Bibliograph

The Art of the personal essay, an anthology from the classical era to the present, selected and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate

Type

Label

The Art of the personal essay, an anthology from the classical era to the present, selected and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 771-777)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Art of the personal essay

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

33287254

Responsibility statement

selected and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate

Sub title

an anthology from the classical era to the present

Summary

More than 75 essays trace the development of the literary form from classical examples to contemporary English and American writers

Table Of Contents

Seneca -- Plutarch -- Sei Shonagon -- Kenko -- Ou-Yang Hsiu -- Michel de Montaigne -- Abraham Cowley -- Addison & Steele -- Samuel Johnson -- Maria Edgeworth -- Charles Lamb -- William Hazlitt -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Max Beerbohm -- G.K. Chesterton -- Virginia Woolf -- George Orwell -- Ivan Turgenev -- Lu Hsun -- Junichiro Tanizaki -- Walter Benjamin -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Hubert Butler -- E.M. Cioran -- Roland Barthes -- Natalia Ginzburg -- Carlos Fuentes -- Wole Soyinka -- Sara Suleri -- Henry David Thoreau -- H.L. Mencken -- Robert Benchley -- James Thurber -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- E.B. White -- M.F.K. Fisher -- Mary McCarthy -- Seymour Krim -- James Baldwin -- Gore Vidal -- Adrienne Rich -- Edward Hoagland -- Wendell Berry -- Joan Didion -- Annie Dillard -- Richard Selzer -- Phillip Lopate -- Scott Russell Sanders -- Gayle Pemberton -- Richard Rodriguez

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