The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals): Rediscovering the Essay

By Graham Good

First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. Through analysis of the work of such essayists as Montaigne, Bacon, Virginia Wolf, T. S. Eliot and George Orwell, the potential of the genre for independence and individualism is illustrated, and the essay is resituated as an intellectually challenging form of creative and critical writing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113879483X
• ISBN13: 9781138794832
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"