Essayism : on form, feeling, and nonfiction
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New York : New York Review Books, [2018].
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2018].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
171 pages ; 22 cm
Street Date
1809
Language
English
Notes
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Date of publication taken from publisher's web site.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169).
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"Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon's style incorporates diverse features of the essay. By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georges Perec, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Susan Sontag, to name just a few of his influences. Whether he is writing on origins, aphorisms, coherence, vulnerability, anxiety, or a number of other subjects, his command of language, his erudition, and his own personal history serve not so much to illuminate or magnify the subject as to discover it anew through a kaleidoscopic alignment of attention, thought, and feeling, a dazzling and momentary suspension of disparate elements, again and again"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dillon, B. (2018). Essayism: on form, feeling, and nonfiction . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dillon, Brian, 1969-. 2018. Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dillon, Brian, 1969-. Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction New York Review Books, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dillon, Brian. Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction New York Review Books, 2018.
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