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The Essayistic Spirit: Literature, Modern Criticism, and the Essay

Penned By Claire de Obaldia
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The Essayistic Spirit: Literature, Modern Criticism, and the Essay

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Despite the recognition of a "great tradition" of essayists who have been admitted to the literary canon, the genre remains underrated and somewhat neglected in literary studies. This wide-ranging book argues that to relegate the essay in such a way is to ignore the fact that our "modern"conception of literature is fundamentally essayistic. De Obaldia explores both the creative potential of the essay and the limits of essayism on the borders of philosophy, literature, and criticism by referring our post-romantic conception of literature and literary history back to Montaigne'sEssais, and to a whole related tradition of philosophical skepticism. She draws on a range of writings including those of Montaigne, early German Romantics, Lukacs, Adorno, Derrida, Hartman, Barthes, Proust, Broch, Musil, Bakhtin, and Borges.

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Length 336 Pages
Imprint Oxford University Press
Released January 1, 1996
Identifier (ISBN) 16311843
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Claire de Obaldia finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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