Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Book clubs
ISBN : 0743202627
A collection of 45 columns and essays by the three eminent writers, originally written for the bulletin of the Readers' Subscription Book Club.
Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1986
Category : College teaching
ISBN : 9780819154477
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Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0060935421
Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist From Dawn to Decadence, has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility with words. Now Michael Murray has carefully selected eighty of Barzun's most inventive, accomplished, and insightful essays, and compiled them in one impressive volume. With subjects ranging from history to baseball to crime novels, A Jacques Barzun Reader is a feast for any reader.
Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226038520
Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the modern ego.
Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 2002-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0060102306
In this international bestseller, originally published in 1959, Jacques Barzun, acclaimed author of From Dawn to Decadence, takes on the whole intellectual -- or pseudo-intellectual -- world, attacking it for its betrayal of Intellect. "Intellect is despised and neglected," Barzun says, "yet intellectuals are well paid and riding high." He details this great betrayal in such areas as public administrations, communications, conversation and home life, education, business, and scholarship. In this edition's new Preface, Jacques Barzun discussess the intense -- and controversial -- reaction the world had to The House of Intellect.
Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691216339
From the celebrated cultural historian and bestselling author, a provocative history of the evolution of our ideas about art since the early nineteenth century In this witty, provocative, and learned book, acclaimed cultural historian and writer Jacques Barzun traces our changing attitudes to the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that we are living in a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance. He challenges our conceptions and misconceptions about art “in order to reach a conclusion about its value and its drawbacks for life at the present time.”
Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 1989-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819562371
The essence of culture is interpenetration. From any part of it the searching eye will discover connections with another part seemingly remote. If from my descriptions the reader finds this wide-angled view sharpened or expanded, my purpose in publishing these pages will have been served.
Author : Michael Murray
Publisher : Frederic C. Beil Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 9781929490417
This is the story of the career and ideas of one of the twentieth-century's leading intellectuals. Jacques Barzun was the author of some thirty books of biography, history, and cultural criticism, among them the best-sellers "The House of Intellect," an indictment of governmental and foundation interference with the autonomy of scholars and universities, and "From Dawn to Decadence," an argument that the West was falling into decay and incapacity.
Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.
Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher :
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :
