Table of Contents: “…--Anticipations of the essay.--The aphoristic essayists.--The character-writers.--Miscellaneous essayists of the seventeenth century.…”

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Table of Contents: “…In Other Words: Gardening for Love -- The Work of the Essayist --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: of film and the essayistic -- Toward the essay film. On thoughts occasioned by Montaigne to Marker -- Of the history of the essay film: from Vertov, to Varda -- Essayistic thinking. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: of film and the essayistic -- Toward the essay film. On thoughts occasioned by Montaigne to Marker -- Of the history of the essay film: from Vertov, to Varda -- Essayistic thinking. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Isabel Allende, 1942- : Chilean novelist, memoirist, and author of juvenile fiction -- Ruskin Bond, 1934- : Anglo-Indian novelist, essayist, poet, short fiction writer, and author of juvenile literature -- George Orwell, 1903-1950 : English novelist, poet, journalist, and essayist ; entry presents commentary on Orwell's novel Nineteen eighty-four (1949).…”
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Table of Contents: “…Sherman Alexie, 1966- : American novelist, poet, screenwriter, short story writer, editor, essayist, and author of young adult fiction -- Susan Warner : 1819-1885 : American author of children's literature : entry presents commentary on Warner's novel Wide, wide world (1850) -- Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, 1856-1923 : American editor, essayist, novelist, playwright, and author of juvenile and young adult fiction.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Eliot the essayist -- Against (pure) transcendence : the essay and embodied truth -- Eliot, Montaigne, and the essay : the matter of personality -- Turning the essay : "tradition and the individual talent" -- The perfect critic and imperfect critics : the essay, criticism, and impurity -- Eliot's prose voice : the critical essayist as medium -- "Restoring/With a new verse the ancient rhyme" -- Four quartets : the poem as essay -- The impure art of Four quartets : where literature and philosophy meet -- Conclusion : faring forward, exploring still : participation instead of Puritan's progress.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Poet -- V. Novelist -- VI. Essayist -- Chronology -- Selected bibliography -- Notes -- Index.…”

Table of Contents: “…Edward Lear, 1812-1888 : English poet, artist, and children's writer -- Harper Lee, 1926- : American novelist and essayist : entry presents commentary on Lee's novel To kill a mockingbird (1960) -- Zibby Oneal, 1934- : American young adult novelist and author of picture books.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The second discovery of America -- The laughter of the West -- Mark Twain -- Bret Harte -- The discovery of Pike County -- Joaquin Miller -- The transition poets -- Rise of the nature writers -- Walt Whitman -- The classical reaction -- Recorders of the New England decline -- The new romance -- Later poets of the South -- The era of Southern themes and writers -- The later poets -- The triumph of the short story -- Shifting currents of fiction -- The essayists.…”

Table of Contents: “…Anne Fine, 1947- : English novelist and author of juvenile fiction, picture books, and young adult novels and short stories -- Stephenie Meyer, 1973- : American novelist and author of young adult fiction -- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894 : Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, nonfiction writer, and children's author : entry presents commentary on Stevenson's novel Treasure Island (1883).…”
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Table of Contents: “…Public Writing, Public Reading: Rosario Castellanos as Essayist.…”

Table of Contents: “…Ray Bradbury, 1920- : American novelist, short story writer, script writer, and author of children's fiction : entry presents commentary on Bradbury'd novel Farenheit 451 (1953) -- Andrew Lang, 1844-1912 : Scottish novelist, critic, essayist, biographer, translator, compiler of fairy tales, and author of juvenile fiction -- Raith Ringgold, 1930- : American artist, illustrator, and author of juvenile fiction and picture books.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Scott's fame -- Scott's own criticism of the novels -- Reviews in the Edinburgh, the Quarterly, and Blackwood's -- Other periodicals -- A group of radical and liberal periodicals -- Letters and journals : novelists and essayists -- The poets of the period, especially Coleridge -- Scott's continued popularity -- Victorian critical prejudices -- The three chief estimates : Carlyle, Bagehot, Leslie Stephen -- Foreign influences : the reading public -- Depreciation and defense -- Style, philosophy, and character -- Scott's treatment of history -- Recapitulation.…”

Table of Contents: “…Christopher Paul Curtis, 1953- : American author of young adult fiction -- Madeline L'Engle, 1918-2007 : American novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, nonfiction writer, and author of juvenile fiction, picture books, and young adult fiction -- John Steinbeck, 1902-1968 : American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, poet, short story writer, and journalist : entry presents commentary on Steinbeck's's [sic] novella Of mice and men (1937).…”
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Table of Contents: “…., 1832-1899 : American novelist and young adult novelist, biographer, and poet -- Ken Kesey, 1935-2001 : American novelist, essayist, and author of nonfiction, short stories, and children's works ; Entry presents commentary on Kesey's novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) -- Ilse-Margret Vogel, 1913-2001 : Polish German-born American illustrator, memoirist, and author of picture books.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The apologist -- Ch. 7. The christian essayist -- Ch. 8. The romancer (I) -- Ch. 9 The romancer (II) -- Ch. 10. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Reconstructing lineage, revising tradition in Song of Solomon and Zami -- On the line to Dahomey : charting Generations -- Recollections of kin : Beloved and The black book -- Trouble in mind : blues and history in Corregidora -- Writing beyond the blues : The color purple -- Extending the line : from Sula to Mama day -- Bare bones and silken threads : lineage and literary tradition in Praisesong for the widow -- In search of our mothers' gardens and our fathers' (real) estate : Alice Walker, essayist -- Epilogue : moving on down the line ...…”

