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The Pensive Citadel
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Engelsk Hardback

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A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor. In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in the 1940s. Yet for all that has changed, much of Brombert’s long experience as a reader and teacher is richly familiar: the rewards of rereading, the joy of learning from students, and most of all the insight to be found in engaging works of literature. The essays gathered here range from meditations on laughter and jealousy to new appreciations of Brombert’s lifelong companions Shakespeare, Montaigne, Voltaire, and Stendhal.  A veteran of D-day and the Battle of the Bulge who witnessed history’s worst nightmares firsthand, Brombert nevertheless approaches literature with a lightness of spirit, making the case for intellectual mobility and openness to change. The Pensive Citadel is a celebration of a life lived in literary study, and of what can be learned from attending to the works that form one’s cultural heritage.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
192
ISBN-13:
9780226828664
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226828662
Udg. Dato:
6 okt 2023
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
255mm
Højde:
314mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
6 okt 2023
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