Alan Jacobs
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The author argues that reading is alive and well in America. Millions of devoted readers support hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A cultural history of the idea that people are born with a predisposition to evil shares the stories of the philosophy's proponents and disclaimers, citing the contributions of such figures as St. Augustine, G. K. Chesterton, and Blaise Pascal.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer book has saturated English culture and letters. Here Alan Jacobs tells its story. Jacobs shows how The Book of Common Prayer--from...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"W.H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD, distinguished professor and author Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the great writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present. Today we are battling too much information, a society changing at lightning speed, algorithms aimed at shaping our every move,...