After Montaigne Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays |
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| Editor:
| Lazar, David
Madden, Patrick |
| Contribution by:
| Aldrich, Marcia
Arthur, Chris
Atwan, Robert
Borich, Barrie Jean
Cappello, Mary
Church, Steven
Cofer, Judith Ortiz
Deulen, Danielle
Doyle, Brian
Ferreira, Lina M.
Ferreira, Lisa
Gornick, Vivian
Hemley, Robin
Koestenbaum, Wayne
Lakanen, Shannon
Lopate, Phillip
Lott, Bret
Matherly, Desirae
Nelson, Maggie
Orduna, Jose
Passarello, Elena
Purpura, Lia
Radtke, Kristen
Scott, Amy
Walker, Jerald
Walker, Nicole
Deulen, Danielle Cadena
Levy, E. J. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-4817-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $32.95USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne-a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute-aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear. Though it's been over...
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Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne-a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute-aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.
Though it's been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigne's writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of self-exploration in the world around him reads as innovative-even by modern standards. He is, simply put, the writer to whom all essayists are indebted. Each contributor has chosen one of Montaigne's 107 essays and has written his/her own essay of the same title and on the same theme, using a quote from Montaigne's essay as an epigraph. The overall effect is akin to a covers album, with each writer offering his or her own interpretation and stylistic verve to Montaigne's themes in ways that both reinforce and challenge the French writer's prose, ideas, and forms. Featuring a who's who of contemporary essayists, After Montaigne offers astartling engagement with Montaigne and the essay form while also pointing the way to the genre's potential new directions.