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This developmental rhetoric with readings emphasizes prewriting, drafting, and proofreading with step-by-step instruction, progressing from paragraph to essay and from personal to public concerns.
The clipboards, the children's books, the letters, assessments, and bibliography of American writer White (b. 1899) are the topics of the 29 essays, some commissioned for the collection and others reprinted. No subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This in-depth study of the essay as a form of literary and philosophical expression examines the links between essay writing and the concept of friendship over a long textual tradition running from Plato's Phaedrus through Montaigne's Essais to Derrida's Politiques de l'amitié. Literary critic and philosopher Kuisma Korhonen suggests that the search for textual friendship motivates essayists as diverse as Bacon, Saint-Évremond, Mme de Lambert, Emerson, and Derrida. All of these writers have written at least one essay about friendship, and in each case, Korhonen interprets the notion of friendship as a figure for the textual encounter, both between the writer and reader and between each tex...