Rats and Squealers by Packages
In his 1963 debut essay for the militant Quebec journal, Parti pris, Andre Brochu invoked the figure of the sixteenth-century skeptic Michel de Montaigne in the name of what Ralph Waldo Emerson, responding to the same over a century earlier, had called, an original relation to the universe. Ecrire, wrote Brochu, c'est redefinir la relation originelle de l'homme a l'univers, c'est, comme ecrit magnifiquement Montaigne, 'faire l'homme'. By tracing the idealism of nineteenth-century American and twentieth-century Quebec writers back to Montaigne and his rejection of Aristotelian and Scholastic reason, The Renaissance of Impasse offers an alternate history to that found in much (post)Romantic criticism, wherein modern skepticism tends to be identified with, and so in a sense confined to, the project of Enlightenment reason. Key works from Thomas Carlyle, Emerson and Herman Melville to Hubert Aquin, Rejean Ducharme and Victory-Levy Beaulieu serve to define and to refine the sense of an impasse - personal, social, spiritual, historical, and political - that accompanies the modern drive to renaissance.
Kerr, Gordon: - Gordon first met the tentacle-faced one back in the late sixties when R'lyeh erupted through the floorboards of his bedroom in Scotland during one of its brief moments in the sun. Or rather, he thought it did, but it was just a nightmare after reading a book of H.P. Lovecraft stories. He's been having nightmares again writing this book and re-visiting some scary moments from his teenage years. When he's not writing about extra-dimensional beings and hiding beneath the blankets, he scribbles books on a variety of subjects, from art to travel and history to humour.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780708803677 |
| ISBN 10 | 0708803679 |
| Title | Rats and Squealers |
| Author | Packages |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Futura |
| Year published | 2000-05-24 |
| Number of pages | 511 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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