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Postmodern Traces and Recent Hindi Novels (Hardcover): Veronica Ghirardi Postmodern Traces and Recent Hindi Novels (Hardcover)
Veronica Ghirardi
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Down and Out in Paris and London (Hardcover): George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London (Hardcover)
George Orwell
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature (Hardcover): Joseph R. Millichap Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature (Hardcover)
Joseph R. Millichap
R1,206 Discovery Miles 12 060 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Toward the end of his career, Robert Penn Warren wrote, "It may be said that our lives are our own supreme fiction." Although lauded for his writing in multiple genres, Warren never wrote an autobiography. Instead, he created his own "shadowy autobiography" in his poetry and prose, as well as his fiction and nonfiction. As one of the most thoughtful scholars on Robert Penn Warren and the literature of the South, Joseph Millichap builds on the accepted idea that Warren's poetry and fiction became more autobiographical in his later years by demonstrating that that same progression is replicated in Warren's literary criticism. This meticulously researched study reexamines in particular Warren's later nonfiction in which autobiographical concerns come into play-that is, in those fraught with psychological crisis such as Democracy and Poetry. Millichap reveals the interrelated literary genres of autobiography, criticism, and poetry as psychological modes encompassing the interplay of Warren's life and work in his later nonfiction. He also shows how Warren's critical engagement with major American authors often centered on the ways their creative work intersected with their lives, thus generating both autobiographical criticism and the working out of Warren's own autobiography under these influences. Millichap's latest book focuses on Warren's critical responses to William Faulkner, John Crowe Ransom, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Theodore Dreiser. In addition, the author carefully considers the black and female writers Warren assessed more briefly in American Literature: The Makers and the Making. Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature presents the breadth of Millichap's scholarship, the depth of his insight, and the maturity of his judgment, by giving us to understand that in his writing, Robert Penn Warren came to know his own vocation as a poet and critic-and as an American.

Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (Hardcover): Isiah Lavender III Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (Hardcover)
Isiah Lavender III
R2,924 Discovery Miles 29 240 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a "Grand Master" of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives-Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine-project complex futures and complex identities for people of color in terms of race, sex, and gender. Hopkinson has always had a vested interest in expanding racial and ethnic diversity in all facets of speculative fiction from its writers to its readers, and this desire is reflected in her award-winning anthologies. Her work best represents the current and ongoing colored wave of science fiction in the twenty-first century. In twenty-one interviews ranging from 1999 until 2021, Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson reveals a writer of fierce intelligence and humor in love with ideas and concerned with issues of identity. She provides powerful insights on code-switching, race, Afrofuturism, queer identities, sexuality, Caribbean folklore, and postcolonial science fictions, among other things. As a result, the conversations presented here very much demonstrate the uniqueness of her mind and her influence as a writer.

The Great Gatsby - Easy to read Layout (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby - Easy to read Layout (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Nero Wolfe Files (Hardcover): Marvin Kaye The Nero Wolfe Files (Hardcover)
Marvin Kaye
R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Shoestring Commons (Paperback): John Lucas Shoestring Commons (Paperback)
John Lucas
R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Book of Prefaces (Hardcover): H.L. Mencken A Book of Prefaces (Hardcover)
H.L. Mencken
R738 Discovery Miles 7 380 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Water of Life - Russian Tales in Jungian Perspective (Hardcover): Nathalie Baratoff The Water of Life - Russian Tales in Jungian Perspective (Hardcover)
Nathalie Baratoff
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Criminal Cities - The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime (Hardcover): Molly Slavin Criminal Cities - The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime (Hardcover)
Molly Slavin
R3,050 Discovery Miles 30 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Why does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well as possibilities for cultural, aesthetic, and political catharsis.Examining late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels set in London, Belfast, Mumbai, Sydney, Johannesburg, Nairobi, and urban areas in the Palestinian West Bank, Criminal Cities considers the marks left by neocolonialism and imperialism on the structures, institutions, and cartographies of twenty-first-century cities. Molly Slavin suggests that literary depictions of urban crime can offer unique capabilities for literary characters, as well as readers, to process and negotiate that lingering colonial violence, while also providing avenues for justice and forms of reparations.

Conversations with Steve Erickson (Hardcover): Matthew Luter, Mike Miley Conversations with Steve Erickson (Hardcover)
Matthew Luter, Mike Miley
R2,947 Discovery Miles 29 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Much like his novels, Steve Erickson (b. 1950) exists on the periphery of our perception, a shadow figure lurking on the margins, threatening to break through, but never fully emerging. Despite receiving prestigious honors, Erickson has remained a subterranean literary figure, receiving effusive praise from his fans, befuddled or cautious assessments from reviewers, and scant scholarly attention. Erickson's obscurity comes in part from the difficulty of categorizing his work within current trends in fiction, and in part from the wide variety of concerns that populate his writing: literature, music, film, politics, history, time, and his fascination with his home city of Los Angeles. His dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp, and paranoid late-century postmodernism makes him essential to an appreciation of the last forty years of American fiction but difficult to classify neatly within that same realm. He is at once thoroughly of his time and distinctly outside it. In these twenty-four interviews Erickson clarifies how his aesthetic and political visions are inextricable from each other. He diagnoses the American condition since World War II, only to reveal that America's triumphs and failures have been consistent since its inception-and that he presciently described decades ago certain features of our present. Additionally, the interviews expose the remarkable consistency of Erickson's vision over time while simultaneously capturing the new threads that appear in his later fiction as they emerge in his thought. Conversations with Steve Erickson will deepen readers' understanding of how Erickson's books work-and why this utterly singular writer deserves greater attention.

