8 Essaying the Essay in Response to the Question “What Is Studying?”

This article is an essay. It takes itself seriously as a studious form of scholarship and writing. As such, it will fail to answer the question “What is studying?”. Instead, it evokes what is studious in essaying through its own paradoxical prose and its negative definition of studious essaying. Rather than posit a concept of study, the essay enacts a study of a story about study in Borges’ short study “Pierre Menard, the Author of the