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Traversing the democratic borders of the essay /
Annotation
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Gail Y. Okawa
- Personal, the political, and the rhetorical: Montaigne's and Bacon's use of the essay form : Brief biography of Michel de Montaigne ; Montaigne's departure from traditional rhetorical writing ; Francis Bacon and the essay
- Essaying an American democratic identity in Emerson and Thoreau : Ralph Waldo Emerson: biographical background ; Montaigne, Plutarch, Emerson, and the essay ; The essay, education, and the formation of a U.S. national identity ; Emerson and "The American scholar" ; Henry David Thoreau: Historical and political background of Walden ; Early book reviews of Walden and its significance to the essay
- Essay as political/cultural critique in Latin America: Freire's place in Latin American history ; Freire's social pedagogy and its tie to the elements of the essay ; Freire's pedagogical ties to self-reflection in the essay ; Accessible writing and the Freirian essay ; Freire and the issue of spontaneity ; The essay's elements of sincerity and truthfulness in Freire's writings
- Achieving a place in academia through the personal academic essays of Victor Villanueva and Ruth Behar: Conversations with Victor Villanueva on Bootstraps and his influence in rhetoric and composition ; Villanueva's use of self-reflection and accessibility in Bootstraps ; The movement from mimicry to spontaneity in Villanueva's academic writings ; Sincerity and acceptance in Villanueva's scholarship ; Ruth Behar and her rise to academic prominence ; Behar's use of self-reflexivity and accessibility to reconcile her ethnographic identity in academia ; Spontaneity and the essay: Behar's growing resistance to becoming a translated academic ; Behar's use of sincere writing to uncover her truth as an ethnographer.