Reading essays : an invitation / / G. Douglas Atkins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823581803321
• Autore: Atkins G. Douglas (George Douglas), <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-55301-1; 9786612553011; 0-8203-3653-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 808/.0427
• Soggetti: College readers; English language - Rhetoric; Report writing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-276) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts -- 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 inWilliam Hazlitt's "On Going a Journey" -- The Risk of Not Being: RalphWaldo 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) -- Works Cited.