"Maybe the main influential pupil you have by no means heard of" was once how a function article within the Chronicle of upper schooling lately defined Yi-Fu Tuan, a broadly traveled Chinese-American geographer whose letters to his buddies and associates, distilling observations, rules, and reports, have carried Tuan's insights, and his acceptance, some distance past his selected box. Culling the main attribute ideas and compelling moments from those prized letters, expensive Colleague in the end supplies readers close to and much the chance to percentage what Tuan's correspondents have already experienced-and to find the pleasures of the underlined passages in a booklet of lifestyles instantly edifying, enjoyable, and exemplary.
Reflecting on own encounters and impersonal forces, Tuan conducts us alongside a direction that leads from nature to human nature, via society and tradition, geography and heritage, morality and faith, lifestyles and demise. by way of turns playful and aphoristic, those letters carry revelations either funny and harrowing. even if browsed for his or her massive incidental pleasures or perused extensive from commencing to finish, they come up with the money for their reader the infrequent inside wisdom of one other man or woman and his global, and a good rarer glimpse of the connections among sensation and mind that lie on the very center of the humanistic enterprise.
Imparting the insights of a well known student, revealing the tensions-and contradictions-that exist among lifestyles and concept, remarking on principles from different thinkers, and increasing on perennial concerns of morality and that means, faith and formality, excitement and soreness, pricey Colleague maps Tuan's personal humanity in a lucid, dependent, and remarkable approach.
Yi-Fu Tuan is professor emeritus within the division of Geography on the college of Wisconsin. he's greatly thought of the founding father of human geography, and is the writer of many books together with Cosmos and fireside (1996) and house and position (new version, 2001), released by means of the collage of Minnesota Press. he's additionally the writer of books on barren region landforms, China, the historical past of rules, and an autobiography, Who Am I? (1999).
Read Online or Download Dear Colleague: Common And Uncommon Observations PDF
Best Essays Correspondence books
Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells
During this targeted and long-awaited quantity, Michael Anesko records the literary cross-fertilization among Henry James and William Dean Howells, amassing 151 letters, approximately all of the extant correspondence among the 2 males, in addition to the main major severe observation James wrote on Howells and Howells wrote on James.
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection
Along Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality in contrast to different vintage British authors. . His lifestyles as poet, philanderer, gay, and freedom fighter is known, and this new choice from his robust letters and journals tells the tale from the interior, in Byron's personal racy and passionate sort.
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (Oxford World's Classics)
Wickedly humorous and bitingly satirical, The paintings is a comedy of manners that offers insights into eighteenth-century habit in addition to the undying paintings of emotional abuse. it's also an suggestion e-book, a instruction manual of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners. Collier describes equipment for "teasing and mortifying" one's intimates and buddies in a number of social events.
Letters and Orations (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
By means of the tip of the 15th century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a realized middle-class lady of Venice, used to be arguably the main recognized lady author and student in Europe. A cultural icon in her personal time, she usually corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope Alexander VI, or even maintained a ten-year epistolary alternate with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain that ended in a call for participation for her to affix their court docket.
Extra resources for Dear Colleague: Common And Uncommon Observations
