Crafting presence
Subtitle: the American essay and the future of writing studies
By: Nicole B. Wallack
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781607325345
Subjects: Essay; Authorship; Rhetoric; Study and teaching (Higher); English language
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The genre of presence; title: "Historical thinking" in essays : crafting presence in the company of ghosts; title: "Error and illumination" : crafting reading presences; title: Crafting a self made of images in essays; title: Learning the essay.