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In E. B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist, Robert Root traces the literary career of the best-known and most widely admired American essayist of the twentieth century. Root explores the milieu in which White began writing the'Notes and Comments'section of the New Yorker and puts in perspective the influence of popular'colyumists'like Don Marquis and Christopher Morley on the tone and form of White's work as a'paragrapher.'He examines White's persistent disaffection with the demands and limitations inherent in his'Comment'pieces for the New Yorker and his experiences as a columnist for Harper's Magazine, where his'One Man's Meat'feature produced his most enduring essay,'Once More to the Lake,'and took the segmented column form to new levels of accomplishment. Drawing on White's manuscripts, Root's literary analysis of early drafts demonstrates how unique White's essays were. E. B. White greatly expanded the limits of literary nonfiction and in the process introduced elements and methods that helped produce the contemporary segmented or disjunctive essay. From Root's research we receive new insights into the process by which White created his essays and how he was influenced—and o

Author

Root, Robert L. Jr., Root, Robert L., Jr.

Publisher

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781587293092

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction