Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience - Paperback

by Anne-Lise François (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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