Category: Literature
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In the absence of any other interesting updates, maybe I’ll start posting the quotations from my readings that I jot down in my notebook when they make me stop and think. Like 90% of my free time is spent reading, so at least statistically this should be a decent amount of material 😭 I just…
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The other day I was browsing through Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (ANET), edited by James B. Pritchard (3rd ed. with supplement, 1969). Like it sometimes does, the itch crept up on me to learn how these texts survived to reach me over thousands of years, and I decided to do…
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Amadis de Gaula was, perhaps, the first “fandom.” At its core, Amadis was a chivalric romance – a genre of proto-novel following the heroic exploits of a knight. Although the roots of the story date to the 14th century, the oldest surviving printed edition is from 1508. However, in the mid 1500s, the craze for…
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I’ve added a new page for “vast narratives,” another hobby of mine. Since the mid-2000s I’ve been collecting what I used to call “long novels” (but that’s a misnomer, as you’ll find in the details). I’ve acquired quite a collection, if I do say so myself. See the Vast Narratives page for updates (as well…
Tim Sullivan 