The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay / / ed. by Mario Aquilina.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Sarah,; Aquilina, Mario,; Borg, Kurt,; Bugliani, Paolo,; Callus, Ivan,; Chamberlain, Elizabeth F.,; Childs, Jason,; Cowser, Bob,; Gordon, Glenn Michael,; Hesse, Douglas,; Hopper, Briallen,; Hoy, Pat C.,; Ionescu, Arleen,; Kane, Louise,; Karshan, Thomas,; Lopate, Phillip,; Peterson, Beth,; Plunkett, Erin,; Robbins, Bruce,; Rulo, Kevin,; Spinner, Jenny,; Stewart, Alan,; Tippin, R. Eric,; Vanderbeke, Dirk,; Wallack, Nicole B.,; Wittman, Kara,; Šukys, Julija,
• HerausgeberIn: Aquilina, Mario,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations 5 black and white illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I: Theories and Definitions --; 1 Affinities and Contestations: The Self and the Other in the Essay --; 2 The Birth of the English Essay --; 3 The Problem of a Name: The Essay and Its Titles --; 4 The Thing of the Essay --; 5 Essay, Fiction, Truth, Troth --; 6 The Essay as Resistance --; 7 ‘Lived’ Experience, ‘Sought’ Experience and the Personal Essay --; 8 The Essay and the Advertisement --; Contemporary Essayists in Focus --; Rebecca Solnit on the Essay --; Claudia Rankine on the Essay --; Brian Dillon on the Essay --; Part II: Publics, Pedagogies and Histories --; 9 On Reading and the Essay --; 10 Heretical Hearts and the Infinite Game: Why Teaching the Essay (Still) Matters --; 11 The Essay and the Episteme: A Genealogy for Modern Classroom Use --; 12 Commonplace Mysteries: Soaring on the Wings of Desire --; 13 Politics and the English Essay --; 14 The Postwar American Essay, the Liberal Imagination and the Contemporary Essay --; 15 Everybody’s Protest Essay: Personal Protest Prose on the American Internet --; 16 Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Contemporary Women Essayists and Their Golden Moment --; 17 The Essay in Asian (American) Contexts --; 18 Beyond the Cocoon of Humanism: Essaying in the Ecological Turn Through Contradiction and Being Present --; Leslie Jamison on the Essay --; Robert Atwan on the Essay --; Kaitlyn Greenidge on the Essay --; Part III: Form and Genre --; 19 On the Interface Between Philosophy and the Essay: Foucault’s Essayistic Ethos --; 20 The Essay as Brinkmanship: Cioran’s Fragment, Aphorism and Autobiography --; 21 Science Essays --; 22 Columnism and Essayism --; 23 The Lyric Essay: Truth-Telling Through Reader Participation --; 24 The New Seesaws of the Digital Visual Essay: Genre Provocations, Definitions and Tensions Beyond the Age of Print --; 25 Archival Materials: Essayism as a Process of Witness, Care and Reckoning --; 26 The Essay as Trans Body --; 27 Why the (Animal) Essay Matters --; David Shields on the Essay --; Jamaica Kincaid on the Essay --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474486033; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319186; 9783111318264; 9783110780390
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474486033
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Mario Aquilina.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the essay, with a focus on current debates about the formIncludes interviews with eight major contemporary essayists (Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, Brian Dillon, David Shields, Leslie Jamison, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Robert Atwan and Jamaica Kincaid)Explores the theory, history, formal features and political contexts of the essayFocuses on the contemporary essay while also surveying the key moments and essayists in the history of the essayExtends the theory of the essay by addressing key aspects of the form, such as, the construction of an essayistic self, the relation between the self and the other in the essay, and the relation between the essay and the world ‘out there’Explores the relationship between the essay and adjacent forms, such as, philosophical writing, the column, science writing, the novel, the lyric, the advertisement and moreThe Edinburgh Companion to the Essay distinguishes itself by the wide range and scope of its themes, voices and approaches. Thirty-five leading essayists, literary critics and writing instructors explore the essay from multiple perspectives, including its theories, forms and histories as well as its cultural, political and pedagogical contexts. In particular, the volume extends the theory of the essay by addressing topics such as the construction of an essayistic self and the political dimensions of essaying. It further explores the relationship between the essay and other forms, such as philosophical writing, the column, science writing, the novel, the lyric and the advert as well as the essay in digital spaces.