Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form. INDICE: - The Observing Self, or Writing upon Something: The Character, Art, and Distinctiveness of the Familiar Essay - On Time, the Familiar, and the Essay - Envisioning the Stranger's Heart - E.B. White and the Poetics of Participation - 'The Way Life Should Be,' or The Maine-ing of Existence: E.B.White as Familiar Essayist - The Limits of the Familiar: E.B. White and T.S. Eliot -Towards a Familiar Literary Criticism - Of Swords, Ploughshares, and Pens: The Return of/to Civility, Against Winning, and the Art of Peace - The Essay in the Academy: Between 'Literature' and 'Creative Writing' - Essaying to Be: Higher Education, the Vocation of Teaching, and the Making of Persons
- ISBN: 978-0-230-62000-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés