Literary Criticism - Page 13

Blemished Kings: Suitors in the Odyssey, Blame Poetics, and Irish Satire

Each of the suitors in the Odyssey is eager to become the king of Ithaca by marrying Penelope and di...

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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed...

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Vergil: The Poet's Life

A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid “Ms. Ruden ha...

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Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 40th Anniversary Edition

This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use l...

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Aldus Manutius: The Invention of the Publisher

A fresh reading of Aldus Manutius, pre-eminent in the history of the printed book. Aldus Manuti...

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The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

Propaganda, pulp fiction, spies and censorship: the fascinating and action-packed story of books in...

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How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature

When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one—aoidos, or...

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The Iliad

The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated tr...

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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year ** A rive...

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Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes o...

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50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know

In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, co...

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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

The bestselling phenomenon – an enthralling 6,000-year journey through the history of books and read...

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Agatha Christie: A Very Ilusive Woman

** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **‘A smart and highly entertaining portrait o...

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Only a Voice: Essays

In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the...

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Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles

A TLS Book of the YearThis exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth...

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