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The Essayistic Spirit

Author : Claire de Obaldia
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198151944
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Essayistic Spirit written by Claire de Obaldia and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essayistic Spirit explores this potential on the borders of philosophy, literature (especially the novel), and criticism, by referring our post-Romantic conception of literature and literary history back to Montaigne's Essais, and to a whole related tradition of philosophical scepticism. But precisely because of what is implied by 'potential', this exploration never loses sight of what de Obaldia regards as the real limits of essayism.

The Cambridge Companion to The Essay

Author : Kara Wittman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316519775
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to The Essay written by Kara Wittman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book studies the history and theory of the essay and its social, political, and aesthetic contexts.

Romantic Cruxes

Author : Thomas McFarland
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Cruxes written by Thomas McFarland and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the English essayists Lamb, Hazlitt, and De Quincey are not customarily examined in the context of European Romanticism, their shared connection with the intellectual upheaval of that movement is undeniable. McFarland's study is the first to consider the essayists in this light, relating them to the larger engagements of their age. As Romantic Cruxes reveals, each writer was a figure deeply embattled amid the disruptions and accumulating stresses that defined Romanticism; each was more intense, darker, and more symbolic of larger situations in human experience than received opinion would have it. And each essayist projected his personality and experience into idiosyncratic statement that has won its author a lasting place in the pantheon of cultural achievement. Unlike most studies of these authors, which tend toward straightforward biography, simple appreciation, or narrowly historical treatments, this book illuminates both their statement and their achievement in the fullest possible terms.

A Philosophy of the Essay

Author : Erin Plunkett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350049999
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of the Essay written by Erin Plunkett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erin Plunkett draws from both analytic and continental sources to argue for the philosophical relevance of style, making the case that the essay form is uniquely suited to address the sceptical problem. The authors examined here-Montaigne, Hume, the early German Romantics, Kierkegaard and Stanley Cavell-bring into relief the relationship between scepticism and ordinary life and situate the will to know within a broader frame of meaningful human activity. The formal features of the essay call attention to time, subjectivity, and language as the existential conditions of knowledge. In contrast to foundationalist approaches, which expect philosophy to reach empirical or rational certainty, Plunkett demonstrates through these writings the philosophical advantages of a fragmentary, non-dogmatic style of writing. A Philosophy of the Essay shows how this medium can help us come to terms with the contingency and uncertainty of life.

George Orwell the Essayist

Author : Peter Marks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441197680
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book George Orwell the Essayist written by Peter Marks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell is acclaimed as one of English literature's great essayists. Yet, while many are considered classics, as a body of work his essays have been neglected. Peter Marks provides the first sustained study of Orwell the essayist, giving these compelling pieces the critical attention they merit. Orwell employed the essay as a tool to entertain, illuminate and provoke readers across an array of topics. Marks situates the essays in their original contexts, exploring how journals influenced the type of essay Orwell wrote. Acknowledging this periodical culture helps explain the tactics Orwell employed, the topics he chose and the audiences he addressed. Orwell's first and last published works were essays, providing evidence of the development of his cultural and political views over two decades. Essays helped him fashion his distinctive literary 'voice' and Mark traces how their afterlife contributes to Orwell's posthumous reputation. Arguing the essays are central to Orwell's enduring literary, political and cultural value, Marks shows how we understand the complexities, subtleties, and contradictions of Orwell better when we understand his essays.

Godard and the Essay Film

Author : Rick Warner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137399
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Godard and the Essay Film written by Rick Warner and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders the defining traits and legacies of this still-evolving genre through a groundbreaking examination of the vast and formidable oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard. The essay film has often been understood by scholars as an eccentric development within documentary, but Warner shows how an essayistic process of thinking can materialize just as potently within narrative fiction films, through self-critical investigations into the aesthetic, political, and philosophical resources of the medium. Studying examples by Godard and other directors, such as Orson Welles, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, and Harun Farocki, Warner elaborates a fresh account of essayistic reflection that turns on the imaginative, constructive role of the viewer. Through fine-grained analyses, this book contributes the most nuanced description yet of the relational interface between viewer and screen in the context of the essay film. Shedding new light on Godard’s work, from the 1960s to the 2010s, in film, television, video, and digital stereoscopy, Warner distills an understanding of essayistic cinema as a shared exercise of critical rumination and perceptual discovery.

The Essay Film

Author : Timothy Corrigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199781796
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Essay Film written by Timothy Corrigan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agn?s Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to categorize them. Sometimes described as personal documentaries or diary films, these eclectic works are, rather, best understood as cinematic variations on the essay. So argues Tim Corrigan in this stimulating and necessary new book. Since Michel de Montaigne, essays have been seen as a lively literary category, and yet--despite the work of pioneers like Chris Marker--seldom discussed as a cinematic tradition. The Essay Film, offering a thoughtful account of the long rapport between literature and film as well as novel interpretations and theoretical models, provides the ideas that will change this.

Essayism

Author : Brian Dillon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372835
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Essayism written by Brian Dillon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Essayist

Author : George Washington Light
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essayist written by George Washington Light and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern Essay in French

Author : Charles Forsdick
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105144
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Essay in French written by Charles Forsdick and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a textual form, the essai predominates in modern and contemporary literature in French. Emerging from an earlier tradition and distinguished from its English-language counterpart, the French-language essay ranges from Stéphane Mallarmé to Colette, Victor Segalen to Aimé Césaire, Jean Grenier to Pierre Michon. The essai remains, however, one of the most hazily identified of textual forms, its definition often depending on the progressive elimination of all other generic possibilities. Excluded from the archigenres (theatre, poetry, récit), it can even be seen as a hold-all category whose role is to absorb the anarchic extremes of writing. It is perhaps this very lack of pretension to orthodoxy that has drawn so many writers to the essai. The conventional understanding of the term - as a tentative, unsystematic exploration - stresses the genre's provisional nature, its refusal of any claims to comprehensiveness. The essai exploits the devices of anecdote, illustration and humour; it is addressed to a wide and often general audience; it is also intricately linked to the performance of ideological and writerly strategies, often reordering the classical art of rhetoric and persuasion. As the contributions to this volume show, there is a need to outline an ethics and politics, as well as poetics, of essayism.

Virginia Woolf's Common Reader

Author : Katerina Koutsantoni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317001567
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Common Reader written by Katerina Koutsantoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive study of Virginia Woolf's Common Reader, Katerina Koutsantoni draws on theorists from the fields of sociology, sociolinguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to investigate the thematic pattern underpinning these books with respect to the persona of the 'common reader'. Though these two volumes are the only ones that Woolf compiled herself, they have seldom been considered as a whole. As a result, what they reveal about Woolf's position with regard to the processes of writing, reading, and critical analysis has not been fully examined. Koutsantoni challenges the critical commonplace that equates Woolf's strategy of self-effacement and personal removal from her works as a necessary compromise that allowed her to achieve authorial recognition in a male-dominated context. Rather, Koutsantoni argues that an investigation of impersonality in Woolf's essays reveals the potential of the genre to function both as a vehicle for the subjective and dialogic expression of the author and reader and as a venue for exploring topics with which the ordinary reader can relate. As she explores and challenges the meaning of impersonality in Woolf's Common Reader, Koutsantoni shows how the related issues of subjectivity, authority, reader-response, intersubjectivity, and dialogism offer useful perspectives from which to examine Woolf's work.

Virginia Woolf's Essayism

Author : Randi Saloman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748646493
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Essayism written by Randi Saloman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel.The focus of this study is on Virginia Woolf's vast output of essays and their relation to her fiction. Randi Saloman shows that it was by employing tools and methods drawn from the essay genre - such as fragmentation, stream-of-consciousness and dialogic engagement with the reader - that Woolf managed to leave behind the realism of the 19th-century novel. Saloman draws on key theorists of the essay such as T. W. Adorno and Georg Lukacs, as well as on more recent scholars of 'essayism' (a term devised by Robert Musil to describe the hypothetical quality of the essay mode). She shows that the essay, as genre and mode, shaped Woolf's writing, and modern fiction more generally, in ways that have not yet been articulated. Key Features:* In-depth consideration of Virginia Woolf's shorter essays* Revisionary accounts of /A Room of One's Own/ (1929) and /Three Guineas/ (1938)* New readings of Woolf's major and less well-known novels, including /The Pargiters/, her failed 'essay-novel'* Repositions the essay as a major modernist genre, responsible in large part for the creation of the modern (and especially the 'modernist') novelKeywords: Virginia Woolf, Modernism, The Essay, Fiction, Essayism, The Novel, Genre

Reading T.S. Eliot

Author : G. Atkins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137011580
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Reading T.S. Eliot written by G. Atkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday.

The Testimony of Sense

Author : Tim Milnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192540904
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Testimony of Sense written by Tim Milnes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Testimony of Sense attempts to answer a neglected but important question: what became of epistemology in the late eighteenth century, in the period between Hume's scepticism and Romantic idealism? It finds that two factors in particular reshaped the nature of 'empiricism': the socialisation of experience by Scottish Enlightenment thinkers and the impact upon philosophical discourse of the belletrism of periodical culture. The book aims to correct the still widely-held assumption that Hume effectively silenced epistemological inquiry in Britain for over half a century. Instead, it argues that Hume encouraged the abandonment of subject-centred reason in favour of models of rationality based upon the performance of trusting actions within society. Of particular interest here is the way in which, after Hume, fundamental ideas like the self, truth, and meaning are conceived less in terms of introspection, correspondence, and reference, and more in terms of community, coherence, and communication. By tracing the idea of intersubjectivity through the issues of trust, testimony, virtue and language, the study offers new perspectives on the relationships between philosophy and literature, empiricism and transcendentalism, and Enlightenment and Romanticism. As philosophy grew more conversational, the familiar essay became a powerful metaphor for new forms of communication. The book explores what is epistemologically at stake in the familiar essay genre as it develops through the writings of Joseph Addison, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, and William Hazlitt. It also offers readings of philosophical texts, such as Hume's Treatise, Thomas Reid's Inquiry, and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, as literary performances.

Practising Reform in Montaigne's Essais

Author : Dorothea Heitsch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900424753X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Practising Reform in Montaigne's Essais written by Dorothea Heitsch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000-02-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume permits a new approach to Montaigne's essays from the point of view of the art of writing and style. Its particular hermeneutic position, which distinguishes it from other investigations, is that Nietzsche is used as a mediator.

Literary Cynics

Author : Arthur Rose
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474258670
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Literary Cynics written by Arthur Rose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider what happens when authors write themselves into their art, against the rhetoric of authority. Rose takes as his starting point three moments of aesthetic crisis in the careers of these literary cynics: Borges's parables of the 1950s, Beckett's plays of the 1980s, and Coetzee's pedagogic novels of the 2000s. In their transition to 'late style', the works reflect their writers' abiding concern with particular conceptions of rhetoric and aesthetic form. Literary Cynics combines accounts of these 'late' works with classic, lesser known, and archival texts by the three writers, from Coetzee's Disgrace to Beckett's letters, as well as detailed analysis of cynicism, both ancient and modern, as a philosophical and political movement.

Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language

Author : Judith Allen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748674535
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language written by Judith Allen and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of Woolf's essays, including 'Montaigne', A Room of One's Own, 'Craftsmanship', Three Guineas, and 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', Allen shows how Woolf's politics, expressed and enacted by her writings, are relevant to our curr