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Containing thirty-one lectures deliv-ered at the Fifth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in May 2006, this volume testifies to the broad spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his work. The essays have been grouped in nine sections: theoretical approaches (A. C. Elias, Jr, Melinda Rabb); bio-graphical problems (W. B. Carno-chan, João Fróes); bibliographical and textual studies (James E. May, Stephen Karian, James McLaverty); A Tale of a Tub (Marcus Walsh, Allan Ingram, Frank T. Boyle); historical, religious, and political issues (Sean Connolly, Ian Higgins, Howard D. Weinbrot, Toby C. Barnard, Valerie Rumbold); poetry (Clive T. Probyn, John Irwin Fischer, Dirk F. Passmann and Hermann J. Real; James Wool-ley); Swift and Ireland (Joseph McMinn, Sabine Baltes, Sean Moore); Gulliver’s Travels (Ann C. Kelly, Serge Soupel, Clement Hawes, J. A. Downie); and Reception and Adapta-tion (Peter Sabor, Sabine Wendel, Flavio Gregory, Gabriella Hartvig, Michael Düring).

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Escribir es ensayar, es poner el cuerpo sobre la página" nos dice Lina Meruane, poseedora de una obra contundente que, en este vibrante libro, se vuelve una trinchera crítica para pensar. Los textos que conforman Ensayo general, escritos a lo largo de los últimos veinticinco años, son un plano en detalle de esa trinchera donde política y literatura se vuelven, a ratos, una sola cosa. Diversas estéticas confluyen aquí: reflexiones sobre la pandemia y la enfermedad, discursos incendiarios sobre el imperativo materno, polémicas sobre el borrascoso lugar de las autoras femeninas y su atávica exclusión del campo literario, crónicas de viaje hacia rumbos peligrosos, asomos líricos sobre el conflicto palestino, entrañables perfiles biográficos y una selección de columnas contingentes que se funden de forma luminosa, reflejando la versatilidad estilística y temática de la autora. Ensayo general no es solo un alucinante mapa de lecturas, es también un espejo cóncavo que permite leer la biografía crítica de Meruane. Un paisaje sinuoso y variopinto compuesto por derivas solitarias, diálogos inconclusos y una ferviente pasión por la escritura. Leyendo estas páginas asistimos a la puesta en página de una obra performática, a ratos teatral, donde se despliegan y destilan con maestría los itinerarios pensativos de una de las voces más brillantes, coherentes y peculiares de la escritura chilena contemporánea.

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Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential work in the essay form. The Souls of Black Folk, The Fire Next Time, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens are landmarks in African American literary history. Many other writers, such as Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Richard Wright, are acclaimed essayists but achieved greater fame for their work in other genres; their essay work is often overlooked or studied only in the contexts of their better-known works. Here Cheryl A. Wall offers the first sustained study of the African American essay as a distinct literary genre. Beginning with the sermons, orations, and writing of nineteenth-century men and women like Frederick Douglass who laid the foundation for the African American essay, Wall examines the genre's evolution through the Harlem Renaissance. She then turns her attention to four writers she regards as among the most influential essayists of the twentieth century: Baldwin, Ellison, June Jordan, and Alice Walker. She closes the book with a discussion of the status of the essay in the twenty-first century as it shifts its medium from print to digital in the hands of writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brittney Cooper. Wall's beautifully written and insightful book is nothing less than a redefinition of how we understand the genres of African American literature.

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Essayists --- Statesmen --- Conduct of life --- Philosophy. --- Montaigne, Michel de, --- Political and social views. --- France --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions