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

Summary:

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 038542339X
  • ISBN: 9780385423397
  • ISBN: 0385422989
  • ISBN: 9780385422987
  • Physical Description: liv, 777 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st Anchor books pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1995, ©1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Teachers & Writers Collaborative book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 771-777).
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Essays.
Essays > Translations into English.
Essays.
Genre:
Translations into English.
Essays.
Translations.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lummi Library PN 6141 .A78 1995 259986 Stacks Available -

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.