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The Cambridge companion to the essay / edited by Kara Wittman, Evan Kindley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Essay--History and criticism.
- Essay.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- The Cambridge Companion to the Essay considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay from the moment it's named in the late sixteenth century to the present. What is an essay? What can the essay do or think or reveal or know that other literary forms cannot? What makes a piece of writing essayistic? How can essays bring about change? Over the course of seventeen chapters by a diverse group of scholars, The Companion reads the essay in relation to poetry, fiction, natural science, philosophy, critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial thinking, studies in race and gender, queer theory, and the history of literary criticism. This book studies the essay in its written, photographic, cinematic, and digital forms, with a special emphasis on how the essay is being reshaped and reimagined in the twenty-first century, making it a crucial resource for scholars, students, and essayists.
- Contents:
- Remembering the essay / Jeff Dolven
- The personal essay / Merve Emre
- The critical essay / Frances Ferguson
- The nature essay / Daegan Miller
- The essay in theory / Kara Wittman
- Essay and experiment / Julianne Werlin
- Essay, enlightenment, revolution / Anahid Nersessian
- The essay, abolition, and racial blackness / Jesse McCarthy
- The utopian essay / Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado
- Ethics and the essay / David Russell
- Essay and empire / Saikat Majumdar
- Unqueering the essay / Grace Lavery
- The essay and the novel / Jason Childs
- Lyric, essay / Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young
- The photograph as essay / Kevin Adonis Browne
- The essay film / Nora M. Alter
- The essay online / Jane Hu.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781009022255 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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