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Author : Victor Brombert
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023
The Pensive Citadel written by Victor Brombert and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with College teachers categories.
"Victor Brombert's title, borrowed from William Wordsworth's ingenious metaphor, "the pensive citadel," refers to the singular world of universities. In essays on the paradoxical nature of laughter, the art of rereading, Shakespeare, Montaigne (his model as essayist), and more, Brombert reflects on a lifetime of learning whose institutional supports have greatly changed since he began his university career in the 1950s. Yet, as Christy Wampole writes in her foreword, for all that has changed, so much of Brombert's long experience as a reader and teacher is richly familiar: "the angst of not doing enough during one's sabbatical, the stage fright before an important lecture, or the recurrent teaching-related nightmares. But also the good things: the joy of learning from one's students, of discovering something new each time you reread a book whose meanings you thought you'd depleted, or of realizing that you've changed the lives of many through your vocation." A veteran of D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge who witnessed history's worst nightmares first hand, Brombert nevertheless approaches literature with a lightness of spirit, making the case for intellectual mobility and an openness to change. Indeed, the central section of this deeply pleasurable book, entitled "The Ludic Mode," stresses the playful aspect of all serious commerce with ideas, of all good teaching and good learning"--
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Author : Victor Brombert
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-10-06
The Pensive Citadel written by Victor Brombert and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Patriot A Tragedy
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Author : George Stephens
language : en
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Release Date : 1849
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Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Suspiria De Profundis
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
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Release Date : 1864
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The Works Of Francis Bacon Lord Chancellor Of England
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Author : Francis Bacon
language : en
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Release Date : 1841
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Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-08-30
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Beauties Selected From The Writings Of Thomas De Quincey
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
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Release Date : 1879
Beauties Selected From The Writings Of Thomas De Quincey written by Thomas De Quincey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with English essays categories.
De Quincey S Writings Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Suspiria De Profundis Stereotyped Ed 1853
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
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Release Date : 1853
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Proceedings Of The International Congress Of Education Of The World S Columbian Exposition Chicago July 25 28 1893
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Author : International Congress of Education
language : en
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Release Date : 1895
Proceedings Of The International Congress Of Education Of The World S Columbian Exposition Chicago July 25 28 1893 written by International Congress of Education and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Education categories.
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
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Release Date : 1885
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