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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas), 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2008.
Temas:
College readers.
English language > Rhetoric.
Report writing.
Anglais (Langue) > Lectures et morceaux choisis (Enseignement supérieur)
Anglais (Langue) > Rhétorique.
Rapports > Rédaction.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
College readers
English language > Rhetoric
Report writing
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Essaying to be: on reading (and writing) essays
  • The advent of personality and the beginning of the essay: Montaigne and Bacon
  • "The passionate discourse of an amateur": John Dryden's prose and poetic essays
  • With wit enough to manage judgment: Alexander Pope's An essay on criticism
  • It's not an essay: Jonathan Swift's ''A modest proposal" and the immodesty of satire
  • Turning inside out: Samuel Johnson's "The solitude of the country"
  • An allegory of essaying? Process and product in William Hazlitt's "On going a journey"
  • The risk of not being: Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Illusions"
  • Forging in the smithy of the mind: Henry David Thoreau's "Walking" and the problematic of transcendence
  • Estranging the familiar: Alice Meynell's "Solitudes"
  • "By indirections find directions out": Hilaire Belloc's "The mowing of a field"
  • Essaying and the strain of incarnational thinking: G.K. Chesterton's "A piece of chalk"
  • Homage to the common reader: or how should one read Virginia Woolf's "The death of the moth"?
  • The turning of the essay: T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the individual talent"
  • A site to behold: Richard Selzer's" A worm from my notebook"
  • The discarnate word: Scott Russell Sanders's "Silence"
  • "Love came to us incarnate": Annie Dillard's "God in the doorway"
  • "A free intelligence": George Orwell, the essay, and "Reflections on Gandhi"
  • Where "trifles rule like tyrants": Cynthia Ozick's "The seam of the snail"
  • Essaying and pen passion: Anne Fadiman as common reader in "Eternal ink"
  • Acts of simplifying: sense and sentences in Sam Pickering's "Composing a life"
  • Caged lions and sustained sibilants: E.B. White as "recording secretary" in "The ring of time"
  • Her oyster knife sharpened: control of tone in Zora Neale Hurston's "How it feels to be colored me"
  • The basic ingredient: candor and compassion in Nancy Mairs's "On being a cripple"
  • The work of the sympathetic imagination: James Baldwin's "Notes of a native son"
  • "On a line between two sturdy poles": Edward Hoagland's "What I think, what I am"
  • A note on writing the essay: the issue of process versus product (with an essay by Cara McConnell).

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