The Essay At the Limits

Notes on Contributors
Preface
Suggested Reading

Mario Aquilina (University of Malta)
Thinking the Essay at the Limits

Part 1: The Essay and the World

1. Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
The Essay as Phenomenology

2. James Corby (University of Malta)
An Essay on the Post-Literary

3. Neil Badmington (Cardiff University, UK)
Brief Scenes: Roland Barthes and the Essay

4. Nicole B. Wallack (Columbia University, USA)
The 'Subversive Possibilities' of the Essay for Public Intellectuals

5. Joseph Tabbi (University of Bergen, Norway)
Is Writing All Over, or Just Dispersed? Digital Essayism in TRINA, A DESIGN FICTION


Part 2: The Essay and the Self

6. Ivan Callus (University of Malta)
Tone and the Essay

7. Jennifer Spinner (Saint Joseph's University, USA)
What the Periodical Press Made Possible: Women Essayists in the Eighteenth Century

8. Rachel Baldacchino (University of Malta)
Otherness and the Essay in the Pacifist Work of Vernon Lee

9. Aaron Aquilina (Lancaster University, UK)
Margins and Marginality: Jean Genet and the Queer Essay

10. Michael Askew (University of East Anglia, UK)
The Essay and the 'I': Eliot Weinberger's Transformation of the Authorial Self



Part 3: The Essay, Form and the Essayistic

11. R. Eric Tippin (Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA)
At the Limits of Fixité: The Essay and the Aphorism

12. Jason Childs (Independent scholar)
Assaying the Novel

13. Allen Durgin (Columbia University, USA)
Wallace Stevens, Audre Lorde and the Queer Performativity of the Essay

14. Maria Frendo (University of Malta)
Transgression as Transcendence: Essayistic Poetics in Selected Works by Dmitri Shostakovich and Joseph Vella

15. Bob Cowser Jr. (St. Lawrence University, USA)
Hersey, Resnais and Representing Hiroshima: Toward an Essayistic Historiography