Purpura’s 2006 book of lyric essays, On Looking, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was ... her insistence on the delicacy of decay. And in the end, the essay implies, the buzzard waits for us. ... previous book of essays, On Looking, drew power from narratives, historical references, and emotional ...
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faithfulness to the History of All Previous Thought. Thus this essay is that oldest and most idiosyncratic of ... literary forms, an anatomy. It is, literally, a sketch of the origins and continuity of romanticism: one ... faced by post romantic systematizers like Bellow or Barth, and is caught on the same polarities of ...
doing so by creating a single-purpose website for one of her essays: This wasn’t my idea. It was ... could work in any piecemeal form on Salon, she asked, “Why don’t you self-publish?” This was the best ... Susannah Breslin’s idea, as told to me by Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com. After I asked Tracy if this piece ...
me, is when I began to get a handle on, at least for myself, of what my individ ual ... expression of that vision. And that's why I think it's interesting to go from genre to ... genre in literary forms. Because each one can be a different vehicle for a vision, for modulating your ...
occasion of an essay. In paragraph two on page one, a student may write about a trip to the lake. But by ... common trap of repeating my mistakes. So I wrote this brief essay on how cold it was that morning, and ... Desirae Matherly Tuesday, November 4, 2014 Craft Essay There are two kinds of surprises I’ve found ...
questions it raises. There is, as Barth himself suggests in his essay "The Literature of ... Exhaustion," no intrinsic necessity for the novel as a form to endure, much less a genre of it such as the ... a Form, (Columbus: Ohio University Press, 1982), p. 211. Three articles on contemporary epistolary ...
of warfare and conquest forms the very fingerprint of the town. In my writing, I have learned to ... the chatter embedded in my frontal lobe. For this video essay, I tried to rely less on words and ideas ... heart of it was more personal than cultural. Dinty W. Moore Monday, January 16, 2012 Video Essay Issue ...
essential finds-Kinbote's name, Zembla, Pope's Essay on Man, Timon of Athens-and be misled ... a book on Pope), and she wisely and carefully examined the text of Pope's Essay on Man and found ... conveyed that he or she saw what was "going on" in Pale Fire. The danger of the tricks ...
thoughtfully made that possible by writing an essay on the subject, "The Literature of ... more extreme form of literary far-outness delineated here by Shapiro. In Barth's 1967 essay ... fiction Gerald Graff I can't think of a better way to address a conference on John Barth and the ...
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activated by will, and its expression took the form of the corrup tion of the consciousness of others by ... manipulating it to serve selfish interests. (Pound, in his long essay on james, called it "personal ... impress" humans make on each other. When someone abuses this power of affecting the shaping of ...
