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WEBByzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt. Princeton, 274 pp., £28, March 2023, 978 0 691 24354 2
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WEBFeb 16, 2023 · Terry Eagleton. 2784 words. Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative. by Peter Brooks. NYRB, 173 pp., £13.99, October 2022, 978 1 68137 663 9. Forty years ago , Peter Brooks produced a pathbreaking study, Reading for the Plot, which was part of the so-called narrative turn in literary criticism. Narratology, as it …
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WEBPeter Green 1924-2024. Peter Green died last week at the age of 99. His many books include a Life of Alexander of Macedon, a history of the Hellenistic age, an account of the Sicilian expedition and translations of Homer, Apollonius Rhodius, Catullus, Ovid and Juvenal. Born in England in 1924, he spent the second half of his life in the US ...
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WEBHistory of Ideas. David Runciman’s acclaimed series of introductions to the most important thinkers and ideas behind modern politics. It’s now part of David’s new weekly podcast, Past Present Future, in which David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and politicians about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean ...
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WEBSep 25, 2024 · Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, Part One. 18 September 2024. In the preface to the Decameron Boccaccio describes Florentine society laid waste by bubonic plague in the mid-14 th century. But before he gets to that he has a confession for the reader: he has been ...
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WEBJudith Butler. writes about violence and the condemnation of violence. 3153 words. The matters most in need of public discussion, the ones that most urgently need to be discussed, are those that are difficult to discuss within the frameworks now available to us. Although one wishes to go directly to the matter at hand, one bumps up against the ...