Tracing the Essay Through Experience to Truth |
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| Author:
| Atkins, G. Douglas |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-2787-7 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2005 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $34.00 |
Book Description:
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Drawing from the work of Montaigne and Bacon and recent practitioners such as E. B. White and Cynthia Ozick, Atkins shows what the essay means-and how it comes to mean. The essay, related to assaying (attempting), mines experience for meaning, which it then carefully weighs.
Drawing from the work of Montaigne and Bacon and recent practitioners such as E. B. White and Cynthia Ozick, Atkins shows what the essay means-and how it comes to mean. The essay, related to assaying (attempting), mines experience for meaning, which it then carefully weighs.