The making of the American essay
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Main title:
The making of the American essay / edited and introduced by John D'Agata
Author:
Imprint:
Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, 2016
Notes:
CC/AE
Contents:
For my dear son Simon Bradstreet / Anne Bradstreet -- The narrative of the captivity / Mary Rowlandson -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards -- On snakes : and on the humming-bird / J. Hector St. John -- A history of New York / Washington Irving -- Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Walking / Henry David Thoreau -- The whiteness of the whale / Herman Melville -- A chapter on autography / Edgar Allan Poe -- To recipient unknown / Emily Dickinson -- The weather : does it sympathize with these times? -- Walt Whitman -- A Matisse / William Carlos Williams -- The dry salvages / T.S. Eliot -- Of the coming of John / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Letters from the earth / Mark Twain -- All the numbers from Numbers / Kenneth Goldsmith -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- If I told him : a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein -- In a cafeĢ / Laura Riding Jackson -- Testimony : the United States / Charles Reznikoff -- The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Brooklyn is / James Agee -- What else / Walter Abish -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- Lecture on nothing / John Cage -- In the fifties / Leonard Michaels -- The yellow bus / Lillian Ross -- Ten thousand words a minute / Norman Mailer -- The fight : Patterson vs. Liston / James Baldwin -- The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby / Tom Wolfe -- Frank Sinatra has a cold / Gay Talese -- In the heart of the heart of the country / William Gass -- The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- I remember / Joe Brainard -- Sentence / Donald Barthelme -- Signified / Susan Steinberg -- Brownstone / Renata Adler -- Humility / Kathy Acker -- Elliptical / Harryette Mullen
ISBN:
9781555977344
Dewey class:
814.508
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
56584
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| McNally Campus | MA CREATIVE WRITING AE | 814.508 MAK | Available |
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