Writing and Reading the Essay
21W.735 · Comparative Media Studies/Writing · Undergraduate · Fall 2005
Dr. Rebecca Blevins Faery
This is a course focused on the literary genre of the essay, that wide-ranging, elastic, and currently very popular form that attracts not only nonfiction writers but also fiction writers, poets, scientists, physicians, and others to write in the form, and readers of every stripe to read it. Some say we are living in era in which the essay is enjoying a renaissance; certainly essays, both short and long, are at present easier to get published than are short stories or novels, and essays are fea…
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