Description: Further DetailsTitle: On EssaysCondition: NewEAN: 9780192848611ISBN: 9780192848611Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/01/2021Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 610gContributor: Thomas Karshan (Edited by), Kathryn Murphy (Edited by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Montaigne to the PresentISBN-10: 0192848615Description: Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions across its history, from Montaigne's 1580 Essais through the familiar intimacies of the Romantic essay, and up to more recent essayists such as Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Claudia Rankine?Sometimes called the fourth genre, the essay has been over-shadowed in literary history by fiction, poetry, and drama, and has proved notoriously resistant to definition. On Essays reveals in the essay a pattern of paradox: at once a pedagogical tool and a refusal of the methodical languages of universities and professions; politically engaged but retired and independent; erudite and anti-pedantic; occasional and enduring; intimate and oratorical; allusive and idiosyncratic. Perhaps because it is a form of writing against which literary scholarship has defined itself, there has been surprisingly little work on the tradition of the essay. Neither a comprehensive history nor a student companion, On Essays is a series of seventeen elegantly written essays on authors and aspects in the history of the genre - essays which, taken together, form the most substantial book yet published on the essay in Britain and America.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Literary CriticismAuthor: Thomas KarshanRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: On Essays
Title: On Essays
EAN: 9780192848611
ISBN: 9780192848611
Release Date: 09/01/2021
Release Year: 2021
Contributor: Kathryn Murphy (Edited by)
Subtitle: Montaigne to the Present
ISBN-10: 0192848615
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: On Essays : Montaigne to the Present
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Kathryn Murphy
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
