The Pensive Citadel

by Victor Brombert

A 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 Brombert's long experience as a reader and teacher is richly familiar: the rewards of rereading, the joy of learning from students,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226828662
• ISBN13: 9780226828664
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.2" x 8.7"