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Amy Scott
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Barrie Jean Borich
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Bret Lott
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Brian Doyle
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Chris Arthur
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Danielle Cadena Deulen
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Desirae Matherly
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E. J. Levy
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Elena Passarello
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Jerald Walker
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Jose Orduna
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Judith Ortiz Cofer
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Kristen Radtke
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Lia Purpura
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Lina M. Ferreira
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Lisa Ferreira
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Maggie Nelson
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Marcia Aldrich
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Mary Cappello
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Nicole Walker
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Phillip Lopate
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Robert Atwan
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Robin Hemley
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Shannon Lakanen
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Steven Church
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Vivian Gornick
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Wayne Koestenbaum
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University of Georgia Press
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (153392). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaignea collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tributeaims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.
Though it's been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigne's writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of self-exploration in the world around him reads as innovativeeven by modern standards. He is, simply put, the writer to whom all essayists are indebted. Each contributor has chosen one of Montaigne's 107 essays and has written his/her own essay of the same title and on the same theme, using a quote from Montaigne's essay as an epigraph. The overall effect is akin to a covers album, with each writer offering his or her own interpretation and stylistic verve to Montaigne's themes in ways that both reinforce and challenge the French writer's prose, ideas, and forms. Featuring a who's who of contemporary essayists, After Montaigne offers astartling engagement with Montaigne and the essay form while also pointing the way to the genre's potential new directions.
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