Essayism
eBook - ePub

Essayism

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Essayism

About this book

Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants above all to wander, but also to arrive at symmetry and wholeness; it nurses competing urges to integrity and disarray, perfection and fragmentation, confession and invention.
How to write about essays and essayists while staying true to these contradictions? Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and contemporary possibilities. It's an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive, exacting yet evasive, a form that would instruct, seduce and mystify in equal measure. Among the essayists to whom he pays tribute – from Virginia Woolf to Georges Perec, Joan Didion to Sir Thomas Browne – Brian Dillon discovers a path back into his own life as a reader, and out of melancholia to a new sense of writing as adventure.

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Information

Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781910695418
eBook ISBN
9781910695425
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Essays
Index
Literature

Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. On essays and essayists
  5. On origins
  6. On Essayism
  7. On lists
  8. On dispersal
  9. On anxiety
  10. On consolation
  11. On style
  12. On extravagance
  13. On taste
  14. On sentences
  15. On melancholy
  16. On consolation
  17. On the fragment
  18. On aphorisms
  19. On the detail
  20. On diverging
  21. On consolation
  22. On talking to yourself
  23. On coherence
  24. On vulnerability
  25. On consolation
  26. On attention
  27. On curiosity
  28. On consolation
  29. On starting again
  30. Readings
  31. Acknowledgements
  32. Current and f...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. On essays and essayists
  8. On origins
  9. On Essayism
  10. On lists
  11. On dispersal
  12. On anxiety
  13. On consolation
  14. On style
  15. On extravagance
  16. On taste
  17. On sentences
  18. On melancholy
  19. On consolation
  20. On the fragment
  21. On aphorisms
  22. On the detail
  23. On diverging
  24. On consolation
  25. On talking to yourself
  26. On coherence
  27. On vulnerability
  28. On consolation
  29. On attention
  30. On curiosity
  31. On consolation
  32. On starting again
  33. Readings
  34. Acknowledgements
  35. Current and forthcoming books by Fitzcarraldo Editions
  36. About the Author
  37. Copyright