When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Important as was Mr. O'Donnell's essay, his thesis is so restricting as to deny Faulkner the stature which he obviously has.

He is in a hurry to write another essay against culture.

A second major point of this essay is to examine the formal arrangements for the elections.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

In a chapter-long essay reprinted in In Search of Wonder, entitled " Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. van Vogt ", Knight famously remarked that van Vogt " is no giant ; he is a pygmy who has learned to operate an overgrown typewriter.

He quotes, in his essay " Death of the Author " ( 1968 ), that " it is language which speaks, not the author ".

Michel Foucault argues in his essay " What is an author?

Pierre Bourdieu's essay " The Field of Cultural Production " depicts the publishing industry as a " space of literary or artistic position-takings ," also called the " field of struggles ," which is defined by the tension and movement inherent among the various positions in the field.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

[...] It is not as philosophically thorough as the works of D. Saliba, A. M. Goichon, or L. Gardet, but it is probably the best essay in English on this important thinker of the Middle Ages.

The most detailed discussion of his theories on education is in an essay, " Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction ".

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

Appended to the last book, however, is a self-contained essay on aesthetics, which Dürer worked on between 1512 and 1528, and it is here that we learn of his theories concerning ' ideal beauty '.

In May 1968 he completed an essay, " Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom ", where the anti-ballistic missile defense is described as a major threat of world nuclear war.

Sartre, popularly understood as misreading Heidegger ( an understanding supported by Heidegger's essay " Letter on Humanism " which responds to Sartre's famous address, " Existentialism is a Humanism "), employs modes of being in an attempt to ground his concept of freedom ontologically by distinguishing between being-in-itself and being-for-itself.

The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).

Its chief significance is perhaps that its author, Eric S. Raymond, used it as a model to discuss his theories of open source software development in a widely read and influential essay on software development methodologies, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

Black is best known for a 1985 essay, " The Abolition of Work ," which has been widely reprinted and translated into at least thirteen languages ( most recently, Urdu ).

The Society of the Spectacle is widely recognized as the main and most influential Situationist essay.

American anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre wrote a famous essay called " Direct Action " in 1912 which is widely cited today.

* Bob Black, who grew up in Oak Park and lived on Kipling Street, graduating from Oak Park High School, is a prominent theorist of the international anarchist movement, and the author of the widely disseminated essay " The Abolition of Work.

Bob Black is best known for " The Abolition of Work " ( 1985 ), a widely reprinted and translated essay ( first widely circulated, in fact, as an insert in Anarchy in 1986 ), but for Anarchy he has mainly contributed critiques of leftists and anarcho-leftists such as Ward Churchill, Fred Woodworth, Chaz Bufe, Murray Bookchin, the Platformists and most recently AK Press.

His widely republished 1969 essay Listen, Marxist!

The Organon is widely regarded as a remodelled form of an essay he published in 1806 called " The Medicine of Experience ", which had been published in Hufeland's Journal.

* Foo Fighters of WWII by Jerome Clark and Lucius Farish: A widely reproduced essay describing many wartime sightings ( including those in above article ) from 1941 – 1947 and onward

His essay Ecce Homo, published anonymously in 1866, and afterwards acknowledged by him, was widely read and prompted many replies, being deemed an attack on Christianity.

His essay, " Why I Publish in e-Zines ", appeared online in 1995 and has been widely reprinted.

They were offended not so much by Mencken's widely publicized essay " The Sahara of the Bozart ", with which they tended to agree, but by his subsequent bitter attacks on aspects of Southern culture that they valued, such as its agrarianism, conservatism, and religiosity.

Her celebrated and widely read 1964 essay " Notes on ' Camp '" was epoch-defining, examining an alternative sensibility to that which considers the best art in terms of its seriousness.

Historian Richard J. Hofstadter called it, in his 1964 essay " The Paranoid Style in American Politics ", " robably the most widely read contemporary book in the United States before Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin.

The essay began as an attack on Jewish composers, particularly Wagner's contemporaries ( and rivals ) Felix Mendelssohn and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but expanded to accuse Jewish influences more widely of being a harmful and alien element in German culture.

The literary critic F. R. Leavis was critical of this work, calling Snow a " public relations man " for the scientific establishment in an essay published in The Spectator, which was widely decried in the British press.

Berlin's widely read essay " The Counter-Enlightenment " was first published in 1973, and later reprinted in a popular collection of his essays ( Against the Current ) in 1981.

The essay is anthologized widely as an example of Western ethical thinking.

The essay was widely distributed and was cited in The New York Times and Associated Press.

" Direct Action ", her 1912 essay in defense of direct action, is widely cited today.

The Abolition of Work, Bob Black's most widely read essay, draws upon the ideas of Charles Fourier, William Morris, Herbert Marcuse, Paul Goodman, and Marshall Sahlins.

This arcane analogy was so curious that Stephen Jay Gould wrote an essay about it (" The Case of the Creeping Fox Terrier Clone ", essay # 10 in his book, Bully for Brontosaurus ), in which he concluded that Henry Fairfield Osborn had so described it in a widely distributed pamphlet, Osborn being a keen fox hunter who made a natural association between horses and the dogs that accompany them.