Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download The Familiar Essay Im full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Familiar Essay Im ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Christense
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780155058200
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (582 download)
Download or read book The Familiar Essay-Im written by Christense and published by . This book was released on 2001-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Peter Hull
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527512339
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture written by Simon Peter Hull and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of diverse examples by Lamb, De Quincey, Hazlitt, Irving and Poe, this book argues that the familiar essay in the Romantic period embodies a quintessentially metropolitan mode of affect. The generic traits of the essay—astuteness of observation, an ambulatory or paratactic movement of thought, and an urbane tone of wry or ironic humour—all predispose it to the expression of a detached, non-pathological state of mind. This is a mind conditioned by the quickened pace, assorted humanity, and plenitude of spectacle which characterise urban and urbanised life. In making a valuable, genre-based contribution to scholarship on the importance to Romantic studies of the city and metropolitan culture, the traditional concept of Romantic affect is reassessed. The book proposes a more complex and varied model than the simple binary one of a “feeling” reaction to Enlightenment “reason.” Partly enacted within its own formal parameters and partly through its disruptive and genre-transcending progeny, the essayistic figure, the familiar essay articulates a blithe and, at times, shocking and provocative discourse of “un-affect,” or a strategically and often satirical callousness. Therefore, the overall concept of affect in this period needs to be understood not as a unified entity opposed to Enlightenment reason, but a dialogue between concurrent, opposing modes, played out against a dichotomized geo-cultural landscape of the country and the city. Essayistic un-affect emerges, in the end, as an apolitical phenomenon, a primary vehicle for the essayist’s inherent scepticism, sometimes enabling outright ridicule and, at other times, a tentative questioning or probing of both orthodox thought and emerging ideas: from the rarefied liberalist sensibility of the Lake poets, to the hubristic vanity of the colonial adventurer, and from the allure of hedonistic, Old World decadence to the proscriptive strictures of moralistic art.
Author : G. Atkins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101240
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book On the Familiar Essay written by G. Atkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form.
Author : George Douglas Atkins
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820314536
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Estranging the Familiar written by George Douglas Atkins and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Estranging the Familiar, G. Douglas Atkins addresses the often lamented state of scholarly and critical writing as he argues for a criticism that is at once theoretically informed and personal. The revitalized critical writing he advocates may entail--but is not limited to--a return to the essay, the form critical writing once took and the form that is now enjoying a resurgence of popularity and excellence. Atkins contends that to reach a general audience, criticism must move away from the impersonality of modern criticism and contemporary theory without embracing the old-fashioned essay. "The venerable familiar essay may remain the basis," Atkins writes, "but its conventional openness, receptivity, and capaciousness must extend to theory, philosophy, and the candor that seems to mark the tail-end of the twentieth century." In noting the timeliness, if not the necessity, of a return to the essay, Atkins also considers our culture's parallel "return to the personal." When the essay combines good writing with the concerns of the personal, Atkins says, it becomes a form of criticism that is readable, vital, and potentially attractive to a large readership. Atkins hopes critics will tap into the revitalized interest the essay now enjoys without ignoring the considerable insights and advances of contemporary theory. He argues that despite claims to the contrary there is no inherent incompatibility between the essay and modern theory. As Atkins considers various experiments in critical writing from Plato to the present, notably feminist interest in the personal and autobiographical, he contends that these attempts, although undeniably important, fall short of the desired goal when they emphasize the merely expressive and neglect the artful quality good writing can bring to personal criticism. The final third of the book consists of a series of experiments in critical writing that represent the author's own attempts to bridge the gap between theory and popular criticism, between an academic and a general audience. In essays that illustrate the rhetorical power of the form, Atkins describes the reciprocal relationship between his life experience and a reading of The Odyssey, explains the role that theory has played in his personal development, and chronicles his attempts to find a voice as a writer.
