The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals): Rediscovering the Essay

ISBN-13: 9781138794849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 226 str.

Graham Good;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. Through analysis of the work of such essayists as Montaigne, Bacon, Virginia Wolf, T. S. Eliot and George Orwell, the potential of the genre for independence and individualism is illustrated, and the essay is resituated as an intellectually challenging form of creative and critical writing.

Spis treści

Preface;  Acknowledgements;  1. The essay as genre  2. Montaigne: the growth of experience  3. Bacon: ramifications of counsel  4. Johnson: the correction of error  5. Hazlitt: ventures of the self  6. Henry James: patterns of art and life  7. Virginia Woolf: angles of vision  8. T. S. Eliot: the process of refinement  9. George Orwell: myth and counter-myth  10. The essay and criticism;  Reference list;  Biographical notes;  Index

O autorze

Good, Graham