Understanding the essay, edited by Patricia Foster & Jeff Porter

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Understanding the essay, edited by Patricia Foster & Jeff Porter

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edited by Patricia Foster & Jeff Porter

Instantiates

• Understanding the essay

Publication

• Peterborough, Ont. | Buffalo, N.Y., Broadview Press, ©2012

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Includes bibliographical references

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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Contents

Introduction: "A History and Poetics of the Essay," Jeff Porter -- Introduction to David Foster Wallace -- Reading "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," Jeff Porter -- Introduction to Anne Carson -- Reading "On Trout," Eula Biss -- Introduction to Jamaica Kincaid -- Reading A Small Place, Donald Morrill -- Introduction to Scott Russell Sanders -- Reading "Under the Influence," James McKean -- Introduction to Joy Williams -- Reading "The Case Against Babies," Sara Levine -- Introduction to Joan Didion -- Reading "Georgia O'Keeffe," Patricia Foster -- Introduction to John McPhee -- Reading Encounters with the Archdruid, Adam Hochschild -- Introduction to Cynthia Ozick -- Reading "A Drugstore in Winter," Sven Birkerts -- Introduction to James Baldwin -- Reading "Notes of a Native Son," Honor Moore -- Introduction to Seymour Krim -- Reading "For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business," Vivian Gornick -- Introduciton to Ralph Ellison -- Reading "The Little Man in Chehaw Station," Gayle Pemberton -- Introduction to George Orwell -- Reading "A Hanging," Carl H. Klaus -- Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Reading "The Crack-Up," Patricia Hampl -- Introduction to Virginia Woolf -- Reading "Street Haunting," Marilyn Abildskov -- Introduction to Mark Twain -- Reading "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," Robin Hemley -- Introduction to William Hazlitt -- Reading "On the Pleasure of Hating," Phillip Lopate -- Introduction to Charles Lamb -- Reading "New Year's Eve," David Lazar -- Introduction to Jonathan Swift -- Reading "A Modest Proposal," Xu Xi -- Introduction to Michel de Montaigne -- Reading "On Some Verses of Virgil," David Hamilton -- Key Terms for the Essay -- Contributors

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764312707

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23 cm

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xxiv, 261 pages

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9781554810208

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• n

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.b88572845

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(OCoLC)764312707