The Essay At The Limits: Poetics, Politics And Form

Part 1. The essay and the world. 1. Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK) The essay as phenomenology ; 2. James Corby (University of Malta) An essay on the post-literary ; 3. Neil Badmington (Cardiff University, UK) Brief scenes: Roland Barthes and the essay ; 4. Nicole B. Wallack (Columbia University, USA) The 'subversive Possibilitiesp of the essay for public intellectuals ; 5. Joseph Tabbi (University of Bergen, Norway) Is writing all over, or just dispersed? Digital essayism in TRINA, A DESIGN FICTION -- Part 2. The essay and the self ; 6. Ivan Callus (University of Malta) Tone and the essay ; 7. Jennifer Spinner (Saint Joseph's University, USA) What the periodical press made possible: women essayists in the eighteenth century ; 8. Rachel Baldacchino (University of Malta) Otherness and the essay in the pacifist work of Vernon Lee ; 9. Aaron Aquilina (Lancaster University, UK) Margins and marginality: Jean Genet and the queer essay ; 10. Michael Askew (University of East Anglia, UK) The essay and the 'I': Eliot Weinberger's Transformation of the authorial self -- Part 3. The essay, form and the essayistic. 11. R. Eric Tippin (Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA) At the limits of Fixité : The essay and the aphorism ; 12. Jason Childs (Independent scholar) Assaying the novel ; 13. Allen Durgin (Columbia University, USA) Wallace Stevens, Audre Lorde and the queer performativity of the essay ; 14. Maria Frendo (University of Malta) Transgression as transcendence: essayistic poetics in selected works by Dmitri Shostakovich and Joseph Vella ; 15. Bob Cowser Jr. (St. Lawrence University, USA) Hersey, resnais and representing Hiroshima: toward an essayistic historiography.

• | Author: Mario Aquilina
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: May 06, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1350134481
• | ISBN-13: 9781350134485