Research Catalog

Title

Explorations / Gilbert Highet.

Author

Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1971.

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Details

Additional Authors

Nasser, Muriel

Description

xii, 383 pages; 21 cm

Subject

• Literature

Genre/Form

Literature.

Note

• Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

[1.] Forgotten books: An unwritten book -- The adventurous traveler -- One man's Scotland -- A young man's fantasy -- Peer Gynt -- Father and son -- On first looking into The Arabian nights -- [2.] Language: Secret languages -- Changing words -- Foreigners are fools -- Lifetime labels -- Learning a language -- Name into word -- The language of Adam -- [3.] Avocations: Play and life -- The art of persuasion -- [4.] Personalities: The personality of Joyce -- Hot gospeler -- Careless Marjory -- The life of a yogi -- A surrealist memory -- The stationary man -- Ishmael -- The philosopher on the throne -- Red dawn -- Miller's Tropics -- The end of the world is at hand -- The man in the grey velvet suit -- New Year's Day with Mr. Pepys -- Beer-bottle on the Pediment -- Love among the Romans -- [5.] Writing: How to torture an author -- Sense and nonsense -- The final words -- How to write an essay -- The Ancient Mariners' Association, Inc. -- The songs of the States -- Useless speeches -- The prose of the law -- The written past: loss, destruction, and survival.

ISBN

• 0195014502
• 9780195014501

LCCN

74142798

OCLC

• ocm00142639
• 142639
• SCSB-2372342

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries