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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/106042| Title: | Introduction : thinking the essay at the limits |
| Other Titles: | The essay at the limits : poetics, politics and form |
| Authors: | Aquilina, Mario |
| Keywords: | English language -- Rhetoric Prose literature Essays |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Citation: | Aquilina, M. (2021). Introduction : thinking the essay at the limits. In M. Aquilina (Ed.), The essay at the limits : poetics, politics and form (pp. 1-17). London & New York: Bloomsbury. |
| Abstract: | Th e essay is at the limits. Indeterminate, changeable and heterogeneous, it is marked by an appetite for the experimental, the transgressive and the tentative as well as an equally decisive pull towards tradition, the communal and the familiar. Th e essay is a private form with an eye on the reading public, or a public intervention tinged with personal experience. It is dynamic, daring to speculate and disobey while gathering and recollecting. It provokes and consoles, breaks the rules and retreats. It is both product and process: a product that foregrounds process, and a process that resists but ultimately settles, tentatively, as product. [Excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/106042 |
| ISBN: | 9781350134485 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtEng |
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