern thought and Enlightenment models of action-as-production Francois's readings of literature not only reveal a stunning capacity to concentrate on formal details, but also to manage to put forward interpretations that future critics of the works in question will likely have to contend with for a long time to come."

Auteur

Anne-Lise François is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Résumé
Open Secrets contests the dominant influences of utilitarianism, expressive individualism, and imperatives to self-improvement by examining a series of texts in which "nothing happens" and arguing that these works, far from hiding from narrative demands, make an open secret of fulfilled experience and yield a revelation without insistence or rhetorical underscoring.