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Author:   Kara Wittman (Pomona College, California) ,  Evan Kindley (Pomona College, California)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781316519776

ISBN 10:   1316519775
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   03 November 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I. Forms of the Essay: 1. Remembering the essay Jeff Dolven; 2. The personal essay Merve Emre; 3. The critical essay Frances Ferguson; 4. The nature essay Daegan Miller; 5. The essay in theory Kara Wittman; Part II. The Work of the Essay: 6. Essay and experiment Julianne Werlin; 7. Essay, enlightenment, revolution Anahid Nersessian; 8. The essay, abolition, and racial blackness Jesse McCarthy; 9. The Utopian essay Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado; 10. Ethics and the essay David Russell; 11. Essay and empire Saikat Majumdar; 12. Unqueering the essay Grace Lavery; Part III. Technologies of the Essay: 13. The essay and the novel Jason Childs; 14. Lyric, essay Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young; 15. The photograph as essay Kevin Adonis Browne; 16. The essay film Nora M. Alter; 17. The essay online Jane Hu.

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'[the authors] have certainly made some valuable contributions to the ongoing task of broadening ideas about a genre that's still too often misperceived.' Chris Arthur, World Literature Today

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Kara Wittman is Assistant Professor of English and Director of College Writing at Pomona College, where she also directs the Center for Speaking, Writing, and the Image. In addition to her work on the essay, she's published on wonder, originality, clarity, and small forms of communication: phatic utterances, marginalia, talking birds. Evan Kindley is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Pomona College. He is the author of Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture (2017) and Questionnaire (2016) and a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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