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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon's style incorporates diverse features of the essay.By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia...
Publisher
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Lexile measure
1380L
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Depicts the arguments, negotiations, and revisions that took place in correspondence between an essayist and his fact-checker, analyzing the boundaries of literary nonfiction and discussing the correlation between "truth" and "accuracy."
Author
Publisher
Darby Creek Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Kaley Bluster has her own view of the world history she reads for her 4th grade essay writing assignments. Her teacher, Mr. Serrano, tries to get her to write essays, but they always turn out to be creative commentaries on Kaley's life and her own interpretations of history in light of her modern world.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For all the anxiety that surrounds the college admissions process, one part of the application lies completely within a student s control: the essay. In this book, Rachel Toor writing instructor and coach at all levels from high school to senior faculty, and former admissions officer at Duke University shows that the key to writing a successful application essay is learning to present an honest portrait of yourself.