Reading Essays : An Invitation

G Douglas Atkins

ISBN 10: 0820330302 / ISBN 13: 9780820330303

Edité par University Of Georgia Press Jan 2008, 2008

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Neuware - 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's 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 book ends with a note on 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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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Reading Essays : An Invitation
• Éditeur: University Of Georgia Press Jan 2008
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0820330302
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780820330303
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 228 L x 154 H x 18 P (en millimètres) 228 millimètres de largeur par 154 millimètres de hauteur par 18 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 395 grammes

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Synopsis

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's 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 book ends with a note on 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."

À propos de l'auteur

G. Douglas Atkins is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. His other books include "Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth," "Reading Essays: An Invitation," and "Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing" (all Georgia). His book "Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading" was named an Outstanding Academic Book by "Choice" magazine.