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...accomplish this goal, D’Agata included essays from Ziusudra, William Blake, Matsuo Basho, Clarice Lispector, and Jonathan Swift, among others, and he explained that such writers respected the essay as an art form...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

Professor of Creative Writing Joanna G. Klink further articulated the miscategorization of the essay when she asserted that “the essay is searching for a way of being in the world...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

...remedy this lack of critical respect, Klink, reading from D’Agata’s book, made use of an essay by Samuel Beckett...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

...essay, “Afar, A Bird,” hearkens to Blake’s poetic works, further proof that the essay can be interpreted as a work...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

When asked whether the essay could achieve the artistic recognition that other genres have received, D’Agata explained that while students and professors may be forced to classify literary works as pertaining to different genres, essays should, in the artistic sense, exist for their own sake, just as any other painting, novel, or sculpture...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

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