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Pacific Performances - Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007): C Balme Pacific Performances - Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
C Balme
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This new study explores the history of cross-cultural performative encounters in the Pacific from the Eighteenth century to the present. It examines Western theatrical representations of Pacific cultures and investigates how Pacific Islanders used their own cultural performances to negotiate the colonial situation.

The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007): C. Fitzgerald The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
C. Fitzgerald
R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and anxieties of middle class, urban masculinity, many of which are familiar today.

Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007): B. Bennett Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
B. Bennett
R1,498 Discovery Miles 14 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennet locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture.

I Remember (Paperback): Joe Brainyard I Remember (Paperback)
Joe Brainyard
R357 R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cultural Writing. Gay and Lesbian Studies. "I REMEMBER is both uproariously funny and deeply moving. It is also one of the few totally original books I have ever read" -- Paul Auster. "Joe Brainard's memories of growing up in the '40s and '50s have universal appeal. He catalogues his past in terms of fashions and fads, public events and private fantasies, with such honesty and accuracy and in such abundance that, sooner or later, his history coincides with ours and we are hooked" -- The Village Voice.

The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales (Paperback): Hermynia Zur Muhlen The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales (Paperback)
Hermynia Zur Muhlen; Edited by Jack Zipes; Translated by Jack Zipes
R595 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R110 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A collection of radical political fairy tales-some in English for the first time-from one of the great female practitioners of the genre Hermynia Zur Muhlen (1883-1951), one of the twentieth century's great political writers, was not seemingly destined for a revolutionary, unconventional literary career. Born in Vienna to an aristocratic Catholic family, Zur Muhlen married an Estonian count. But she rebelled, leaving her upper-class life to be with the Hungarian writer and Communist Stefan Klein, and supporting herself through translations and publications. Altogether, Zur Muhlen wrote thirty novels, mysteries, and story collections, and translated around 150 works, including those of Upton Sinclair, John Galsworthy, and Edna Ferber. A wonderful new addition to the Oddly Modern Fairy Tales series, The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales presents English readers with a selection of Zur Muhlen's best political fairy tales, some translated from German for the first time. In contrast to the classical tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Zur Muhlen's candid, forthright stories focus on social justice and the plight of the working class, with innovative plots intended to raise the political consciousness of readers young and old. For example, in "The Glasses," readers are encouraged to rip off the glasses that deceive them, while in "The Carriage Horse," horses organize a union to resist their working and living conditions. In "The Broom," a young worker learns how to sweep away injustice. With an informative introduction by Jack Zipes and period illustrations by George Grosz, John Heartfield, Heinrich Vogeler, and Karl Holtz, The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales revives the legacy of a notable female artist whose literary and political work remains relevant in our own time.

Gentlemen Callers - Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005): M. Paller Gentlemen Callers - Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
M. Paller
R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gentlemen Callers provides a fascinating look at America's greatest Twentieth-century playwright and perhaps the most-performed, even today. Michael Paller looks at Tennessee Williams's plays from the 1940s through the 1960s against the backdrop of the playwright's life story, providing fresh details. Through this lens Paller examines the evolution of Mid-Twentieth-century America's acknowledgment and acceptance of homosexuality. From the early Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and one-act Auto-da-Fe , through The Two-Character Play and Something Cloudy, Something Clear , Paller's book investigates how Williams's earliest critics marginalized or ignored his gay characters and why, beginning in the 1970s, many gay liberationists reviled them. Lively, blunt, and provocative, this book will appeal to anyone who loves Williams, Broadway, and the theater.

