The essayistic spirit: literature, modern criticism, and the essay
Despite the recognition of a 'great tradition' of essayists who have been admitted to the literary canon, the genre remains underrated and somewhat neglected in literary studies. Claire de Obaldia's wide-ranging study argues that to relegate the essay in such a way is to ignore the fa...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Despite the recognition of a 'great tradition' of essayists who have been admitted to the literary canon, the genre remains underrated and somewhat neglected in literary studies. Claire de Obaldia's wide-ranging study argues that to relegate the essay in such a way is to ignore the fact that our 'modern' conception of literature is fundamentally essayistic, that ours is a typically essayistic age, and that all texts are implicitly regarded as essays The general perception of the essay as a short, fragmentary form that hovers between philosophy and literature has often led to its being overlooked; and yet, Claire de Obaldia contends, therein lies the genre's creative potential. The Essayistic Spirit explores this potential on the borders of philosophy, literature (especially the novel), and criticism, by referring our post-Romantic conception of literature and literary history back to Montaigne's Essais, and to a whole related tradition of philosophical scepticism. But precisely because of what is implied by 'potential', this exploration never loses sight of what de Obaldia regards as the real limits of essayism. This comparative study draws on a range of writings, including those of Montaigne, early German Romantics, Lukacs, Adorno, Derrida, Hartman, Barthes, Proust, Broch, Musil, Bakhtin, and Borges |
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| adam_text | THE ESSA YISTIC SPIRIT
Literature, Modern Criticism,
and the Essay
CLAIRE DE OBALDIA
CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD
I99S
Contents
1 LITERATURE IN POTENTIA i
1 The Essay as a Marginal Genre i
2 Synchronic Approach to the Potentially Literary:
Style, Imagination, Fiction, and the Novel 8
3 Diachronic Approach to the Potentially Literary 16
4 Montaigne s Essais and the Essay 28
1 The Essais and the Essayistic 28
2 The Montaignian Essay 38
5 Essaying the Essay 57
2 MONTAIGNE S ESSAIS: A POETICS OF THE MARGIN 65
1 A Para-doxical genre 65
2 Second Nature 80
3 PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYISM 99
1 The Essay as a Parergon 99
1 Lukacs 102
1 Introducing the Essay 102
2 The Essay as an Art-Form 104
3 The Essay Not (Yet) as Art-Form, or as Parergon 107
2 Adorno 113
1 Essaying the Pre-Text 113
2 Essaying as Unmethodical Method 115
3 The Critique of Ideology 118
2 The Logic of the Parergon 125
3 Postscript: Paratextual Criticism 137
4 THE GLOSSES OF ROLAND BARTHES:
THE ENCYCLOPEDIC AND THE NOVELISTIC 146
1 Playing with Systems 146
2 The Order of Disorder 156
3 This is not your Place 175
4 Almost a Novel 181
5 NOVELS WITHOUT QUALITIES 193
1 From Essay to (Essayistic) Novel 193
2 Monstrous Essays 206
viii Contents
1 Sleepwalkers and Men Without Qualities 206
2 Essay, Bildungsroman, and Polyphonic Novel 223
3 Essay(istic) or Novel(istic)? 236
6 POSTSCRIPT: BORGES, OR THE ESSAYISTIC SPIRIT 247
1 The Essayist as Master of Modern Fiction 247
2 The World as Tlon 260
1 A Game of Shifting Mirrors 260
2 Tlon and Tlon 262
3 Deliberate Techniques of Anachronism 270
BIBLIOGRAPHY 283
INDEXES 307
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