Isbn: 9781555975326 - the lost origins of the essay (new history of the essay) (12 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. First Graywolf Printing, 2009. 695pp. "'I think the reason we've never pinpointed the beginning to this genre is because we've never agreed on what this genre really is. Do we read nonfiction to receive information, or do we read it to experience art? It's not very clear sometimes. This, then, is a book that tries to offer a clear objective: I am here in search of art. I am here to track the origins of an alternative to commerce.' John D'Agata leaves no tablet unturned in his exploration of the roots of the essay. In this soaring anthology, he takes the reader from ancient Mesopotamia to classical Greece and Rome, from fifth-century Japan to nineteenth-century France, to twentieth-century Brazil, Germany, Barbados, and beyond. With brief and brilliant introductions to seminal works by Heraclitus, Sei Shonagon, Michel de Montaigne, Jonathan Swift, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, Octavio Paz, and more than forty other luminaries, D'Agata reexamines the international forebears of today's American nonfiction. This idiosyncratic collection makes a perfect historical companion to D'Agata's The Next American Essay, a touchstone among readers and practitioners of the essay." [publisher copy] Selections from 49 writers, including Charles Baudelaire, John Berger, William Blake, Julio Cortazar, Lisa Robertson, Stephane Mallarme, Clarice Lispector, Fernando Pessoa, Natalia Ginzburg. "This is an anthology in the service of a wonderful idea: that the essay has been encumbered by its obligation to tell us the facts. It prefers the delicacy of Montaigne's 'What do I know?' to the assertive 'I know' of information culture. The essays here border on dreams, visions, explanations of our need for the imaginative process. These essays come equipped in beautiful language, ornate or stripped-down extravagances of syntax: a global array of spectacular choices."--Michael Silverblatt, NPR. Pristine & massive paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, w/French flaps & no creases in spine. Quite presentable.…

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnEdited by John D AgataKlappentextrnrnAn expansive and exhilarating world tour of innovative nonfiction writingI think the reason we ve never pinpointed the real beginning to this gen.