Aesthetics of prose.

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Aesthetics of prose.

Melberg, Arne.

Unipub

2008

182 pages

$45.00

Paperback

PE1408

Melberg, whose academic credentials are not listed, charts the historic aesthetic of prose as an undefined body of writing. The first two sections focus on four writers: Montaigne and Nietzsche in discussing the tradition of prose, and Benjamin and Adorno on the topic of prose and modernity. The author further analyzes prose on the borderline of fiction through travel and life writing, and extensions on the subject. Examples are given throughout from a wide variety of writing; all examples are in English or English translation. Distributed in the US by ISBS.

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