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This unique work includes a selection of fifty distinctive pieces by American, Canadian, English, European, and South The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay.

Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time, edited by Carl H. Klaus and Ned Stuckey-French, is now available from the University of Iowa Press. The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay.

Carl Hanna Klaus was born on May 24, 1932, in Cleveland, to Max Henry and Caroline (Epstein) Klaus. Education In 1953, Klaus received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Arts in 1954. He also received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1966.

Through Klaus’s analysis of essayists, his definition and function of what an essay is can be summed up as a “combination of personality and originality (qtd. in Klaus xix), “meeting of minds” (Klaus xxv), and that it should be like a “play hour (qtd. in Klaus xviii).

In this first book-length study of the personal essay, Carl Klaus unpacks this made-up self and the manifold ways in which a wide range of essayists and essays have brought it to life. 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.

In this first book-length study of the personal essay, Carl Klaus unpacks this made-up self and the manifold ways in which a wide range of essayists and essays have brought it to life.

He is the author of The American Essay in the American Century, co-editor (with Carl Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: From Montaigne to Our Time. His work has appeared in journals such as The Missouri Review, The Normal School, culturefront, Guernica, and TriQuarterly, and been listed five times among the notable essays of the year in the Best American Essays series.

Get this from a library! Essayists on the essay: Montaigne to our time. (Carl H Klaus; Ned Stuckey-French;) -- The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone.

Finally, adding yet another layer to the made-up self, Klaus succumbs to his addiction to the personal essay by placing some of the different selves that various essayists have called forth in him within the essays that he has crafted so carefully for this book.

When I retired from college teaching five years ago, I started The Humble Essayist (THE) website as a digital classroom for promoting the personal essay and memoir online. My idea was to select single paragraphs from personal essays and memoirs written by writers that I admire and couple them with a single-paragraph commentary that tricked out one of the governing ideas behind the work.

This is a list of essayists—people notable for their essay-writing. Note: Birthplaces (as listed) do not always indicate nationality.

Denise Gigante (2008). The Great Age of the English Essay. Carl H. Klaus and Ned Stuckey-French (2012). Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time. Philip Lopate (1994). The Art of the Personal Essay. Ian Hamilton (2000). The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Essays. John Gross (2008). The Oxford Book of the Essay.