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Theory of Prose (Paperback): Viktor Shklovsky Theory of Prose (Paperback)
Viktor Shklovsky
R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century's most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as provocative today as they were in the 1920s. Founded on the concept of "making strange," it lays bare the inner workings of fiction-especially the works of Cervantes, Tolstoy, Sterne, Dickens, Bely and Rozanov-and imparts a new way of seeing, of reading, and of interacting with the world.

Trials and Tribulations - A young boy's coming of age (Paperback): Veersen Bhoolai Trials and Tribulations - A young boy's coming of age (Paperback)
Veersen Bhoolai
R670 R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Save R103 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Troublesome Man - About the life of Dr. Ptolemy Reid Prime Minister of Guyana 1980-1984 (Paperback): Stella Bagot A Troublesome Man - About the life of Dr. Ptolemy Reid Prime Minister of Guyana 1980-1984 (Paperback)
Stella Bagot
R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kinship in the Age of Mobility and Technology - Migrant Family Mobilities in the Contemporary Global Novel (Paperback, 1st ed.... Kinship in the Age of Mobility and Technology - Migrant Family Mobilities in the Contemporary Global Novel (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Lamia Tayeb
R3,100 Discovery Miles 31 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume aims to address kinship in the context of global mobility, while studying the effects of technological developments throughout the 20th century on how individuals and communities engage in real or imagined relationships. Using literary representations as a spectrum to examine kinship practices, Lamia Tayeb explores how transnational mobility, bi-culturalism and cosmopolitanism honed, to some extent, the relevant authors' concerns with the family and wider kinship relations: in these literatures, kinship and the family lose their familiar, taken-for-granted aspect, and yet are still conceived as 'essential' spheres of relatedness for uprooted individuals and communities. Tayeb here studies writings by Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Jhumpa Lahiri, Khaled Housseini and Nadia Hashimi, working to understand how transnational kinship dynamics operate when moved beyond the traditional notions of the blood relationship, relationship to place and identification with community.

Pearls of Wisdom (Paperback): Diane Moore Pearls of Wisdom (Paperback)
Diane Moore
R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Notes from Underground (Paperback): Mirra Ginsburg, F. M. Dostoevsky Notes from Underground (Paperback)
Mirra Ginsburg, F. M. Dostoevsky
R178 R126 Discovery Miles 1 260 Save R52 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I am a sick man . . .  I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out.  And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground, published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing:  it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov

An Inventory of Losses - WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION (Paperback): Judith Schalansky An Inventory of Losses - WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION (Paperback)
Judith Schalansky; Translated by Jackie Smith
R311 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail" JOHN SELF, Guardian "As we deal with the consequences, emotional and material, of a pandemic, it is hard to imagine a better guide to the resources of hope than Schalansky's deeply engaging inventory" MICHAEL CRONIN, Irish Times "Weaving fiction, autobiography and history, this sumptuous collection of texts offers meditations on the diverse phenomena of decomposition and destruction" Financial Times "Books of the Year" Following the conventions of a different genre, each of the pieces in Schalansky's Inventory considers something that is irretrievably lost to the world, from the paradisal island of Tuanaki, the Caspian Tiger or the Villa Sacchetti in Rome, to Sappho's love poems, Greta Garbo's fading beauty or a painting by Caspar David Friedrich. As a child of the former East Germany, it's not surprising that "loss" and its aftermath should haunt Schalansky's writing, but what is extraordinary and exhilarating is the engaging mixture of intellectual curiosity, ironic humour, stylistic elegance, intensity of feeling and grasp of life's pitiless vitality, that combine to make this one of the most original literary works of recent times. Translated from the German by Jackie Smith

Being - A Memoir (Paperback): Shakia P Artson Being - A Memoir (Paperback)
Shakia P Artson
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Nonconformist Magazine Issue #1 (Paperback): F R Foksal (Publisher) The Nonconformist Magazine Issue #1 (Paperback)
F R Foksal (Publisher)
R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Time in Romantic Theatre (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Frederick Burwick Time in Romantic Theatre (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Frederick Burwick
R3,152 Discovery Miles 31 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The shift in temporal modalities of Romantic Theatre was the consequence of internal as well as external developments: internally, the playwright was liberated from the old imperative of "Unity of Time" and the expectation that the events of the play must not exceed the hours of a single day; externally, the new social and cultural conformance to the time-keeping schedules of labour and business that had become more urgent with the industrial revolution. In reviewing the theatre of the Romantic era, this monograph draws attention to the ways in which theatre reflected the pervasive impact of increased temporal urgency in social and cultural behaviour. The contribution this book makes to the study of drama in the early nineteenth century is a renewed emphasis on time as a prominent element in Romantic dramaturgy, and a reappraisal of the extensive experimentation on how time functioned.

Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Ming Dong Gu Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Ming Dong Gu
R3,393 Discovery Miles 33 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics. Critiquing an oppositional paradigm, Ming Dong Gu argues that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the two traditions share much common ground in critical theory, aesthetic thought, metaphysical conception, and reasoning. Focusing on issues of language, writing, and linguistics; metaphor, metonymy, and poetics; mimesis and representation; and lyricism, expressionism, creativity, and aesthetics, Gu demonstrates that though ways of conception and modes of expression may differ, the two traditions have cultivated similar aesthetic feelings and critical ideas capable of fusing critical and aesthetic horizons. With a two-way dialogue, this book covers a broad spectrum of critical discourses and uncovers fascinating connections among a wide range of thinkers, theorists, scholars, and aestheticians, thereby making a significant contribution to bridging the aesthetic divide and envisioning world theory and global aesthetics.

Love Letters from L.A. - poems from before... (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Kasandra Livingston Love Letters from L.A. - poems from before... (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Kasandra Livingston
R261 R216 Discovery Miles 2 160 Save R45 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unstuck in Time - A Memoir and Mystery on Loss and Love (Paperback): Nancy Avery Dafoe Unstuck in Time - A Memoir and Mystery on Loss and Love (Paperback)
Nancy Avery Dafoe
R504 R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Save R55 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jeff Noon's "Vurt" - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Andrew C. Wenaus Jeff Noon's "Vurt" - A Critical Companion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Andrew C. Wenaus
R1,371 Discovery Miles 13 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon's iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel, which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its constructivist relationship to genre, its violent and oneiric setting of Manchester, its use of the Orphic myth as an archetype for the practice of literary collage and musical remix, and how the structural paradoxes of chaos and fractal geometry inform the novel's content, form, and theme. Finally, Wenaus makes the case for Vurt's ongoing relevance in the 21st century, an era increasingly characterized by neuro-totalitarianism, psychopolitics, and digital surveillance. With Vurt, Noon begins his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. An inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also an optimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open futures.

Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Romania - Reclaiming Privacy and Agency (Hardcover): Simona Mitroiu Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Romania - Reclaiming Privacy and Agency (Hardcover)
Simona Mitroiu
R3,751 Discovery Miles 37 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on women's lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by women in communist Romania. In particular, it examines the forms of agency and privacy available to women under totalitarianism and the modes of relationships in which their lives were embedded. The self-expression and self-reflexive processes that are to be found in the body of Romanian women's autobiographical writings this study presents create complex private narratives that underpin the creative development of inclusive memories of the past through shared responsibility and shared agency. At the same time, however, the way these private, personal narratives intertwined with collective and official historical narratives exemplifies the multidimensional nature of privacy as well as the radical redefinition of agency in this period. This book argues for a broader understanding of the narratives of the communist past, one that reflects the complexity of individual and social interactions and allows a deep exploration of the interconnected relations between memory, trauma, nostalgia, agency, and privacy.

Memoir of a Psychic - Trust Your Intuition & Thrive (Paperback): Amanda McHugh Memoir of a Psychic - Trust Your Intuition & Thrive (Paperback)
Amanda McHugh
R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
undergrad - a commonplace book (Paperback): Laila El Mugammar undergrad - a commonplace book (Paperback)
Laila El Mugammar
R507 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R99 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture - Worlding Asia in the Anthropocene (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022):... Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture - Worlding Asia in the Anthropocene (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, Soyoung Kim, Rob Sean Wilson
R3,409 Discovery Miles 34 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection opens the geospatiality of "Asia" into an environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world belonging. At the transdisciplinary core of this "worlding" process lies the multiple spatial and temporal dynamics of an environmental eco-poetics, articulated via thinking and creating both with and beyond the Pacific and Asia imaginary.

