Housekeeping (novel)
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Housekeeping is a 1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson. The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.
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Transparent eyeball
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The transparent eyeball is a philosophical metaphor originated by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. In his essay Nature, the metaphor stands for a view of life that is absorb
Housekeeping (novel)
…the larger sense of keeping a spiritual home for one's self and family in the face of loss. The novel is narrated by Ruth from the perspective of the transparent eyeball. This narration style was used by the transcendentalist authors who influenced Robinson, including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although no dates are specified…
"Transparent eyeball" as illustrated by Christopher Pearse Cranch, ca. 1836-1838