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contents ix Preface 1 Introduction 9 Irony or Sneakiness On the Essay’s Second-Class Citizenship 27 Home-Cosmography The Renaissance Basis of the Essay 47 The Most Self-Centered of Forms? Distinguishing the Essay 63 Assaying Experience Time, Meaning, and the Essay 95 Paradox Abounding Tension and the Via Media Nature of the Essay 123 Form and Meaning The Essay’s Immanent Purposiveness 145 In-Betweenness The Burden of the Essay 163 Notes 173 Index viii contents ...