Cicero: Pro Milone (Hardcover): Thomas J. Keeline Cicero: Pro Milone (Hardcover)
Thomas J. Keeline
R2,569 Discovery Miles 25 690 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Pro Milone numbers among Cicero's most famous speeches. In it he defends his friend T. Annius Milo against the charge of murdering P. Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's own archenemy. Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and their aftermath consumed Roman public life in 52 BC, involving every major political figure of the day. Although Cicero's defense failed, the published speech remains one of his finest, a fascinating document from a turbulent time, full of interest both historical and rhetorical. This edition, aimed at students and scholars alike, provides readers with the help that they need to appreciate the speech as a literary masterpiece and a historical text. Including a comprehensive introduction and a newly constituted Latin text, it provides detailed treatment of Cicero's language, style, and rhetorical techniques, as well as full discussion of the historical background and the larger social and cultural issues relevant to the speech.

Cicero: Pro Milone (Paperback): Thomas J. Keeline Cicero: Pro Milone (Paperback)
Thomas J. Keeline
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Pro Milone numbers among Cicero's most famous speeches. In it he defends his friend T. Annius Milo against the charge of murdering P. Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's own archenemy. Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and their aftermath consumed Roman public life in 52 BC, involving every major political figure of the day. Although Cicero's defense failed, the published speech remains one of his finest, a fascinating document from a turbulent time, full of interest both historical and rhetorical. This edition, aimed at students and scholars alike, provides readers with the help that they need to appreciate the speech as a literary masterpiece and a historical text. Including a comprehensive introduction and a newly constituted Latin text, it provides detailed treatment of Cicero's language, style, and rhetorical techniques, as well as full discussion of the historical background and the larger social and cultural issues relevant to the speech.

A History of Hope - When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future (Paperback): Nana A History of Hope - When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future (Paperback)
Nana
R1,297 Discovery Miles 12 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book chronicles American history through the stories of the individuals and movements that dreamed of a better future and then took action to make that dream a reality, arguing that the much heralded American spirit was not born as a gift of our founding, but was forged through our adversity and triumphs. From colonial revolutionaries to abolitionists, labor organizers to suffragists, progressives to civil rights activists, it was individuals and movements who dared to go against the American majority that both guarded and created our best national self.

Investigating Dickens' Style - A Collocational Analysis (Paperback, 1st ed. 2004): M. Hori Investigating Dickens' Style - A Collocational Analysis (Paperback, 1st ed. 2004)
M. Hori
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This new, corpus-driven approach to the study of language and style of literary texts makes use of the Dickens' 4.6 million-word corpus for a detailed examination of patterns of lexical collocations. It offers new insights into Dickens' linguistic innovation, together with a nuanced understanding of his use of language to achieve stylistic ends. At the centre of the study is a close analysis of the two narratives in Bleak House , read as a focal point for consideration of Dickens' stylistic development through his whole writing life.

Turn the Pulpit Loose - Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists (Paperback, 1st ed. 2090): P. Pope-Levison Turn the Pulpit Loose - Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists (Paperback, 1st ed. 2090)
P. Pope-Levison
R2,863 Discovery Miles 28 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Turn the Pulpit Loose features the lives and words of eighteen women evangelists including Sojourner Truth and Evangeline Booth, and lesser-known figures such as Jarena Lee (an African Methodist from the early 1800s) and Uldine Utley (a child evangelist in the early 1900s) who helped to shape American religious life from the nation's infancy to the present. Highlighting substantial primary sources - sermons, articles, diaries, letters, speeches, and autobiographies - Priscilla Pope-Levison weaves together fascinating narratives of each woman's life: her conversion and calling to preach, her primary evangelistic method, and her reflections about women in general. This anthology, complete with photographs of each evangelist, is an indispensable resource for a wide range of academic fields, including religion, history, women's studies, and literature.

The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003): S. Bending, A. McRae The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
S. Bending, A. McRae
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a crucial period of social, economic and cultural change. It highlights the dialogues and tensions between agriculture and aesthetics, economics and morality, men and women, leisure and labour. By drawing on both canonical and marginal texts, it argues that early-modern writing not only reflected but played a part in constructing the cultural meanings of the English countryside with which we continue to live.

