The Pensive Citadel - Couverture rigide

Brombert, Victor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0226828662 ISBN 13 : 9780226828664

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Victor Brombert is the Henry Putnam University Professor Emeritus of Romance and Comparative Literatures at Princeton University and the author of many books.

Christy Wampole is assistant professor of French at Princeton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226828662
• ISBN 13: 9780226828664
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible