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

Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas (Hardcover): Fran O'Rourke Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas (Hardcover)
Fran O'Rourke
R2,478 Discovery Miles 24 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James JoyceIn this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author's oeuvre. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the reliability of knowledge. Beginning with an introduction to each thinker, the book traces Joyce's discovery of their works and his concrete engagement with their thought. Aristotle and Aquinas equipped Joyce with fundamental principles regarding reality, knowledge, and the soul, which allowed him to shape his literary characters. Joyce appropriated Thomistic concepts to elaborate an original and personal aesthetic theory. O'Rourke provides an annotated commentary on quotations from Aristotle which Joyce entered into his famous Early Commonplace Book and outlines their crucial significance for his writings. He also provides an authoritative evaluation of Joyce's application of Aquinas's aesthetic principles. The first book to comprehensively illuminate the profound impact of both the ancient and medieval thinker on the modernist writer, Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas offers readers a rich understanding of the intellectual background and philosophical underpinnings of Joyce's work.

Argentinean Literary Orientalism - From Esteban Echeverria to Roberto Arlt (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Axel Gasquet Argentinean Literary Orientalism - From Esteban Echeverria to Roberto Arlt (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Axel Gasquet; Translated by Jose I. Suarez
R3,039 Discovery Miles 30 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the modes of representation of the East in Argentinean literature since the country's independence, in works by canonical authors such as Esteban Echeverria, Juan B. Alberdi, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Pastor S. Obligado, Eduardo F. Wilde, Leopoldo Lugones, and Roberto Arlt. The East, which has always fascinated intellectuals and artists from the Americas, inspired the creation of imaginary elements for both aesthetic and political purposes, from the depiction of purportedly despotic rulers to a genuine admiration for Eastern history and millennial cultures. These writers appropriated the East either through their travels or by reading chronicles, integrating along the way images that would end up being universalized by the Argentinean dichotomy between civilization and barbarism, all the while assigning the negative stereotypes of the exotic East to the Pampa region. With time, the exoticism of the Eastern world would shed its geopolitical meaning and was ultimately integrated into the national literature, thus adding new elements into the Argentinean imaginary.

C S Lewis - A Guide to His Theology (Hardcover): D.G. Clark C S Lewis - A Guide to His Theology (Hardcover)
D.G. Clark
R2,734 Discovery Miles 27 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this engaging book David Clark guides the reader through the theology of CS Lewis and illuminates the use and understanding of scripture in the works of this popular author.
Examines his life, work, world view, and the implications of his theology in relation to his other writings
Looks at Lewis' beliefs on the topics of redemption, humanity, spiritual growth, purgatory, and resurrection
Examines the different perspectives on Lewis and his work: as prophet, evangelist, and as a spiritual mentor
Explores the range and influence of Lewis' work, from the bestselling apologetic, "Mere Christianity," to the world-famous "Chronicles of Narnia"
Features specially-commissioned artwork throughout
Written in an accessible style for general readers, students, and scholars, and will introduce Lewis' theology to a wider audience.

The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard (Hardcover, New): Trevor Cribben Merrill The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard (Hardcover, New)
Trevor Cribben Merrill
R4,662 Discovery Miles 46 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of "period pieces" that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplored dimension of Kundera's fiction. Building on theorist Rene Girard's notion of "triangular desire," he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive-and bitterly funny-understanding of human attraction. Most works of fiction (and most movies, too) depict passionate feelings as deeply authentic and spontaneous. Kundera's novels and short stories overturn this romantic dogma. A pounding heart and sweaty palms could mean that we have found "the One" at last-or they could attest to the influence of a model whose desires we are unconsciously borrowing: our amorous predilections may owe less to personal taste or physical chemistry than they do to imitative desire. At once a comprehensive survey of Kundera's novels and a witty introduction to Girard's mimetic theory, The Book of Imitation and Desire challenges our assumptions about human motive and renews our understanding of a major contemporary author.

After Austen - Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Lisa Hopkins After Austen - Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Lisa Hopkins
R4,322 Discovery Miles 43 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death. Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different kinds of writing, sometimes even when there is no announced or obvious debt to her. In so doing they also inevitably shed light on Austen herself. Austen is often considered romantic and not often considered political, but both those perceptions are challenged her, as is the idea that she is primarily a writer for and about women. Her books are comic and ironic, but they have been reworked and drawn upon in very different genres and styles. Collectively these essays testify to the extraordinary versatility and resonance of Austen's books.

