The Art of the personal essay : an anthology from the classical era to the present /
The Art of the personal essay : an anthology from the classical era to the present /
selected and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
- New York : Anchor Books, 1994.
- liv, 777 p. ; 25 cm.
"A Teachers & Writers Collaborative book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [771]-777).
On noise ; Asthma ; Scipio's villa ; Slaves / Consolation to his wife / Hateful things / Essays in idleness (selections) / Pleasure boat studio / Of books ; Of a monstrous child ; Of some verses on Virgil / Of greatness / Nicolini and the lions ; hour or two sacred to sorrow ; Twenty-four hours in London ; Love-letters / boarding house ; solitude of the country / essay on the noble science of self-justification / New Year's Eve ; chapter on ears ; Dream children : a reverie ; superannuated man / On going a journey ; On the pleasure of hating ; fight / lantern-bearers ; apology for idlers ; On marriage / Going out for a walk ; Laughter / piece of chalk ; On running after one's hat / Street haunting ; death of the moth / Such, such were the joys / execution of Tropmann / This too is life ; Death / In praise of shadows / Unpacking my library ; Hashish in Marseilles / Blindness / Beside the nore ; Aunt Harriet / Some blind alleys : a letter / Leaving the movie theater / He and I / How I started to write / Why do I fast? / Meatless days / Walking / On being an American / My face / secret life of James Thurber / crack-up / Once more to the lake ; ring of time / Once a tramp, always / My confession / For my brothers and sisters in the failure business / Notes of a native son ; Alas, poor Richard / Some memories of the glorious bird and an earlier self / Split at the root / courage of turtles ; threshold and the jolt of pain / entrance to the woods / Goodbye to all that ; In bed / Seeing / knife / Against joie de vivre / Under the influence / Do he have your number, Mr. Jeffrey? / Late Victorians / 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. An The The An A The The The An A The The The The The The The An The
"For more than four hundred years the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this lively, fertile genre. Distinguished from the formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its drive toward candor and confession, and its often quirky first-person voice, the personal essay offers above all a feast of individuality."--BOOK JACKET.
0385422989 : US $30.00 (Can. $39.95) 9780385422987
93029708
Essays.
Essays--Translations into English.
PN 6141 / A784 1994
808.84
"A Teachers & Writers Collaborative book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [771]-777).
On noise ; Asthma ; Scipio's villa ; Slaves / Consolation to his wife / Hateful things / Essays in idleness (selections) / Pleasure boat studio / Of books ; Of a monstrous child ; Of some verses on Virgil / Of greatness / Nicolini and the lions ; hour or two sacred to sorrow ; Twenty-four hours in London ; Love-letters / boarding house ; solitude of the country / essay on the noble science of self-justification / New Year's Eve ; chapter on ears ; Dream children : a reverie ; superannuated man / On going a journey ; On the pleasure of hating ; fight / lantern-bearers ; apology for idlers ; On marriage / Going out for a walk ; Laughter / piece of chalk ; On running after one's hat / Street haunting ; death of the moth / Such, such were the joys / execution of Tropmann / This too is life ; Death / In praise of shadows / Unpacking my library ; Hashish in Marseilles / Blindness / Beside the nore ; Aunt Harriet / Some blind alleys : a letter / Leaving the movie theater / He and I / How I started to write / Why do I fast? / Meatless days / Walking / On being an American / My face / secret life of James Thurber / crack-up / Once more to the lake ; ring of time / Once a tramp, always / My confession / For my brothers and sisters in the failure business / Notes of a native son ; Alas, poor Richard / Some memories of the glorious bird and an earlier self / Split at the root / courage of turtles ; threshold and the jolt of pain / entrance to the woods / Goodbye to all that ; In bed / Seeing / knife / Against joie de vivre / Under the influence / Do he have your number, Mr. Jeffrey? / Late Victorians / 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. An The The An A The The The An A The The The The The The The An The
"For more than four hundred years the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this lively, fertile genre. Distinguished from the formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its drive toward candor and confession, and its often quirky first-person voice, the personal essay offers above all a feast of individuality."--BOOK JACKET.
0385422989 : US $30.00 (Can. $39.95) 9780385422987
93029708
Essays.
Essays--Translations into English.
PN 6141 / A784 1994
808.84