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We Might As Well Call It the Lyric Essay

We Might As Well Call It the Lyric Essay
Author: John D'Agata
Publisher: Hobart & William Smith College Press / Seneca Review Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-05
Genre: American essays
ISBN: 9781495123948

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"The Hobart and William Smith Colleges literary journal, Seneca Review, recently released a special anthology, We Might As Well Call It The Lyric Essay, edited by John D'Agata '95, associate professor of English at the University of Iowa. The double issue was initially envisioned as a compilation of D'Agata's favorite essays from Seneca Review, in celebration of his 15th year as the magazine's lyric essay editor. But the project developed into a year-long course at Iowa in which D'Agata enlisted his students to help choose and edit an anthology to showcase the genre, if not define it." -- Publisher's website.


The Lyric Essay as Resistance

The Lyric Essay as Resistance
Author: Zoë Bossiere
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0814349617

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Their work demonstrates the power of the lyric essay to bring about change, both on the page and in our communities.


Crafting the Lyric Essay

Crafting the Lyric Essay
Author: Heidi Czerwiec
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2024-03-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1350383023

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The first craft guide to the lyric essay form, this book combines hybrid craft essays that embody the key elements discussed, with more traditional craft essays that review relevant lyric theory, craft and history. An orientation to a form that is critical and creative, practical and accessible, Heidi Czerwiec centers the lyric essay on the lyre, on lyric mode, focusing on the resonances of sound, silence and image at the level of language. With topics including sound effects, imagery development, lateral movement, white space, fragmentation, using poetic craft and forms, and pedagogy, this book connects the dots between lyric theory and practice, offering the beginnings of a critical framework for a form that has been vastly undertheorized until now. An essential guide to this exciting and popular hybrid form, Crafting the Lyric Essay will invigorate the study and writing of creative non-fiction.


The Cambridge Companion to The Essay

The Cambridge Companion to The Essay
Author: Kara Wittman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316519775

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The book studies the history and theory of the essay and its social, political, and aesthetic contexts.


A Harp in the Stars

A Harp in the Stars
Author: Randon Billings Noble
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021
Genre: American essays
ISBN: 1496229207

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What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of these? Or something else entirely? The works in this anthology show lyric essays rely more on intuition than exposition, use image more than narration, and question more than answer. But despite all this looseness, the lyric essay still has responsibilities—to try to reveal something, to play with ideas, or to show a shift in thinking, however subtle. The whole of a lyric essay adds up to more than the sum of its parts. In A Harp in the Stars, Randon Billings Noble has collected lyric essays written in four different forms—flash, segmented, braided, and hermit crab—from a range of diverse writers. The collection also includes a section of craft essays—lyric essays about lyric essays. And because lyric essays can be so difficult to pin down, each contributor has supplemented their work with a short meditation on this boundary-breaking form.


Don't Let Me Be Lonely

Don't Let Me Be Lonely
Author: Claudia Rankine
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2024-07-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1644452561

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A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. Fusing the lyric, the essay, and the visual, Rankine negotiates the enduring anxieties of medicated depression, race riots, divisive elections, terrorist attacks, and ongoing wars—doom scrolling through the daily news feeds that keep us glued to our screens and that have come to define our age. First published in 2004, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a hauntingly prescient work, one that has secured a permanent place in American literature. This new edition is presented in full color with updated visuals and text, including a new preface by the author, and matches the composition of Rankine’s best-selling and award-winning Citizen and Just Us as the first book in her acclaimed American trilogy. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness—a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.


Anne Carson

Anne Carson
Author: Elizabeth Sarah Coles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2023
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0197680917

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"The scene with which I begin this chapter is the kind of scene that interests Carson. In the words of her 'Essay on What I Think About Most' (1999), a disquisition on mistake in stanzas of unrhyming verse, the 'wilful creation of error' is the action of the 'master contriver' - the poet: 'what Aristotle would call an "imitator" of reality'. Like the 'true mistakes of poetry', the matter Carson confesses to 'think about most', Streb's choreographed falls perform the conversion of human error into an art form. Under the dancer's regime, and by an extraordinary coup of artifice, the emotions of mistake - shame, exposure, thrill - are handed to us, putting our own contradictions and 'odd longings' centre-stage"--


The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing

The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing
Author: Amy Monticello
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000898253

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The stories of lived experience offer powerful representations of a nation’s complex and often fractured identity. Personal narratives have taken many forms in American literature. From the letters and journals of the famous and the lesser known to the memoirs of former slaves to hit true crime podcasts to lyric essays to the curated archives we keep on social media, life writing has been a tool of both the influential and the disenfranchised to spark cultural and political evolution, to help define the larger identity of the nation, and to claim a sense of belonging within it. Taken together, individual stories of real American lives weave a tapestry of history, humanity, and art while raising questions about the veracity of memory and the slippery nature of truth. This volume surveys the forms of life writing that have contributed to the richness of American literature and shaped American discourse. It examines life writing as a rhetorical tool for social change and explores how technological advancement has allowed ordinary Americans to chronicle and share their lives with others.


The Science of Story

The Science of Story
Author: Sean Prentiss
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1350083909

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Bringing together a diverse range of writers, The Science of Story is the first book to ask the question: what can contemporary brain science teach us about the art and craft of creative nonfiction writing? Drawing on the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience the book sheds new light on some of the most important elements of the writer's craft, from perspective and truth to emotion and metaphor. The Science of Story explores such questions as: · Why do humans tell stories? · How do we remember and misremember our lives - and what does this mean for storytelling? · What is the value of writing about trauma? · How do stories make us laugh, or cry, make us angry or triumphant? Contributors: Nancer Ballard, Mike Branch, Frank Bures, J.T. Bushnell, Katharine Coles, Christopher Cokinos, Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Lazar, Lawrence Lenhart, Alan Lightman, Dave Madden, Jessica Hendry Nelson, Richard Powers, Sean Prentiss, Julie Wittes Schlack, Valerie Sweeney Prince, Ira Sukrungruang, Nicole Walker, Wendy S. Walters, Marco Wilkinson, Amy Wright.


The Making of the American Essay

The Making of the American Essay
Author: John D'Agata
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 821
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1555977340

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"Now, with "The making of the American essay' the editor includes selections ranging from Anne Bradstreet's secular prayers to Washington Irving's satires, Emily Dickinson's love letters to Kenneth Goldsmith's catalog's, Gertrude Stein's portraits to James Baldwin's and Norman Mailer's mediations on boxing. In this volume the editor uncovers new stories in the American essay's past and shows us that some of the most fiercely daring writers in the American literary canon have turned to the essay in order to produce some of our culture's most exhilarating art."-- book jacket.