After Montaigne - Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

Informationen zum Autor David Lazar (Editor) DAVID LAZAR is a professor in the Nonfiction Program at Columbia College Chicago and the editor of the journal Hotel Amerika . His books include Occasional Desire , The Body of Brooklyn , and Truth in Nonfiction. Patrick Madden (Editor) PATRICK MADDEN is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University and author of Quotidiana and Sublime Physick . His work has appeared in the Iowa Review , Portland Magazine , Fourth Genre , and the Best Creative Nonfiction and Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Klappentext 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 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 RemainsThe University of Georgia PressAthens, Georgia 30602www.ugapress.orgISBN 978-0-8203-4815-5" Zusammenfassung 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! Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne corrects this collective lapse of memory and introduces modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.

Product details

• Authors: David Lazar, David (EDT)/ Madden Lazar, Patrick Madden, Michel Montaigne
• Assisted by: David Lazar (Editor), Patrick Madden (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780820348155
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4815-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing, Literature - Classics / Criticism