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The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay
The MadeUp Self Impersonation in the Personal Essay
Author: Carl H. Klaus
The human presence that animates the personal essay is surely one of the most beguiling of literary phenomena, for it comes across in so familiar a voice that it?s easy to believe we are listening to the author rather than a textual stand-in. But the ?person? in a personal essay is always a written construct, a fabricated character, its confessi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781587299131
ISBN-10: 1587299135
Publication Date: 9/28/2010
Pages: 174
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Disappointing. No blinding insights at all. The writing is way more digressive and glancing than what I enjoy, and the author likewise has a vision of personal essays that is more like wandering than what I have written in the genre and intend to in the future. Overall, it doesn't have a coherent argument to make, as it's comprised of individual pieces only very loosely connected together. As I said, disappointing.


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