Women's Autobiography - War and Trauma (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003): V. Stewart Women's Autobiography - War and Trauma (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
V. Stewart
R1,486 Discovery Miles 14 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examining a range of twentieth century writers, including Vera Brittain, Anne Frank and Eva Hoffman, this study focuses on how recent theories of trauma can elucidate the narrative strategies employed in their autobiographical writing. The historical circumstances of each author are also considered. The result is a book which provides a vivid sense of how women writers have attempted to encompass key events of the twentieth century, particularly the First World War and the Holocaust, within their life stories.

Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition - A Linguistic Analysis of Old and New Story-Telling (Paperback, Softcover... Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition - A Linguistic Analysis of Old and New Story-Telling (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
Alessandra Levorato
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Much research has been done on the social messages conveyed to children reading or listening to fairy tales. In this highly original study, the emphasis shifts from content to linguistic expression. The language and linguistic organization of a dozen versions, old and new, of the Little Red Riding Hood story are analyzed using a variety of theoretical approaches, including Critical Discourse Analysis, Conversational Analysis, Functional Grammar and Critical Stylistics, to uncover the contribution of fairy tales to the discourse of gender relations over time.

Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2003): K Boyd Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2003)
K Boyd
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginative world of working-class readers. From the penny dreadful and the Boy's Own Paper to the tales of Billy Bunter and Sexton Blake, this cultural form shaped ideas about gender, race, class and empire in response to social change. This study is an important analysis of a neglected part of popular culture.

Sexuality, Obscenity and Community - Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (Paperback, 2001 ed.): C. Gupta Sexuality, Obscenity and Community - Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (Paperback, 2001 ed.)
C. Gupta
R4,607 Discovery Miles 46 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through analysis of an impressive array of "low" and "high" Hindi literature, particularly pamphlets, tracts, magazines and newspapers, compounded with archival data, Gupta explores the emerging discourse of gender and sexuality, which was essential to the development of notions of Hindu nationalism and community identity in the colonial period. The book offers an exceptionally nuanced account of Hindu gender politics.

The New Melville Studies (Hardcover): Cody Marrs The New Melville Studies (Hardcover)
Cody Marrs
R2,698 Discovery Miles 26 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does Melville studies look like after a phase of intense critical activity? This book addresses that question by analyzing Melville as a writer who was keenly interested in the pleasures, limits, and possibilities of various reading practices. It collects and assesses all of the major new trends in Melville studies. Essays, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, test out emerging critical methods. They explore Melville's centrality to American literary studies and consider the full range of Melville's career, connecting his poetry to his prose. This collection re-imagines Melville as a theorist as well as a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right. It shows how scholars are changing Melville studies not only by re-orienting the texts upon which those studies are based, but also by incorporating new approaches that unsettle prior assumptions and interpretive claims.

Autor und Subjekt im Gedicht - Positionen, Perspektiven und Praktiken heute (German, Hardcover, 1. Aufl. 2021): Peter Geist,... Autor und Subjekt im Gedicht - Positionen, Perspektiven und Praktiken heute (German, Hardcover, 1. Aufl. 2021)
Peter Geist, Friederike Reents, Henrieke Stahl
R2,365 Discovery Miles 23 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Das seit jeher spannungsreiche Verhaltnis zwischen Autor und Subjekt bildet in der Gegenwartslyrik ein Experimentierfeld, das eine Herausforderung fur die Lyriktheorie darstellt. Die Beitrage diskutieren zentrale Positionen zu den Konzepten 'abstrakter Autor' und 'lyrisches Subjekt' unter Berucksichtigung ihrer unterschiedlichen Genese sowie Terminologie in den verschiedenen Philologien. Aus der Gedichtanalyse werden Perspektiven oder Alternativen zu diesen Konzepten entwickelt, um ein Instrumentarium zur Beschreibung der neuen Autor-Subjekt-Relationen in der Lyrik zu gewinnen. Der Band mit germanistischen, slavistischen, anglistischen und komparatistischen Beitragen ist Ergebnis des DFG-Projekts zur "Typologie des Subjekts in der russischen Dichtung der 1990-2010er Jahre" und der DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe "Russischsprachige Lyrik in Transition - Poetische Formen des Umgangs mit Grenzen der Gattung, Sprache, Kultur und Gesellschaft zwischen Europa, Asien und Amerika".

