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...
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 se...
Ils ont debarque dans ma vie sans prevenir. Une avant-veille de Noel, en 1997. De quoi perturber quelque peu le programme des fetes. Et tout le reste d'ailleurs. Car ces deux momes, des Caboclos de Manaus au parcours chaotique, ne ressemblaient en rien aux enfants que j'avais l'habitude de recruter. Sauvages, charmeurs, deroutants donc fascinants. Tout nous opposait, a l'exception de notre langue...
Markets and Ideology in the City of London is the first fieldwork-based sociological study of how participants in City of London financial markets view the markets in which they work and the market mechanism in general. But it is more than a narrow study of financial market participants because it is also an empirical investigation into how ideologies function and it develops a critique of pro-market ideologies such as 'Thatcherism'. Finally, it is one of a small number of sociological studies into the privileged world of high earners and the wealthy - sociologists too frequently study the...
Markets and Ideology in the City of London is the first fieldwork-based sociological study of how participants in City of London financial markets vie...
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...
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 se...
In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions. He sets his work apart as both in the essay and of the essay by throwing himself into the form's past.
In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety thr...
