Views from a jagged orbit

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Label

Views from a jagged orbit

Creator

• Erlich, Richard D

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Author

• Erlich, Richard D

Subject

• Electronic books
• Essays

Language

eng

Summary

These are essays, indeed, but generally not the sort taught in schools - or that I taught for forty years: not in the elegant Intro/Thesis/Proof/Conclusion tradition but more in the older tradition of Michel de Montaigne and les essais, and of satire. That is, they are "attempts," explorations, and, well, also traps, where I wander around a bit in apparent innocence and then spring on readers a possibly outrageous idea, one they wouldn't have considered for a moment if I hadn't lulled them (you) into trusting me a bit. Some of the essays are also in the satiric tradition, where one tries for some startling combinations of learnéd language and vulgarity, short shocker sentences in the midst of some knotty convolutions. Anyway, the essays usually do come to some fairly clear, fairly serious, non-random conclusion and Views can't be entirely without form. So my initial editor and I have arranged them into categories. The over-arching, "meta" category for most is POLITICS or POLITICS AND CULTURE: I was brought up political in Chicago and have remained true to my breeding as a thoroughly political animal, and, of course, I am a student of, and participant in, at least a couple of cultures

Member of

• Essays., Selections

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

814.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult