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The Essay At the Limits: Poetics, Politics and Form

Editat de Dr Mario Aquilina
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 oct 2022
In the hands of such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, David Shields, Zadie Smith and many others, the essay has re-emerged as a powerful literary form for tackling a fractious 21st-century culture. The Essay at the Limits brings together leading scholars to explore the theory, the poetics and the future of the form. The book links the formal innovations and new voices that have emerged in the 21st-century essay to the history and theory of the essay. In so doing, it surveys the essay from its origins to its relation to contemporary cultural forms, from the novel to poetry, film to music, and from political articles to intimate lyrical expressions. The book examines work by writers such as: Theodor W. Adorno, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Annie Dillard, Brian Dillon, Jean Genet, William Hazlitt, Samuel Johnson, Karl Ove Knaussgaard, Ben Lerner, Audre Lorde, Oscar Wilde, Michel de Montaigne, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Wallace Stevens, Eliot Weinberger and Virginia Woolf.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350235373
ISBN-10: 1350235377
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 4 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Examines the history of the essay form from the Romantics to contemporary writers such as Claudia Rankine, Rebecca Solnit and Zadie Smith

Notă biografică

Mario Aquilina is Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta. He is the author of The Event of Style in Literature (2014).

Cuprins

Notes on ContributorsPrefaceSuggested ReadingMario Aquilina (University of Malta)Thinking the Essay at the Limits Part 1: The Essay and the World 1. Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK)The Essay as Phenomenology 2. James Corby (University of Malta)An Essay on the Post-Literary 3. Neil Badmington (Cardiff University, UK)Brief Scenes: Roland Barthes and the Essay 4. Nicole B. Wallack (Columbia University, USA)The 'Subversive Possibilities' of the Essay for Public Intellectuals5. Joseph Tabbi (University of Bergen, Norway)Is Writing All Over, or Just Dispersed? Digital Essayism in TRINA, A DESIGN FICTION Part 2: The Essay and the Self 6. Ivan Callus (University of Malta)Tone and the Essay 7. Jennifer Spinner (Saint Joseph's University, USA)What the Periodical Press Made Possible: Women Essayists in the Eighteenth Century8. Rachel Baldacchino (University of Malta)Otherness and the Essay in the Pacifist Work of Vernon Lee9. Aaron Aquilina (Lancaster University, UK) Margins and Marginality: Jean Genet and the Queer Essay10. Michael Askew (University of East Anglia, UK)The Essay and the 'I': Eliot Weinberger's Transformation of the Authorial Self Part 3: The Essay, Form and the Essayistic 11. R. Eric Tippin (Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA)At the Limits of Fixité: The Essay and the Aphorism 12. Jason Childs (Independent scholar)Assaying the Novel 13. Allen Durgin (Columbia University, USA)Wallace Stevens, Audre Lorde and the Queer Performativity of the Essay 14. Maria Frendo (University of Malta)Transgression as Transcendence: Essayistic Poetics in Selected Works by Dmitri Shostakovich and Joseph Vella 15. Bob Cowser Jr. (St. Lawrence University, USA)Hersey, Resnais and Representing Hiroshima: Toward an Essayistic Historiography

Recenzii

An outstanding collection of cutting-edge criticism and scholarship on a historically undervalued genre. The contributors offer fresh and diverse perspectives on traditional approaches to the essay as well as provocative new ways to reimagine the genre's literary and cultural significance as we move deeper into a digital future. The essay needs and deserves more rigorous studies like this one.
The Essay at the Limits, like the Roman god Janus, has a double vision: a set of eyes look back at the beginnings of the essay, its etymologies, genealogies and traditions; the other pair observe the essay's relevance in the 21st century as "a powerful literary form," as the blurb puts it, in a contemporary world riddled with post-truth. This double vision equips the editor and the contributors with critical foresight.
Mario Aquilina's selection of [examined work] indicates that he has his finger on the pulse of the essay today. Yet Aquilina, like the authors contributing to this collection, also has the ability to connect contemporary zeitgeist to the history of the essay genre.