The Moment of the Essay: Australian Letters and the Personal Essay
Daniel Juckes
We are living in the moment of the essay. The past two decades have witnessed an explosion in essays that interrogate personal experience; contemporary Australian writers are using their lives to think through the ways we connect, remember, and live, whilst navigating the relationships we have with humans and nonhumans alike.
In The Moment of the Essay, Daniel Juckes considers the strategies the essay form offers for reflection and sense-making. He also takes on the moment of encounter between reader and text, and argues that this moment provides crucial opportunity, within the incessant demands of our culture, for meeting one another.
Daniel Juckes is a Lecturer in Creative Writing and the editor of Westerly Magazine at the University of Western Australia.
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The Vignettes series from UWAP is aimed at sharing the knowledges that are emerging in the contemporary university and that consider the complexities of modern life. Each book provides an image, or a vignette, of a particular phenomenon and how this is being thought through by intellectual practitioners in today’s academy.
Book details
ISBN: 978-1-76080-274-5
PUBLICATION DATE: 12 November 2024
FORMAT: B format paperback, 0.3kg, 165x120mm
EXTENT: 120 pages
RIGHTS: World
CATEGORY: non-fiction, scholarly, humanities, literary studies
PRICE: $22.99 AUD incl GST