Tracing the Essay
Subtitle: Through Experience to Truth
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: November 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780820327617
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Reference; Essays; General; Essay
First sentence: THE ESSAY is, of course, the form literary commentary has traditionally taken, at least until the MLA, German scholarship, and so-called professionalism explunged belles lettres in favor of the book-length monograph and the "definite article," which are impersonal, closed, purely logical, and authoritarian.