Virginia Woolf and the Visible World (Hardcover): Emily Dalgarno Virginia Woolf and the Visible World (Hardcover)
Emily Dalgarno
R2,759 R2,466 Discovery Miles 24 660 Save R293 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Virginia Woolf and the Visible World, Emily Dalgarno examines Woolf's engagement with notions of the visible. Dalgarno examines how Woolf's writing engages with visible and nonvisible realms of experience, and draws on ideas from the diverse fields of psychoanalytic theory, classical Greek tragedy, astronomy, photography and photojournalism. Dalgarno offers textual analyses of Woolf's individual works, including To the Lighthouse, The Waves and Three Guineas arguing for the importance of her ongoing interest in Greek translation.

Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 (Hardcover, New): Nicholas Daly Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 (Hardcover, New)
Nicholas Daly
R2,752 R2,459 Discovery Miles 24 590 Save R293 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical. Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. Daly begins with Victorian railway melodramas in which an individual is rescued from the path of the train just in time, and ends with J.G. Ballard's novel Crash in which people seek out such collisions. Daly argues that these collisions dramatize the relationship between the individual and modern industrial society, and suggests that the pleasures of fictional suspense help people to assimilate the speeding up of everyday life. This book will be of interest to scholars of moderinism, literature and film.

American Drama 1945-2000 - An Introduction (Hardcover): D Krasner American Drama 1945-2000 - An Introduction (Hardcover)
D Krasner
R3,406 Discovery Miles 34 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This concise introduction to American drama gives readers an overview of how American drama developed from the end of the Second World War to the turn of the twenty-first century.
Provides a balanced assessment of the major plays and playwrights of the period.
Shows how these dramatists broke new ground in their contribution to political, economic, social and cultural debates, as well as in their dramaturgical strategies.
Organized chronologically, with plays, playwrights and movements clustered around different movements such as realism and experimentalism.
Gives readers a sense of the development of American drama over time.

A Matter of Fate - The Concept of Fate in the Arab World as Reflected in Modern Arabic Literature (Hardcover): Dayla Cohen-Mor A Matter of Fate - The Concept of Fate in the Arab World as Reflected in Modern Arabic Literature (Hardcover)
Dayla Cohen-Mor
R4,466 Discovery Miles 44 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dalya Cohen-Mor examines the evolution of the concept of fate in the Arab world through readings of religious texts, poetry, fiction, and folklore. She contends that belief in fate has retained its vitality and continues to play a pivotal role in the Arabs' outlook on life and their social psychology. Interwoven with the chapters are 16 modern short stories that further illuminate this fascinating topic.

The Preface - American Authorship in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Ross K Tangedal The Preface - American Authorship in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Ross K Tangedal
R3,541 Discovery Miles 35 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Building on insights from the fields of textual criticism, bibliography, narratology, authorship studies, and book history, The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century examines the role that prefaces played in the development of professional authorship in America. Many of the prefaces written by American writers in the twentieth century catalogue the shifting landscape of a more self-consciously professionalized trade, one fraught with tension and compromise, and influenced by evolving reading publics. With analyses of Willa Cather, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Penn Warren, and Toni Morrison, Ross K. Tangedal argues that writers used prefaces as a means of expanding and complicating authority over their work and, ultimately, as a way to write about their careers. Tangedal's approach offers a new way of examining American writers in the evolving literary marketplace of the twentieth century.

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Chris Campbell, Michael... Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Chris Campbell, Michael Niblett, Kerstin Oloff
R4,319 Discovery Miles 43 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies. Drawing on new work in world literature, cultural studies, and environmental studies, the essays gathered here explore how literary and cultural texts have represented and responded to the global food system from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Covering topics such as the impact of colonial monocultures and industrial agriculture, enclosure and the loss of the commons, the meatification of diets, the toxification of landscapes, and the consequences of climate breakdown, the volume ranges across the globe, from Thailand to Brazil, Cyprus to the Caribbean. Whether it is anxieties over imported meat in late Victorian Britain, labour struggles on Guatemalan banana plantations, or food dependency in Puerto Rico, the contributors to this volume show how fiction, poetry, drama, film, and music have critically explored and contributed to food cultures worldwide.

Henry James, Women and Realism (Hardcover, New): Victoria Coulson Henry James, Women and Realism (Hardcover, New)
Victoria Coulson
R2,756 R2,464 Discovery Miles 24 640 Save R292 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Women were hugely important to Henry James, both in his vividly drawn female characters and in his relationships with female relatives and friends. Combining biography with literary criticism and theoretical inquiry, Victoria Coulson explores James's relationships with three of the most important women in his life: his friends, the novelists Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton, and his sister Alice James, who composed a significant diary in the last years of her life. These writers shared not only their attitudes to gender and sexuality, but also their affinity for a certain form of literary representation, which Coulson defines as 'ambivalent realism'. The book draws on a diverse range of sources from fiction, autobiography, theatre reviews, travel writing, private journals, and correspondence. Coulson argues, compellingly, that the personal lives and literary works of these four writers manifest a widespread cultural ambivalence about gender identity at the end of the nineteenth century.

Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism (Hardcover): Greg Forter Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism (Hardcover)
Greg Forter
R2,760 R2,467 Discovery Miles 24 670 Save R293 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' and racially marked aspects of identity, qualities that the new social order encouraged them to disparage. Examining works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Willa Cather, Forter shows how these writers shared an ambivalence toward the feminine and an unease over existing racial categories that made it difficult for them to work through the loss of the masculinity they mourned. Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism offers a bold new reading of canonical modernism in the United States.

Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow - The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore (Hardcover):... Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow - The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore (Hardcover)
Eleanor Alexander
R1,770 Discovery Miles 17 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2002!

"Alexander's significant, welcome book gives us so much to think about in the moving story of two people, trying to find their way into the world and each other's lives"
--"The New York Times Book Review"

"An engaging study of the couple's courtship and marriage in light of the social customs of the period, both within and outside the African American community. . . Highly recommended."
--"Library Journal, starred review"

"Tells a fascinating tale of two compelling figures whose lives were intriguing, at times harrowing, and in many ways tragic. At the same time, Alexander investigates a broader topic. . .A riveting narrative."
--Martha Hodes

Sexism, racism, self-hatred, and romantic love: all figure in prominently in this scholarly-but nicely hard-boiled-discussion of the bond between the famous Paul Laurence Dunbar and his wife Alice. Eleanor Alexander's analysis of turn-of-the-twentieth-century black marriage is required reading for every student of American, especially African-American, heterosexual relationships."
--Nell Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University, Author of "Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol"

"Rich in documentation and generous in analysis, "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow" advances our understanding of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American social and cultural history in compelling and unexpected ways. By exposing the devastating consequences of unequal power dynamics and gender relations in the union of the celebrated writers, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore, and by examining the hiddenunderside of the Dunbars' storybook romance where alcohol, sex, and violence prove fatal, Eleanor Alexander produces a provocative, nuanced interpretation of late Victorian courtship and marriage, of post-emancipation racial respectability and class mobility, of pre-modern sexual rituals and color conventions in an emergent elite black society."
--Thadious M. Davis, Vanderbilt University

"Eleanor Alexander's vivid account of the most famous black writer of his day, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and his wife Alice, illuminates the world of the African American literati at the opening of the twentieth century. The Dunbars' fairy-tale romance ended abruptly, when Alice walked out on her alcoholic, abusive spouse. Alexander's access to scores of intimate letters and her sensitive interpretation of the Dunbars mercurial highs and lows reveal the tragic consequences of mixing alcohol, ambition and amour. The Dunbars were precursors for another doomed duo: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Alexander's poignant story of the Dunbars sheds important light on love and violence among DuBois's "talented tenth."
--Catherine Clinton, author of "Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars"

"Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow debunks Dunbar myths...

Lyrics asks us to consider the ways in which racism and sexism operate together."
-- "The Crisis"On February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early twentieth-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper to learn of her husband's death the day before. Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of former slaves, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed "the most promising young colored man in America," wasdead from tuberculosis at the age of 33.

Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted African-American literary couple. Drawing on a variety of love letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies, Eleanor Alexander vividly recounts Dunbar's and Moore's tumultuous affair, from a courtship conducted almost entirely through letters and an elopement brought on by Dunbar's brutal, drunken rape of Moore, through their passionate marriage and its eventual violent dissolution in 1902. Moore, once having left Dunbar, rejected his every entreaty to return to him, responding to his many letters only once, with a blunt, one-word telegram ("No").

This is a remarkable story of tragic romance among African-American elites struggling to define themselves and their relationships within the context of post-slavery America. As such, it provides a timely examination of the ways in which cultural ideology and politics shape and complicate conceptions of romantic love.

