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Speed Reading 2022 - The Best Guide to learning how to read a book of over 100 pages in 1 hour (Hardcover): Ariel House Speed Reading 2022 - The Best Guide to learning how to read a book of over 100 pages in 1 hour (Hardcover)
Ariel House
R940 R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Save R128 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn - With Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes (Hardcover):... The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn - With Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes (Hardcover)
Aphra Behn
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Way Worst Than Attica - the 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (Hardcover): Dirk Cameron Gibson Way Worst Than Attica - the 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (Hardcover)
Dirk Cameron Gibson
R1,101 Discovery Miles 11 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Soviet Theatre during the Thaw - Aesthetics, Politics and Performance (Hardcover): Jesse Gardiner Soviet Theatre during the Thaw - Aesthetics, Politics and Performance (Hardcover)
Jesse Gardiner; Series edited by Bruce McConachie, Claire Cochrane
R2,857 Discovery Miles 28 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The era known as the Thaw (1953-64) was a crucial period in the history of the Soviet Union. It was a time when the legacies of Stalinism began to unravel and when brief moments of liberalisation saw dramatic changes to society. By exploring theatre productions, plays and cultural debates during the Thaw, this book sheds light on a society in flux, in which the cultural norms, values and hierarchies of the previous era were being rethought. Jesse Gardiner demonstrates that the revival of avant-garde theatre during the Thaw was part of a broader re-engagement with cultural forms that had been banned under Stalin. Plays and productions that had fallen victim to the censor were revived or reinvented, and their authors and directors rehabilitated alongside waves of others who had been repressed during the Stalinist purges. At the same time, new theatre companies and practitioners emerged who reinterpreted the stylized techniques of the avant-garde for a post-war generation. This book argues that the revival of avant-garde theatre was vital in allowing the Soviet public to reimagine its relationship to state power, the West and its own past. It permitted the rethinking of attitudes and prejudices, and led to calls for greater cultural diversity across society. Playwrights, directors and actors began to work in innovative ways, seeking out the theatre of the future by re-engaging with the proscribed forms of the past.

Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo - Post-Revolutionary Body Politics 1922-1965 (Hardcover): Lucy O'Sullivan Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo - Post-Revolutionary Body Politics 1922-1965 (Hardcover)
Lucy O'Sullivan
R2,712 Discovery Miles 27 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Hardcover): Harriet Beecher Stowe A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Hardcover)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
For Love and for Prussia - A Novel based on the Life of Philipp Wilhelm Sack (Hardcover): Gertha Von Dieckmann, Stephen A.... For Love and for Prussia - A Novel based on the Life of Philipp Wilhelm Sack (Hardcover)
Gertha Von Dieckmann, Stephen A. Engelking
R1,141 R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Save R166 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Heimskringla - Or, The Sagas Of The Norse Kings From The Icelandic Of Snorre Sturlason; Volume 1 (Hardcover): Snorri... The Heimskringla - Or, The Sagas Of The Norse Kings From The Icelandic Of Snorre Sturlason; Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Snorri Sturluson
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Anne Frank - The Book, the Life, the Afterlife (Paperback): Francine Prose Anne Frank - The Book, the Life, the Afterlife (Paperback)
Francine Prose
R381 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling documents of modern history. But Anne Frank's diary, argues Francine Prose, is as much a work of art as it is a historical record. Through close reading, she marvels at the teenage Frank's skillfully natural narrative voice, at her finely tuned dialogue and ability to turn living people into characters.

Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife tells the extraordinary story of the book that became a force in the world. Along the way, Prose definitively establishes that Anne Frank was not an accidental author or a casual teenage chronicler but a writer of prodigious talent and ambition.

Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (Hardcover): Edward John Trelawny Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (Hardcover)
Edward John Trelawny
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums (Hardcover): Katrin Antweiler Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums (Hardcover)
Katrin Antweiler
R3,144 Discovery Miles 31 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an analysis of the forms and functions of Holocaust memorialisation in human rights museums by asking about the impact of global memory politics on how we imagine the present and the future. It compares three human rights museums and their respective emplotment of the Holocaust and seeks to illuminate how, in this specific setting, memory politics simultaneously function as future politics because they delineate a normative ideal of the citizen-subject, its set of values and aspirations for the future: that of the historically aware human rights advocate. More than an ethical practice, engaging with the Holocaust is used as a means of asserting one’s standing on "the right side of history"; the memorialisation of the Holocaust has thus become a means of governmentality, a way of governing contemporary citizen-subjects. The linking of public memory of the Holocaust with the human rights project is often presented as highly beneficial for all members of what is often called the "global community". Yet this book argues that this specific constellation of memory also has the ability to function as an exercise of power, and thus runs the risk of reinforcing structural oppression. With its novel theoretical approach this book not only contributes to Memory Studies but also connects Holocaust memory to Studies of Global Governmentality and the debate on decolonising memory politics.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Piers the Ploughman (Hardcover): William Allan Neilson, William Langland, Kenneth Grant... Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Piers the Ploughman (Hardcover)
William Allan Neilson, William Langland, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster
R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire (Hardcover): Satoko Kakihara Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire (Hardcover)
Satoko Kakihara
R2,166 Discovery Miles 21 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire, the author examines how writers captured various experiences of living under imperialism in their fiction and nonfiction works. Through an examination of texts by writers producing in different parts of the empire (including the Japanese metropole and the colonies and territories of Taiwan, Korea, and Manchukuo), the book explores how women negotiated the social and personal changes brought about by modernization of the social institutions of education, marriage, family, and labor. Looking at works by writers including young students in Manchukuo, Japanese writer Hani Motoko, Korean writer Chang Tok-cho, and Taiwanese writer Yang Ch'ien-Ho, the book sheds light upon how the act and product of writing became a site for women to articulate their hopes and desires while also processing sociopolitical expectations. The author argues that women used their practice of writing to construct their sense of self. The book ultimately shows us how the words we write make us who we are.

