The Essay

  • The Essay: A Novel
    By Robin Yocum

    When she finished truck-driving school, she said, she planned to leave Vinton County with a one-eyed truck driver—whose CB radio handle was Cyclops—named John Phillips, of Worcester, Massachusetts.

  • The Essay
    By Michael F. Shugrue

    Not until 1978 would a gallery , the Pfeifer Gallery in New York , hang an historical selection of photographs of the male nude . The struggle to erase the blush from the male body has run up against a major obstacle : the public .

  • The Essay: An Introduction
    By Robert DiYanni

    Originally published as part of Robert DiYanni's Literature, fourth edition, The Essay serves those Introduction to Literature courses that cover this genre in addition to Poetry, Fiction, and Drama. It...

  • The Essay: Old and New
    By Edward P. J. Corbett, Sheryl L. Finkle

    ... springs eternal or , taking the cynic's part , you may mark P. T. Bar- num as an astute psychologist for his ... hoax turned into cultural history , now lies on display in a shed behind a barn at the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown , New ...

  • The Essay: Theory and Pedagogy for an Active Form
    By Paul Heilker

    Calling for a radical reexamination of the traditional foundation of composition instruction--the thesis/support form, this book argues that the essay, with its informality, conversational tone, meditative mood, and integration of...