Iron Filings or Scribblings - by Eva Brann (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so in these essays Eva Brann displays her oppositional, or polar, thinking.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>To introduce her book, Eva Brann calls up the image of Iron Filings as they "settle themselves along the lines of force that form a field of influence around a bar magnet that has itself been allowed to settle itself in its natural direction. The whole configuration makes, by nature's wit, a suggestive figure for the thinking mind--at least of a cross-section in its life." These essays range from Ms. Brann's thoughts "Of God," "Of Novels, "Of Booklessness," to, well, a surprising diversity of topics, the final one, fittingly "Of Endings." Eva Brann thinks a thought and then thinks a thought at the other end of the pole of the first thought--hence the display of thought like iron filings around two ends of a magnet.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>...[Y]ou will read <i>Then & Now</i> with deep abiding pleasure, slowly savoring the use of language in its highest locution.--<i>Washington Independent Review of Books</i> <p/> Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the <i>Odyssey</i> and the <i>Iliad</i> for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners.--<i>Library Journal</i> on <i>Homeric Moments</i> <p/> Brann's style and vocabulary are rich, and she indulges in lengthy parenthetical asides and lengthier exploratory endnotes. However, her prose voice remains direct and unevasive. This sometimes daunting work invites and encourages readers to put in the necessary effort to rise to its challenge.--<i>CHOICE</i> on <i>Un-Willing</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for sixty-one years. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include <i>How to Constitute a World</i>, <i>Doublethink/Doubletalk</i>, <i>Then & Now</i>, <i>Un-Willing</i>, <i>The Logos of Heraclitus</i>, <i>Feeling Our Feelings</i>, <i>Homage to Americans</i>, <i>Open Secrets/Inward Prospects</i>, <i>The Music of the Republic</i>, and <i>Homeric Moments</i> (all published by Paul Dry Books).
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