The Subtle Subtext: Hidden Meanings in Literature and Life pre SELF HELP/PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Double the fun

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a glamorous American widow — and a Nazi sympathiser

using a traditional floor spindle

the story of a remarkable life and thoroughly accidental career

The Subtle Subtext: Hidden Meanings in Literature and Life pre SELF HELP/PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Double the funSubtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move in the world. But rarely do we reflect on this subterranean dimension of communication. In this book, renowned classicist and scholar of rhetoric Laurent Pernot explores the fascinating world of subtext. Of the two meanings present in any instance of