The Edinburgh companion to the essay / edited by Mario Aquilina, Bob Cowser Jr., and Nicole B. Wallack.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aquilina, Mario, editor.

Cowser, Bob, editor.

Wallack, Nicole B., editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essay.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 501 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Thirty-five leading essayists, literary critics and writing instructors explore the essay from multiple perspectives, including its theories, forms and histories as well as its cultural, political and pedagogical contexts. In particular, the volume extends the theory of the essay by addressing topics such as the construction of an essayistic self and the political dimensions of essaying. It further explores the relationship between the essay and other forms, such as philosophical writing, the column, science writing, the novel, the lyric and the advert as well as the essay in digital spaces.

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 Šukys ; The Essay as Trans Body / Glenn Michael Gordon ; Why the (Animal) Essay Matters / Paolo Bugliani

Contemporary Essayists in Focus: David Shields ; Jamaica Kincaid.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 4, 2023).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474486040

1474486045

9781474486033

1474486037

OCLC:

1353787497