There were also rasāʾil (essays) devoted to particular topics.
The production of books, articles and essays devoted to Plath since her untimely death has become an industry unto itself.
Partly because of this technique, the essays devoted to journals (the most obvious nexus of life and writing) by Cheever and the Goncourts provide two of the particular delights of this part of the book.
IN this week's issue, the writer and cultural critic Greil Marcus -- his books include "Mystery Train" and "Lipstick Traces" -- reviews a new collection of essays devoted to Allen Ginsberg's "Howl".
The literary quarterly n+1 published an entire book of essays devoted to the topic, while last season's Girls featured a storyline in which the Lena Dunham character dropped out of an MFA program full of smug, pretentious literary bullies.
Among the polyglot and fiercely literary boarders was a future President of Israel, and it was here that Scholem undertook a translation from the Yiddish (a language new to him) of a volume of memorial essays devoted to Jewish victims of Arab rioters in Palestine: his first full-length publication.
In a recent article titled "What Do Banks Do?," which appeared in a collection of essays devoted to the future of finance, Turner pointed out that although certain financial activities were genuinely valuable, others generated revenues and profits without delivering anything of real worth — payments that economists refer to as rents.
Early essays devoted to Henry Morgan Robert (a proponent of water jetties and author of Robert's Rules of Order) and James Nasmyth (the inventor of the steam hammer and an accomplished amateur oil painter) show the versatility of the engineer's mind.
Although there is a tendency to emphasize the two essays devoted to art, "Of the Standard of Taste" and "Of Tragedy," his views on art and aesthetic judgment are intimately connected to his moral philosophy and theories of human thought and emotion.
