Essayists on the Essay Montaigne to Our Time |
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| Editor:
| Klaus, Carl H.
Stuckey-French, Ned |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60938-076-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay. This unique work includes a selection of fifty distinctive pieces by American, Canadian, English, European, and South American essayists from Montaigne to the present--many of which have not previously been anthologized or...
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The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay. This unique work includes a selection of fifty distinctive pieces by American, Canadian, English, European, and South American essayists from Montaigne to the present--many of which have not previously been anthologized or translated--as well as a detailed bibliographical and thematic guide to hundreds of additional works about the essay.