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The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals): Rediscovering the Essay

The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals): Rediscovering the Essay

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Series: Routledge Revivals

Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1138794848
ISBN13: 9781138794849
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 8 2015
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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