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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lorna Sage - Academic and Writer Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Text Any textual data included in the document The ideal essay - the Platonic ideal of the essay - is empty almost: in fact Plato wouldn't have liked it as a form, it would have struck him as much too equivocal, irresponsible, shifty pseudo-philosophical. But then, so did drama & epic. Basically: the essay is a ‘think-piece’ that wears its learning (deceptively) lightly (lightness was one of the memos Calvino left for this millennium); that seems informal, a spontaneous performance, but is most likely the result of real work, not to mention a long love-affair with language, & wide reading. It's tempting to say that the essayist, the good essayist, is a man (or woman) of letters, but it doesn't help because that too is an elusive & possibly extinct character. Essays take an overview without belabouring you with all the evidence. They’re sometimes aphoristic. They invest in the notion that if you succeed in saying whatever it is well, if you get the right words on your side, then there must be something in what you’re saying. Essays have affinities, with journalism & reviewing, but it's not the same thing. Only a few, a very few of your ‘pieces’ are essays, it turns out. I think we are talking here, now, about the essay partly out of nostalgia; it's about to be extinct, or it's a threatened species, dying out of living memory like the last W[orld]-war. But also because, being a kind of fugitive genre or 'kind'; it beckons as a possible ‘home’ to many writers, from Grub Street to academe, from poets to cooks, who are eager to evade labels & definitions. This is probably connected with a feeling that the identities [of] novelist, poet, dramatist, biographer, travel writer, & so on don't work; that genre boundaries are breaking down, that it's all “writing”, textuality, or (even) performance on the page. The essay in this sense has a promise of the new? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Star Trek Notebook Description An account of the resource An illustrated Star Trek themed notebook containing Lorna's handwritten notes on the character and future of 'the essay'. *** 'Star Trek was among the very select popular TV series that Lorna used to like to watch. This notebook was a not very serious Christmas present, and in a moment when she must have had no paper to hand, Lorna used it to write this wonderfully succinct account of the essay. Somehow the juxtaposition produces something representative of her humorous, wry tone.' [STS] Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lorna Sage Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Sharon Tolaini-Sage Private Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of East Anglia Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 199-? Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Sharon Tolaini-Sage Private Collection. All rights reserved. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg image file Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Academic