Contributors to the forum convene to grapple with the all-important question: what is the essay?
The Essay: An Attempt, A Protean Form
Forum: The Essay: An Attempt, A Protean Form
Edited by Denise Gigante
Volume 4, Issue 1
What can the oddities of Montaigne's Essays teach us about the multifaceted--and perhaps even omnidirectional--nature of literary influence and inheritance?
Volume 4, Issue 1
Three of Swift's "incoherent" essays in relation to contemporary debates on individual consciousness and authority.
Volume 4, Issue 1
How Orwell manages to be both “writerly” and earnestly plain in the manner of political journalism, through two representative essays.
Volume 4, Issue 1
Harrison explores the commitments of Robert Musil's essayistic ontology, finding their fullest expression in his great essayistic novel The Man Without Qualities.
Volume 4, Issue 1
How Borges's essays succeed at "an obscure, intimate adventure they could not arrive at except through the grand, expected misfire"
Volume 4, Issue 1
Can the genre of the essay become the frame for a new, decidedly contemporaneous style of literary criticism?
Volume 4, Issue 1
An annotated bibliography of influential and interesting accounts of the essay.
