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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume V (Hardcover): Andre Laks, Glenn W. Most Early Greek Philosophy, Volume V (Hardcover)
Andre Laks, Glenn W. Most
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's groundbreaking work, as well as from later editions: it renders explicit the material's thematic organization; it includes a selection from such related bodies of evidence as archaic poetry, classical drama, and the Hippocratic corpus; and it presents an overview of the reception of these thinkers until the end of antiquity. Volume I contains introductory and reference materials essential for using all other parts of the edition. Volumes II-III include chapters on ancient doxography, background, and the Ionians from Pherecydes to Heraclitus. Volumes IV-V present western Greek thinkers from the Pythagoreans to Hippo. Volumes VI-VII comprise later philosophical systems and their aftermath in the fifth and early fourth centuries. Volumes VIII-IX present fifth-century reflections on language, rhetoric, ethics, and politics (the so-called sophists and Socrates) and conclude with an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama.

On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre - Cocteau, Oedipus, and the Monster (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008): I Eynat-Confino On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre - Cocteau, Oedipus, and the Monster (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008)
I Eynat-Confino
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.

Criticism after Critique - Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Jeffrey R. Di Leo Criticism after Critique - Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
R2,035 Discovery Miles 20 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.

Speaking of Monsters - A Teratological Anthology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): Caroline Joan S. Picart, John Edgar Browning Speaking of Monsters - A Teratological Anthology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
Caroline Joan S. Picart, John Edgar Browning
R1,536 Discovery Miles 15 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but also public policy through film and other media, this book is a "one-stop shop" of sorts for students and instructors employing various approaches and media in the study of "teratologies," or discourses of the monstrous.

J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): K. Hallemeier J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
K. Hallemeier
R1,968 Discovery Miles 19 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the reading of literature.

Cultural Theory After the Contemporary (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): S. Tumino Cultural Theory After the Contemporary (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
S. Tumino
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized "agency," namely the power of people to shape social life. Here, Stephen Tumino offers a new materialist challenge to these tendencies and articulates an internationalist cultural theory that puts global agency in the forefront of cultural analysis.

Urban Drama - The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): J. Chris Westgate Urban Drama - The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
J. Chris Westgate
R1,291 R1,071 Discovery Miles 10 710 Save R220 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity politics and social justice at the end of the twentieth century, and how urban crises inform the dramaturgy of contemporary playwrights.

Political Power - Democrats Adult Coloring Book (Paperback): Darren G Davis Political Power - Democrats Adult Coloring Book (Paperback)
Darren G Davis
R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Ordinary Literature Philosophy - Lacanian Literary Performatives between Austin and Ranciere (Hardcover): Jernej Habjan Ordinary Literature Philosophy - Lacanian Literary Performatives between Austin and Ranciere (Hardcover)
Jernej Habjan
R3,890 Discovery Miles 38 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first extended Lacanian reading of J. L. Austin's ordinary language philosophy, this book examines how it has been received in the continental tradition by Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, Jacques Ranciere and Oswald Ducrot. This is a tradition that neglects Austin's general speech act theory on behalf of his special theory of the performative, whilst bringing a new attention to the literary and the aesthetic. The book charts each of these theoretical interactions with a Lacanian reading of the thinker through a case study. Austin, Derrida and Butler are respectively read with a Hollywood blockbuster, a Shakespearean bestseller and a globally influential May '68 poster - texts preoccupied with the problem of subjectivity in early, high and postmodernity. Hence Austin's constatives (nonperformative statements) are explored with Dead Poets Society; Derridean naming with Romeo and Juliet; and Butlerian aesthetic re-enactment with We Are all German Jews. Finally, Ranciere and Ducrot enable a return to Austin beyond his continental reception. Austin is valorised with a theory as attractive, and as irreducible, to the continental tradition as his own thought, namely Jacques Lacan's theory of the signifier. Drawing together some of the giants of language theory, psychoanalysis and poststructuralist thought, Habjan offers a new materialist reading of the 'ordinary' status of literary language and a vital contribution to current debates within literary studies and contemporary philosophy.

