This is book II in a three volume series with a broad view of Western world literature. This volume, as the title would imply covers the time periods of the Middles ages, Renaissance and the Enlightenment.

Western Literature the Middle Ages, Renaissance Enlightenment

Literature & Fiction

GIAMATTI, A. BARTLETT

History & Criticism

Harcourt College Pub.

Exile and Change in Renaissance Literature

British & Irish

Yale University Press

In a series of essays, A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale University from 1978 to 1986, explores the relationship of university to government, industry, and the private sector.

A Free and Ordered Space

Kenneth S. Robson (editor)

foreword by David Halberstam

W.W.Norton & Co

The Description for this book, Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic, will be forthcoming.

Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

"A balanced, coherent reading that is both enlightening and full of delight." -Choice "My hope has been to provide students (and teachers) of Spenser's epic with ways of approaching the poem. The first part of the book is concerned with contexts-the life of Spenser, some forms the epic took before (and after) his own, the pervasiveness of certain literary figures (like Chaucer) and figures from literature (like Arthur) during his time. In discussing these topics, I have also tried to place Spenser's text itself. The chapter on overall structure, where others have preceded me, is intended to fasten on the whole poem. The next, on Pageantry, is my own foray into the subject and strategems of Allegory, though I have chosen to speak of Allegory in terms the poem (and not simply the Letter to Raleigh) constantly employs. This chapter and the last three then focus on the 'play of double senses' (a text derived from Book III, canto iv, stanza 28) as I see it working in specific ways in the epic, thus suggesting how Spenser participates in the epic tradition that I sketched in Chapter II." -from the Preface

Play of Double Senses: Spenser's Faerie Queene

W.W.Norton&Company

President of Yale University from 1978 to 1986, A. Bartlett Giamatti was one of the voices who, in his own words, "repositioned the academy in a changed world." In these essays he defines the essence of liberal education and sets forth his commitment to an education that "will constantly test rather than impose the values it cherishes."

A Free and Ordered Space: The Real World of the University

Self-Help

Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

The late scholar and commissioner of major league baseball explores the American fascination with sports and discusses baseball as a metaphor for America

Sports & Outdoors

Summit Books

Baseball

SCARCE SIGNED VERY GOOD stated FIRST EDITION dust jacket hardcover, clean text, free tracking number, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage-wear; 1/2" edge tear to back, front of jacket; WE SHIP FAST. 201908815 SIGNED: "For Ken Porter - With thanks for the hospitality - Sincerely, Bart Giamatti" ''The University and the Public Interest'' consists of 13 occasional essays, all but one written since he became Yale's 19th president in 1977. The range of subjects is wide, and his standards of social responsibility are high. One wonders what the Yale Athletic Association, let alone the football coaches of America, thought about a defense of athletics that draws upon John Henry Cardinal Newman to argue that only when ''an athletic contest (is) enjoyable in itself, with no expectation of a consequence beyond the playing of it,'' is it part of ''liberal'' education. One wonders what the freshman class thought, in the fall of 1980, listening to their president explore the ''fictional'' nature of time, whether a decade or a millennium, in order to urge the young to spurn the apocalyptic style, which derives from Saint John and the Book of Revelations, and to embrace the tolerant and skeptical goals of liberal education. Whatever his particular subject - science in the curriculum, the purpose of secondary schools, the reporting requirements of Federal agencies - Mr. Giamatti has a single general subject: ''the nature of our institutions for education and the purposes for which those institutions are intended.'' Development of that subject depends upon the definition of its two key terms, institution and purpose. Carefully packed and quickly sent. Please choose Priority / Expedited shipping for faster delivery. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina or Italy.)

The University and the Public Interest

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Atheneum Books

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