Ideas Across Time gives depth to students' writing by helping them make connections between their contemporary world and the important ideas that have shaped it. Beginning with a contemporary selection that ties the chapter's idea to the student's experience, each chapter proceeds to introduce students to significant and influential writers and thinkers. Thoughtful and provoking reading apparatus helps students understand challenging concepts, encourages them to develop ideas in their writing, and prompts them to research new questions.

Ideas across Time

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Webb, Igor

Words, Language & Grammar

McGraw–Hill Education

'A volume of belles-lettres'...\n'Igor Webb has written a light-touch (but not light-weight) book. With its knowingness, self-awareness and deconstructive focus, its anti-genre or non-genre composition, its un-self-defensive irony, it could only have been written now, yet it is sweetly old-fashioned: this fine critic and memoirist has produced a collection of essays, a volume of belles-lettres, like some of the books by Huxley and Edmund Wilson. It does not seek to be integrated and yet it is a whole thanks to the projection of a charming and seductive voice, whether writing about his friends, Robert Hass and Philip Roth, or a childhood favourite, such as Captain Hornblower, while taking in Dickens, the Brontes and James Bond en route — or the pandemic in journal form. Webb has produced an instructive and entertaining book that is deeply serious and yet does not take itself seriously.' — Anthony Rudolf\nAlso by Igor Webb: Christopher Smart's Cat: 'Marvelous...inventingly told, full of intelligence, funny, often with a novelistic flair...as much like a literary miscellany as a memoir, with both genres having equally impressive heft.' — Philip Roth

Buster Brown's America: Recollections, Reveries, Reflections — and incorporating This Old Writer: A Journal of a Plague Year.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Odd Volumes

Literary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. This is a book about displacement, flight, settlement and resettlement, about "life and death in the Pannonian plain," as Igor Webb writes, appropriating the old Roman name for today's Central Europe in order to identify the geographical place as also the metaphorical center, the crossroads, of twentieth century history and culture. Told from the vantage point of those, like the author, who were children in the Holocaust, the book is a beautifully crafted meditation on great writers--from Virginia Woolf to W.G. Sebald, from Philip Roth to Danilo Kiš--as well as a gripping tale alive with remarkable characters. None more remarkable than Christopher Smart (1722-1771), whose ecstatic verse mysteriously provides the book with its title.

Christopher Smart's Cat

Biographies & Memoirs

Dos Madres Press

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