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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"--
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Essay, Authorship, Essayists, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Authorship, Essay--authorship, Literary collections / essays, Literary criticism / european / english, irish, scottish, welsh, Language arts & disciplines / authorship, Pn4500 .d553 2017, 808.4, Lco010000 lit004120 lan002000Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Essayism: on form, feeling, and nonfiction
2017, New York Review Books
in English
1681372827 9781681372822
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169).
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