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ToolsKarshan, Thomas (2020) What is an Essay?:Thirteen Answers from Virginia Woolf. In: On Essays. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198707868
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In her 1927 essay ‘Street-Haunting’, Virginia Woolf rambles across the history of the essay, realising various metaphors which the essay has offered for itself. Being miscellaneous and anti-methodical, essays resist being placed generically or defined theoretically, while for these very reasons they are always required to explain themselves. The diverse and paradoxical answers which essayists have given as often as not derive from the meaning of the word essai in Montaigne or from his account of his writings, and give rise to metaphors which have in turn shaped the subjects of the essay over the centuries. The thirteen descriptions of the essay here brought to a focus through Woolf’s essay are that the essay is a destroyer of generic categories, an apprenticeship, a haunting, a room of one’s own, homework, a bookshop, an assay, a taste, a ramble, an assault, a deformity, a sport, and everything and nothing.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | a room of one’s own,definition of the essay,deformity,montaigne,psychoanalysis,street-haunting,the unconscious,theory of the essay,virginia woolf,wandering,arts and humanities(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Creative-Critical Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2019 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2024 01:21 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/72981 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198707868.003.0002 |
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