The Concept of the Book: The Production, Progression and Dissemination of Information (Paperback): Cynthia Johnston The Concept of the Book: The Production, Progression and Dissemination of Information (Paperback)
Cynthia Johnston
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Stalin on Linguistics and Other Essays (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002): P Gray Stalin on Linguistics and Other Essays (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
P Gray; Edited by C. Maccabe, V. Rothschild
R2,855 Discovery Miles 28 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Piers Gray was one of the most brilliant literary writers of his generation. These essays ranging from Oscar Wilde to Levin, from Shakespeare to pulp fiction, use the full resources of literary and linguistic analysis to produce a reading of European culture and society in the twentieth century. In his final posthumous essay On Linearity , Gray summons all his reading and knowledge to deliver his final judgement on life and death.

The Japanese Copula - Forms and Functions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002): T. Narahara The Japanese Copula - Forms and Functions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
T. Narahara
R1,503 Discovery Miles 15 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this innovative study, Professor Narahara offers a multi-disciplinary description of the Japanese copula, revealing it to be at the interface of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Most striking is her discovery of the copula's function to express the speaker's knowledge or ignorance about the proposition of the sentence. She provides a new morphological feature analysis to derive this modal function and further proposes a series of unified accounts for a wide range of discourse phenomena.

Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2002): L. Palazzo Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2002)
L. Palazzo
R2,831 Discovery Miles 28 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume disputes the assumption that Rossetti was a follower of Keble and Pusey, and shows how her dissatisfaction with the male-dominated call to celibacy led her to reject their notions of worldliness, and to form a closer bond with the physical world and the body.

Fragments of Union - Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (Paperback, 1st ed. 2002): S. Manning Fragments of Union - Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (Paperback, 1st ed. 2002)
S. Manning
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fragments of Union , a new approach to comparative literary studies, is about forms of connections: between nations, literatures, individuals, words. It asks how, and why, connections get severed, and about the nature of the pieces that remain. Interdisciplinary readings of writings by Scots and Americans re-draw the literary map of both countries during the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. Political, philosophical, cultural and grammatical dimensions give its analysis sharp relevance to the new conditions presented by devolved government in Britain.

Protest and Dissent - Conflicting Spaces in Translation and Culture (Hardcover, New edition): Agnieszka Pantuchowicz, Anna Warso Protest and Dissent - Conflicting Spaces in Translation and Culture (Hardcover, New edition)
Agnieszka Pantuchowicz, Anna Warso
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Essays collected in this book discuss textual and discursive formulations of dominance and resistance. The authors analyze how they are narrated and re-narrated, framed and reframed in different social, political and language communities and realities, through different media and means, and translated into different contexts and languages. As the ways we name, rename, or label events, people and places have implications in the real world, the essays are also meant to investigate the ways in which we partake in negotiating its construction, its changing meanings and senses through the stories we tell and the practices we live by.

The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): H.Porter Abbott The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
H.Porter Abbott
R882 Discovery Miles 8 820 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary and bibliography have been expanded, and new sections explore unnatural narrative, retrograde narrative, reader-resistant narratives, intermedial narrative, narrativity, and multiple interpretation. With its lucid exposition of concepts, and suggestions for further reading, this book is not only an excellent introduction for courses focused on narrative but also an invaluable resource for students and scholars across a wide range of fields, including literature and drama, film and media, society and politics, journalism, autobiography, history, and still others throughout the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

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