Beyond argument : essaying as a practice of (ex)change / Sarah Allen ; designer, Mike Palmquist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Sarah, 1975- author.

Contributor:

Palmquist, Mike, book deisgner.

Series:

Perspectives on writing.

Perspectives on Writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Essay--Authorship.

Essay.

Self in literature.

Persona (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado ; Anderson, South Carolina : The WAC Clearinghouse : Parlor Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Beyond Argument offers an in-depth examination of how current ways of thinking about the writer-page relation in personal essays can be reconceived according to practices in the care of the self — an ethic by which writers such as Seneca, Montaigne, and Nietzsche lived. This approach promises to reinvigorate the form and address many of the concerns expressed by essay scholars and writers regarding the lack of rigorous exploration we see in our students' personal essays — and sometimes, even, in our own. In pursuing this approach, Sarah Allen presents a version of subjectivity that enables productive debate in the essay, among essays, and beyond.

Contents:

Front cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Meeting the Real Self in the Essay; Chapter 2: Meeting the Constructed Self in the Essay; Chapter 3: Cultivating a Self in the Essay; Chapter 4: Imitation as Meditation; Chapter 5: Self Writing in the Classroom; Works Cited; About the Author; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781602356481

1602356483

9781602356474

1602356475

OCLC:

1000323391