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Breaking bread with the dead : a reader's guide to a more tranquil mind

Breaking bread with the dead : a reader's guide to a more tranquil mind

Jacobs, Alan, 1958- author.
Book 2020

"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 m...

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Anxiety in literature
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ISBN:
9781984878403
1984878409
Description:
xiii, 176 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-170) and index
Contents:
Presentism and temporal bandwidth
Table fellowship
The sings of the past
The past without difference
The authentic kernel
The boy in the library
The Stoics' moment
The view from the doll's house
The poet on the strand
Conclusion
LCCN:
2020000756
Control Number:
2999390
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