The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker (Hardcover, New): Sophie Bush The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker (Hardcover, New)
Sophie Bush; Contributions by Debby Turner, Roger Hodgman, Sarah Sigal
R3,627 Discovery Miles 36 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker offers the first comprehensive overview of Wertenbaker's playwriting career which spans more than thirty years of stage plays. It considers the contexts of their initial productions by a range of companies and institutions, including the Royal Court, the Arcola and the Women's Theatre Group. While examining all of Wertenbaker's original stage works, Sophie Bush's companion focuses most extensively on the frequently studied plays Our Country's Good and The Love of the Nightingale, but also draws attention to early unpublished works and more recent, critically neglected pieces, and the counterpoints these provide. The Companion will prove invaluable to students and scholars, combining as it does close textual analysis with detailed historical and contextual study of the processes of production and reception. The author makes comprehensive use of previously undiscussed materials from the Wertenbaker Archive, including draft texts, correspondence and theatrical ephemera, as well as original interviews with the playwright. A section of Performance and Critical Perspectives from other scholars and practitioners offer a range of alternative approaches to Wertenbaker's most frequently studied play, Our Country's Good. While providing a detailed analysis of individual plays, and their themes, theatricalities and socio-historical contexts, The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker also examines the processes and shape of Wertenbaker's career as a whole, and considers what the struggles and triumphs that have accompanied her work reveal about the challenges of theatrical collaboration. In its scope and reference Sophie Bush's study extends to encompass a wealth of additional information about other individuals and institutions and succeeds in placing her work within a broad range of concerns and resonances.

Joyce, Race and 'Finnegans Wake' (Hardcover): Len Platt Joyce, Race and 'Finnegans Wake' (Hardcover)
Len Platt
R2,758 R2,465 Discovery Miles 24 650 Save R293 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Len Platt charts a new approach through one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century literature. Using original archival research and detailed close readings, he outlines Joyce's literary response to the racial discourse of twentieth-century politics. Platt's account is the first to position Finnegans Wake in precise historical conditions and to explore Joyce's engagement with European fascism. Race, Platt claims, is a central theme for Joyce, both in terms of the colonial and post-colonial conflicts between the Irish and the British, and in terms of its use by the extreme right. It is in this context that Joyce's engagement with race, while certainly a product of colonial relations, also figures as a wider disputation with rationalism, capitalism and modernity. This political analysis of Finnegans Wake will change the way this key modernist text is read, and will provide a fresh and fascinating historical context for all scholars of Joyce and Modernism.

Essays on Ayn Rand's "We the Living" (Hardcover, 2nd Edition): Robert Mayhew Essays on Ayn Rand's "We the Living" (Hardcover, 2nd Edition)
Robert Mayhew
R3,556 Discovery Miles 35 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the second edition of the study of Ayn Rand's first novel, which was published in 1936--ten years after she left Soviet Russia, and during America's Red Decade. Essays deal with historical, literary and philosophical themes. Essays on the history of We the Living cover: the drafts of the novel; the historical accuracy of its setting and the extent to which the novel is autobiographical; and, Rand's struggles with a hostile culture first to publish We the Living, and then to adapt it. Essays providing literary analyses include a comparison of We the Living and the fiction of Victor Hugo (Rand's favorite writer). Also covered are We the Living's plot, theme, characterization and style--what Rand, in her writings on literary aesthetics, considered the four essential attributes of a novel. The theme of We the Living is the individual against the state, and the sanctity of human life. These issues are dealt with in detail, especially in the essays which focus on philosophical topics. A number of essays in this collection make extensive use of previously unpublished material from the Ayn Rand Archives.

Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Nizar Zouidi Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Nizar Zouidi
R5,047 Discovery Miles 50 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different institutional standings, cultural backgrounds and (inter)disciplinary interests with the aim of energizing the ongoing discussion of the generic and thematic issues related to the representation of villainy and evil in literature and media. The volume covers medieval literature to contemporary literature and also examines important aspects of evil in literature such as social and political identity, the gothic and systemic evil practices. In addition to literature, the book considers examples of villainy in film, TV and media, revealing that performance, performative control and maneuverability are the common characteristics of villains across the different literary and filmic genres and eras studied in the volume.

Writing Migration through the Body (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Emma Bond Writing Migration through the Body (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Emma Bond
R2,746 Discovery Miles 27 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Writing Migration through the Body builds a study of the body as a mutable site for negotiating and articulating the transnational experience of mobility. At its core stands a selection of recent migration stories in Italian, which are brought into dialogue with related material from cultural studies and the visual arts. Occupying no single disciplinary space, and drawing upon an elaborate theoretical framework ranging from phenomenology to anthropology, human geography and memory studies, this volume explores the ways in which the skin itself operates as a border, and brings to the surface the processes by which a sense of place and self are described and communicated through the migrant body. Through investigating key concepts and practices of transnational embodied experience, the book develops the interpretative principle that the individual bodies which move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions, ideas, memories - and also histories and possible futures - are enacted.

