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Ned Stuckey-French, “The American Essay in the American Century” (University of Missouri Press, 2011)
Ned Stuckey-French, “The American Essay in the American Century” (University of Missouri Press, 2011)
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55 minutes
Released:
May 17, 2013
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Clio, Erato, Polyhymnia–among the nine muses of Greek mythology, there’s no muse for the essay. And that’s not only because the essay doesn’t appear, in name, until Montaigne publishes his first book of them in 1580. No, one gets the feeling that, even if Homer had composed essays about the...
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