Literary Criticism - Page 8

The Epic: A Very Short Introduction

The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have...

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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the s...

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The Devil's Best Trick: A History of Evil

How we explain the evils of the world – and the darkest parts of ourselves – has preoccupied humans...

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Dylan Thomas (Critical Lives)

A new portrait of Dylan Thomas, which reveals an inventive, dedicated writer. This concise biog...

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Fernando Pessoa (Critical Lives)

A compelling, timely exploration of Fernando Pessoa’s profound, innovative ideas. As a young ma...

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The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages

An immersive, beautifully illustrated journey through medieval manuscript production. This book...

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Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

Greek attitudes to settlement and territory were often articulated through myths and cults. This boo...

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The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature

How are poetry and the figure of the poet represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of anc...

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Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. However,...

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Readers for Life: How Reading and Listening in Childhood Shapes Us

A collection of essays that explores how reading shapes an individual’s life. How does the act...

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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London

The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the...

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Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘Highly e...

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Homer and His Iliad

A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicistsHomer'...

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How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now

A sweeping history of how writing has preserved cultural practices, traditions, and knowledge throug...

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The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

“It is to the Greeks that we turn when we are sick of the vagueness, of the confusion, of our own ag...

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