Theatre and War - Theatrical Responses since 1991 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): J. Colleran Theatre and War - Theatrical Responses since 1991 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
J. Colleran
R1,291 R1,071 Discovery Miles 10 710 Save R220 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Schlanke Skyr Rezepte zum Backen - Gesund, leicht und lecker abnehmen mit Brot und Kuchen! Inkl. Punkten und Nahrwertangaben... Schlanke Skyr Rezepte zum Backen - Gesund, leicht und lecker abnehmen mit Brot und Kuchen! Inkl. Punkten und Nahrwertangaben (German, Hardcover)
Helga Seidel
R711 R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Poetics of Otherness - War, Trauma, and Literature (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): J. Hart The Poetics of Otherness - War, Trauma, and Literature (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
J. Hart
R2,131 Discovery Miles 21 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolome de Las Casas' representation of the Americas to the trench poets to voices from the Holocaust.

The Federalist Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009): A. Hamilton, J. Madison, J. Jay The Federalist Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009)
A. Hamilton, J. Madison, J. Jay
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thisbook is distinctive because it will be a political science oriented introduction to The Federalist Papers. As most of the editions have introductions by historians, and some of them quite good, there is no readily available edition with a political science focus. Such a focus would not ignore the historical dimensions of the founding and that particular era, but would supplement this historical background with a concentration on the key questions political scientists tend to ask when reading and teaching The Federalist Papers. Questions of power, separation, blending, federalism, and structural design and how they impact the practice of government, questions we political scientists ask, will be the central feature of this edition. The primary audience for this edition would be courses in American Political Thought, American Government (most of which include components of the Federalist Papers) plus courses on the Presidency, Congress, The Judiciary, and Federalism.

Reading Across Worlds - Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): J. Procter, B.... Reading Across Worlds - Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
J. Procter, B. Benwell
R2,159 Discovery Miles 21 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, this book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading and readerships.

American Political Fictions - War on Errorism in Contemporary American Literature, Culture, and Politics (Paperback, 1st ed.... American Political Fictions - War on Errorism in Contemporary American Literature, Culture, and Politics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Peter Swirski
R2,007 Discovery Miles 20 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through a discussion of diverse art and media such as apocalyptic thrillers, rap, and television, Swirski debunks the American political system, sieving out fact from a sea of bipartisan untruths. Engaging with close analysis and multiple case studies, this book forges a more accurate picture of contemporary American culture and of America itself.

A Good Night Out for the Girls - Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): Easton,... A Good Night Out for the Girls - Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Easton, G. Harris
R1,613 Discovery Miles 16 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance.

The Victorian Novel and Masculinity (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): P. Mallett The Victorian Novel and Masculinity (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
P. Mallett
R2,026 Discovery Miles 20 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontes to Conrad sought to discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them.

Documentary Comics - Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): Nina Mickwitz Documentary Comics - Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Nina Mickwitz
R2,097 Discovery Miles 20 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to recording technologies, and instead engages an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, performativity and witnessing. Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Nina Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world.

Women during the English Reformations - Renegotiating Gender and Religious Identity (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): K. Kramer, Julie... Women during the English Reformations - Renegotiating Gender and Religious Identity (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
K. Kramer, Julie Chappell
R1,968 Discovery Miles 19 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some Englishwomen struggled to erase, rewrite, or reimagine their religious and gender identities.

Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): S. Cobb Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
S. Cobb
R1,883 Discovery Miles 18 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. The figure of the woman author comes to the fore as a key site for the representation of women's agency and the authority of the woman filmmaker.

Hazlitt the Dissenter - Religion, Philosophy, and Politics, 1766-1816 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Stephen Burley Hazlitt the Dissenter - Religion, Philosophy, and Politics, 1766-1816 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Stephen Burley
R2,026 Discovery Miles 20 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Decadence, Degeneration, and the End - Studies in the European Fin de Siecle (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Marja Harmanmaa,... Decadence, Degeneration, and the End - Studies in the European Fin de Siecle (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Marja Harmanmaa, Christopher Nissen; Edited by Jeffrey Walsh
R4,258 Discovery Miles 42 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Art and literature during the European fin-de-siecle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley.

Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature - 1789-1920 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Elizabeth Smith Rousselle Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature - 1789-1920 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Elizabeth Smith Rousselle
R1,494 Discovery Miles 14 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and Don Juan figure.

Power and Sainthood - The Case of Birgitta of Sweden (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): P Salmesvuori Power and Sainthood - The Case of Birgitta of Sweden (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
P Salmesvuori
R1,502 Discovery Miles 15 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Analyzing the renowned Saint Birgitta of Sweden from the perspectives of power, authority, and gender, this probing study investigates how Birgitta went about establishing her influence during the first ten years of her career as a living saint, in 1340-1349.

The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom - Three Necessary Arguments (Paperback): Michael Berube, J. Ruth The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom - Three Necessary Arguments (Paperback)
Michael Berube, J. Ruth
R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very necessary.

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