Reading essays : an invitation /
| Основен автор: | Atkins, G. Douglas 1943- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
2008.
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Reading essays. |
Съдържание:
- 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).