Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198890060
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198890060
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
On Essays
Author: Thomas KarshanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191082112
Category : Philosophy
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.
Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi B. Bandinel
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library
Author: London Institution. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Report of the Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Special reports and monographs are issued as part of some of the Reports.
Life of John Milton
Author: Richard GarnettPublisher: London : W. Scott
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Originally published in 1890 as part of the "Great Writers" series. Richard Garnett (1835-1906) was Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum and also wrote biographies of Carlyle, Emerson, Gibbon and Coleridge.
Sketches of Ohio Libraries
Author: Ohio. Library CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Philosophical Society of the U.S
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Summer in the Shadow of Byron
Author: Andrew McConnell StottPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857868942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety and debts, he sought refuge in Europe, taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspirations of his own, Dr Polidori could not believe his luck. That summer another literary star also arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Shelley came his lover, Mary and her step-sister Claire Clairmont. For the next three months, this party of young bohemians shared their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creativity from which would emerge Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece of Romantic fiction, Byron's Childe Harold, Shelley's Mont Blanc, and The Vampyre by John Polidori, the first great vampire novel. It was also a time of remarkable drama and emotional turmoil. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay by the lake would serve to immortalise them in the annals of literary history. But for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever.
Philology and Literature Series
Author: University of WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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