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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900

Nabokov's Eros and the Poetics of Desire (Hardcover): M. Couturier Nabokov's Eros and the Poetics of Desire (Hardcover)
M. Couturier
R2,497 R1,964 Discovery Miles 19 640 Save R533 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nabokov gained international fame with 'Lolita', a highly erotic and morally disturbing novel. Through its comprehensive study of the amorous and sexual behaviors of Nabokov's characters this book shows how Eros, both as a clown or a pervert, contributes to the poetic excellence of his novels and accounts for the unfolding of the plots.

Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Philip Dickinson Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Philip Dickinson
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of post-imperial disappointment to postcolonial theory itself, it develops an account of the textual and philosophical interpenetration of postcolonial aesthetics with Romantic ideas about sense, history and world. What emerges is a reading of Romantic/postcolonial co-involvement that moves beyond well-worn models of intercanonical antagonism and the historicizing biases of conventional literary history. Caught somewhere between the effects of reanimation and estrangement, Romanticism appears here not as a stable textual repository prior to the postcolonial, but as echo, spectre, self-interruption, or vital force, that can yet only emerge in the guise of the afterlife, its agency mediated - but never exhausted - by postcolonial writing.

Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry (Hardcover, New): F. Aldama Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry (Hardcover, New)
F. Aldama
R2,595 R1,919 Discovery Miles 19 190 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Today's Latino poetry scene is bursting at the seams. While Latino poetry has played an important role in establishing Latino letters, surprisingly only a few scholars have spent time analyzing its form. The first of its kind, Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry pulls back the curtain on how the poets Julia Alvarez, Rhina Espaillat, Rafael Campo, and C. Dale Young use formal structures such as meter, rhyme, and line break to affect our perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about the world we inhabit. With original interviews, this imaginative book explores how these poets add something to reality with their creations.

The Village in the Jungle (Paperback, New edition): Leonard Woolf The Village in the Jungle (Paperback, New edition)
Leonard Woolf
R395 R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Save R68 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was first published in 1913 and is written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, husband of Virginia Woolf. It reads as if Thomas Hardy had been born among the heat, scent, sensuality and pungent mystery of the tropics. Translated into both Tamil and Sinhalese, it is one of the best-loved and best-known stories in Sri Lanka. It includes a new biographical afterword by Sir Christopher Ondaatje, author of "Woolf in Ceylon", and a short story, "Pearls before Swine", which vividly draws on Woolf's experience as a young District Commissioner. This book reeks of first-hand knowledge of the colonial experience, and of its profound, malign disregard for the psychology and culture of its subject peoples.

New Playwriting at Shakespeare's Globe (Hardcover): Vera Cantoni New Playwriting at Shakespeare's Globe (Hardcover)
Vera Cantoni
R3,546 Discovery Miles 35 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is recognised worldwide as both a monument to and significant producer of the dramatic art of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. But it has established a reputation too for commissioning innovative and distinctive new plays that respond to the unique characteristics and identity of the theatre. This is the first book to focus on the new drama commissioned and produced at the Globe, to analyse how the specific qualities of the venue have shaped those works and to assess the influences of both past and present in the work staged. The author argues that far from being simply a monument to the past, the reconstructed theatre fosters creativity in the present, creativity that must respond to the theatre's characteristic architecture, the complex set of cultural references it carries and the heterogeneous audience it attracts. Just like the reconstructed 'wooden O', the Globe's new plays highlight the relevance of the past for the present and give the spectators a prominent position. In examining the score of new plays it has produced since 1995 the author considers how they illuminate issues of staging, space, spectators, identity and history - issues that are key to an understanding of much contemporary theatre. Howard Brenton's In Extremis and Anne Boleyn receive detailed consideration, as examples of richly productive connection between the playwright's creativity and the theatre's potential. For readers interested in new writing for the stage and in the work of one of London's totemic theatre spaces, New Playwriting at Shakespeare's Globe offers a fascinating study of the fruitful influences of both past and present in today's theatre.

On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs - A Critical Anthology (Hardcover, New): M Johnson, S. Mintz On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs - A Critical Anthology (Hardcover, New)
M Johnson, S. Mintz
R1,515 Discovery Miles 15 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Where much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies, this book seeks to broaden the conversation through a wider range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre. With particular attention to the ways Mairs shapes her essays around a variety of "unspeakables"--such as depression, female sexuality and infidelity, mortality and death, or the struggle for faith in a post-modern world--this collection demonstrates Mairs's provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics.

Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction - Passionate Puppets (Hardcover): H. Davies Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction - Passionate Puppets (Hardcover)
H. Davies
R1,512 Discovery Miles 15 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Is ventriloquism just for dummies? What is at stake in neo-Victorian fiction's desire to 'talk back' to the nineteenth century? This book explores the sexual politics of dialogues between the nineteenth century and contemporary fiction, offering a new insight into the concept of ventriloquism as a textual and metatextual theme in literature.

The Novelist as Philosopher - Studies in French Fiction, 1935-1960 (Hardcover, New edition): John Cruickshank The Novelist as Philosopher - Studies in French Fiction, 1935-1960 (Hardcover, New edition)
John Cruickshank
R1,952 Discovery Miles 19 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thomas Hardy and Desire - Conceptions of the Self (Hardcover): Jane Thomas Thomas Hardy and Desire - Conceptions of the Self (Hardcover)
Jane Thomas
R1,942 Discovery Miles 19 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At the center of Hardy's aesthetic practice is the recognition of desire as a necessary and fundamental condition of human existence. Yearning, disappointment, frustration and loss determine the relationship of his characters and poetic personae to the world and the systems in which their sense of self is expressed and constituted. Yet his work also explores the positive, dynamic and productive dimension of desire. Structured around the themes of home and homelessness; eroticism; Poor Men, Ladies and social aspiration; the transgressivity of cross dressing; the creation of "sapphic spaces;" aesthetic desire and its fulfilment in the achieved work of art, Thomas Hardy and Desire demonstrates Hardy's commitment, as an artist in pursuit of "a way to the better," to exploring how the energy of desire pushes beyond the boundaries of class, sexuality, gender and even language itself to bring new ways of being and doing into the realm of knowledge.

Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature (Hardcover): I. Martin-Junquera Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature (Hardcover)
I. Martin-Junquera
R1,949 Discovery Miles 19 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe, North America, and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide an answer to the environmental crisis. This volume carefully presents different types of physical, ideological, symbolical, and spiritual landscapes represented in Chicano novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries from diverse ecocritical perspectives. Ultimately, this book bridges a gap between the fields of Chicano Studies and Ecocriticism, and draws parallels between the discrimination Chicanos face and the global attack on the environment.

The Queer Renaissance - Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (Hardcover, New):... The Queer Renaissance - Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (Hardcover, New)
Robert McRuer
R3,101 Discovery Miles 31 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same-sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the 1970s, when gay and lesbian cultures began to register on our national consciousness, such work was still quite rare.

In the 1980s and 90s, however, all that changed. The Queer Renaissance puts a name to the unprecedented outpouring of creative work by openly lesbian and gay novelists, poets, and playwrights in the past two decades. This volume is one of the first to analyze critically this cultural awakening and is one of the only books to consider the work of gay male and lesbian writers together. Most importantly, The Queer Renaissance is the first book to consider how this wave of creative activity has worked in tandem with a flourishing of radical queer politics.

The Queer Renaissance explores the work of such important figures as Audre Lorde, Edmund White, Randall Kenan, Gloria Anzalda, Tony Kushner, and Sarah Schulman to question the dichotomy between art and activism. In addition, The Queer Renaissance interrogates the ways queer theory deploys, intersects with, and contests contemporary theoretical movements such as cultural studies, feminist theory, African American theory, and Chicano/a theory.

American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative - Mailer, Wideman, Eggers (Hardcover): Jonathan D'Amore American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative - Mailer, Wideman, Eggers (Hardcover)
Jonathan D'Amore
R1,509 Discovery Miles 15 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative" explores the contorted and often conflicted relationship writers have with their images and reputations as authors, particularly when they choose to write about themselves and their personal lives. By analyzing the autobiographical nonfiction of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers in light of theories of authorship, autobiography, and celebrity, this book considers the art of literary self-representation practiced under the forces of publishing's business imperatives and mass culture's insatiable appetite for personal stories about public figures. Contributing to ongoing conversations about the explosion of popular and critical interest in life narrative as well as those about relation of an author to his text, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of contemporary American literature, life writing studies, and authorship and publishing history, as well as the many serious and dedicated readers of Eggers, Wideman, and Mailer.

