Open AccessEin 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