Portrait Essays: People in Words.
One of the most important parts of portrait essays is to understand that any depiction of another person whether a famous stranger or a family member is also a depiction of the writer. With this lecture, you'll delve into this dynamic between a subject and its writer and examine this power stru...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Great Courses,
2016.
Kanopy Streaming, 2018. |
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| Summary: | One of the most important parts of portrait essays is to understand that any depiction of another person whether a famous stranger or a family member is also a depiction of the writer. With this lecture, you'll delve into this dynamic between a subject and its writer and examine this power struggle as it plays out in a portrait essay. Using examples from Truman Capote and Scott Russell Sanders, you'll see how your own anxieties and prejudices can come through in an essay focused entirely on someone else. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time: | 00:31:46 |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |