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

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• 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

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 th...

Table of Contents

• 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
• Contemporary Essayists in Focus
• 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
• Contemporary Essayists in Focus
• David Shields on the Essay
• Jamaica Kincaid on the Essay
• Notes on Contributors
• Index