Author : Mary Elizabeth Rucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (465 download)
Download or read book The Familiar Essay in American Literature written by Mary Elizabeth Rucker and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marie Catherine Flannelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (789 download)
Download or read book (The) Familiar Essay in American Literature ... written by Marie Catherine Flannelly and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429922966
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book At Large and At Small written by Anne Fadiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay—a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions: from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her wistfulness for the days of letter-writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country. Many of these essays were composed "under the influence" of the subject at hand. Fadiman ingests a shocking amount of ice cream and divulges her passion for Häagen-Dazs Chocolate Chocolate Chip and her brother's homemade Liquid Nitrogen Kahlúa Coffee (recipe included); she sustains a terrific caffeine buzz while recounting Balzac's coffee addiction; and she stays up till dawn to write about being a night owl, examining the rhythms of our circadian clocks and sharing such insomnia cures as her father's nocturnal word games and Lewis Carroll's mathematical puzzles. At Large and At Small is a brilliant and delightful collection of essays that harkens a revival of a long-cherished genre.
Author : John Warner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421427117
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Why They Can't Write written by John Warner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing. There seems to be widespread agreement that—when it comes to the writing skills of college students—we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong. Warner blames this on decades of educational reform rooted in standardization, assessments, and accountability. We have done no more, Warner argues, than conditioned students to perform "writing-related simulations," which pass temporary muster but do little to help students develop their writing abilities. This style of teaching has made students passive and disengaged. Worse yet, it hasn't prepared them for writing in the college classroom. Rather than making choices and thinking critically, as writers must, undergraduates simply follow the rules—such as the five-paragraph essay—designed to help them pass these high-stakes assessments. In Why They Can't Write, Warner has crafted both a diagnosis for what ails us and a blueprint for fixing a broken system. Combining current knowledge of what works in teaching and learning with the most enduring philosophies of classical education, this book challenges readers to develop the skills, attitudes, knowledge, and habits of mind of strong writers.
Author : Marie Hamilton Law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The English Familiar Essay in the Early Nineteenth Century written by Marie Hamilton Law and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Allan Wing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (255 download)
Download or read book A Critical Survey of the Familiar Essay in America Since 1900 written by Hugh Allan Wing and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Freeman written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of Pennsylvania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book University Lectures Delivered by Members of the Faculty in the Free Public Lecture Course written by University of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kara Wittman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316519775
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to The Essay written by Kara Wittman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book studies the history and theory of the essay and its social, political, and aesthetic contexts.
Author : Carl Whithaus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317441427
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing written by Carl Whithaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-04-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes on a daunting task: How do writing teachers continue to work toward preparing students for academic and real-world communication situations, while faced with the increasing use of standardized high-stakes testing? Teachers need both the technical ability to deal with this reality and the ideological means to critique the information technologies and assessment methods that are transforming the writing classroom. Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing serves this dual need by offering a theoretical framework, actual case studies, and practical methods for evaluating student writing. By examining issues in writing assessment--ranging from the development of electronic portfolios to the impact of state-wide, standards-based assessment methods on secondary and post-secondary courses--this book discovers four situated techniques of authentic assessment that are already in use at a number of locales throughout the United States. These techniques stress: *interacting with students as communicators using synchronous and asynchronous environments; *describing the processes and products of student learning rather than enumerating deficits; *situating pedagogy and evaluation within systems that incorporate rather than exclude local variables; and *distributing assessment among diverse audiences. By advocating for a flexible system of communication-based assessment in computer-mediated writing instruction, this book validates teachers' and students' experiences with writing and also acknowledges the real-world weight of the new writing components on the SAT and ACT, as well as on state-mandated standardized writing and proficiency exams.
Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135314101
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Essay written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Author : James F. Voss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136463526
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Informal Reasoning and Education written by James F. Voss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive reasoning acquisition research, this volume provides theoretical and empirical considerations of the reasoning that occurs during the course of everyday personal and professional activities. Of particular interest is the text's focus on the question of how such reasoning takes place during school activities and how students acquire reasoning skills.
Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 038542339X
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Art of the Personal Essay written by Phillip Lopate and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1997-01-15 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the human condition and the great social and political issues of the day. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than seventy-five personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the dawn of the personal essay in the sixteenth century, and a wealth of the finest personal essays from the last four centuries, editor Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist, displays the tradition of the personal essay in all its historical grandeur, depth, and diversity.
