{"product_id":"the-pensive-citadel-by-victor-brombert-9780226828664","title":"The Pensive Citadel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Pensive Citadel\u003c\/i\u003e, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI bill in the 1940s. Yet for all that has changed, so much of Brombert’s long experience as a reader and teacher is richly familiar: the rewards of rereading, the joy of learning from students, and most of all the insight to be found in engaging works of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays gathered here range from meditations on laughter and jealousy to new appreciations of Brombert’s lifelong companions Shakespeare, Montaigne, Voltaire, and Stendhal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA veteran of D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge who witnessed history’s worst nightmares firsthand, Brombert nevertheless approaches literature with a lightness of spirit, making the case for intellectual mobility and an openness to change. \u003ci\u003eThe Pensive Citadel\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of a life lived in literary study, and of what can be learned from attending to the works that form one’s cultural heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855887388908,"sku":"9780226828664","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20514923482268.jpg?v=1759281900","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-pensive-citadel-by-victor-brombert-9780226828664","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}