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200 1. $a The made-up self $b Texte imprimé $e impersonation in the personal essay $f Carl H. Klaus
210 .. $a Iowa City $c University of Iowa Press $d c2010
215 .. $a 160 p. $d 23 cm
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-156) and index
327 1. $a Prologue: The "person" in a personal essay ; Evocations of consciousness. Montaigne
on "Montaigne" : toward a poetics of self ; The mind and the mind's idiosyncrasy
: ideas of consciousness in the personal essay ; Discontinuous : form of consciousness
; Evocations of personality. Voices on voice: the singular "I" and the chameleon
"I" ; Elia : pseudonymous self extraordinaire ; Never to be yourself and yet always
: Virginia Woolf on the essayist's problem ; Personae and culture. Difference and
"I" : cultural consciousness in the personal essay ; Orwell's "A hanging" : politics
and the first-person singular/plural ; Personae and personal experience. Illness
and "I" : malady in the personal essay ; Days into essays : a self for all seasons.
330 .. $a By reconceiving the most fundamental aspect of the personal essay - the I of the essayist
- Klaus demonstrates that this seemingly uncontrived form of writing is inherently
problematic, not willfully devious but bordering upon the world of fiction. He develops
this key idea by explaining how structure, style, and voice determine the nature of
a persona and our perception of it in the works of such essayists as Michel de Montaigne,
Charles Lamb, E. B. White, and Virginia Woolf. Realizing that this persona is shaped
by the force of culture and the impress of personal experience, he explores the effects
of both upon the point of view, content, and voice of such essayists as George Orwell,
Nancy Mairs, Richard Rodriguez, and Alice Walker. Throughout, in full command of the
history of the essay, he calls up numerous passages in which essayists themselves
acknowledge the element of impersonation in their work, drawing upon the perspectives
of Joan Didion, Edward Hoagland, Joyce Carol Oates, Leslie Marmon Silko, Scott Russell
Sanders, Annie Dillard, Vivian Gornick, Loren Eiseley, James Baldwin, and a host of
other literary guides
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