Edinburgh Companion to the Essay

List of Figures

Preface and Acknowledgments



Introduction

Mario Aquilina, Bob Cowser Jr and Nicole B. Wallack

Part I: Theories and Definitions

1. Affinities and Contestations: The Self and the Other in the Essay

Mario Aquilina

2. The Birth of the English Essay

Alan Stewart

3. The Problem of a Name: The Essay and Its Titles

Thomas Karshan

4. The Thing of the Essay

Erin Plunkett

5. Essay, Fiction, Truth, Troth

Jason Childs

6. The Essay as Resistance

Kara Wittman

7. 'Lived' Experience, 'Sought' Experience and the Personal Essay

Douglas Hesse

8. The Essay and the Advertisement

R. Eric Tippin



Contemporary Essayists in Focus

Rebecca Solnit

Claudia Rankine

Brian Dillon



Part II: Publics, Pedagogies and Histories

9. On Reading and the Essay

Nicole B. Wallack

10. Heretical Hearts and the Infinite Game: Why Teaching the Essay (Still) Matters

Bob Cowser Jr

11. The Essay and the Episteme: A Genealogy for Modern Classroom Use

Kevin Rulo

12. Commonplace Mysteries: Soaring on the Wings of Desire

Pat C. Hoy

13. Politics and the English Essay

Bruce Robbins

14. The Postwar American Essay, the Liberal Imagination and the Contemporary Essay

Phillip Lopate

15. Everybody's Protest Essay: Personal Protest Prose on the American Internet

Briallen Hopper

16. Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Contemporary Women Essayists and Their Golden Moment

Jenny Spinner

17. The Essay in Asian (American) Contexts

Louise Kane

18. Beyond the Cocoon of Humanism: Essaying in the Ecological Turn Through Contradiction and Being Present

Sarah Allen



Contemporary Essayists in Focus

Leslie Jamison

Robert Atwan

Kaitlyn Greenidge



Part III: Form and Genre

19. On the Interface between Philosophy and the Essay: Foucault's Essayistic Ethos

Kurt Borg

20. The Essay as Brinkmanship: Cioran's Fragment, Aphorism and Autobiography

Arleen Ionescu

21. Science Essays

Dirk Vanderbeke

22. Columnism and Essayism Ivan Callus



23. The Lyric Essay: Truth-Telling Through Reader Participation

Beth Peterson

24. The New Seesaws of the Digital Visual Essay: Genre Provocations, Definitions and Tensions Beyond the Age of Print

Elizabeth F. Chamberlain

25. Archival Materials: Essayism as a Process of Witness, Care and Reckoning

Julija Sukys

26. The Essay as Trans Body

Glenn Michael Gordon

27. Why the (Animal) Essay Matters

Paolo Bugliani



Contemporary Essayists in Focus

David Shields

Jamaica Kincaid



Notes on Contributors

Index

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