Fin de millenaire French Fiction - The Aesthetics of Crisis (Hardcover): Ruth Cruickshank Fin de millenaire French Fiction - The Aesthetics of Crisis (Hardcover)
Ruth Cruickshank
R3,874 Discovery Miles 38 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The turn of the millennium in France coincided with a number of tangible crises and apocalyptic discourses, and with the growth of the mass media and global market, further generating and manipulating crisis. In this original, wide-ranging but closely analytical study, Cruickshank contextualizes and reads the work of four influential writers of prose fiction --- Angot, Echenoz, Houellebecq, and Redonnet --- teasing out each one's response to this convergence. She suggests that the recurrent fictional and cultural trope of the turning point has both aesthetic and critical potential. Bringing together analyses spanning literature, thought, and culture, she identifies and critiques the ways in which, on the eve of the twenty-first century, different theoretical and fictional approaches confront the manipulation of crisis discourses. Drawing on a 'long twentieth century' of crisis thinking, Cruickshank counters the perception that a postmodern model of perpetual crisis is culturally dominant, and establishes instead a new critical framework with which to respond to the fin de millenaire aesthetics of crisis.
Through patient and illuminating readings, Cruickshank demonstrates how prose fictions afford critical purchase on the global market, and on French co-implication in it. She identifies how the four contrasting writers reflect, perpetuate, and challenge the misogyny and symbolic violence of late capitalism. Fin de millenaire prose fiction emerges as both problematic and problematizing, bespeaking the need to intervene in debates about the mass media, neoliberalism, global market economics, and sexual and postcolonial identities, while also demonstrating the enduring agency -- critical and creative -- of literature itself."

Jim Crace - Into the Wilderness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Katy Shaw, Kate Aughterson Jim Crace - Into the Wilderness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Katy Shaw, Kate Aughterson
R1,597 Discovery Miles 15 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a unique essay collection on Jim Crace, locating his writing within contemporary philosophical, cultural and political debates. This timely first critical collection of essays on Crace's work provides a retrospective on his work to date, locating his work within a number of contemporary interdisciplinary critical and cultural perspectives and concerns, including post-humanism, post-millennial pastoralism, post-post feminism and gender, intersections between science and literary theory, environmental politics, the symbiotics of authorial and critical archival work, and the context of the burgeoning world of literary prizes. It includes additional contextual material in the form of an interview with Jim Crace and the re-publication of a seminal critical essay on "Craceland" by Adam Begley. As such this critical essay collection will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary fiction, and Crace's unique writing.

Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (Hardcover): Jennie A. Kassanoff Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (Hardcover)
Jennie A. Kassanoff
R2,760 R2,292 Discovery Miles 22 920 Save R468 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm what was known as the American native elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Jennie Kassanoff argues that a fuller appreciation of American culture and democracy becomes available through a sustained engagement with these controversial views. She pursues her theme through Wharton's spirited participation in a variety of turn-of-the-century discourses - from euthanasia and tourism to pragmatism and Native Americans - to produce a truly interdisciplinary study of this major American writer. Kassanoff locates Wharton squarely in the middle of the debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on diverse cultural materials, she offers close interdisciplinary readings that will be of interest to scholars of American literature and culture.

Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic - Reading through the Iron Curtain (Paperback): Nicole Moore, Christina... Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic - Reading through the Iron Curtain (Paperback)
Nicole Moore, Christina Spittel
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community - After the Wreck (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Susan Strehle Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community - After the Wreck (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Susan Strehle
R3,020 Discovery Miles 30 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; written "after the wreck," they recall instructive pasts. The novels chronicle wars, slavery, racism, child abuse and genocide; they reveal damages that ensue when nations claim an exalted, exceptionalist identity and violate the human rights of their Others. In sympathy with the exiled, writers of these contemporary historical fictions create alternative communities on the state's outer fringes. These fictive communities include where the state excludes; they foreground relations of debt and obligation to the group in place of individualism, competition and private property. Rather than assimilating members to a single identity with a unified set of views, the communities open multiple possibilities for belonging. Analyzing novels from Britain, Australia and the U.S., along with additional transnational examples, Susan Strehle explores the political vision animating some contemporary historical fictions.

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness - Philosophy, Form, and Language (Hardcover): Megan Quigley Modernist Fiction and Vagueness - Philosophy, Form, and Language (Hardcover)
Megan Quigley
R2,500 Discovery Miles 25 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness marries the artistic and philosophical versions of vagueness, linking the development of literary modernism to changes in philosophy. This book argues that the problem of vagueness - language's unavoidable imprecision - led to transformations in both fiction and philosophy in the early twentieth century. Both twentieth-century philosophers and their literary counterparts (including James, Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce) were fascinated by the vagueness of words and the dream of creating a perfectly precise language. Building on recent interest in the connections between analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness demonstrates that vagueness should be read not as an artistic problem but as a defining quality of modernist fiction.

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