10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ESSAYISH»
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essayish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
essayish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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From Caesar to the Mafia: Persons, Places, and Problems in ...
It was clear that Vittorini had read it, and he turned it down, he said, because it
was "essayish". As everyone knows, all good novels — including Vittorini's — are
essays. Perhaps he merely wanted to say that the Prince's ideas, which were so ...
2
Intention Interpretation
But the essayish portions of something like Melville's Moby Dick or Mann's Magic
Mountain are understood to issue from the same persona, the same voice as is
relating the narrative of (fictional) people and events; there are cross-references,
...
3
The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays
The narrator is, therefore, a particular sort of fictional character himself, who is in "
contact" with things out of our ken and who "believes" in things we don't; he or
she can't be taken to be a real individual expressing real beliefs. But the essayish
...
4
Modern Humanists: Sociological Studies of Carlyle, Mill, ...
He was disappointed, but quietly withdrew, and the world gained an essayist and
lecturer, while the sect lost a preacher always a little too essayish and secular for
its taste. His gift of elocution and phrase and charm of presence had given him ...
5
Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems
The early stories were more or less essayish, if not banal narratives, full of
tendentiousness or wishful thinking and lacked the .stamp of authenticity. Akhtar
Mohi-ud Din's Sat Sangar (Seven Cliffs, 1955), was the earliest collection to
register ...
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Wilson the Ornithologist: a new chapter in his life. ...
I am" The earliest complete letter is distinctly the cry of a social and intellectual
man feeling the want and necessity of companionship ; and it is a fair specimen
of that essayish style of letter-writing which characterised the epistles of Burns
and ...
Allan Park Paton, Alexander Wilson, 1863
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The North American Review
This is too personal and essayish for a proverb, which must be a matter-of-fact
affair, a truism. Again, here is a comparison, which is a trifle too long for a proverb
: — " Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.
Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, 1854
8
The Balance, and Columbian Repository
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9
The Inner Life of the House of Commons
The old voice, the old manner, and the old style; glorious speaking, well prepared
, carefully elaborated, confessedly essayish ; but spoken with perfect art and
consummate management; not up and down, see-saw, talking off a speech, but
the ...
10
The Prose Works of N.P. Willis
Providence does not allow "steam" to be wasted. In the search after the “elixir of
life," and the “ philosopher's stone,” for example, the alchymists have stumbled
over some of the most important discoveries of chymistry. This is rather an
essayish ...
Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1852
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ESSAYISH»
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Reading the John Updike stories: 'Cemeteries'
Updike opens this essayish piece with a reminiscence of visiting the tomb of Stalin's wife in the Soviet Union. Prompted by words from his ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Feb 15»
To Articulate the Daily Miraculous
Questions like these arise in the reading of Tom Gardner's book of essayish poetry things (they're called “spiritual improvisations” on the book's ... «Brooklyn Rail, Dec 14»
Petit Mal by DBC Pierre – review
That's not necessarily a criticism – an essayish section towards the end, in which Pierre defends his notion of "romancing chaos", suggests that ... «The Guardian, Oct 13»
What Should We Tell Our Daughters? by Melissa Benn – review
Her analysis can be school-essayish: "Revolution has always provoked stern reaction." Her conclusions are usually vague, stale and girly: "We ... «The Guardian, Oct 13»
Color-Blind Policy and Color-Conscious Morality
You can read my thoughts on "Twice as Good" in this essayish profile of Bill Cosby. Toward the end of my reporting, Cosby said something that ... «The Atlantic, Jun 13»
Fiction Chronicle
These essayish “stories,” most appearing in English for the first time, reveal the exuberance (and, in a heart-rending coda, the defeat) of a ... «New York Times, Jan 12»
A Dangerous Method in Cronenberg's madness
And much of the script is lifted directly from Speilrein's writings, which lends the dialogue an unusually literate, essayish intelligence. This is ... «Macleans.ca, Jan 12»
Masturbators for Whom Jesus is Coming?
She writes, in her memoiristic essayish story called "The Agonized Face," that when agony and ecstasy distort women's features into masks of ... «Psychology Today, May 10»
