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The Essay: Forms and Transformations
Herausgeber: Flothow, Dorothea | Oppolzer, Markus | Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine
Wissenschaft und Kunst, Bd. 32
2017
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Abstract
The essay has constituted an important prose form since the sixteenth century and opens up an intriguing field for interdisciplinary study. Applied to such heterogeneous writings as maxims, aphorisms, proverbs, letters, and treatises, it has always eluded a clear definition. Not surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been reluctant to tackle what appears to be a random array of prose texts straddling the boundaries between literature, philosophy and scientific writing, criticism and journalism. This volume explores the shifts and transformations of this rich genre, re-interpreting classic texts as well as drawing attention to previously neglected examples from a variety of cultural fields. A particular focus lies on the political and transformative potential of the essay, which has been embraced by women writers, activists, revolutionary thinkers or marginalized groups to give voice to their ideas and concerns. Thus, the essay has often been central in bringing to the fore new structures of feeling and emerging intellectual trends, conjoining literary and epistemic properties.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel | III | ||
| Impressum | IV | ||
| Table of Contents | i | ||
| SABINE COELSCH-FOISNER: Prefatory Note: The Essay as Epistemic Genre | v | ||
| DOROTHEA FLOTHOW ANDMARKUS OPPOLZER: Introduction | ix | ||
| I: The Origins of the Essay and Early Developments | 1 | ||
| WOLFGANG G.MÜLLER: An Elusive Genre?: An Attempt to Define the Essay | 1 | ||
| CHRISTOPHER CROSBIE: Refashioning Fable through the Baconian Essay: "De sapientia veterum" and Mythologies of the Early Modern Natural Philosopher | 15 | ||
| HOLGER KLEIN: Diverse Strains in the Early English Familiar Essay: Peacham, Cowley, Temple | 35 | ||
| GLYN PURSGLOVE: William Thackeray's Bedside Book: James Howell's "Epistolae Ho-Elianae" and the Essay | 65 | ||
| SARAH HERBE: Dryden's Prefatory Essays | 79 | ||
| MARIA-ANA TUPAN: Early Modern Essays: The Harmonics of the Discourse of Authority | 93 | ||
| II: Case Studies: From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century | 111 | ||
| BÁLINT GÁRDOS: Mr. Spectator's Ambiguous Authority: The Position of the Speaker in the Early Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay | 111 | ||
| INGRID KUCZYNSKI: "Materials of Thinking": The Essay as a Medium in the Debate on Travel | 129 | ||
| DAVID FOSTER: Mill versus Carlyle: The Rise of Materialism and the Defeat of the Romantic Ideal | 143 | ||
| ANNE FERTIG: "Ancient, Hardy, Pugnacious, and Poor": Margaret Oliphant's Form and Conformation in "Scottish National Character" and "Kirsteen" | 159 | ||
| WOLFGANG G. MÜLLER: George Orwell's Essayistic Prose | 171 | ||
| MEHMET BÜYÜKTUNCAY: The Essay as a Form of Radical Critique: Negation and Immanent Utopia in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory | 185 | ||
| GULSHAN R. TANEJA: Sontag: Essayist | 195 | ||
| III: Case Studies of the Political Essay: Feminist and Eco-critical Agendas | 213 | ||
| INGRID VON ROSENBERG: The Essay as an Instrument in the Long Fight for Women's Emancipation | 213 | ||
| NÓRA SÉLLEI: Power and Female Subjectivity in Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" | 229 | ||
| DANICAMALEKOVA: Eco-morality Narratives in Atwood's Essays | 241 | ||
| KATARINA LABUDOVA: Margaret Atwood's Ecological Essays: Moral and Environmental Anxieties | 253 | ||
| SUHASINI VINCENT: The Call for Political Transparency and Ecocritical Activism in Arundhati Roy's Political Essays | 265 | ||
| MILADA FRANKOVÁ: Women Novelists' Essays for the Twenty-first Century | 277 | ||
| IV: The Essay in Specific Cultural Contexts | 289 | ||
| PARVIN LOLOI: Essay Writing in the Islamic World | 289 | ||
| VELI-MATTI PYNTTÄRI: The Contemporary Finnish Essay and the Question of Genre: Notes towards the Essay as Social Action | 303 | ||
| RIMA BERTAŠAVIČIŪTĖ: The Lithuanian Essay: A Form of Misreading and a Case of Identity | 317 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 333 | ||
| Backcover | 338 |
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