Bibliograph

Becoming a great essayist, Jennifer Cognard-Black

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Becoming a great essayist, Jennifer Cognard-Black

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Becoming a great essayist

Oclc number

1293232073

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Cognard-Black

Runtime

720

Series statement

Great courses Compact disc. Literature and language, no. 2521

Table Of Contents

1. Steal, adopt, adapt : where essays begin -- 2. Memory maps and your essay's direction -- 3. Secrets, confession, and a writer's voice -- 4. The skeptical essayist : conflicting views -- 5. The reasonable essayist : artistic proofs -- 6. The unreasonable essayist : strategic irony -- 7. The empathetic essayist : evoking emotion -- 8. When an essayist's feelings face facts -- 9. Unabashedly me : the first-person essay -- 10. Essayists as poets : tapping into imagery -- 11. The visual essay : words + pictures -- 12. Writing inch by inch : from draft to polish -- 13. Short forms : microessays and prose poems -- 14. The memoir essay -- 15. Lyric essays : writing that sings -- 16. The epistolary essay : letters to the world -- 17. Portrait essays : people in words -- 18. The essayist as public intellectual -- 19. Polemical essays : one-sided arguments -- 20. Historical essays : past as present -- 21. Humor essays -- 22. Nature essays -- 23. Food essays : my grandmother's recipe box -- 24. Sharing your essays : from blog to book

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

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