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Creator

Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012

Contributor

Murray, Michael, 1941-

Language: eng

Work

Publication

New York, HarperCollins, c2002

Edition: 1st ed.

Extent: xxii, 615 p.

Note: Includes index

Contents

The
American commencement
9.
On France and the French.
Paris in 1830
Food for the NRF
French and its vagaries
Flaubert's Dictionary of accepted ideas
10.
On crime, true and make-believe.
The
imagination of the real
aesthetics of the criminous
Rex Stout
A
catalogue of crime
Why read crime fiction?--
The
place and point of "true crime"
Meditations on the literature of spying
11. A
miscellany.
Cultural history : a synthesis
Definitions
Jottings
Clerihews
Ars poetica
Alfred North Whitehead
William James : the mind as artist
Thomas Beddoes, M.D.
Science and scientism
Myths for materialists
3.
On what critics argue about.
1.
Criticism : an art or a craft?
The
scholar-critic
James Agate and his nine egos
The
grand pretense
On sentimentality
Samuel Butler
On romanticism
Dorothy Sayers
On a pragmatic view of life.
John Jay Chapman
Remembering Lionel Trilling
4.
On language and style.
Rhetoric : what it is : why needed
The
retort circumstantial
The
necessity of a common tongue
The
Toward a fateful serenity.
word "man"
On biography
Venus at large : sexuality and the limits of literature
Onoma, Onomato, Onomatwaddle
5.
On some classics.
Swift, or man's capacity for reason
Why Diderot?
William Hazlitt
How the romantics invented Shakespeare
2.
Bernard Shaw
Goethe's Faust
When the Orient was new : Byron, Kinglake, and Flaubert
The
permanence of Oscar Wilde
Bagehot as historian
Lincoln the literary artist
The
reign of William and Henry
6.
On the two ways of knowing : history and science.
On music and design.
Why opera?
Is music unspeakable?
Music for Europe : a travers chants
To praise Varèse
Delacroix
Visual evidence of a new age
Museum piece
Why art must be challenged
7.
The
On teaching and learning.
The
art of making teachers
Where the educational nonsense comes from
Occupational disease : verbal inflation
The
centrality of reading
The
tyranny of testing
History for beginners
search for truths
Of what use the classics today?
The
university's primary task
The
scholar is an institution -- Onomatwaddle
Exeunt the humanities
8.
On America past and present.
On baseball
Race : fact or fiction?
History as counter-method and anti-abstraction
Thoreau the thorough impressionist
The
railroad
The
great switch
Is Democratic theory for export?
Administering and the law
The
three enemies of intellect
An

Isbn: 9780066210193

Instance

Label: A Jacques Barzun reader : selections from his works

Title: A Jacques Barzun reader

Title remainder: selections from his works

Statement of responsibility: edited with an introduction by Michael Murray

Creator

Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012

Contributor

Murray, Michael, 1941-

Subject

Language: eng

Cataloging source: DLC

http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate: 1907-2012

http://library.link/vocab/creatorName: Barzun, Jacques

Dewey number: 909.82/07/2

Index: index present

LC call number: CB358

LC item number: .B29 2002

Literary form: non fiction

Nature of contents: bibliography

http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate: 1941-

http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName: Murray, Michael

http://library.link/vocab/subjectName

Barzun, Jacques
Civilization, Modern
Civilization, Modern
Civilization, Western
Social history
Criticism (Philosophy)
Culture
Humanities
Intellectual life
Learning and scholarship

Label: A Jacques Barzun reader : selections from his works, edited with an introduction by Michael Murray