Table of Contents: “…The background : Social ; The ethos -- Defoe to 1710 -- Swift to 1709 -- Essayists and controversialists : Steele ; Swift, Defoe, Arbuthnot ; Addison -- Poetry : Introductory ; Some forms ; Some poets -- Pope to 1725 -- The drama -- The philosophers -- Critics and aestheticians -- Letters, memoirs, travel; historians and antiquaries -- Defoe, 1715-1731 : The miscellaneous writer ; Defoe and the novel -- Swift, 1715-2745 : The Irish patriot ; Gulliver's Travels ; The final phase: poetry -- Poetry, 1720-1740 : Thomson ; Scientific verse ; Various trends -- Pope, 1725-1744.…”

Table of Contents: “…Neil Gaiman, 1960- : English graphic novelist, scriptwriter, novelist, and author of juvenile fiction, young adult fiction, and picture books -- Zora Neale Hurston, 1891-1960 : American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, folklorist, and author of juvenile fiction : entry presents commentary on Hurston's novel Their eyes were watching God (1937) -- Robert Westall, 1929-1993 : English author of picture books, young adult fiction, and young adult short stories.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The essay film: problems, definitions, textual commitments -- The metacritical voice(over) of the essay film: Harun Farocki, found footage and the essayist as spectator -- The musealisation of experience: Chris Marker's digital subject between archive, museum and database -- Performance and negotiation: Jean-Luc Godard plays Jean-Luc Godard -- First-person filmmaking: history, theory, practices -- The diary film: Aleksandr Sokurov's Spiritual Voices and the feeling of time -- The notebook film: Pier Paolo Pasolini and the film that cannot be made -- The self-portrait film: Michelangelo's last gaze.…”

Table of Contents: “…Orwell as Reviewer and Essayist -- 6. Events Leading Up to the War and the BBC Years -- 7. …”

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Table of Contents: “…L'héritage symboliste -- La poésie féminine -- L'unanimisme -- La poésie du monde et de l'aventure -- Guillaume Apollinaire -- Le théâtre avant 1914 -- Idées et doctrines -- Anatole France -- Paul Bourget -- Romain Rolland -- Maurice Barrès -- Jules Renard -- Édouard Estaunié -- Alain-Fournier -- Valery Larbaud -- Louis Hémon -- Charles Péguy -- Paul Claudel -- Marcel Proust -- André Gide -- Paul Valéry -- L'age du surréalisme -- Le théâtre de 1919 à 1939 -- Le roman-fleuve -- Le roman psychologique -- L'inquiétude spirituelle -- Le romain de la grandeur humaine -- Critique sociale et peinture des mœurs -- L'homme devant la nature -- L'humour -- La poésie depuis 1940 -- Le théâtre depuis 1940 -- Le roman depuis 1940 -- Critiques et essayistes.…”

Table of Contents: “…Bharati Mukherjee, novelist -- Maxine Hong Kingston, writer -- Peter Sellars, theater director -- Leo Braudy, literary historian -- Patricia Smith Churchland, neurophilosopher -- Jeannette Haien, musician -- Toni Morrison, novelist -- Sam Keen, philosopher -- Evelyn Fox Keller, historian of science -- Richard Rodriguez, writer -- M.F.K. Fisher, essayist -- Cornel West, cultural critic -- Tu Wei-ming, historian and Confucian thinker -- Joanne Ciulla, ethicist -- Ruth Macklin, bioethicist -- Ernesto J. …”

Table of Contents: “…Donovan -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / Pamela Clemit -- Fiction of the Romantic period (Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Bage, Edgeworth, Burney, Inchbald, Hays, and others) / Susan Matthews -- Romantic Gothic / Peter Garside -- Essayists of the Romantic period (De Quincey, Hazlitt, Hunt, and Lamb) / Robert Morrison -- Political prose of the Romantic period / John Whale.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Ganivet -- Unamuno -- Azorín -- Other essayists -- Criticism and scholarship. Menédez y Pelayo -- Other critics and historians -- Recent criticism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Ganivet -- Unamuno -- Azorín -- Other essayists -- Criticism and scholarship. Menédez y Pelayo -- Other critics and historians -- Recent criticism.…”

Table of Contents: “…Szönyi -- John Wolfe and the impact of exemplary go-betweens on early modern print culture / Sonia Massai -- Hybrids : learning from a gilded silver beaker (Antwerp, c. 1530) / Carlo Ginzburg -- British cultural history and church history for the continent : John Bale's Summarium (1548) and Catalogus (1557-59) / Herbert Grabes -- Machiavellian dissimulation and allegory : the writings of Roger Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney / John Roe -- Moses as go-between : John Spencer's theory of religious translation / Jan Assmann -- Another country : Marlowe and the go-between / Richard Wilson -- Spirits, ghosts, demons in Shakespeare and Milton / Aleida Assmann -- A membrane has broken : returning from the dead in The Spanish tragedy / Alexander Leggatt -- The words of Mercury : Shakespeare's love ambassadors / François Laroque -- Incising Venice : the violence of cultural incorporation in The merchant of Venice / Philippa Berry -- Iago the essayist : Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare / Catherine Belsey.…”
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