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

A James Joyce Chronology (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): R. Norburn A James Joyce Chronology (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
R. Norburn
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The "Author Chronologies Series" aims to provide a means whereby the precise chronological facts of an author's life and career can be seen at a glance. This chronology provides a synopsis of Joyce's first years in Dublin and, from 1900, a more detailed account of his life there and attempts to become established as a writer when living mainly in Trieste and Zurich; and finally (when he became world-famous) Paris, concluding with his death in 1941.

Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual (Hardcover, New): P. Griffith Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual (Hardcover, New)
P. Griffith
R2,195 Discovery Miles 21 950 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Focusing on orally transmitted cultural forms in the Caribbean, this book reaffirms the importance of myth and symbol in folk consciousness as a mode of imaginative conceptualization. Paul A. Griffith cross-references Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott's postcolonial debates with issues at seminal sites where Caribbean imaginary insurgencies took root. This book demonstrates the ways residually oral forms distilled history, society, and culture to cleverly resist aggressions authored through colonialist presumptions. In an analysis of the archetypal patterns in the oral tradition--both literary and nonliterary, this impressive book gives insight into the way in which people think about the world and represent themselves in it.

Modernism and Japanese Culture (Hardcover): R. Starrs Modernism and Japanese Culture (Hardcover)
R. Starrs
R1,427 Discovery Miles 14 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century "opening to the West" until the 21st century globalized world of "postmodernism." Its concept of modernism encompasses not just the aesthetic avant-garde but a wide spectrum of social, political and cultural phenomena.

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James - Thinking and Writing Electricity (Hardcover, 2007... Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James - Thinking and Writing Electricity (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
S. Halliday
R1,413 Discovery Miles 14 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This innovative book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century culture. Ranging across a vast array of materials, Sam Halliday shows how electricity functioned as both a means of representing "other" things--from love and solidarity to embodiment and temporality--and as an object of representation in its own right. As well as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and James, the book considers other major American writers such as Whitman, Margaret Fuller and Henry Adams; English writers such as Hardy and Kipling; and a galaxy of scientists and social commentators, including mesmerists, physicians, conspiracy theorists, psychologists and theologians.

Urban Microcosms 1789-1940 (Paperback): Margit Dirscherl, Astrid Koehler Urban Microcosms 1789-1940 (Paperback)
Margit Dirscherl, Astrid Koehler
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood - Western Europe, 1970-2005 (Hardcover): F. Naqvi The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood - Western Europe, 1970-2005 (Hardcover)
F. Naqvi
R1,413 Discovery Miles 14 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This study analyzes the pervasive rhetoric of victimhood in European culture since 1968. In a radically fragmented public sphere, individuals perceive themselves as dissociated from all others, while at the same time they feel similar to everyone else. Where genuine solidarity and communality is attenuated, people present themselves as victims to garner media attention, create fragile social bonds, or escape supposed marginalization and oppression. Fatima Naqvi commences with interpretations of Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, arguing that contemporary discourse continues a trajectory mapped in the early 20th century--in the shadow of Nazism. In a series of paradigmatic readings of Rene Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Christoph Ransmayr, Friederike Mayrocker, Michel Houellebecq, Giorgio Agamben, and Elfriede Jelinek, she traces the on-going fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim status in the West. She looks at the way in which such cultural anxiety expresses itself; at how victim rhetoric calls itself into question; and, finally, at how it perpetuates itself in the moment that it becomes philosophically ungrounded.

Literature, Identity and the English Channel - Narrow Seas Expanded (Hardcover): D. Rainsford Literature, Identity and the English Channel - Narrow Seas Expanded (Hardcover)
D. Rainsford
R2,630 Discovery Miles 26 300 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book concerns the significance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The book addresses contemporary authors who use the Channel as a focus for cultural comment, comparing their approaches to those of earlier writers, from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand through Hugo and Dickens to historians and travel writers of the 1950s and 1980s.

Mexico, from Mestizo to Multicultural - National Identity and Recent Representations of the Conquest (Hardcover, New): Carrie C... Mexico, from Mestizo to Multicultural - National Identity and Recent Representations of the Conquest (Hardcover, New)
Carrie C Chorba
R2,677 Discovery Miles 26 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Mexico, the confluence of the 1992 Quincentennial commemoration of Columbus's voyages and the neo-liberal "sexenio," or presidency, of Carlos Salinas de Gortari spurred artistic creations that capture the decade like no other source does. In the 1990s, Mexican artists produced an inordinate number of works that revise and rewrite the events of the sixteenth-century conquest and colonization. These works and their relationship to, indeed their mirroring of, the intellectual and cultural atmosphere in Mexico during the Salinas presidency are of paramount importance if we are to understand the subtle but deep shifts within Mexico's national identity that took place at the end of the last century.


Throughout the twentieth century, the post-revolutionary Mexican State had used "mestizaje" as a symbol of national unity and social integration. By the end of the millennium, however, Mexico had gone from a PRI-dominated, economically protectionist nation to a more democratic, economically globalizing one. More importantly, the homogenizing, mestizophile national identity that pervaded Mexico throughout the past century had given way to official admission of Mexico's ethnic and linguistic diversity--or 'pluriculture' according to President Salinas's 1992 constitutional revision.


This book is the first interdisciplinary study of literary, cinematic, and graphic images of Mexican national identity in the 1980s and '90s. Discussing, in depth, writings, films, and cartoons from a vast array of contemporary sources, Carrie C. Chorba creates a social history of this important shift.

Debating Orientalism (Hardcover, New): Z. Elmarsafy Debating Orientalism (Hardcover, New)
Z. Elmarsafy; Anna Bernard, David Attwell
R1,866 Discovery Miles 18 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To many, Edward Said's seminal 1978 work Orientalism is an enduring touchstone, a founding text of the field of postcolonial studies and a book that continues to influence debates in literary and cultural studies, Middle Eastern Studies, anthropology, art history, history and politics. To others, however, Orientalism has serious failings, not least in blaming the wrong people - namely, Orientalists - for the crimes of European imperialism. Debating Orientalism addresses the book's contemporary relevance without lionizing or demonizing its author. Bridging the gap between intellectual history and political engagement, the twelve contributors to this volume interrogate Orientalism's legacy with a view to moving the debate about this text beyond the manichean limitations within which it has all too often been imprisoned. Debating Orientalism seeks to consider Orientalism's implications with a little less feeling, though no less commitment to understanding the value and political effects of engaged scholarship.

Adaptation Theory and Criticism - Postmodern Literature and Cinema in the USA (Hardcover): Gordon E. Slethaug Adaptation Theory and Criticism - Postmodern Literature and Cinema in the USA (Hardcover)
Gordon E. Slethaug
R4,960 Discovery Miles 49 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Traditional critics of film adaptation generally assumed a) that the written text is better than the film adaptation because the plot is more intricate and the language richer when pictorial images do not intrude; b) that films are better when particularly faithful to the original; c) that authors do not make good script writers and should not sully their imagination by writing film scripts; d) and often that American films lack the complexity of authored texts because they are sourced out of Hollywood. The 'faithfulness' view has by and large disappeared, and intertextuality is now a generally received notion, but the field still lacks studies with a postmodern methodology and lens.Exploring Hollywood feature films as well as small studio productions, Adaptation Theory and Criticism explores the intertextuality of a dozen films through a series of case studies introduced through discussions of postmodern methodology and practice. Providing the reader with informative background on theories of film adaptation as well as carefully articulated postmodern methodology and issues, Gordon Slethaug includes several case studies of major Hollywood productions and small studio films, some of which have been discussed before ("Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York," and "Do the Right Thing") and some that have received lesser consideration ("Six Degrees of Separation, Smoke, Smoke""Signals, Broken Flowers," and various Snow White narratives including "Enchanted, Mirror Mirror, and Snow White and the Huntsman"). Useful for both film and literary studies students, Adaptation Theory and Criticism cogently combines the existing scholarship and uses previous theories to engage readers to think about the current state of American literature and film.

The Indian Periodical Press and the Production of Nationalist Rhetoric (Hardcover): S. Kamra The Indian Periodical Press and the Production of Nationalist Rhetoric (Hardcover)
S. Kamra
R1,406 Discovery Miles 14 060 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Considers the Indian periodical press as a key forum for the production of nationalist rhetoric. It argues that between the 1870s and 1910, the press was the place in which the notion of 'the public' circulated and where an expansive middle class, and even larger reading audience, was persuaded into believing it had force.

