Crafting presence : the American essay and the future of writing studies / Nicole B. Wallack.

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"Wallack illuminates the most important quality of the essay as a literary form: the writer's 'presence'. She demonstrates how accounting for presence provides a flexible and rigorous heuristic for reading that can help teach students not just writing skills, but writing practices"--Provided by publ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallack, Nicole B. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Essay > Authorship > Study and teaching (Higher)
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching (Higher)
Physical Description:xvii, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The genre of presence
  • "Historical thinking" in essays : crafting presence in the company of ghosts
  • "Error and illumination" : crafting reading presences
  • Crafting a self made of images in essay
  • Learning the essay.