Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time.
The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a pathbreaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay.
Carl H. Klaus, founder of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, Professor Emeritus at Iowa, and co-editor (with Patricia Hampl) of Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction, is an essayist, diarist, and specialist in nonfiction writing. Klaus's newest book is A Self Made of Words: Crafting a Distinctive Persona in Nonfiction Writing (October 2013).
University of Iowa English alumnus Ned Stuckey-French and Carl Klaus, founder of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will read from Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time, the book they co-edited for the UI Press, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, Prairie Lights in Prairie Lights Books. The free event will be streamed live on the UI’s Virtual Writing University website.
Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time (Carl H. Klaus and Ned Stuckey-French). The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly v.
In this first book-length study of the personal essay, Carl Klaus unpacks this made-up self and the manifold ways in which a wide range of essayists and essays have brought it to life. By reconceiving the most fundamental aspect of the personal essay—the I of the essayist—Klaus demonstrates that this seemingly uncontrived form of writing is inherently problematic, not willfully devious but.
Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time, edited by Carl H. Klaus and Ned Stuckey-French, is now available from the University of Iowa Press. The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay.
Finally, adding yet another layer to the made-up self, Klaus succumbs to his addiction to the personal essay by placing some of the different selves that various essayists have called forth in him within the essays that he has crafted so carefully for this book.
Denise Gigante (2008). The Great Age of the English Essay. Carl H. Klaus and Ned Stuckey-French (2012). Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time. Philip Lopate (1994). The Art of the Personal Essay. Ian Hamilton (2000). The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Essays. John Gross (2008). The Oxford Book of the Essay.
Thus we are keenly aware that most essayists have a life and a living beyond the essay that often informs their thinking about it in one way or another. But for the purposes of this book, an essayist is someone who has written essays and written something about the essay itself, which we seek to highlight in our individual headnotes.
Carl Klaus, founder of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and professor emeritus, will read from A Self Made of Words at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the UI Writing University website.
Ned Stuckey-French is the author of The American Essay in the American Century (Missouri, 2011), which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2012. He is also co-editor (with Carl Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time (Iowa, 2012), co-author.
If Klaus is right, then the notion that the essay re-creates the mind at work is precisely the kind of beautiful, untrue thing that lends both beauty and truth to a lyric essay. Consider for a moment Wilde’s own evidence for this concept—the French impressionists.
Carl H. Klaus, founder of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, is professor emeritus at Iowa and coeditor (with Patricia Hampl) of Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction.His widely praised nonfiction includes The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay (Iowa, 2010), Letters to Kate: Life after Life (Iowa, 2006), My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a.
