Titlebook: On the Familiar Essay; Challenging Academic G. Douglas Atkins Book 2009 G. Douglas Atkins 2009 Close reading.education.participation.time

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Overview: 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.978-1-349-38259-0978-0-230-10124-1

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On Time, the Familiar, and the Essay,In a recent book ., I suggested that the venerable form ends in truth via a meandering, often circuitous but always indirect journey or course through experience. Often—for example, in the essays of E.B. White—the writer himself or herself embodies truth. In that book, I did not, however, treat ideas specifically.

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The Observing Self, or Writing Upon Something: The Character, Art, and Distinctiveness of the Famil the past century, Cristina Nehring has put into words what a number of readers now feel: “What’s wrong with the American essay?” Writing on ., an electronic “progressive journal of news and opinion,” in late 2007, Nehring declares that “the essay is in a bad way.”. It is not, she claims, “because e

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,Envisioning the Stranger’s Heart,nd, as I recall, J.B. Priestley, seemed harmless and inconsequential: only somebody’s opinion on something. I first came to rue essays in college, where, in freshman English, we read them so as then to make more of their kind. The implied lesson further diminished their already low status: their val

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E.B. White and the Poetics of Participation,erstand understanding (as Geoffrey Hartman supposes), but so that we can understand what they understand. Text and world engage in a reciprocal relation (the world understood allows us better to understand texts). There is no escaping reciprocity—or circularity—and that is no cause for alarm or lame

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,“The Way Life Should Be,” or the Maine-ing of Existence: E.B. White as Familiar Essayist, 40 years of professing English: E.B. White and T.S. Eliot—a literal “course of interpretive discovery” (to quote Paul H. Fry again).. I offered it in the first place because I am an .teur of both writers, as much for their differences as perhaps despite them. Eliot left the States for England; Whit

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