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The Pensive Citadel
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The Pensive Citadel

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 0226828662
ISBN-13 9780226828664
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 6th, 2023
Print length 192 Pages
Weight 384 grams
Dimensions 31.40 x 25.50 x 2.10 cms
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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.

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