Reading Essays - An Invitation

Informationen zum Autor G. DOUGLAS ATKINS is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. His other books include Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading , which was named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice magazine ; Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth ; and Reading Essays: An Invitation . Klappentext Approaches abound to help us beneficially, enjoyably read fiction, poetry, and drama. Here, for the first time, is a book that aims to do the same for the essay. G. Douglas Atkins performs sustained readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this currently resurgent literary form reveals about the art of living. Zusammenfassung Atkins performs sustained readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this currently resurgent literary form reveals about the “art of living.” His readings cover a wide spectrum of writers in the English language.

Product details

• Authors: G Douglas Atkins, G. Atkins, G. Douglas Atkins, G.douglas Atkins
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2008
• EAN: 9780820330303
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3030-3
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies