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Spring 2008-09

ENG 694: History of Essay

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Instructor: Dinty W. Moore


Course Description

This course will look at both the historical essay and at contemporary pairings to see how the essay impulse has continued and transformed.

Course Readings

  • We will likely use G. Douglas Atkins' Reading Essays as our primary text. Other readings might include Montaigne, Bacon, Hazlitt, Swift, Thoreau, Woolf, Didion, Orwell, Baldwin, and others. Student creative work will be involved as well.

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