Reading essays : an invitation
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Reading essays : an invitation
University of Georgia Press, 2008
- hardcover : alk.
- hardcover : alk. pap
- pbk. : alk. paper
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-276) and index
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hardcover : alk. pap ISBN 9780820328263
内容説明
Approaches abound to help us beneficially, enjoyably read fiction, poetry, and drama. Here, for the first time, is a book that aims to do the same for the essay. G. Douglas Atkins performs sustained readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this currently resurgent literary form reveals about the ""art of living.""Atkins' readings cover a wide spectrum of writers in the English language - and his readings are themselves essays, gracefully written, engaged, and engaging. Atkins starts with the earliest British practitioners of the form, including Francis Bacon, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Transcendentalist writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are included, as are works by Americans James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and E. B. White. Atkins also provides readings of a number of contemporary essayists, among them Annie Dillard, Scott Russell Sanders, and Cynthia Ozick.Many of the readings are of essays that Atkins has used successfully in the classroom, with undergraduate and graduate students, for many years. In his introduction Atkins offers practical advice on the specific demands essays make and the unique opportunities they offer, especially for college courses. The appendix treats the writing of essays, furthering the author's contention that reading should not be separated from writing.""Reading Essays"" continues in the tradition of such definitive texts as ""Understanding Poetry"" and ""Understanding Fiction"". Throughout, Atkins reveals the joy, delight, grace, freedom, and wisdom of ""the glorious essay.
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pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780820330303
内容説明
Approaches abound to help us beneficially, enjoyably read fiction, poetry, and drama. Here, for the first time, is a book that aims to do the same for the essay. G. Douglas Atkins performs sustained readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this currently resurgent literary form reveals about the ""art of living.""Atkins' readings cover a wide spectrum of writers in the English language - and his readings are themselves essays, gracefully written, engaged, and engaging. Atkins starts with the earliest British practitioners of the form, including Francis Bacon, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Transcendentalist writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are included, as are works by Americans James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and E. B. White. Atkins also provides readings of a number of contemporary essayists, among them Annie Dillard, Scott Russell Sanders, and Cynthia Ozick.Many of the readings are of essays that Atkins has used successfully in the classroom, with undergraduate and graduate students, for many years. In his introduction, Atkins offers practical advice on the specific demands essays make and the unique opportunities they offer, especially for college courses. The appendix treats the writing of essays, furthering the author's contention that reading should not be separated from writing.""Reading Essays"" continues in the tradition of such definitive texts as ""Understanding Poetry"" and ""Understanding Fiction"". Throughout, Atkins reveals the joy, delight, grace, freedom, and wisdom of ""the glorious essay.
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