Acariciando a contrapelo los 70. El archivo en Historia del Llanto de Alan Pauls by María José Sabo

“…Un testimonio from an essayistic an analytical perspective, considering it as a laboratory-novel that enquires and suggests other means for memory writing. …”
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La «speciale provvidenza» nella caduta di una falena: ibridismi woolfiani tra saggio e short story by Paolo Bugliani

“…Woolf deployed in her shorter prose to blur the edges between the essay and the short story, in particular in those essayistic specimens that present some markedly imaginative features which undermine the ideal of the essay as a «brief, nonfictional prose piece». …”
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Avatusse astudes. Jaan Kaplinski ja Ilmar Laabani loome kokkupuuted ja mitmekesisus. / Approaching Openness: Convergence and Diversity in the Creative Universes of the Poets Jaan... by Ene-Reet Soovik, Marin Laak

“…They were poets, translators, essayists, original thinkers and public intellectuals whose works have travelled far beyond the boundaries of Estonian literature. …”
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El estilo de la historia en los tiempos de guerra: Gilberto Freyre y los ensayistas latinoamericanos en la obra de Fernand Braudel by Susanne Klengel

“…The author of the longue durée history and the “mare nostrum”, a work that also shows his stylistic sensitivity, he is displayed as a careful reader of Latin American writings, appreciated by him not only for their search for an identity, but, specifically, the essayistic and literary style.…”
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Przyjaciel: Jerzy Timoszewicz (1933–2015) by Janusz Degler

“…Another hero whom Timoszewicz was fascinated with from a young age was “the prince of Polish essayists,” Jerzy Stempowski. Of Stempowski’s oeuvre, Timoszewicz published a two-volume selection of Szkice literackie [Literary Sketches] (1988; 2nd edn 2001), a collection of Stempowski’s radio editorials, Felietony dla Radia Wolna Europa [Editorials for Radio Free Europe] (1995), and Pamiętnik teatralny trzeciej klasy i inne szkice [A Theatre Memoir of the Third Class and Other Sketches] (1999); he also edited a volume of reminiscences „Pan Jerzy”. …”
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Libri paralleli: saggi critici e ibridazione narrativa (Barthes, Manganelli, Lavagetto, Deresiewicz) by Guido Mattia Gallerani

“…By considering the structure and style of such works, the second part of the article points out the relationship between the commentary and the rewriting as well as the argumentative and the narrative discourse which reveals the presence of another genre besides the critical discourse, neither essayistic nor philosophical. This parallelism links the essay to the narrative and cannot be interpreted as the dispossession of literary genres by means of hybridization. …”
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Noor-Eesti rollist eesti kirjandus- ja kultuuriloos. The Role of Young Estonia in Estonian Literary and Cultural History by Sirje Olesk, Marin Laak

“…Writers of the Young Estonia group produced little in the way of original literature: their main strength was as critics and essayists, theoretical articulators of a new direction. …”
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Human behaviour and responsibility in the prose works of Thomas Hardy by Southerington, F

“…In this he may have failed, but his inquiry brought him into contact with the main streams of philosophy, and still more with the minor streams represented by essayists and correspondents of the Victorian periodicals. …”

Petit Cinéma of the World or the Mysteries of Chris Marker by Susana S. Martins

“…The aim of this article is to pay special attention to the photographic dimension of these books, particularly in their essayistic composition. Starting from the concrete analysis of a short photo-sequence included in the book on Portugal, I propose here to investigate the central role of the ‘essay’ in the work of Chris Marker, not only as an aesthetical choice but fundamentally as a privileged form of political commitment.…”
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