In essays bound by themes of displacement and the yearning to belong, the author explores such diverse subjects as Shakespeare, football, racism and Disneyland.
And the college presented the results -- 57 essays bound into a book -- on Wednesday evening at a party where the authors met and compared notes across half a century.
He wrote about so many things, he said, that his essays were bound to coincide with the wisdom of the ancients from time to time.
"I hold," he writes, "none of these ancient short manner of writings, nor Montaigne's, nor such of this latter time to be rightly termed essays, for though they be short, yet they are strong, and able to endure the sharpest trial: but mine are essays, who am but newly bound prentice".**** From this initial mushroom ring of essayists that crops up on the island around 1600, an infestation spreads.
I felt duty bound to introduce myself because the following essay is actually about narrators, and it begins with what we in the narrating business call a "triggering anecdote".
And instead of offering these discs in the record industry's standard packaging -- plastic jewel boxes with flimsy booklets -- Mr. Coblence wanted the discs to be bound into hardcover books that include expansive essays on the composers and the works.
It is bound like a book and opens with an essay by Mr. Perez about his "desire to explicate the creative project that is fatherhood".
As Mark Jackson shows in his essay on Selye, the languages of biology and sociology remained closely bound, as scientists and social commentators turned to examples from physiology and cell biology to imagine and describe complex social processes.
In an essay on Isak Dinesen, McCullers wrote, "In the true tale the characters are bound in the end to get what is coming to them...
In an essay on Isak Dinesen, McCullers wrote, "In the true tale the characters are bound in the end to get what is coming to them..
