Description: Essayism : On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction, Paperback by Dillon, Brian, ISBN 1681372827, ISBN-13 9781681372822, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon's style incorporates diverse features of the turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georges Perec, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Susan Sontag, to name just a few of his influences. Whether he is writing on origins, aphorisms, coherence, vulnerability, anxiety, or a number of other subjects, his command of language, his erudition, and his ownpersonal history serve not so much to illuminate or magnify the subject as to discover it anew through a kaleidoscopic alignment of attention, thought, and feeling, a dazzling and momentary suspension of disparate elements, again and again"--
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Book Title: Essayism : on Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Authorship, Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Genre: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Author: Brian Dillon
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
