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AFTER MONTAIGNE: CONTEMPORARY ESSAYISTS COVER THE ESSAYS By David Lazar Mint
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- ISBN-10
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- Publication Name
- University of Georgia Press
- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780820348155
- Book Title
- After Montaigne : Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
- Topic
- European / French, Essays, Composition & Creative Writing
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- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 19 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne --a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute--aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear. Though it's been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigne's writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of self-exploration in the world around him reads as innovative--even by modern standards. He is, simply put, the writer to whom all essayists are indebted. Each contributor has chosen one of Montaigne's 107 essays and has written his/her own essay of the same title and on the same theme, using a quote from Montaigne's essay as an epigraph. The overall effect is akin to a covers album, with each writer offering his or her own interpretation and stylistic verve to Montaigne's themes in ways that both reinforce and challenge the French writer's prose, ideas, and forms. Featuring a who's who of contemporary essayists, After Montaigne offers astartling engagement with Montaigne and the essay form while also pointing the way to the genre's potential new directions.
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University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820348155
ISBN-13
9780820348155
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208530161
Product Key Features
Book Title
After Montaigne : Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
European / French, Essays, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
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Ps689.A37 2015
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"With the originality of its approach, its impressive assortment of contributors, and the editors' experience and knowledge of the form, After Montaigne is a significant contribution to the study, teaching, and writing of the contemporary essay."--Michael Steinberg, founding editor, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, Though Montaigne wrote more than 400 years ago, he feels ageless to these writers, who celebrate his 'drily mellifluous voice,' discursive style, and relentless curiosity. With flair, wit, and imagination, these writers embrace and often challenge their mentor, with results that will inspire readers to also seek out the originals., Imagine the dinner party: not just Montaigne but many Montaignes, resurrected in these brilliant essays by twenty-eight of today's most inventive writers. The table is crowded, enlivened by the paradoxical warmth of Montaigne's detachment and by the parry and thrust of ideas, often tantamount to a kind of quiet eros. It's a dinner full of random appetites, the kind of party we leave knowing ourselves a little less, which might mean a little better. What a feast this collection is. It satisfies a hunger-intellect meeting empathy-that enlarges us., The collection is accessible and invites readers to dip in anywhere, to read all or only a few. Reading these "covers" alongside Montaigne's originals would make an engaging activity for aspiring essayists or composition students., "Though Montaigne wrote more than 400 years ago, he feels ageless to these writers, who celebrate his 'drily mellifluous voice,' discursive style, and relentless curiosity. With flair, wit, and imagination, these writers embrace and often challenge their mentor, with results that will inspire readers to also seek out the originals." -- Publishers Weekly, "A fascinating collection of essays that carries forward the omnidirectional momentum of the master. After Montaigne gives us grand examples of the essay as it lives today."--Ian Frazier, author of Great Plains, The collection is accessible and invites readers to dip in anywhere, to read all or only a few. Reading these 'covers' alongside Montaigne's originals would make an engaging activity for aspiring essayists or composition students., "Imagine the dinner party: not just Montaigne but many Montaignes resurrected in these brilliant essays by twenty-eight of today's most inventive writers. The table is crowded, enlivened by the paradoxical warmth of Montaigne's detachment and by the parry and thrust of ideas, often tantamount to a kind of quiet eros. It's a dinner full of random appetites, the kind of party we leave knowing ourselves a little less, which might mean a little better. What a feast this collection is. It satisfies a hunger--intellect meeting empathy--that enlarges us."--Barbara Hurd, author of Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies, "Imagine the dinner party: not just Montaigne but many Montaignes resurrected in these brilliant essays by twenty-eight of today's most inventive writers. The table is crowded, enlivened by the paradoxical warmth of Montaigne's detachment and by the parry and thrust of ideas, often tantamount to a kind of quiet eros. It's a dinner full of random appetites, the kind of party we leave knowing ourselves a little less, which might mean a little better. What a feast this collection is. It satisfies a hunger--intellect meeting empathy--that enlarges us."--Barbara Hurd, author of Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains
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2015
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2014-045430
Dewey Decimal
814/.6
Dewey Edition
23
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