Understanding the Essay

This is a book on how to read the essay, one that demonstrates how reading is inextricably tied to the art of writing. It aims to treat the essay with the close attention that has been given to other literary genres, and in doing so it suggests the beauty and depth of the form as a whole. At once personal appreciations and acute critical assessments, the pieces collected here broaden our perspective on the essay as a major literary art, tracing its history from William Hazlitt to Joan Didion.

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• Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
• The Journey Is Everything: Teaching Essays That Students Want to Write for People Who Want to Read Them
• The St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writing
• Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
• Art of the Essay
• Rhetorical Memory: A Study of Technical Communication and Information Management
• Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing
• Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers
• Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time