Consciousness in Modernist Fiction - A Stylistic Study (Hardcover): V. Sotirova Consciousness in Modernist Fiction - A Stylistic Study (Hardcover)
V. Sotirova
R1,819 Discovery Miles 18 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores stylistic techniques that interweave different viewpoints in Modernist fiction. Consciousness was a central concern of the Modernist novel and there has been a strong critical interest in the techniques of its presentation. Critics are aware of the Modernist practice of refracting narratives through the consciousness of numerous characters, but while narratologists as well as stylisticians have studied the linguistic indices of narrative viewpoint, the linguistic mechanics of shifts across different characters' minds or across character's and narrator's voices have remained unexplored. This book offers the first stylistic analysis of the linguistic evidence and shows that the implications of such practices far exceed the attempt to simply juxtapose different characters' viewpoints and thereby interpret the narrative world through different perspectives; rather than simply co-existing in the tissue of the narrative, the viewpoints of D.H. Lawrence's and Virginia Woolf's characters are interconnected in dialogue that occurs at the interstices of viewpoint shifts. This is significant because it impacts on the very discourse of the novel itself as a genre, i.e. its dialogicity. James Joyce's rendering of consciousness intersects the voices of character and narrator, and this in turn implicates the reader in the construction of meaning. The identification of dialogic techniques in the presentation of consciousness serves to question a long accepted belief that the novel of consciousness is a novel of fragmentation and occlusion. Instead, the dialogic Modernism identified here suggests a more deliberate concern on the part of writers to engage directly with the philosophical questions of self and other that were being explored, in a very different format, by Heidegger, Bergson and Buber.

The Caribbean Postcolonial - Social Equality, Post/Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): Shalini Puri The Caribbean Postcolonial - Social Equality, Post/Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
Shalini Puri
R1,425 Discovery Miles 14 250 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Exploring the relationship between discourses of cultural hybridity and projects for social equality, The Caribbean Postcolonial reveals a far greater diversity of political and aesthetic practices of cultural hybridity than has been generally recognized in postcolonial and cultural studies. It uncovers the logics according to which some forms of hybridity are enshrined and others disavowed in the Caribbean imagination and in the disciplinary imagination of postcolonial studies. Exploring cultural formations ranging from mestizaje and creolization to mulatto and dougla aesthetics, from literature to music, theater, Hosay, and carnival, it examines the sources of the appeal of cultural hybridity for both nationalist and postnationalist agendas. The first book-length study to offer an explicitly comparative account of cultural hybridity in the postcolonial arena, The Caribbean Postcolonial is a forceful argument for historicizing theory. It intervenes in key debates around popular agency and cultural resistance, feminism and cultural nationalism, the relations between postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the status of nationalism in an era of globalization.

Women, Crime and Language (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): F Gray Women, Crime and Language (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
F Gray
R2,650 Discovery Miles 26 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Women, Crime and Language examines the relationships between discourses of crime and gender: how women are represented in fiction and reportage, and how they have represented themselves. Frances Gray explores a number of high-profile cases from the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 to the Children's Home scandals of the present day, in which women have been featured as victims, perpetrators or investigators. The author tracks the representation of women through detective stories, plays and novels.

Pynchon and Philosophy - Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (Hardcover): Martin Paul Eve Pynchon and Philosophy - Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (Hardcover)
Martin Paul Eve
R1,830 Discovery Miles 18 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach. Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. In addition to editing the open access journal of Pynchon Studies, Orbit, he has work published or forthcoming in Textual Practise, Neo-Victorian Studies, C21, Pynchon Notes and several edited collections. This book was originally published with exclusive rights reserved by the Publisher in (2014) and was licensed as an open access publication in [SEPTEMBER 2021] under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license if changes were made. This is an open access book.

British Literature of the Blitz - Fighting the People's War (Hardcover): K. Miller British Literature of the Blitz - Fighting the People's War (Hardcover)
K. Miller
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

British Literature of the Blitz interrogates the patriotic, utopian ideal of the People's War by analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in literature and film. Its subtitle - Fighting the People's War - describes how British citizens both united to fight Nazi Germany and questioned the nationalist ideology binding them together.

Alice Munro's Narrative Art (Hardcover): I Duncan Alice Munro's Narrative Art (Hardcover)
I Duncan
R1,394 Discovery Miles 13 940 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through an examination of Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex, densely layered, often unsettling stories.

Patrick White Beyond the Grave (Paperback): I.A.N. Henderson, Anouk Lang Patrick White Beyond the Grave (Paperback)
I.A.N. Henderson, Anouk Lang
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): Lovalerie King, L. Scott James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
Lovalerie King, L. Scott
R2,669 Discovery Miles 26 690 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these authors side-by-side, this collection forges new avenues of discovery and interpretation related to their representations of African American and American literature and cultural experience.

War Trauma and English Modernism - T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence (Hardcover, New): C. Krockel War Trauma and English Modernism - T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence (Hardcover, New)
C. Krockel
R1,419 Discovery Miles 14 190 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation.

