The Edinburgh companion to the essay /
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| Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 501 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13587715 |
Table of 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 ; The Birth of the English Essay / Alan Stewart ; The Problem of a Name : The Essay and Its Titles / Thomas Karshan ; The Thing of the Essay / Erin Plunkett ; Essay, Fiction, Truth, Troth / Jason Childs ; The Essay as Resistance / Kara Wittman ; 'Lived' Experience, 'Sought' Experience and the Personal Essay / Douglas Hesse ; The 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. ; The 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 ; The 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 ; The 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 ; The Essay as Brinkmanship : Cioran's Fragment, Aphorism and Autobiography / Arleen Ionescu ; Science Essays / Dirk Vanderbeke ; Columnism and Essayism / Ivan Callus ; The Lyric Essay : Truth-Telling Through Reader Participation / Beth Peterson ; The 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 SĖukys ; The Essay as Trans Body / Glenn Michael Gordon ; Why the (Animal) Essay Matters / Paolo Bugliani
- Contemporary Essayists in Focus: David Shields ; Jamaica Kincaid.