Essayism : on form, feeling, and nonfiction
(Book - Regular Print)
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Physical Desc
171 pages ; 22 cm.
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Prescott Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
808.4 DIL
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808.4 DIL
1 available
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Format
Book - Regular Print
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English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171).
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"Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon's style incorporates diverse features of the essay.By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin,Georges Perec, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Susan Sontag, to name just a few of his influences. Whether he is writing on origins, aphorisms, coherence, vulnerability, anxiety, or a number of other subjects, his command of language, his erudition, and his ownpersonal history serve not so much to illuminate or magnify the subject as to discover it anew through a kaleidoscopic alignment of attention, thought, and feeling, a dazzling and momentary suspension of disparate elements, again and again"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dillon, B. Essayism: on form, feeling, and nonfiction .
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dillon, Brian, 1969-. Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction. .
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dillon, Brian, 1969-. Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction .
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dillon, Brian. Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
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