In the hands of such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine,
David Shields, Zadie Smith and many others, the essay has
re-emerged as a powerful literary form for tackling a fractious
21st-century culture. The Essay at the Limits brings together
leading scholars to explore the theory, the poetics and the future
of the form. The book links the formal innovations and new voices
that have emerged in the 21st-century essay to the history and
theory of the essay. In so doing, it surveys the essay from its
origins to its relation to contemporary cultural forms, from the
novel to poetry, film to music, and from political articles to
intimate lyrical expressions. The book examines work by writers
such as: Theodor W. Adorno, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Francis Bacon,
James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Annie Dillard, Brian Dillon, Jean Genet, William Hazlitt, Samuel
Johnson, Karl Ove Knaussgaard, Ben Lerner, Audre Lorde, Oscar
Wilde, Michel de Montaigne, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Wallace
Stevens, Eliot Weinberger and Virginia Woolf.
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