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Tag: epic

263. (Marlon James)

Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women is, like, A Brief History of Seven Killings, a book about plotting and … More

epic, Homer, Marlon James, Post-Colonial Literature, the novel, Victorian Novel

185. (David Ferry)

The post on the Aeneid has been temporarily removed, as I prepare a review essay on Ferry’s translation for Essays … More

Aeneid, David Ferry, epic, Poetry, Translation, Virgi, Wordsworth

117. (Lord Byron)

“If there is a critique of the Enlightenment to be made, it is not that the philosophes believed in human nature, … More

Byron, Dante, epic, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Virgil

74. (Émile Zola)

In the spirit of a reading journal, here’s the first of a two-part attempt to say something coherent about Zola’s … More

Auerbach, Classics, epic, French literature, George Eliot, Homer, nineteenth-century literature, Realism, the novel, Virgil, Zola
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