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Category Archives: Essays

  1. Gilbert Ryle’s Plato May 18, 2012

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  2. “Obscene abuse of a randy old hag”: Horace’s Epode 8 in Translation May 9, 2012

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania, Quotations.

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  3. Lucan’s Civil War: Last Thoughts April 7, 2012

    Posted in Essays, Lucan's Civil War.

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  4. Lucan’s Civil War: Caesar’s Fall and the Ending April 1, 2012

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  5. Lucan’s Civil War: Cato Hates Snakes March 29, 2012

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  6. Lucan’s Civil War: Pompey’s Death and Some Graverobbing March 27, 2012

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  7. Lucan’s Civil War: Pharsalia’s Winner and Loser March 26, 2012

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  8. Lucan’s Civil War: The Battle of Pharsalia and Caesar’s Chthonic Apotheosis March 23, 2012

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  9. Lucan’s Civil War: Erictho the Witch, the Necromancer, etc. March 20, 2012

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  10. Lucan’s Civil War: Rhetoric and Power, Murder and Suicide March 13, 2012

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  11. Lucan’s Civil War: Dissolution of the Body at Massilia March 10, 2012

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  12. Lucan’s Civil War: Fortune, Fate, and Caesar March 8, 2012

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  13. Lucan’s Civil War: About That Dedication to Nero March 7, 2012

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  14. Euripides’ Bacchae: Two Boys at Play February 26, 2012

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  15. New Articles on Computers and Culture February 24, 2012

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania.

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  16. Quantitative Methods in Literary Criticism: Franco Moretti and Brian Vickers February 20, 2012

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  17. S. Yizhar: Khirbet Khizeh February 15, 2012

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  18. Gregor von Rezzori: An Ermine in Czernopol February 5, 2012

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  19. Phenomenology of Punctuation January 25, 2012

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  20. Two Daughters: On Pilar Donoso January 19, 2012

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania.

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  21. Books of the Year 2011 December 27, 2011

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania.

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  22. Godfrey Harold Hardy: A Mathematician’s Apology December 26, 2011

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  23. The Pale, Quiet, Episcopalian Breast: On a Phrase of Jeffrey Eugenides December 11, 2011

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  24. Paul Oskar Kristeller: Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance November 29, 2011

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  25. Kinbote Triumphant in Hell: The Riddle of Nabokov’s Ada November 22, 2011

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  26. Xorandor by Christine Brooke-Rose November 12, 2011

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  27. Burton Pike on Robert Musil: To Analyze and Order Experience Without Reducing It November 4, 2011

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  28. Benny Shanon: The Antipodes of the Mind October 21, 2011

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  29. Stanley Cavell and Timothy Williamson: Must We Mean What We Say? And How? October 11, 2011

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  30. Freud and Nude Psychotherapy for Criminal Psychopaths October 6, 2011

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania, Quotations.

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