| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 501 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities
|
|
Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.
|
| Summary |
Provides a comprehensive overview of the essay, with a focus on current debates about the form. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mario Aquilina, Bob Cowser Jr and Nicole B. Wallack -- Part I: Theories and Definitions. Affinities and Contestations : The Self and the Other in the Essay / Mario Aquilina ; Birth of the English Essay / Alan Stewart ; Problem of a Name : The Essay and Its Titles / Thomas Karshan ; Thing of the Essay / Erin Plunkett ; Essay, Fiction, Truth, Troth / Jason Childs ; Essay as Resistance / Kara Wittman ; 'Lived' Experience, 'Sought' Experience and the Personal Essay / Douglas Hesse ; Essay and the Advertisement / R. Eric Tippin -- Contemporary Essayists in Focus: Rebecca Solnit ; Claudia Rankine ; Brian Dillon -- Part II: Publics, Pedagogies and Histories. On Reading and the Essay / Nicole B. Wallack ; Heretical Hearts and the Infinite Game : Why Teaching the Essay (Still) Matters / Bob Cowser, Jr. ; Essay and the Episteme : A Genealogy for Modern Classroom Use / Kevin Rulo ; Commonplace Mysteries : Soaring on the Wings of Desire / Pat C. Hoy ; Politics and the English Essay / Bruce Robbins ; Postwar American Essay, the Liberal Imagination and the Contemporary Essay / Phillip Lopate ; Everybody's Protest Essay : Personal Protest Prose on the American Internet / Briallen Hopper ; Follow the Yellow Brick Road : Contemporary Women Essayists and Their Golden Moment / Jenny Spinner ; Essay in Asian (American) Contexts / Louise Kane ; Beyond the Cocoon of Humanism : Essaying in the Ecological Turn Through Contradiction and Being Present / Sarah Allen -- Contemporary Essayists in Focus: Leslie Jamison ; Robert Atwan ; Kaitlyn Greenidge -- Part III: Form and Genre. On the Interface Between Philosophy and the Essay : Foucault's Essayistic Ethos / Kurt Borg ; Essay as Brinkmanship : Cioran's Fragment, Aphorism and Autobiography / Arleen Ionescu ; Science Essays / Dirk Vanderbeke ; Columnism and Essayism / Ivan Callus ; Lyric Essay : Truth-Telling Through Reader Participation / Beth Peterson ; New Seesaws of the Digital Visual Essay : Genre Provocations, Definitions and Tensions Beyond the Age of Print / Elizabeth F. Chamberlain ; Archival Materials : Essayism as a Process of Witness, Care and Reckoning / Julija Šukys ; Essay as Trans Body / Glenn Michael Gordon ; Why the (Animal) Essay Matters / Paolo Bugliani -- Contemporary Essayists in Focus: David Shields ; Jamaica Kincaid. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Essay.
|
|
Essay. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Added Author |
Aquilina, Mario, editor.
|
|
Wallack, Nicole B. https://isni.org/isni/000000012700996X, editor.
|
|
Cowser, Bob https://isni.org/isni/0000000037759353, editor.
|
| Added Title |
Companion to the essay |
|
Essay |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781474486026 |
| ISBN |
9781474486040 electronic book |
|
1474486045 electronic book |
|
9781474486033 electronic book |
|
1474486037 electronic book |
|
9781474486026 hardcover |
|
