Sometimes a Stick is Just a Stick: The Essay as (Organic) Form

Abstract

An essayistic reflection on the form of the essay as derived from English periodical essayists. As a fictional persona slipping in and out of real places, the essayist modeled a complex negotiation of “fact” that turned literature into its own kind of history and granted the essay status as literary. In such an experiential version of literary history, living was no more proof of being alive than fictionality was proof to the contrary.

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