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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present Paperback - 1997
by Phillip Lopate
By presenting more than 75 personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the 16th century, and a wealth of the finest from the last four centuries, Lopate displays the tradition of the personal essay in all its grandeur, depth and diversity.
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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: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
- Author Phillip Lopate
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 832
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-01-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780385423397 / 038542339X
- Weight 2.3 lbs (1.04 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.7 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 4.32 cm)
- Reading level 1180
- Library of Congress subjects Essays
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94029708
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.84
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