Reading Eminem - A Critical, Lyrical Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Glenn Fosbraey Reading Eminem - A Critical, Lyrical Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Glenn Fosbraey
R3,127 Discovery Miles 31 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book critically analyses Eminem's studio album releases from his first commercial album release The Slim Shady LP in 1999, to 2020's Music To Be Murdered By, through the lens of storytelling, truth and rhetoric, narrative structure, rhyme scheme and type, perspective, and celebrity culture. In terms of lyrical content, no area has been off-limits to Eminem, and he has written about domestic violence, murder, rape, child abuse, incest, drug addiction, and torture during his career. But whilst he will always be associated with these dark subjects, Mathers has also explored fatherhood, bereavement, mental illness, poverty, friendship, and love within his lyrics, and the juxtaposition between these very different themes (sometimes within the same song), make his lyrics complex, deep, and deserving of proper critical discussion. The first full-length monograph concerning Eminem's lyrics, this book affords the same rigorous analysis to a hip-hop artist as would be applied to any great writer's body of work; such analysis of 'popular' music is often overlooked. In addition to his rich exploration of Eminem's lyrics, Fosbraey furthermore delves into a variety of different aspects within popular music including extra-verbal elements, image, video, and surrounding culture. This critical study of his work will be an invaluable resource to academics working in the fields of Popular Music, English Literature, or Cultural Studies.

Women Writers and Experimental Narratives - Early Modern to Contemporary (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Kate Aughterson, Deborah... Women Writers and Experimental Narratives - Early Modern to Contemporary (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Kate Aughterson, Deborah Philips
R3,120 Discovery Miles 31 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the history of women's engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a way of critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at the same time, as a way to participate in such spaces. Experimentation-of style, mode, voice, genre and language-has enabled women writers to be simultaneously creative and critical, engaged in and yet apart from stories and cultures that have so often seen them as 'other'. This collection shows that women writers in English over the past 400 years have challenged those ideas not only through explicit polemic and alternative representations but through disrupting the very modes of representation and story itself.

Frankly Speaking - Adventurous Tales of Travel and Discovery (Hardcover): Frank L Cloutier Frankly Speaking - Adventurous Tales of Travel and Discovery (Hardcover)
Frank L Cloutier
R1,083 Discovery Miles 10 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Frankly Speaking - Adventurous Tales of Travel and Discovery (Paperback): Frank L Cloutier Frankly Speaking - Adventurous Tales of Travel and Discovery (Paperback)
Frank L Cloutier
R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Darkness Within - You Can Always Come Out of the Other Side of Your Trauma (Paperback): Drew Paige The Darkness Within - You Can Always Come Out of the Other Side of Your Trauma (Paperback)
Drew Paige
R470 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Translocality in Contemporary City Novels (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Lena Mattheis Translocality in Contemporary City Novels (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Lena Mattheis
R2,841 Discovery Miles 28 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality-the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study of narratives to urban studies, to explore a corpus of thirty-two novels-by authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand, Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guo-set in a total of ninety-seven cities. Lena Mattheis examines six of the most common strategies used in contemporary urban fiction to make translocal experiences of the world narratable and turn them into relatable stories: simultaneity, palimpsests, mapping, scaling, non-places, and haunting. Combining and developing further theories, approaches, and techniques from a variety of research fields-including narratology, human geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces, and postcolonial perspectives-Mattheis develops a set of cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.

Philosophical Fallacies - Ways of Erring in Philosophical Exposition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Nicholas Rescher Philosophical Fallacies - Ways of Erring in Philosophical Exposition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Nicholas Rescher
R2,860 Discovery Miles 28 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the nature, sources, and implications of fallacies in philosophical reasoning. In doing so, it illustrates and evaluates various historical instances of this phenomenon. There is widespread interest in the practice and products of philosophizing, yet the important issue of fallacious reasoning in these matters has been effectively untouched. Nicholas Rescher fills this gap by presenting a systematic account of the principal ways in which philosophizing can go astray.

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