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Angela Carter and Decadence - Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): M. Tonkin Angela Carter and Decadence - Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
M. Tonkin
R1,503 Discovery Miles 15 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic antithetical to her feminism. Through historical contextualization of the woman-as-doll, muse and femme fatale, Tonkin tests Carter's own description of her fiction as a form of literary criticism.

Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): M. Mianowski Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
M. Mianowski
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts, this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental issues associated with it, questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape, from the first Greek descriptions to present day post Celtic-Tiger architecture.

The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): K. Cooper, E Short The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
K. Cooper, E Short
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.

Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism - Reading Romans a Clef Between the Wars (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): S. Nair Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism - Reading Romans a Clef Between the Wars (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
S. Nair
R1,499 Discovery Miles 14 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans a clef , providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century. Nair argues that key novels of the period represented same-sex desire through the encryption of personal references directed towards coterie audiences.

Mighty Lewd Books - The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): J. Peakman Mighty Lewd Books - The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
J. Peakman
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.

Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature - Wuthering Heights and Company (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): H.... Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature - Wuthering Heights and Company (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
H. Shachar
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Film and television adaptations of classic literature have held a longstanding appeal for audiences, an appeal that this book sets out to examine. With a particular focus on Wuthering Heights , the book examines adaptations made from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, providing an understanding of how they help shape our cultural landscape.

Playing to the Crowd - London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): F. Burwick Playing to the Crowd - London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
F. Burwick
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.

Fame - Conan O'Brien (Hardcover): Patrick McCormack, C.W. Cooke Fame - Conan O'Brien (Hardcover)
Patrick McCormack, C.W. Cooke; Contributions by Erick a Marquez
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity - Between Recognition and Revolution (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): C. Gallego Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity - Between Recognition and Revolution (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
C. Gallego
R1,499 Discovery Miles 14 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies.

The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): S. Salamensky The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
S. Salamensky
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives.

Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age - Generation X Remixed (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): C. Henseler Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age - Generation X Remixed (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
C. Henseler
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book applies theoretical models that reflect the mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work. Henseler touches upon critical insights in comparative media studies, cultural studies, and social theory, and uses sidebars to travel along multiple voices, facts, figures, and faces.

Orientalism and Literature (Hardcover): Geoffrey P. Nash Orientalism and Literature (Hardcover)
Geoffrey P. Nash
R3,272 Discovery Miles 32 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Orientalism and Literature discusses a key critical concept in literary studies and how it assists our reading of literature. It reviews the concept's evolution: how it has been explored, imagined and narrated in literature. Part I considers Orientalism's origins and its geographical and multidisciplinary scope, then considers the major genres and trends Orientalism inspired in the literary-critical field such as the eighteenth-century Oriental tale, reading the Bible, and Victorian Oriental fiction. Part II recaptures specific aspects of Edward Said's Orientalism: the multidisciplinary contexts and scholarly discussions it has inspired (such as colonial discourse, race, resistance, feminism and travel writing). Part III deliberates upon recent and possible future applications of Orientalism, probing its currency and effectiveness in the twenty-first century, the role it has played and continues to play in the operation of power, and how in new forms, neo-Orientalism and Islamophobia, it feeds into various genres, from migrant writing to journalism.

The Spaces of Irish Drama - Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): H. Lojek The Spaces of Irish Drama - Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
H. Lojek
R1,259 R1,038 Discovery Miles 10 380 Save R221 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space.

Ecofeminist Subjectivities - Chaucer's Talking Birds (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): L. Kordecki Ecofeminist Subjectivities - Chaucer's Talking Birds (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
L. Kordecki
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society.

Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): V. Glajar, J. Teodorescu Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
V. Glajar, J. Teodorescu
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the memory of the Romanian Holocaust in Romanian, German, Israeli, and French cultural representations. The essays in this volume discuss first-hand testimonial accounts, letters, journals, drawings, literary texts and films by Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Aharon Appelfeld Norman Manea, Radu Mihaileanu, among others.

Between Conformity and Resistance - Essays on Politics, Culture, and the State (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): Maite Conde Between Conformity and Resistance - Essays on Politics, Culture, and the State (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
Maite Conde; M. Chaui
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since the 1980's, Marilena Chaui's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are ten of Chaui's most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context.

The Politics of Samuel Johnson (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): J. Clark, H. Erskine Hill The Politics of Samuel Johnson (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
J. Clark, H. Erskine Hill
R1,496 Discovery Miles 14 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'

Exile through a Gendered Lens - Women's Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema (Paperback, 1st... Exile through a Gendered Lens - Women's Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
G. Zinn
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness.

The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI - The Christocentric Shift (Paperback, 1st ed. 2010): Emery De Gaal The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI - The Christocentric Shift (Paperback, 1st ed. 2010)
Emery De Gaal
R1,671 Discovery Miles 16 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many refer to Pope Benedict XVI as "the Mozart of Theology." Who are the thinkers who have informed his theology? What events, and which religious devotions, have shaped his personality? This study attempts to shed light on the unifying melody of the policies and positions of a pontificate charged with spiritual and theological depth.

Gilded Summers (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Donna Russo Morin Gilded Summers (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Donna Russo Morin
R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Drama of Marriage - Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): J. Clum The Drama of Marriage - Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
J. Clum
R1,291 R1,071 Discovery Miles 10 710 Save R220 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time when theatre was both popular entertainment and high culture, many of the most commercially and artistically successful plays about marriage were written by homosexual men. Beginning with Oscar Wilde and focusing on some of the most successful British and American playwrights of the past century, including Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward, Terence Rattigan, and Emlyn Williams in England and Clyde Fitch, George Kelly, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, and Edward Albee in the US, The Drama of Marriagelooks at how the plays they wrote about heterosexual marriage continue to impact contemporary gay playwrights and the depiction of marriage today.

Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage - Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): M.... Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage - Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
M. Tian
R1,291 R1,071 Discovery Miles 10 710 Save R220 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art.

Alice Munro's Narrative Art (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): I Duncan Alice Munro's Narrative Art (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
I Duncan
R1,483 Discovery Miles 14 830 Ships in 10 - 15 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 examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex, densely layered, often unsettling stories.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Paperback, Tor ed): Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Paperback, Tor ed)
Robert Louis Stevenson
R141 R129 Discovery Miles 1 290 Save R12 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

This edition of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde includes an Introduction and Afterword by Charles L. Grant.

British lawyer Mr. Utterson had proof. Hyde was a foul, twisted, shrunken creature who had brutally stomped a little girl and beaten an old man to death--for no reason. Hyde left a trail of evil across London; the mere sight of him made stranger violent with fear and disgust...

But Hyde was Dr. Jekyll's sole heir.

And that made no sense at all. Henry Jekyll was the kindest, most civil, most respected man in England. What power could a monster like Hyde hold over Jekyll's soul? Utterson vowed to solve the mystery, and free his friend from Hyde's clutches...until his hunt led to a horror beyond blackmail, beyond extortion; to a secret so shocking, so sickening, so personal--That the sheer terror of the truth could drive men mad...

The History of Reading - International Perspectives, c. 1500-1990 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): S. Towheed, W. Owens The History of Reading - International Perspectives, c. 1500-1990 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
S. Towheed, W. Owens
R1,494 Discovery Miles 14 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers to the diverse approaches used to recover the evidence of reading through history in different societies, and asks whether reading practices are always conditioned by specific local circumstances or whether broader patterns might emerge.

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