The Pensive Citadel LIT-CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

The Pensive Citadel LIT-CONTEMPORARY LITERATUREA reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor. In The Pensive Citadel, 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 Bromberts 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

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