The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson (Hardcover): Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson (Hardcover)
Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Woke Cinderella - Twenty-First-Century Adaptations (Hardcover): Suzy Woltmann Woke Cinderella - Twenty-First-Century Adaptations (Hardcover)
Suzy Woltmann; Contributions by Camille S Alexander, Rachel L Carazo, Christine Case, Brittany Eldridge, …
R3,792 R2,671 Discovery Miles 26 710 Save R1,121 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes: incarnations of the "Cinderella" fairy tale have resonated throughout the ages. Hidden between the lines of this fairy tale exists a history of fantasy about agency, power, and empowerment. This book examines twenty-first-century "Cinderella" adaptations that envision the classic tale in the twenty-first century through the lens of wokenesss by shifting rhetorical implications and self-reflexively granting different possibilities for protagonists. The contributors argue that the "Cinderella" archetype expands past traditional takes on the passive princess. From Sex and the City to Game of Thrones, from cyborg "Cinderellas" to Inglorious Basterds, contributors explore gender-bending and feminist adaptations, explorations of race and the body, and post-human and post-truth rewritings. The collection posits that contemporary "Cinderella" adaptations create a substantive cultural product that both inform and reflect a contemporary social zeitgeist.

A Different Land - Critical insight about life in Israel (Hardcover): Rachman Chaim A Different Land - Critical insight about life in Israel (Hardcover)
Rachman Chaim
R750 R666 Discovery Miles 6 660 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Volume 7 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz - Aurora Consurgens (Hardcover): Marie-Louise Von Franz Volume 7 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz - Aurora Consurgens (Hardcover)
Marie-Louise Von Franz
R1,752 Discovery Miles 17 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Situation of the Catholic Novelist (Hardcover): Trevor Cribben Merrill The Situation of the Catholic Novelist (Hardcover)
Trevor Cribben Merrill
R362 R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Notebooks of Gertrude Stein (Hardcover): Leon Katz The Notebooks of Gertrude Stein (Hardcover)
Leon Katz; Notes by Stein, Gertrude,; Interview of Alice B. Toklas
R1,494 Discovery Miles 14 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Letters of Jane Austen (Hardcover): Jane Austen The Letters of Jane Austen (Hardcover)
Jane Austen
R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Subtler Magick - The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft (Hardcover, 3rd ed.): S.T. Joshi A Subtler Magick - The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft (Hardcover, 3rd ed.)
S.T. Joshi; Introduction by S.T. Joshi
R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Golosa - A Basic Course in Russian, Book One (Paperback, 6th edition): Richard Robin, Karen Evans-Romaine, Galina Shatalina Golosa - A Basic Course in Russian, Book One (Paperback, 6th edition)
Richard Robin, Karen Evans-Romaine, Galina Shatalina
R2,437 Discovery Miles 24 370 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A clear organized structure that allows for one chapter's lessons to build on another, assisting in supporting and scaffolding students' knowledge Clear visuals and charts that take into account the learner's language level. Support for the instructor with transcripts of materials and ideas for activities both in the textbook and the workbook. Diverse video, audio, reading, and web activities that engage the students at their level, thereby supporting their participate in communicative activities. The program has been the best seller as a college Russian textbook through five editions since 1993

The Provincial Letters (Hardcover): Blaise Pascal The Provincial Letters (Hardcover)
Blaise Pascal
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Poems of Henry W. Longfellow - Including Evangeline, the Song of Hiawatha, the Courtship of Miles Sta (Hardcover): Henry... Poems of Henry W. Longfellow - Including Evangeline, the Song of Hiawatha, the Courtship of Miles Sta (Hardcover)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Calling for a New Renaissance (Hardcover): Xingjian Gao Calling for a New Renaissance (Hardcover)
Xingjian Gao; Edited by Mabel Lee; Translated by Yan Qian
R3,036 Discovery Miles 30 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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