Instantiates

A Jacques Barzun reader : selections from his works

Publication

New York, HarperCollins, c2002

Note: Includes index

Bibliography note: Bibliography: p. 599-604

Contents

The
American commencement
9.
On France and the French.
Paris in 1830
Food for the NRF
French and its vagaries
Flaubert's Dictionary of accepted ideas
10.
On crime, true and make-believe.
The
imagination of the real
aesthetics of the criminous
Rex Stout
A
catalogue of crime
Why read crime fiction?--
The
place and point of "true crime"
Meditations on the literature of spying
11. A
miscellany.
Cultural history : a synthesis
Definitions
Jottings
Clerihews
Ars poetica
Alfred North Whitehead
William James : the mind as artist
Thomas Beddoes, M.D.
Science and scientism
Myths for materialists
3.
On what critics argue about.
1.
Criticism : an art or a craft?
The
scholar-critic
James Agate and his nine egos
The
grand pretense
On sentimentality
Samuel Butler
On romanticism
Dorothy Sayers
On a pragmatic view of life.
John Jay Chapman
Remembering Lionel Trilling
4.
On language and style.
Rhetoric : what it is : why needed
The
retort circumstantial
The
necessity of a common tongue
The
Toward a fateful serenity.
word "man"
On biography
Venus at large : sexuality and the limits of literature
Onoma, Onomato, Onomatwaddle
5.
On some classics.
Swift, or man's capacity for reason
Why Diderot?
William Hazlitt
How the romantics invented Shakespeare
2.
Bernard Shaw
Goethe's Faust
When the Orient was new : Byron, Kinglake, and Flaubert
The
permanence of Oscar Wilde
Bagehot as historian
Lincoln the literary artist
The
reign of William and Henry
6.
On the two ways of knowing : history and science.
On music and design.
Why opera?
Is music unspeakable?
Music for Europe : a travers chants
To praise Varèse
Delacroix
Visual evidence of a new age
Museum piece
Why art must be challenged
7.
The
On teaching and learning.
The
art of making teachers
Where the educational nonsense comes from
Occupational disease : verbal inflation
The
centrality of reading
The
tyranny of testing
History for beginners
search for truths
Of what use the classics today?
The
university's primary task
The
scholar is an institution -- Onomatwaddle
Exeunt the humanities
8.
On America past and present.
On baseball
Race : fact or fiction?
History as counter-method and anti-abstraction
Thoreau the thorough impressionist
The
railroad
The
great switch
Is Democratic theory for export?
Administering and the law
The
three enemies of intellect
An

Control code: 000158174

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Edition: 1st ed.

Extent: xxii, 615 p.

Isbn: 9780066210193

Lccn: 2001024604

System control number

(Sirsi) 000158174
(OCoLC)46866217

Label: A Jacques Barzun reader : selections from his works, edited with an introduction by Michael Murray

Publication

New York, HarperCollins, c2002

Note: Includes index

Bibliography note: Bibliography: p. 599-604

Contents

The
American commencement
9.
On France and the French.
Paris in 1830
Food for the NRF
French and its vagaries
Flaubert's Dictionary of accepted ideas
10.
On crime, true and make-believe.
The
imagination of the real
aesthetics of the criminous
Rex Stout
A
catalogue of crime
Why read crime fiction?--
The
place and point of "true crime"
Meditations on the literature of spying
11. A
miscellany.
Cultural history : a synthesis
Definitions
Jottings
Clerihews
Ars poetica
Alfred North Whitehead
William James : the mind as artist
Thomas Beddoes, M.D.
Science and scientism
Myths for materialists
3.
On what critics argue about.
1.
Criticism : an art or a craft?
The
scholar-critic
James Agate and his nine egos
The
grand pretense
On sentimentality
Samuel Butler
On romanticism
Dorothy Sayers
On a pragmatic view of life.
John Jay Chapman
Remembering Lionel Trilling
4.
On language and style.
Rhetoric : what it is : why needed
The
retort circumstantial
The
necessity of a common tongue
The
Toward a fateful serenity.
word "man"
On biography
Venus at large : sexuality and the limits of literature
Onoma, Onomato, Onomatwaddle
5.
On some classics.
Swift, or man's capacity for reason
Why Diderot?
William Hazlitt
How the romantics invented Shakespeare
2.
Bernard Shaw
Goethe's Faust
When the Orient was new : Byron, Kinglake, and Flaubert
The
permanence of Oscar Wilde
Bagehot as historian
Lincoln the literary artist
The
reign of William and Henry
6.
On the two ways of knowing : history and science.
On music and design.
Why opera?
Is music unspeakable?
Music for Europe : a travers chants
To praise Varèse
Delacroix
Visual evidence of a new age
Museum piece
Why art must be challenged
7.
The
On teaching and learning.
The
art of making teachers
Where the educational nonsense comes from
Occupational disease : verbal inflation
The
centrality of reading
The
tyranny of testing
History for beginners
search for truths
Of what use the classics today?
The
university's primary task
The
scholar is an institution -- Onomatwaddle
Exeunt the humanities
8.
On America past and present.
On baseball
Race : fact or fiction?
History as counter-method and anti-abstraction
Thoreau the thorough impressionist
The
railroad
The
great switch
Is Democratic theory for export?
Administering and the law
The
three enemies of intellect
An

Control code: 000158174

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Edition: 1st ed.

Extent: xxii, 615 p.

Isbn: 9780066210193

Lccn: 2001024604

System control number

(Sirsi) 000158174
(OCoLC)46866217

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