The American Scholar Reader
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Author |
: Michelle Kuo |
Publisher |
: Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2017-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781447286066 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1447286065 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading With Patrick by : Michelle Kuo
As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later, Michelle left to go to law school; but Patrick began to lose his way, ending up jailed for murder. And that’s when Michelle decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, and soon every day, to read with him again. Reading with Patrick is an inspirational story of friendship, a coming-of-age story for both a young teacher and a student, an expansive, deeply resonant meditation on education, race and justice, and a love letter to literature and its power to transcend social barriers.
Author |
: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 142 |
Release |
: 1901 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433074816277 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Scholar by : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author |
: Hiram Collins Haydn |
Publisher |
: Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 548 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781412849029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1412849020 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Scholar Reader by : Hiram Collins Haydn
Author |
: Michael Dirda |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 170 |
Release |
: 2015-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781605988450 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1605988456 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Browsings by : Michael Dirda
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). His latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on a life in literature. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace. Dirda's topics are equally diverse: literary pets, the lost art of cursive writing, book inscriptions, the pleasures of science fiction conventions, author photographs, novelists in old age, Oberlin College, a year in Marseille, writer's block, and much more. As admirers of his earlier books will expect, there are annotated lists galore—of perfect book titles, great adventure novels, favorite words, books about books, and beloved children's classics, as well as a revealing peek at the titles Michael keeps on his own nightstand.Funny and erudite, Browsings is a celebration of the reading life, a fan's notes, and the perfect gift for any booklover.
Author |
: Christopher Morley |
Publisher |
: Franklin Classics Trade Press |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2018-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0344126080 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780344126086 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where the Blue Begins by : Christopher Morley
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author |
: Kenneth Sacks |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2003-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691099828 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691099820 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Emerson by : Kenneth Sacks
Publisher Description
Author |
: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 30 |
Release |
: 2016-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1540369978 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781540369970 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Scholar (1838) by by : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature." Following this groundbreaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence."
Author |
: Christina Thompson |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2019-03-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062060891 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062060899 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sea People by : Christina Thompson
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.
Author |
: Arthur Krystal |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 153 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190272371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190272376 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Thing We Call Literature by : Arthur Krystal
This Thing We Call Literature collects ten essays from the combative, cantankerous cultural critic Arthur Krystal. The essays in this compact volume, mostly coming from The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Chronicle of Higher Education--all share Krystal's conviction that literature and the humanities more broadly are going down the tubes"
Author |
: Hilton Kramer |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780029176412 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0029176417 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Criterion Reader by : Hilton Kramer
Gathers essays about modernism, Marxist criticism art patronage, Wallace Stevens, Picasso, Aaron Copland, Michel Foucault, Barbara Pym, Richard Serra, and Cindy Sherman.