| Description |
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 184 pages ; 19 cm). |
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digital optical Dolby digital rda |
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laser optical NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
| Note |
"Course no. 2521." |
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Accompanied by the course guidebook of the same title. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. 1. Steal, adopt, adapt : where essays begin -- 2. Memory maps and your essay's direction -- 3. Secrets, confession, and a writer's voice -- 4. The skeptical essayist : conflicting views -- 5. The reasonable essayist : artistic proofs -- 6. The unreasonable essayist : strategic irony -- Disc. 2. 7. The empathetic essayist : evoking emotion -- 8. When an essayist's feelings face facts -- 9. Unabashedly me : the first-person essay -- 10. Essayists as poets : tapping into imagery -- 11. The visual essay : words + pictures -- 12. Writing inch by inch : from draft to polish -- Disc 3. 13. Short forms : microessays and prose poems -- 14. The memoir essay -- 15. Lyric essays : writing that sings -- 16. The epistolary essay : letters to the world -- 17. Portrait essays : people in words -- 18. The essayist as public intellectual -- Disc 4. 19. Polemical essays : one-sided arguments -- 20. Historical essays : past as present -- 21. Humor essays -- 22. Nature essays -- 23. Food essays : my grandmother's recipe box -- 24. Sharing your essays : from blog to book. |
| Performer |
Jennifer Cognard-Black, lecturer. |
| System Details |
DVD video, Dolby digital, NTSC. |
| Subject |
Essay -- Authorship.
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Essay -- Authorship. |
| Added Author |
Cognard-Black, Jennifer, 1969- instructor.
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Teaching Company, production company.
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| ISBN |
9781629972923 |
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1629972924 |
| Music No. |
ID2521A-01 Great Courses |
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