The Analects (Paperback): Confucius The Analects (Paperback)
Confucius; Translated by Arthur Waley
R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Myths of Greece and Rome - Illustrated (Hardcover): H.A. Guerber The Myths of Greece and Rome - Illustrated (Hardcover)
H.A. Guerber
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Mark! My Words (How to Discover the Joy of Music, the Delight of Language, and the Pride of Achievement in the Age of Trash... Mark! My Words (How to Discover the Joy of Music, the Delight of Language, and the Pride of Achievement in the Age of Trash Talk and MTV) (Hardcover)
Mark Evans
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Contemporary Portraits. Second Series; ser. 2 (Hardcover): Frank 1855-1931 Harris Contemporary Portraits. Second Series; ser. 2 (Hardcover)
Frank 1855-1931 Harris
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Love and the Politics of Care - Methods, Pedagogies, Institutions (Hardcover): Stanislava Dikova, Wendy McMahon, Jordan Savage Love and the Politics of Care - Methods, Pedagogies, Institutions (Hardcover)
Stanislava Dikova, Wendy McMahon, Jordan Savage
R3,179 Discovery Miles 31 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume offers a contemporary rethinking of the relationship between love and care in the context of neoliberal practices of professionalization and work. Each of the book's three sections interrogates a particular site of care, where the affective, political, legal, and economic dimensions of care intersect in challenging ways. These sites are located within a variety of institutionally managed contexts such as the contemporary university, the theatre hall, the prison complex, the family home, the urban landscape, and the care industry. The geographical spread of the case studies stretches across India, Vietnam, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, the UK and the US and provides broad coverage that crosses the divide between the Global North and the Global South. To address this transnational interdisciplinary field of study, the collection utilises insights from across the humanities and social sciences and includes contributions from literature, sociology, cultural and media studies, philosophy, feminist theory, theatre, art history, and education. These inquiries build on a variety of conceptual tools and research methods, from data analysis to psychoanalytic reading. Love and the Politics of Care delivers an attentive and widely relevant examination of the politics of care and makes a compelling case for an urgent reconsideration of the methods that currently structure and regulate it.

Rethinking Racial Uplift - Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era (Hardcover): Nigel I. Malcolm Rethinking Racial Uplift - Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era (Hardcover)
Nigel I. Malcolm
R2,926 Discovery Miles 29 260 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the Talented Tenth in an influential essay of the same name. The concept exalted college-educated Blacks who Du Bois believed could provide the race with the guidance it needed to surmount slavery, segregation, and oppression in America. Although Du Bois eventually reassessed this idea, the rhetoric of the Talented Tenth resonated, still holding sway over a hundred years later. In Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era, author Nigel I. Malcolm asserts that in the post-civil rights era, racial uplift has been redefined not as Black public intellectuals lifting the masses but as individuals securing advantage for themselves and their children. Malcolm examines six best-selling books published during Obama's presidency-including Randall Kennedy's Sellout, Bill Cosby's and Alvin Poussaint's Come on People, and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me-and critically analyzes their rhetorics on Black unity, disunity, and the so-called "postracial" era. Based on these writings and the work of political and social scientists, Malcolm shows that a large, often-ignored, percentage of Blacks no longer see their fate as connected with that of other African Americans. While many Black intellectuals and activists seek to provide a justification for Black solidarity, not all agree. In Rethinking Racial Uplift, Malcolm takes contemporary Black public intellectual discourse seriously and shows that disunity among Blacks, a previously ignored topic, is worth exploring.

Christ and Apollo - The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination (Hardcover): William F. Lynch Christ and Apollo - The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination (Hardcover)
William F. Lynch; Introduction by Glenn C. Arbery
R684 R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Communist Manifesto (Hardcover): Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (Hardcover)
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Maria Stuart (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Flora Kimmich Maria Stuart (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Flora Kimmich; Introduction by Roger Paulin
R1,087 Discovery Miles 10 870 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Hustlapreneur Journal (Hardcover): Cherice Gilliam Hustlapreneur Journal (Hardcover)
Cherice Gilliam
R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
France at War - On the Frontier of Civilization (Hardcover): Rudyard Kipling France at War - On the Frontier of Civilization (Hardcover)
Rudyard Kipling
R618 R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Save R36 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Retellings - Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies (Hardcover): Jessica Enoch, Jordynn Jack Retellings - Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies (Hardcover)
Jessica Enoch, Jordynn Jack
R1,607 Discovery Miles 16 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Moment (Hardcover): Peter Holm Jensen The Moment (Hardcover)
Peter Holm Jensen
R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
As I Lay Dying (Hardcover): William Faulkner As I Lay Dying (Hardcover)
William Faulkner
R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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