Neither Here nor There
Neither Here nor There
Grief and Absence in Emerson’s “Experience”
This chapter examines the themes of grief and absence in Emerson’s well-known essay “Experience.” The essay is interpreted not as “representing grief” (as in Sharon Cameron’s famous reading) but instead as concerned with the very impossibility of representation. Much as in the self-referential approach applied by Edwards to ethics and Peirce to reality, Emerson finds that the memory of his lost child, and with this the child himself, is approachable only as unapproachable.
Keywords: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mourning, Mary Rowlandson, Charles Sanders Peirce, Jacques Derrida, Calvinism
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