The English Essay and Essayists
Author | : Hugh Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hugh Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hugh Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carl H. Klaus |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1609380762 |
The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay. This unique work includes a selection of fifty distinctive pieces by American, Canadian, English, European, and South American essayists from Montaigne to the present—many of which have not previously been anthologized or translated—as well as a detailed bibliographical and thematic guide to hundreds of additional works about the essay. From a buoyant introduction that provides a sweeping historical and analytic overview of essayists’ thinking about their genre—a collective poetics of the essay—to the detailed headnotes offering pointed information about both the essayists themselves and the anthologized selections, to the richly detailed bibliographic sections, Essayists on the Essay is essential to anyone who cares about the form. This collection provides teachers, scholars, essayists, and readers with the materials they need to take a fresh look at this important but often overlooked form that has for too long been relegated to the role of service genre—used primarily to write about other more “literary” genres or to teach young people how to write. Here, in a single celebratory volume, are four centuries of commentary and theory reminding us of the essay’s storied history, its international appeal, and its relationship not just with poetry and fiction but also with radio, film, video, and new media.
Author | : Hugh Walker |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781983462580 |
Professor Hugh Walker's The English Essay and Essayists is the pioneer attempt to present a complete survey of a literary type that has been most widely cultivated in England during the last three centuries. Within the twelve chapters ranging from "Anticipations of the Essay" to "Some Essayists of Yesterday," Professor Walker considers the writings of all British essayists' not now living whom he deems of any consequence. As was to be expected in a first edition of such a survey, a number of writers have been omitted who unquestionably should have received consideration.1 The inclusion, however, of a very considerable number of writings that cannot be classed as essays, if the term essay is to have any proper signification, indicates an inability to hold to some reasonably consistent definition of the genre. A rigid definition _ may be impracticable; but the writer who selects for study the essay as a type must, in his treatment at least, distinguish it amid all the varieties of miscellaneous prose. This Professor Walker has not done with any degree of consistency: apparently he feels free to treat as an essay any prose composition that interests him, provided that it is not a 'full and closely' articulated treatise, whether or not custom has assigned to it the name of essay.
Author | : William James Dawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Hawley Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William James Dawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Dillon |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1681372835 |
A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag. Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon’s style incorporates diverse features of the essay. By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georges Perec, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Susan Sontag, to name just a few of his influences. Whether he is writing on origins, aphorisms, coherence, vulnerability, anxiety, or a number of other subjects, his command of language, his erudition, and his own personal history serve not so much to illuminate or magnify the subject as to discover it anew through a kaleidoscopic alignment of attention, thought, and feeling, a dazzling and momentary suspension of disparate elements, again and again.
Author | : William Hawley Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gilbert H. Muller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : American essays |
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