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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2022
      November 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009022255
      9781316519776
      9781009011143
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009022255
      Dimensions:
      (235 x 159 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 330 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 151 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 330 Pages
      • Collection:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
      Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Collection:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    The Cambridge Companion to the Essay considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay from the moment it's named in the late sixteenth century to the present. What is an essay? What can the essay do or think or reveal or know that other literary forms cannot? What makes a piece of writing essayistic? How can essays bring about change? Over the course of seventeen chapters by a diverse group of scholars, The Companion reads the essay in relation to poetry, fiction, natural science, philosophy, critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial thinking, studies in race and gender, queer theory, and the history of literary criticism. This book studies the essay in its written, photographic, cinematic, and digital forms, with a special emphasis on how the essay is being reshaped and reimagined in the twenty-first century, making it a crucial resource for scholars, students, and essayists.

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    ‘[the authors] have certainly made some valuable contributions to the ongoing task of broadening ideas about a genre that’s still too often misperceived.’

    Chris Arthur Source: World Literature Today

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