In 1941, Kael and her sometime lover Robert Horan hoped to interest magazines in "a rather complex essay" (her phrase) on the literary critics R. P. Blackmur, Kenneth Burke, and Lionel Trilling.
(In this, the book recalls Jo Ann Beard's brilliantly complex essay "The Fourth State of Matter," a piece of writing that has influenced almost every good nonfiction writer I know, and maybe Norman too).
However, in a long or complex essay, you may want to give a road map, or brief outline of your argument.
We started with the basic structuring of a paragraph and progressed to more complex essays.
These texts, fraught with cynicism and political implications, were followed by the more structured and complex Inflammatory Essays (1979 82), Living series (1981 82), and Survival series (1983 85), which were seamlessly integrated into various urban landscapes as plaques and signs.
Although it's certainly varied in style and affect, most of the videos in the show address some geopolitical issue, accumulating into a set of complex, visual essays.
In The Rebel, a complex and sprawling essay in philosophy, the history of ideas and literary movements, political philosophy, and even aesthetics, Camus extends the ideas he asserted in Nuptials and developed in The Myth of Sisyphus: the human condition is inherently frustrating, but we betray ourselves and solicit catastrophe by seeking religious solutions to its limitations.
He published Behold Metatron in 1985, collecting complex and verbose essays on the emerging "Metastate".
They would also know the word "complex," from Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding: "Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call Complex; such as are Beauty, Gratitude, a Man, an Army, the Universe" (Locke [1690 ] 1975 2.12.1).
He was a "philosopher's philosopher;" his essays are complex and difficult pieces, challenging but rewarding to master.
I am hence especially grateful to The New Republic TNRR) for providing the space for long essays on complex subjects (at least, too complex for me to lay out in a short post what I believe needs to be said).
