Wallack, Nicole B.,

Crafting presence : the American essay and the future of writing studies / Nicole B. Wallack. - xvii, 230 pages ; 23 cm

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

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.

"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.

9781607325345 (softcover : alk. paper)

2016022157


Essay--Authorship--Study and teaching (Higher)
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)

PE1471 / .W35 2017

808.4