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Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia - From the 16th to the 21st Century (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007): T. Gibson Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia - From the 16th to the 21st Century (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
T. Gibson
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological kingship, cosmopolitan notions of Islamic law and mysticism, and global notions of the modern bureaucratic state. These notions have coexisted in Southeast Asia since the Sixteenth century and influence politics to this day.

The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period (Paperback): Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period (Paperback)
Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences.

Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers - Constructing the World (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008): Michael Beaney Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers - Constructing the World (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008)
Michael Beaney; O Nasim
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The author demonstrates the significant role that some of the Edwardian philosophers played in the formation of Russell's work on the problem of the external world done at the tail-end of a controversy which raged between about 1900-1915.

Felix Guattari - Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008): Charles J. Stivale, Giuseppina... Felix Guattari - Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008)
Charles J. Stivale, Giuseppina Mecchia; Franco Berardi Bifo
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Felix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi 'Bifo', originates in the author's close personal acquaintance with Felix Guattari's writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifo's activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing collaboration with Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s. This biography gains distinction from its keen insight into Guattari's political practice and from a precise understanding of how this practice relates to the theoretical and conceptual aspects of Guattari's writings, alone and with Gilles Deleuze. Thanks to an approach at once personal and theoretically well informed, Bifo's biography provides a clear and accessible introduction to Guattari's works. This edition also includes a critical introduction and a 2005 interview with Bifo on a range of topics relating Guattari's works to the current political conjuncture.

The Performing Century - Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007): T. Davis, P. Holland The Performing Century - Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
T. Davis, P. Holland
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.

Sketches of the Nineteenth Century - European Journalism and its  Physiologies , 1830-50 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007): M. Lauster Sketches of the Nineteenth Century - European Journalism and its Physiologies , 1830-50 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
M. Lauster
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the visual and verbal city sketches which proliferated during the 'journalistic revolution' of the 1830s and 1840s. It shows how sketches transformed models of visual and printed media and of life science into a unique kind of sociology, presenting a self-critique of the middle class on the brink of industrial modernity.

Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (Paperback): Kirsten Lodge Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (Paperback)
Kirsten Lodge; Translated by Margo Rosen, Grigory Dashewski
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Cruelty, corruption, sensuality, desperation and death: the sensationalism and morbid pessimism that characterized French decadence in the late nineteenth century quickly attracted converts throughout Europe, including Russia. Here are the horrifying, dramatic and erotic short stories and poetry, most of which have never before been translated into English, by the most decadent Russian writers. These explore the depths of the unconscious, as their characters experience sadism, masochism, rape, murder, suicide, and, in a story by Gippius, even passionate love for the dead. * describes the spread of madnessand the collapse of advanced, but decadent, civilizations that indulge in refined pleasures * Andreyev portrays the collapse of all moral values on a personal level in his famous story The Abyss Femmes fatales lure men to destruction, but the most seductive enchantress in the anthology is death itself.

Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007): Wanda Balzano Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
Wanda Balzano; Edited by A. Mulhall, M. Sullivan
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection explores popular culture in Ireland and Ireland in popular culture, from Fanfic to Orange Parades; from boybands to the Blessed Virgin Mary; from celebrity tourism to the Gaelic Athletic Association. The essays examine local and global Irishness, focusing on how gender, sexuality and race shape Irish 'postmodernity'.

Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006): M. Reason Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006)
M. Reason
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The documentation of practice is one of the principle concerns of performance studies. Focusing on contemporary performance practice and with emphasis on the transformative impact of video, photography and writing, this book explores the ideological, practical, and representational implications of knowing performance through its documentations.

Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006): G Ortiz, C Joseph Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006)
G Ortiz, C Joseph
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing and provocative responses to well-established literary and critical theories.

Jean Genet: Performance and Politics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006): C. Finburgh, C Lavery, M. Shevtsova Jean Genet: Performance and Politics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006)
C. Finburgh, C Lavery, M. Shevtsova
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book to explore the broad political significance of Genet's performance practice by focusing on his radical experiments, polemical subjects and formal innovations in theatre, film and dance. Its new approach brings together the diverse aspects of Genet's work through essays by international scholars and interviews.

Seventeenth-Century Mother's Advice Books (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006): M Urban Seventeenth-Century Mother's Advice Books (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006)
M Urban
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Advice books published by women were a popular genre in Seventeenth and early Eighteenth-century England and they were moral manuals with strong religious overtones. Here, Urban highlights a notable exception: Age Rectified, which counsels women to acquire a 'disposition of mind' in old age which allows them to be accepted by younger generations.

