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Ein Literarisches Kuckucksei: Der Essay

Author(s) -

J. D.C. Potgieter

Publication year - 1986

Publication title -

literator

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126

H-Index - 4

eISSN - 2219-8237

pISSN - 0258-2279

DOI - 10.4102/lit.v7i3.888

Subject(s) - literary genre , literature , philosophy , literary criticism , literary science , art

Due to mainly a lack of sufficient research - especially previous to Montaigne (1533-1592) and Bacon (1561-1626), the apparent innovators of the literary form of the Essay - quite a few misconceptions regarding this literary genre still prevail.

Not only is the Essay as such often confused with the essay qua “Aufsatz” , but also because of its typical characteristics of “playing” with fact(s) in the literary arena, the literary Essay is blindly branded as a "mixed-genre", a label which is also attributed to its mosaic-like form.

Contrary to the general trend, this study concerns the Essay as an “independent" Hterary prose-genre, with its own characteristics

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