Literary Criticism - Page 12

The Children of Athena: Greek Writers and Thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400

The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellec...

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Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism

Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship betwee...

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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital prese...

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The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in th...

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Shakespeare in Bloomsbury

The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbur...

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The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens

Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again. Almost everything you're fa...

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Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature

Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has be...

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Into the Dark: What Darkness Is and Why It Matters

Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black and in...

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Novelist as a Vocation

A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling.In this engaging book...

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The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation

'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarly d...

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The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) ‘A thrilling...

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Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explor...

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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Up from the Depths tells the in...

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On Niccolo Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics

Five hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradi...

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Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables

Turns a critical eye on Aesop's Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop's portr...