The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939 (Hardcover): Anthony Roche The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939 (Hardcover)
Anthony Roche
R3,178 Discovery Miles 31 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a fresh reassessment of the work of the principal playwrights associated with the Irish Dramatic Revival, a movement that was to radically redefine Irish theatre and see the birth of the world's first national theatre, the Abbey, in 1904. The work of O'Casey and Synge has had a profound influence on generations of writers and remains key to the study of modern drama, whereas work by Yeats and Lady Gregory has received renewed attention among theatre makers and scholars owing to their radical innovation and range.From a consideration of the twin strands of Irish drama prior to the revival, Anthony Roche considers the work of Synge and his experimentation in the creation of a new national drama that drew on native sources while developing a modern and prophetic form of theatre. He explores the role of Yeats as founder and playwright; the role of women and in particular Lady Gregory as producer and dramatist; and the playwrights who emerged following independence. O'Casey's ground-breaking Dublin plays receive detailed consideration, and the new Irish modernism that followed in the 30s and which also witnessed the founding of the Gate Theatre in Dublin.The Companion also features a number of essays from other leading scholars and contemporary practioners offering a variety of critical perspectives on this period of radical change and development in modern Irish theatre.

Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome - An Alternative Guide to the Eternal City, 1989-2014 (Hardcover): Kaspar Thormod Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome - An Alternative Guide to the Eternal City, 1989-2014 (Hardcover)
Kaspar Thormod
R3,813 Discovery Miles 38 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome Kaspar Thormod examines how visions of Rome manifest themselves in artworks produced by international artists who have stayed at the city's foreign academies. Structured as an alternative guide to Rome, the book represents an interdisciplinary approach to creating a dynamic visual history that brings into view facets of the city's diverse contemporary character. Thormod demonstrates that when artists successfully reconfigure Rome they provide us with visions that, being anchored in a present, undermine the connotations of permanence and immovability that cling to the 'Eternal City' epithet. Looking at the work of these artists, the reader is invited to engage critically with the question: what is Rome today? - or perhaps better: what can Rome be?

Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse - Paper Dolls and Spider Women (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): P. O'Connor Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse - Paper Dolls and Spider Women (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
P. O'Connor
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse contains analysis of sexual perversion and narrative creativity in fictions from the Latin American boom and post-boom. O'Connor's main argument is that orthodox criticism of Latin American literature has neglected the eccentric singularities of other fictive trends in the corpus (especially in the second half of the twentieth-century). At the same time, by examining these eccentric singularities in their relationship to mainstream trends in the Latin American corpus, O'Connor forces his readers to view these master narratives and major trends (such as modernismo or magical realism) from surprisingly new angles. Five of the authors discussed (Puig, Lezama, Lima, Cortazar and Sarduy) have an established place in the Latin American literary canon. A fifth one, Rosario Ferre, may have come close to achieving that status with her earlier fictions. Others (Felisberto Hernandez, Alicia Borinsky, Cristina Peri Rossi and Silvia Molloy) are less well known, but they are certainly highly significant authors for scholars and students of contemporary Latin American fiction.

Reading London's Suburbs - From Charles Dickens to Zadie Smith (Hardcover): G Pope Reading London's Suburbs - From Charles Dickens to Zadie Smith (Hardcover)
G Pope
R2,354 R1,859 Discovery Miles 18 590 Save R495 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature.

Modernism and Market Fantasy - British Fictions of Capital, 1910-1939 (Hardcover): C. Mickalites Modernism and Market Fantasy - British Fictions of Capital, 1910-1939 (Hardcover)
C. Mickalites
R1,405 Discovery Miles 14 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Modernism and Market Fantasy, Carey Mickalites explores British modernist fiction's critical designs on the changing economic culture in which it took shape. Examining work that ranges from pre-war impressionism through the late modernism of the 1930s, he shows how modernist innovation engages directly with the transitions that mark early twentieth-century capitalism. Mickalites places modernist texts in relationship to particular economic structures: an investment and finance economy that imagines endlessly inflated returns through speculative trading; the anxieties of selfhood produced by capitalist exchange and private property; advertising and fashion culture's dream worlds of perpetual self-renewal; and commercial spectacle's capacity to generate new public affects. Demonstrating that prominent modernists viewed the market as an abstract space organized around irrational fantasies and anxieties, Mickalites argues that modernism reconfigures capitalist mythologies along the fault lines of their internal contradictions in an effort to blast an increasingly reified economic culture into a new historical consciousness of itself.

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