1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461143603321

Titolo

After Montaigne : contemporary essayists cover the essays / / edited by David Lazar and Patrick Madden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : University of Georgia Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8203-4817-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MontaigneMichel de <1533-1592.>

Disciplina

814/.6

Soggetti

American essays - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. To the Reader, Sincerely; 2. Of Liars; 3. Of the Education of Children; 4. Of Prayers; 5. Of Thumbs; 6. Of Smells; 7. Of Cannibals; 8. How the Soul Discharges Its Emotions Against False Objects When Lacking Real Ones; 9. Of Constancy; 10. Of Giving the Lie; 11. Of Friendship; 12. Of Idleness; 13. Against Idleness; 14. Of the Affection of Fathers for Their Children; 15. Of Wearing My Red Dress [after "Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes"]; 16. Of the Power of the Imagination; 17. That Our Mind Hinders Itself; 18. Of Books and Huecos

19. Of Diversion20. Of Sex, Embarrassment, and the Miseries of Old Age [after "On Some Verses of Virgil"]; 21. Of Sleep; 22. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness; 23. Of Solitude; 24. Of Age; 25. Of Practice; 26. The Ceremony of the Interview of Princes; 27. We Can Savour Nothing Pure; 28. Experience Necessary; Notes; A Note on the Translations; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne -a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute- aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers



to their stylistic forebear. Though it's been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigne's writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of self-explora

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777712803321

Autore

Hāla

Titolo

Poems on life and love in ancient India : Hāla's Sattasaī / / translated from the Prakrit and introduced by Peter Khoroche and Herman Tieken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : Excelsior Editions, c2009

ISBN

0-7914-9401-2

1-4416-0776-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in Hindu studies

Altri autori (Persone)

KhorochePeter

TiekenHerman Joseph Hugo <1952->

Disciplina

891/.3

Soggetti

Love poetry, Prakrit

Prakrit poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-212).

Sommario/riassunto

The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kamasutra.