| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 160 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Gail Y. Okawa -- Personal, the political, and the rhetorical: Montaigne's and Bacon's use of the essay form : Brief biography of Michel de Montaigne ; Montaigne's departure from traditional rhetorical writing ; Francis Bacon and the essay -- Essaying an American democratic identity in Emerson and Thoreau : Ralph Waldo Emerson: biographical background ; Montaigne, Plutarch, Emerson, and the essay ; The essay, education, and the formation of a U.S. national identity ; Emerson and "The American scholar" ; Henry David Thoreau: Historical and political background of Walden ; Early book reviews of Walden and its significance to the essay -- Essay as political/cultural critique in Latin America: Freire's place in Latin American history ; Freire's social pedagogy and its tie to the elements of the essay ; Freire's pedagogical ties to self-reflection in the essay ; Accessible writing and the Freirian essay ; Freire and the issue of spontaneity ; The essay's elements of sincerity and truthfulness in Freire's writings -- Achieving a place in academia through the personal academic essays of Victor Villanueva and Ruth Behar: Conversations with Victor Villanueva on Bootstraps and his influence in rhetoric and composition ; Villanueva's use of self-reflection and accessibility in Bootstraps ; The movement from mimicry to spontaneity in Villanueva's academic writings ; Sincerity and acceptance in Villanueva's scholarship ; Ruth Behar and her rise to academic prominence ; Behar's use of self-reflexivity and accessibility to reconcile her ethnographic identity in academia ; Spontaneity and the essay: Behar's growing resistance to becoming a translated academic ; Behar's use of sincere writing to uncover her truth as an ethnographer. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Essay.
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Essay. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kirklighter, Cristina. Traversing the democratic borders of the essay. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002 0791454673 (DLC) 2002017733 (OCoLC)50440935 |
| ISBN |
0585476187 (electronic book) |
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9780585476186 (electronic book) |
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0791454673 |
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9780791454671 |
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0791454681 (paperback) |
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9780791454688 (paperback) |
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9780791488119 |
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079148811X |
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