The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present - Rilegato

Lopate, Phillip

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ISBN 10: 0385422989 ISBN 13: 9780385422987

Casa editrice: Anchor Books, 1994

Riassunto

Essays by writers representing various cultures and eras, from ancient Greece to the present, include works by Seneca, Thoreau, Dillard, Vidal, and Orwell

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Recensione:

"A wonderful book. The most  charming smorgasbord imaginable of essays from  around the world." -- Diane Cole, USA  Today.

"Without a doubt,  this is the most nourishing essay collection I've  read in years." -- Susan Burmeister-Brown,  Portland  Oregonian.

"A labor of deeply felt love and keenly honed  scholarship by an essay authority who knows his  territory down to his bones." --  Christian Science Monitor.

"The  best available [essay anthology] no matter how  crowded the field." -- Chicago  Tribune.

"The striking thing is  how much Lopate has managed to pack in, and how  high a standard he has managed to main- tain."  -- John Gross, New York  Newsday.

"Packed with personality and  beguiling first-person prose... of reminders of the  perils and pleasures of the craft." --  The Wall Street Journal.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

n four hundred years, the personal  essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant  of all literary forms. Distinguished from the  detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational  tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward  candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay  seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities,  fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and  disappointment, the pleasures of solitude,  reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the  human condition and the great social and political  issues of the day. The Art of the Personal  Essay is the first anthology to  celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than  seventy-five personal essays, including influential  forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the  Far East, masterpieces from the dawn of the  personal essay

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• Editore: Anchor Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0385422989
• ISBN 13: 9780385422987
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 777
• Redattore: Lopate Phillip