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The Art of the Personal Essay Hardcover - 1994

by Phillip Lopate; Adapted by Phillip Lopate


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For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the human condition and the great social and political issues of the day. "The Art of the Personal Essay" is the first anthology to celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than seventy-five personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the dawn of the personal essay in the sixteenth century, and a wealth of the finest personal essays from the last four centuries, editor Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist, displays the tradition of the personal essay in all its historical grandeur, depth, and diversity.

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  • Title The Art of the Personal Essay
  • Author Phillip Lopate; Adapted by Phillip Lopate
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 777
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York
  • Date January 1, 1994
  • ISBN 9780385422987 / 0385422989
  • Weight 2.77 lbs (1.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.73 x 1.93 in (24.23 x 17.09 x 4.90 cm)
  • Reading level 1180
  • Library of Congress subjects Essays, Essays - Translations into English
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93029708
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.84
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