Larson guides the reader from the autobiography and the personal essay to the memoir--a genre focused on a particularly emotional relationship in the author's past, an intimate story concerned more with who is remembering, and why, than with what is remembered. "The Memoir and the Memoirist"...
In doing so research on the word “tumbril” I found: “His rickety “tumberill” (a wagon that can be tilted to dump a load) aptly represents his filth-filled body subject to decay and death.” It was an essay by William J. Scheick a professor at U Texas (https://liberalarts.ut...
[1] The distracted state of the London stage, divided by the factions of players and managers, afforded moreover an excellent opportunity for a dramatist of some means to essay an independent venture. And accordingly, at the beginning of 1736, we find the Harry Fielding of the green-room ...
"Mesopotamia from Both Sides" and "Something of Myself" are exceptions and examples of truly great memoir-writing。 Some of the reflections, such as Hitchen's essay on the brilliant but hypocritical Edward Said, are also excellent。 。。。more ...
By the way, the screenshot above is no.17 from a grouping of Visual Notes (VN) for a 30-part essay entitled “Love, Teshuvah, and Filipinos Will Save Classical Music: Cantara Christopher Gives Her Beloved Conductor John Wilson Crib Notes on Todd Field’s Screen Masterpiece, Tár”. For ...