Montaigne’s iEssays/i are treasured for their philosophical and moral insights and the fascinating portrait they give us of the man who wrote them, but another of their undoubted delights is that they tantalize the reader, offering beneath an apparent disorder some hints of a hidden plan. After all, though the essayist kept adding new pages, except when he added the third and final book he never added a new chapter, but worked within the structure already in place.
iOrder in Disorder: Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne’s “Essais,”/i by Randolph Paul...
Montaigne’s iEssays/i are treasured for their philosophical and moral insights and the fascinating portrait they give us of the man who wrote...
The fox and the crow, the tortoise and the hare, the hen that laid the golden eggs - all of these familiar characters, and more, are present and accounted for in this complete translation of La Fontaine's fables. Runyon's translation is delightfully fresh and faithful to the original French. He brings new life to these timeless tales. "Dr. Randy Runyon brings La Fontaine's fables alive for a new generation of English readers. Moving from the rhyme-rich, late seventeenth-century French to rhyme-poor English, he employs the couplet to maintain surprising, apt and often humorous rhyme patterns...
The fox and the crow, the tortoise and the hare, the hen that laid the golden eggs - all of these familiar characters, and more, are present and accou...
Robert Penn Warren's reputation as a poet, though always considerable, has soared in the last decade, as indicated by his recent selection as America's first poet laureate. The Braided Dream is one of the first book-length studies of the poetry that has led to Warren's recent rise to eminence and the first to consider his final collection, Altitudes and Extensions.
In a communicable, jargon-free style that will appeal to the nonacademic reader as well as the serious scholar, Randolph Paul Runyon provides a detailed and illuminating guide to a body of poetry that,...
Robert Penn Warren's reputation as a poet, though always considerable, has soared in the last decade, as indicated by his recent selection as Ameri...
The stubborn silence of text passed down from fathers to their sons is examined in this highly original study of Robert Penn Warren's fiction. In every case, that text-whether a letter, a poem, a handbill or a wink-refuses to disclose what the son who reads it wants to know. This recurring scene, clearly inscribed in the plot of each of the novels, gives coherence to Warren's art and at the same time writes the reader into the story. We become the protagonist son, and the questions he asks are the ones we too want to ask. And to gain access to the text, we must learn to decipher what Warren...
The stubborn silence of text passed down from fathers to their sons is examined in this highly original study of Robert Penn Warren's fiction. In ever...
Though they were not, as Charlotte claimed, refugees from the French Revolution, Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle undoubtedly felt like exiles in their adopted hometown of Lexington, Kentucky -- a settlement that was still a frontier town when they arrived in 1798. Through the years, the cultured Parisian couple often reinvented themselves out of necessity, but their most famous venture was Mentelle's for Young Ladies, an intellectually rigorous school that attracted students from around the region and greatly influenced its most well-known pupil, Mary Todd...
Though they were not, as Charlotte claimed, refugees from the French Revolution, Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle undoubtedly felt...
