Wallack, Nicole B.,

Crafting presence the American essay and the future of writing studies / Nicole B. Wallack. - Logan : Utah State University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies 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.

"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.



9781607325352


English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)
Essay--Authorship--Study and teaching (Higher)


Electronic Books.

PE1471 / .C734 2016