Description
The book studies the history and theory of the essay and its social, political, and aesthetic contexts.
About the Author
Kara Wittman is Assistant Professor of English and Director of College Writing at Pomona College, where she also directs the Center for Speaking, Writing, and the Image. In addition to her work on the essay, she's published on wonder, originality, clarity, and small forms of communication: phatic utterances, marginalia, talking birds. Evan Kindley is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Pomona College. He is the author of Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture (2017) and Questionnaire (2016) and a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Book Information
ISBN 9781009011143
Author Kara Wittman
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 490g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm * 18mm