Divine Play, Sacred Laughter, and Spiritual Understanding (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005): P. Laude Divine Play, Sacred Laughter, and Spiritual Understanding (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
P. Laude
R1,503 Discovery Miles 15 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study in the relationship between religion and the comic focuses on the ways in which the latter fulfils a central function in the sacred understanding of reality of pre-modern cultures and the spiritual life of religious traditions. The central thesis is that figures such as tricksters, sacred clowns, and holy fools play an essential role in bridging the gap between the divine and the human by integrating the element of disequilibrium that results from the contact between incommensurable realities. This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural series of essays is devoted to spiritual, anthropological, and literary characters and phenomena that point to a deeper understanding of the various mythological, ceremonial, and mystical ways in which the fundamental ambiguity of existence is symbolized and acted out. Given its interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, this volume will appeal to scholars from a variety of fields.

Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006): S. Simkin Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence (Paperback, 1st ed. 2006)
S. Simkin
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death, revenge and justice, and gender and violence. What happens when we connect The White Devil with Basic Instinct ? The Changeling or Titus Andronicus with Straw Dogs ? Doctor Faustus with Se7en ? Taxi Driver with The Spanish Tragedy ? Appealing to those with an interest in either drama or film, written in an engaging style, the book also reconsiders the high /popular culture divide, and reflects on the enduring significance of the revenge motif in Western culture over the past four hundred years, particularly in the post 9/11 context.

Innocence and Rapture - The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005): K. Ohi Innocence and Rapture - The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
K. Ohi
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the equivocal pleasuresof self-loss. He also explores how the beautiful child offers partisans of 'art for art's sake' an emblem for the ecstatic and erotic, even the queer possibilities of art. Aestheticism's erotic child is thus in stark contrast to the innocent child of today's ideology, who secures the claims of identity against the very disorientations celebrated by aestheticism. Articulating aesthetic transport through the desiring and desired child, aestheticism interrogates the ideology underpinning sexual oppression.

Narrative, Perception, Language, and Faith (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005): E. Wright Narrative, Perception, Language, and Faith (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
E. Wright
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There have been many voices in disciplines as various as philosophy, history, psychology, hermeneutics, literary theory, and theology that have claimed that narrative is fundamental to all that is human. Here is a book that, in an engaging and amusing way, presents a coherent thesis to that effect, connecting the Joke and the Story (with all that comedy and tragedy imply) not only with our sensing and perceiving of the world, but with our faith in each other, and what the character of that faith should be.

Reading U.S. Latina Writers - Remapping American Literature (Paperback, 2003 ed.): A. Quintana Reading U.S. Latina Writers - Remapping American Literature (Paperback, 2003 ed.)
A. Quintana
R1,489 Discovery Miles 14 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers. It will assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, new course design and classroom presentation. The inclusive focus of the book - that is, combining both US Latina and Latin American women writers - is significant because it introduces a more global and transnational way of approaching the literature. The introduction outlines the major historical experiences that inform the literature, the important genres, periods, movements and authors in its evolution; the traditions and influences that shape the works; and key critical issues of which teachers should be aware. The collection seeks to provide readers with a variety of Latina texts that will guarantee its long-term usefulness to teachers and students of pan-American literature. Because it is no longer possible to understand U.S. Latina literature without taking into consideration the histories and cultures of Latin America, the volume will, through its organization, argue for a more globalized type of analysis which considers the similarities as well as the differences in U.S. and Latin American women's cultural productions. In this context, the term Latina evokes a diasporic, transnational condition in order to address some of the pedagogical issues posed by the bicultural nature which is inherent in pan-American women's literature.

The Things Our Fathers Saw - Voices of the Pacific Theater: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown,... The Things Our Fathers Saw - Voices of the Pacific Theater: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA (Paperback)
Matthew Rozell
R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Humanities Computing (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005): W. Mccarty Humanities Computing (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
W. Mccarty
R1,514 Discovery Miles 15 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Humanities Computing provides a rationale for a computing practice that is of and for as well as in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences to ask ever better questions of the most challenging kind. It strengthens current practice by stimulating debate on the role of the computer in our intellectual life, and outlines an agenda for the field to which individual scholars across the humanities can contribute.

The Nature of Evil (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005): D. Koehn The Nature of Evil (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
D. Koehn
R1,061 Discovery Miles 10 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When human beings do horrifying things, are they evil? By exploring such popular literature as The Talented Mr. Ripley , Dante's Inferno , The Turn of the Screw , and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Koehn illustrates that the roots of human violence are not true evil but a symptom of our failure to really know who we are. It is this lack of understanding of ourselves that can lead humans to perform horrifying deeds, rather than 'evil' itself. This is a deep look into human nature, its beauty and its failings. The Nature of Evil offers an insightful and engaging exploration at a time when we are all struggling to understand the roots of violence and suffering.

The Letter of Violence - Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics (Paperback, 2005 ed.): I. Avelar The Letter of Violence - Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
I. Avelar
R1,485 Discovery Miles 14 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Paul Virilio, and Jacques Derrida, Avelar also offers a discussion of theories of torture and confession, the work of Roman Polanski and Borges, and a meditation on the rise of the novel in Colombia.

Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' (Paperback, New ed): Philip Connell Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' (Paperback, New ed)
Philip Connell
R1,938 Discovery Miles 19 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Romantic age in Britain formed one of the most celebrated--and heterogeneous--moments in literary history, but it also witnessed the rise of "political economy" as the pre-eminent nineteenth-century science of society. Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' investigates this historical conjunction, and reassesses the idea that the Romantic defense of spiritual and humanistic "culture" developed as a reaction to the individualistic, philistine values of the "dismal science."
Drawing on a wide range of source material, the book combines the methods of literary scholarship and intellectual history. It addresses the changing political identifications of familiar literary figures such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, but also illuminates the wider political and intellectual life of this period.
Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' situates canonical Romantic writers within a nuanced, and highly detailed ideological context, while challenging our inherited understanding of the Romantic tradition itself as the social conscience of nineteenth-century capitalism.

Joan of Arc and Spirituality (Paperback, 1st ed. 2003): Bonnie Wheeler, A. Astell Joan of Arc and Spirituality (Paperback, 1st ed. 2003)
Bonnie Wheeler, A. Astell
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Joan of Arc is an unusual saint. Canonized in 1920 as a virgin, she died in 1431 as a condemned heretic. Uneducated, militant, and youthful, she obeyed 'Voices' that counselled her to pursue an unprecedented vocation. The various trial records provide a wealth of evidence about how Joan and others understood her spiritual life. This collection explores multiple facets of Joan's prayerful life. Two-thirds of the essays focus on Joan in her own time; the later chapters study Joan's formative influence upon modern women. Taken together, these essays offer new perspectives on the heroism of Joan's original way of sanctity.

Sticking to the Union - An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila (Paperback, 2003 ed.): S Polishuk Sticking to the Union - An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila (Paperback, 2003 ed.)
S Polishuk; Foreword by Amy Kesselman; Edited by Bruce M. Stave, Linda Shopes
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT
Palgrave is pleased to announce a new series, Palgrave Studies in Oral History, edited by Linda Shopes of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and Bruce M. Stave, Board of Trustees Professor Emeritus and Director of the Center for Oral History at of the University of Connecticut. The series will feature the best current work in the field of oral history placed into a broad historical context, engaging issues of historical memory, and narrative construction. The books in the series will explore a wide variety of topics and themes in all areas of history. The series will include works using global, compartive, and local frameworks. Contributions to the series will highlight the unique capacity of oral history to humanize broader social and political trends, demonstrating their impact on the individual level.

Sticking to the Union relates the vibrant life of Julia Ruuttila (1907-1991), a political radical and labor journalist in the Pacific Northwest. Ruuttila's life of activism provides a much-needed woman's voice in the history of labor and social activism in the twentieth century. Ruuttila worked for civil liberties, civil rights, and peace organizations throughout her life, supporting striking workers, taking part in lunch-counter protests against businesses that discriminated against African Americans, and demonstrating against the Vietnam War. Polishuk provides insightful historical context for Ruuttila's own lively words. A unique and important perspective on American struggles of the twentieth century emerges in this engaging story of an irrepressible, hard-nosed woman.

STEFAN ZWEIG UND ELLEN KEY. EINE BIOGRAFISCHE MINIATUR; Briefwechsel zwischen einem jungen oesterreichischen Dichter und einer... STEFAN ZWEIG UND ELLEN KEY. EINE BIOGRAFISCHE MINIATUR; Briefwechsel zwischen einem jungen oesterreichischen Dichter und einer schwedischen Philosophin und Gesellschaftsreformerin (German, Hardcover)
Margrit Hansen
R996 Discovery Miles 9 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Im Jahre 1904 schreibt der junge Stefan Zweig zum ersten Mal an die von ihm verehrte Schwedin Ellen Key. Sie ist uber 50, Zweig ist 23 Jahre alt. Es entwickelt sich ein fast 20 Jahre dauernder, vertrauensvoller Briefwechsel. In diesen Briefen spiegelt sich zunachst die Entwicklung des jungen Dichters wider, spater vor allem unglaubiges Entsetzen, als die kulturell verbundenen Menschen und Nationen Europas mit Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges zu Feinden werden. Ab 1915 wird in der Korrespondenz zwischen Zweig und Key deutlich, dass Resignation an Raum gewinnt. Der Krieg als humanitare Katastrophe und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit lasst den Glauben an die Kraft von Literatur und Kunst schwinden. Beide kampfen aber weiter mit der Schreibfeder fur den Frieden und warnen in Wort und Schrift vor Radikalisierung. Sie hoffen weiter, dass ein menschliches Gewissen mittels Sprache nachhaltig angeruhrt werden kann.

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