Ulysses
James Joyce · Modernism · Novel
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Language
Explore 83 works associated with Language in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
Animal Farm
George Orwell · Modern · Fiction / essays
1984
George Orwell · Modern · Dystopian novel
Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri · Medieval · Poetry / prose
Convivio
Dante Alighieri · Medieval · Poetry / prose
De Monarchia
Dante Alighieri · Medieval · Poetry / prose
The Defence and Illustration of the French Language
Joachim du Bellay · Renaissance · Poetry / criticism
The Regrets
Joachim du Bellay · Renaissance · Poetry / criticism
The Solitudes
Luis de Góngora · Golden Age · Poetry
The Swindler
Francisco de Quevedo · Golden Age · Poetry / satire
The Temple
George Herbert · Early Modern · Poetry
The New Science
Giambattista Vico · Enlightenment · Philosophy of history
The Rambler
Samuel Johnson · Enlightenment · Essays / criticism
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson · Enlightenment · Essays / criticism
Treatise on the Origin of Language
Johann Gottfried Herder · Enlightenment / Romantic · Philosophy of culture
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Samuel Johnson · Enlightenment · Essays / criticism
Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity
Johann Gottfried Herder · Enlightenment / Romantic · Philosophy of culture
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · Victorian · Children’s fantasy
Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll · Victorian · Children’s fantasy
A Season in Hell
Arthur Rimbaud · Modern poetry · Poetry
The Wreck of the Deutschland
Gerard Manley Hopkins · Victorian · Poetry
The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll · Victorian · Poetry / nonsense
Illuminations
Arthur Rimbaud · Modern poetry · Poetry
Collected Poems
Stéphane Mallarmé · Modern poetry · Poetry
A Throw of the Dice
Stéphane Mallarmé · Modern poetry · Poetry
Man and Superman
George Bernard Shaw · Modern · Drama
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw · Modern · Drama
Chamber Music
James Joyce · Modernism · Poetry / drama
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw · Modern · Drama
Dubliners
James Joyce · Modernism · Fiction
Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein · Modernism · Fiction / memoir
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · Modernism · Fiction
Exiles
James Joyce · Modernism · Poetry / drama
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein · Modern · Philosophy
Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw · Modern · Drama
Spring and All
William Carlos Williams · Modernism · Poetry / prose
The Making of Americans
Gertrude Stein · Modernism · Fiction / memoir
Selected Essays
George Orwell · Modern · Fiction / essays
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein · Modernism · Fiction / memoir
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell · Modern · Fiction / essays
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien · Modern · Fantasy / criticism
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell · Modern · Fiction / essays
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce · Modernism · Fiction
Tropisms
Nathalie Sarraute · Postwar · Novel / criticism
Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector · Modern / Latin American · Novel / stories
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges · Modern / Latin American · Stories / essays
Paterson
William Carlos Williams · Modernism · Poetry / prose
On Fairy-Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien · Modern · Fantasy / criticism
Selected Poems
Ingeborg Bachmann · Postwar · Poetry / fiction
The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges · Modern / Latin American · Stories / essays
The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco · Modern · Drama
Molloy
Samuel Beckett · Modern · Drama / fiction
Malone Dies
Samuel Beckett · Modern · Drama / fiction
The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett · Modern · Drama / fiction
Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein · Modern · Philosophy
The Age of Suspicion
Nathalie Sarraute · Postwar · Novel / criticism
Endgame
Samuel Beckett · Modern · Drama / fiction
The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter · Modern · Drama
Rhinoceros
Eugène Ionesco · Modern · Drama
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges · Modern / Latin American · Stories / essays
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