TY - BOOK ID - 118264798 TI - The Edinburgh companion to the essay AU - Aquilina, Mario AU - Wallack, Nicole B. AU - Cowser, Bob PY - 2023 SN - 1474486037 1474486045 1474486029 PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. KW - Essay. KW - Literary sketch KW - Sketch, Literary UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118264798 AB - Thirty-five leading essayists, literary critics and writing instructors explore the essay from multiple perspectives, including its theories, forms and histories as well as its cultural, political and pedagogical contexts. In particular, the volume extends the theory of the essay by addressing topics such as the construction of an essayistic self and the political dimensions of essaying. It further explores the relationship between the essay and other forms, such as philosophical writing, the column, science writing, the novel, the lyric and the advert as well as the essay in digital spaces. ER -