Product Description: Mostly limited to freshman composition courses, essays have served as prose models or as topic sources for student writing, but rarely as a genre in and of itself. In this book Janis Forman responds to this imbalance, arguing for the essay's inclusion as a genre to be read and written in...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This widely used text provides invaluable guidelines for reading literature creatively. The fourth edition presents various critical approaches to studying and evaluating the elements of literature, including fiction, drama and poetry.

Product Description: "The Politics of the Essay is that rare scholarly work that provides both a history of this relatively new field and of its formal characteristics and inspires its readers to want to participate in the making of this history." —SignsThe first in-depth study of the relationship between women and essays...read more

Goethe's essays have been culled for their literary, aesthetic, and scientific content, by the textuality and their location at the nexus of genre and literary history have not received the critical attention they deserve. In Idioms of Uncertainty, Peter Burgard analyzes the rhetorical strategies, structure, and style of pivotal essays and relates them to the essay traditions as represented by Montaigne and Johnson. By formulating the critique of systematic philosophy inherent in the essays and by investigating their participation in the principal aesthetic dialogue of the age---the Laocoon debate, which spanned nearly half a century---Burgard situates them in the context of eighteenth-century critical discourse.Furthermore, by disclosing the connection between the antisystematic, dialogic impetus of Goethe's essayism and the theme of community in his literary works, Idioms of Uncertainty both draws out the broader social implications of the essay and shows how the analysis of Goethe's work in the genre can illuminate his entire oeuvre.In the course of the study Burgard articulates a theory of the essay as a genre by drawing on twentieth-century theoretical perspectives for his exposition of Goethe's textual strategies: theories of the essay from Lukacs, Bense, and Adorno; the textual theories of Bakhtin, Kristeva, Barthes, and Derrida; and Rorty's notion of literary-philosophical conversation. Idioms of Uncertainty thus holds interest for those concerned with genre theory and literary theory in general; and through its challenging of clich¿s about German literature at the time it assumed international significance, the book will be useful not only for Goethe scholars but also for scholars of the eighteenth century across disciplines and national boundaries. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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 revitalised critical writing he advocated 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...read more

Provides advice on studying for, interpreting, planning, and writing essay questions on examinations

Discusses the principles of good writing, selecting and refining a topic, planning the essay, writing first and final drafts, and answering essay questions on examinations

Product Description: Great writing advice.

Fenton Glass the Third 25 Years with Price Guide Hardcover - May, 1989 by William Heacock (Author)

Product Description: Crossing Boundaries by Mccarthy, John A.