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Kara (Pomona College Wittman, Evan Kindley, Kara Wittman

Cambridge Companion to the Essay

English · Paperback / Softback

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Description

"This Companion, written by a diverse group of scholars for an audience of students and professors, considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay form from the sixteenth century to the present"--

List of contents

Part I. Forms of the Essay: 1. Remembering the essay Jeff Dolven; 2. The personal essay Merve Emre; 3. The critical essay Frances Ferguson; 4. The nature essay Daegan Miller; 5. The essay in theory Kara Wittman; Part II. The Work of the Essay: 6. Essay and experiment Julianne Werlin; 7. Essay, enlightenment, revolution Anahid Nersessian; 8. The essay, abolition, and racial blackness Jesse McCarthy; 9. The Utopian essay Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado; 10. Ethics and the essay David Russell; 11. Essay and empire Saikat Majumdar; 12. Unqueering the essay Grace Lavery; Part III. Technologies of the Essay: 13. The essay and the novel Jason Childs; 14. Lyric, essay Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young; 15. The photograph as essay Kevin Adonis Browne; 16. The essay film Nora M. Alter; 17. The essay online Jane Hu.

Summary

This Companion, written by a diverse group of scholars for an audience of students and professors, considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay form from the sixteenth century to the present.

Product details

Authors	Kara (Pomona College Wittman
Assisted by	Evan Kindley (Editor), Kara Wittman (Editor)
Publisher	Cambridge University Press ELT

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	31.10.2022

EAN	9781009011143
ISBN	978-1-0-0901114-3
No. of pages	300
Series	Cambridge Companions to Literature
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity

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