Author: Francis HopkinsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings of F. H.
Author: Francis HopkinsonThe Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings
Author: Francis HopkinsonEssays, Critical and Miscellaneous
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron MacaulayPublisher:
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Critical and Historical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron MacaulayPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron MacaulayPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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On Essays
Author: Thomas KarshanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191017531
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, with a Memoir and Index
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron MacaulayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1110
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Changing My Mind
Author: Zadie SmithPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143117955
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." —Los Angeles Times Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing on Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani, or Zora Neale Hurston, she brings deft care to the art of criticism with a style both sympathetic and insightful. Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent, and funny--a gift to readers and writers both.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Author: Thomas CarlyleLiterary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Walter BagehotPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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