Against Theatre - Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): A. Ackerman, M. Puchner Against Theatre - Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
A. Ackerman, M. Puchner
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Modern theater is a field marked by competing, and often contradictory, impulses and developments. A critique of certain types of theatre is a productive force within modernism and a force that led to the most successful reforms of modern theatre and drama. This exciting collection of essays in Palgrave's "Performance Interventions" series rethinks the historical formations and functions of antitheatricality within modern drama, opera, literature, film, and art.

Vladimir Nabokov - Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): M Glynn Vladimir Nabokov - Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
M Glynn
R1,511 Discovery Miles 15 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. Glynn argues that Nabokov's epistemology was in fact anti-Symbolist and that this aligned him with both Bergsonism and Russian Formalism, which intellectual systems were themselves hostile to a Symbolist epistemology. Symbolism may be seen to devalue material reality by presenting it as a mere adumbration of a higher realm. Nabokov, however, valued the immediate material world and was creatively engaged by the tendency of the deluded mind to efface that reality.

African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings - Retrospective Fiction and Representation (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): M. Jordan African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings - Retrospective Fiction and Representation (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
M. Jordan
R1,547 Discovery Miles 15 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"As a historical legacy, and in the present, servitude remains an ideal macrocosm for examining the racial and class stratification that built this country. Margaret Jordan's brilliant analysis of fictional representations of servitude in the US reminds us of the extent to which the reproduction of the American family, community, and nation has been accomplished through racialized human interactions. Servitude continues today as racialized occupations built on the blood, sweat and tears of the working poor, many of whom are immigrants. "African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings" challenges current scholarship on the commodification of care work and material consumption that rely solely on gendered metaphors for serving and being served. Without understanding the legacy of Black servitude as America's racialized past, we cannot begin to illuminate the significance that race continues to play in our daily lives and most intimate spaces."--Mary Romero, author of "Maid in USA""Where does the truth lie? Does the truth lie? Can history tell the truth? Is the truth of history best served by fiction? Dr. Margaret Jordan boldly probes into the heart of woefully neglected considerations of power, color, caste, work, and guilt in A"frican American Servitude and Historical Imaginings. "Examining four American novelists' tales of master/servant relationships Jordan's perceptive examination, at long last, provides a proper place for vital discussions about the role of the help."--Bill Harris, author of "Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil" and "Yardbird Suite: Side One: A Biopoem on Charlie Parker""In "African American Servitude" Dr. Jordan shines clear light on the inclination of some writersto project and sustain damaging stereotypes. We see the all too familiar happy mammy, the wanton Jezebel, the ne'er-do-well lazy Willie shuckin' and jivin', the dangerous brute. We see resistance to accounting for and reckoning with the mothers, lovers, citizens, fathers, and builders living in full color beneath those encrusted, enforced, fradulent false faces masked by servitude. But Dr. Jordan also powerfully reveals that in the hands of some writers, such as Doctorow and Morrison, these 'dumb' not-quite-'people' turn out to be landmines for the national psyche. Beyond the book pages, and the writers' imaginings, we are forced to consider a society in denial."--Ron Milner, author of "Who's Got His Own" and "What the Wine Sellers Buy"

Antonin Artaud - The Scum of the Soul (Hardcover): Ros Murray Antonin Artaud - The Scum of the Soul (Hardcover)
Ros Murray
R2,583 R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of Twentieth-Century France's most provocative and influential figures, spanning literature, performance, art, cinema, media and critical theory.

The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens (Hardcover, New): E. Clarke The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens (Hardcover, New)
E. Clarke
R1,536 Discovery Miles 15 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Surveying the later work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, Edward Clarke unfolds their very last poems and considers the two poets' relations with western literature and tradition. This book shows how these two latecomers transform the ways in which we read earlier poets.

India's Forests, Real and Imagined - Writing the Modern Nation (Hardcover): Alan Johnson India's Forests, Real and Imagined - Writing the Modern Nation (Hardcover)
Alan Johnson
R3,204 Discovery Miles 32 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - widely regarded as the first Indian novelist - to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.

Contemporary Irish Drama - Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Anthony Roche Contemporary Irish Drama - Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Anthony Roche
R2,884 Discovery Miles 28 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A revised and updated version of this pioneering study covers the extraordinary revival of Irish drama in the second half of the twentieth century. By comparing the theatre of Samuel Beckett to more culturally specific Irish plays, the book establishes a greater international and theatrically experimental context for the field than has been recognised. Its three central chapters offer close and contextualised readings of the careers of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and Thomas Kilroy across a span of more than four decades. The drama of Northern Ireland and its theatrical response to political violence receives sustained attention through a wide range of playwrights, including Frank McGuinness, Gary Mitchell, Christina Reid and Anne Devlin. A new chapter considers the work of such younger playwrights as Martin McDonagh and Marina Carr who emerged in the 1990s to probe the shortcomings of the 'Celtic Tiger' phenomenon. The book draws on significant productions of the period and will prove invaluable for students and theatregoers alike.

Recovering Bodies - Illness, Disability and Life-writing (Hardcover, New): Recovering Bodies - Illness, Disability and Life-writing (Hardcover, New)
R1,404 Discovery Miles 14 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability--in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis--who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse.
Responding to the recent growth of illness and disability narratives in the United States--such works as Juliet Wittman's "Breast Cancer Journal," John Hockenberry's "Moving Violations," Paul Monette's "Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir," and Lou Ann Walker's "A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family"--Couser addresses questions of both poetics and politics. He examines why and under what circumstances individuals choose to write about illness or disability; what role plot plays in such narratives; how and whether closure is achieved; who assumes the prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser's discussion of medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and disabledpeople.
With its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most affected by these conditions, "Recovering Bodies" contributes to an understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural conventions, and identity in contemporary America.

Whiteness and Trauma - The Mother-Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison (Hardcover,... Whiteness and Trauma - The Mother-Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison (Hardcover, New)
V. Burrows
R1,516 Discovery Miles 15 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This original and incisive study of the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison uses cutting edge cultural and literary theory to examine the "knotted" mother-daughter relations that form the thematic basis of the texts examined. Using both close reading and contextualization, the analyses are focused through issues of race and contemporary theorizing of whiteness and trauma. Remarkably eloquent, scholarly and thought-provoking, this book contributes strongly to the broad fields of literary criticism, feminist theory and whiteness studies.

Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space - Postcolonial Place and Literary DeiXis (Hardcover): R. West-Pavlov Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space - Postcolonial Place and Literary DeiXis (Hardcover)
R. West-Pavlov
R1,535 Discovery Miles 15 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Reading a wide range of well known postcolonial writers along with more recent authors, Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space implements a new theory of literary spatial marking derived from the linguistic theory of deixis, and made accessible via an analysis of Becketts 'semi-colonial' play Waiting for Godot"--Provided by publisher.

Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (Hardcover): L. Lau, O. Dwivedi Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (Hardcover)
L. Lau, O. Dwivedi
R1,842 Discovery Miles 18 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in English, particularly social realism fiction.

Art and Life in Modernist Prague - Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938 (Hardcover): T. Ort Art and Life in Modernist Prague - Karel Capek and his Generation, 1911-1938 (Hardcover)
T. Ort
R1,972 Discovery Miles 19 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In most histories of Europe before the First World War, modern life in Habsburg Mitteleuropa takes on a decidedly gloomy cast. Centering on Vienna in the twilight years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, such accounts describe the failure of rationalism and the rise of a dangerous politics of fantasy. This book tells a different story, highlighting a generation of Czech writers and artists distinguished by their affirmative encounter with the modern world in the first decades of the twentieth century. Novelist and playwright Karel Capek, along with other members of his cohort, embraced the possibilities of the post-Habsburg era. Tracing the roots of Capek's generation to cubist art and turn-of-the-century philosophy, author Thomas Ort shows that the form of modernism they championed led not into the thickets of fascism or communism but in fact closer to liberal political ideals.

Figuring the Woman Author in Contemporary Fiction (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): M. Eagleton Figuring the Woman Author in Contemporary Fiction (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
M. Eagleton
R1,512 Discovery Miles 15 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If the author is 'dead', if feminism is 'post-', why does the figure of the woman author keep appearing as a central character in contemporary fiction? She is concerned with ownership but, equally, with loss; determined to enter the cultural field but also rejecting that field; looking for control but subject to duplicity; seeking power alongside desire. Drawing on a diverse range of contemporary authors - including Atwood, Byatt, Brookner, Coetzee, Lurie, LeGuin, Michele Roberts, Shields, Spark, Weldon, and Walker - this study explores the complexity and continuing fascination of this figure.

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