Crafting presence : the American essay and the future of writing studies / Nicole B. Wallack.
Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2017]Description: xvii, 230 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781607325345 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 808.4 23
- PE1471 .W35 2017
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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 publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.
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.