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Essayism.

By: Dillon, BrianMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (85 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781910695425Subject(s): EssayGenre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: EssayismDDC classification: 808.4 LOC classification: PN4500Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- On essays and essayists -- On origins -- On Essayism -- On lists -- On dispersal -- On anxiety -- On consolation -- On style -- On extravagance -- On taste -- On sentences -- On melancholy -- On consolation -- On the fragment -- On aphorisms -- On the detail -- On diverging -- On consolation -- On talking to yourself -- On coherence -- On vulnerability -- On consolation -- On attention -- On curiosity -- On consolation -- On starting again -- Readings -- Acknowledgements -- Current and forthcoming books by Fitzcarraldo Editions -- About the Author -- Copyright.
Summary: Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical point.
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Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- On essays and essayists -- On origins -- On Essayism -- On lists -- On dispersal -- On anxiety -- On consolation -- On style -- On extravagance -- On taste -- On sentences -- On melancholy -- On consolation -- On the fragment -- On aphorisms -- On the detail -- On diverging -- On consolation -- On talking to yourself -- On coherence -- On vulnerability -- On consolation -- On attention -- On curiosity -- On consolation -- On starting again -- Readings -- Acknowledgements -- Current and forthcoming books by Fitzcarraldo Editions -- About the Author -- Copyright.

Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical point.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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