Beyond Argument Essaying as a Practice of (Ex)Change

Beyond Argument offers an in-depth examination of how current ways of thinking about the writer-page relation in personal essays can be reconceived according to practices in the care of the self — an ethic by which writers such as Seneca, Montaigne, and Nietzsche lived. This approach promises to rei...

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Main Author: Allen, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] WAC Clearinghouse [2015]
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