Portrait Essays: People in Words

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FilmPublisher number: 1406764 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 2016Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

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Jennifer Cognard-BlackSummary: 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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Jennifer Cognard-Black

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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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