Crafting presence : the American essay and the future of writing studies / Nicole B. Wallack.

By:

Wallack, Nicole B

Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2017]Description: xvii, 230 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781607325345 (softcover : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

808.4 23

LOC classification:

PE1471 .W35 2017

Contents:

The genre of presence -- Historical thinking in essays : crafting presence in the company of ghosts -- Error and illumination : crafting reading presences -- Crafting a self made of images in essay -- Learning the essay.

Summary: "Wallack illuminates the most important quality of the essay as a literary form: the writer's 'presence'. She demonstrates how accounting for presence provides a flexible and rigorous heuristic for reading that can help teach students not just writing skills, but writing practices"--Provided by publisher.

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"Wallack illuminates the most important quality of the essay as a literary form: the writer's 'presence'. She demonstrates how accounting for presence provides a flexible and rigorous heuristic for reading that can help teach students not just writing skills, but writing practices"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.

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