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Book Synopsis On the Familiar Essay by : G. Atkins
Download or read book On the Familiar Essay written by G. Atkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form.
Book Synopsis At Large and At Small by : Anne Fadiman
Download or read book At Large and At Small written by Anne Fadiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay—a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions: from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her wistfulness for the days of letter-writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country. Many of these essays were composed "under the influence" of the subject at hand. Fadiman ingests a shocking amount of ice cream and divulges her passion for Häagen-Dazs Chocolate Chocolate Chip and her brother's homemade Liquid Nitrogen Kahlúa Coffee (recipe included); she sustains a terrific caffeine buzz while recounting Balzac's coffee addiction; and she stays up till dawn to write about being a night owl, examining the rhythms of our circadian clocks and sharing such insomnia cures as her father's nocturnal word games and Lewis Carroll's mathematical puzzles. At Large and At Small is a brilliant and delightful collection of essays that harkens a revival of a long-cherished genre.
Book Synopsis The Familiar Essay by : Mark R. Christensen
Download or read book The Familiar Essay written by Mark R. Christensen and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to startle prospective writers into realizing that they can produce interesting essays, this reader devotes equal coverage to canonical essays, contemporary essays, and student essays.
Book Synopsis The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture by : Simon Peter Hull
Download or read book The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture written by Simon Peter Hull and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of diverse examples by Lamb, De Quincey, Hazlitt, Irving and Poe, this book argues that the familiar essay in the Romantic period embodies a quintessentially metropolitan mode of affect. The generic traits of the essay—astuteness of observation, an ambulatory or paratactic movement of thought, and an urbane tone of wry or ironic humour—all predispose it to the expression of a detached, non-pathological state of mind. This is a mind conditioned by the quickened pace, assorted humanity, and plenitude of spectacle which characterise urban and urbanised life. In making a valuable, genre-based contribution to scholarship on the importance to Romantic studies of the city and metropolitan culture, the traditional concept of Romantic affect is reassessed. The book proposes a more complex and varied model than the simple binary one of a “feeling” reaction to Enlightenment “reason.” Partly enacted within its own formal parameters and partly through its disruptive and genre-transcending progeny, the essayistic figure, the familiar essay articulates a blithe and, at times, shocking and provocative discourse of “un-affect,” or a strategically and often satirical callousness. Therefore, the overall concept of affect in this period needs to be understood not as a unified entity opposed to Enlightenment reason, but a dialogue between concurrent, opposing modes, played out against a dichotomized geo-cultural landscape of the country and the city. Essayistic un-affect emerges, in the end, as an apolitical phenomenon, a primary vehicle for the essayist’s inherent scepticism, sometimes enabling outright ridicule and, at other times, a tentative questioning or probing of both orthodox thought and emerging ideas: from the rarefied liberalist sensibility of the Lake poets, to the hubristic vanity of the colonial adventurer, and from the allure of hedonistic, Old World decadence to the proscriptive strictures of moralistic art.
Book Synopsis Modern Familiar Essays by : William Maddux Tanner
Download or read book Modern Familiar Essays written by William Maddux Tanner and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Familiar Essay by : Percy Van Dyke Shelly
Download or read book The Familiar Essay written by Percy Van Dyke Shelly and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Familiar Essay by : William Frank Bryan
Download or read book The English Familiar Essay written by William Frank Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Familiar Essay Representative Texts by : William Frank Bryan
Download or read book The English Familiar Essay Representative Texts written by William Frank Bryan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English Familiar Essay Representative Texts: Edited With Introduction and Notes Probably no one will undertake to controvert the statement that a definition of the essay has not yet been made both inclusive enough to cover all the different kinds of prose to which the name has been given and still sufficiently restrictive to mark out any particular qualities which distinguish the essay from any other comparatively brief composition. An attempt to discover the characteristics common to Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding," Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig," Macaulay's "Warren Hastings," Carlyle's "Essay on Bums," and Arnold's "Sweetness and Light" would pretty surely (Remonstrate that these various pieces of literature do not belong to any single, unified genre. There are, however, a large number of writings commonly called "essays" which have traditionally been felt to constitute a distinct type. These are characterized by a personal, confidential attitude of the writers toward their subjects and their readers, by an informal, familiar style, and by a concern with everyday manners and morals or with individual emotions and experiences rather than with public affairs or the material of systematic thinking. It is with the essay of this more narrowly limited type - perhaps best called the familiar Essay - that the present volume is exclusively concerned. In treating the Familiar Essay the editors have designed not to furnish models for a course in English composition or to compile an anthology, but to present such a selection of texts as will exhibit clearly the development of the genre in England. The complete accomplishment of this purpose has made it necessary, of course, to begin outside of England with Montaigne, the originator of the type, and to include specimens of his essays. A similar consideration has led to the inclusion of a brief extract from La Bruyere. But with these exceptions only British writers are represented. However delightful or stimulating are the essays of Irving and Emerson and Lowell, they have not affected the development of the type; and regard for unity of purpose, combined with lack of space, compels their exclusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Middle of My Tether by : Joseph Epstein
Download or read book The Middle of My Tether written by Joseph Epstein and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1983 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Familiar Essay in American Literature by : Mary Elizabeth Rucker
Download or read book The Familiar Essay in American Literature written by Mary Elizabeth Rucker and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Familiar Essay by : Bryan
Download or read book The English Familiar Essay written by Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1978-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis (The) Familiar Essay in American Literature ... by : Marie Catherine Flannelly
Download or read book (The) Familiar Essay in American Literature ... written by Marie Catherine Flannelly and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Familiar Essay by : William F. Bryan
Download or read book The English Familiar Essay written by William F. Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1979-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Familiar Essay-Im by : Christense
Download or read book The Familiar Essay-Im written by Christense and published by . This book was released on 2001-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis --Essays and Essay-writing by : William Maddux Tanner
Download or read book --Essays and Essay-writing written by William Maddux Tanner and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Familiar Essay in the Early Nineteenth Century by : Marie Hamilton Law
Download or read book The English Familiar Essay in the Early Nineteenth Century written by Marie Hamilton Law and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Plea for the Familiar Essay in College English by : Sister Mary Madeleva
Download or read book A Plea for the Familiar Essay in College English written by Sister Mary Madeleva and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: