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essay: a standalone construct

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essay1 CONSTRUCTLiterary essayMONTAIGNE · 1580

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Literary studies

A short prose attempt to think through a subject

In literary studies an essay is a short prose composition that explores a subject from the author's own vantage, discursive rather than systematic, named by Montaigne from the French essai, an attempt or trial of one's thought. The form is defined by its tentative, first-person testing of ideas rather than by any fixed structure, and it anchors a whole genre from Montaigne through Bacon to the modern periodical essay. Montaigne's The complete essays is the founding text. The referent is a genre of writing; its link to a stamp essay is the shared root meaning of an “attempt” or trial.[1]

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A short discursive prose composition on a chosen subject
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Analysed by its argument, voice, structure, and relation to the essay tradition

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References

  1. Montaigne, M. de. (1993). The complete essays (M. A. Screech, Trans.). Penguin Books. (Original work published 1580) ISBN 9780140446043

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