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Transgressing Boundaries - Gender, Identity, Culture, and the 'Other' in Postcolonial Women's Narratives in East... Transgressing Boundaries - Gender, Identity, Culture, and the 'Other' in Postcolonial Women's Narratives in East Africa (Hardcover)
Elizabeth F. Oldfield
R3,270 Discovery Miles 32 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Fictions written between 1939 and 2005 by indigenous and white (post)colonial women writers emerging from an African-European cultural experience form the focus of this study. Their voyages into the European diasporic space in Africa are important for conveying how African women's literature is situated in relation to colonialism. Notwithstanding the centrality of African literature in the new postcolonial literatures in English, the accomplishments of the indigenous writer Grace Ogot have been eclipsed by the critical attention given to her male counterparts, while Elspeth Huxley, Barbara Kimenye, and Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, who are of Western cultural provenance but adopt an African perspective, are not accommodated by the genre of 'expatriate literature'. The present study of both indigenous and white (post)colonial women's narratives that are common to both categories fills this gap. Focused on the representation of gender, identity, culture, and the 'Other', the texts selected are set in Kenya and Uganda, and a main concern is with the extent to which they are influenced by setting and intercultural influences. The 'African' woman's creation of textuality is at once the expression of female individualities and a transgression of boundaries. The particular category of fiction for children as written by Kimenye and Macgoye reveals the configuration of a voice and identity for the female 'Other' and writer which enables a subversive renegotiation of identity in the face of patriarchal traditions.

East-West Exchange and Late Modernism - Williams, Moore, Pound (Hardcover): Zhaoming Qian East-West Exchange and Late Modernism - Williams, Moore, Pound (Hardcover)
Zhaoming Qian
R2,167 Discovery Miles 21 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In East-West Exchange and Late Modernism, Zhaoming Qian examines the nature and extent of Asian influence on some of the literary masterpieces of Western late modernism. Focusing on the poets William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, Qian relates captivating stories about their interactions with Chinese artists and scholars and shows how these encounters helped ignite a return to their early experimental modes. After studying Chinese poetry, Williams published his celebrated set of poems ""The Cassia Tree."" Exposure to the Tao and its doctrines renewed Moore's style. Qian presents a lost lecture by Moore on the subject, transcribed here for the first time. Pound was equally influenced by Confucianism and by, as Qian demonstrates, anthropological studies of the spiritualism and pictographic language of the little-known Naxi people of southwest China. Qian's sinuous readings expand our understanding of late modernism by bringing into focus its heightened attention to meaning in space, obsession with imaginative sensibility, and enlarged respect for harmony between humanity and nature.

Large 8.5 x 11 Dotted Bullet Journal (Black #1) Hardcover - 245 Numbered Pages (Hardcover, Black ed.): Blank Classic Large 8.5 x 11 Dotted Bullet Journal (Black #1) Hardcover - 245 Numbered Pages (Hardcover, Black ed.)
Blank Classic
R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Japan's Russia - Challenging the East-West Paradigm (Hardcover): Olga V Solovieva, Sho Konishi Japan's Russia - Challenging the East-West Paradigm (Hardcover)
Olga V Solovieva, Sho Konishi
R3,277 Discovery Miles 32 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell - Yeats Annual No. 20 (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Warwick Gould Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell - Yeats Annual No. 20 (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Warwick Gould
R1,480 Discovery Miles 14 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Kaleidoscope of Being (Hardcover): Jennifer Toth Kaleidoscope of Being (Hardcover)
Jennifer Toth
R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation (Hardcover): D. Cartmell A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation (Hardcover)
D. Cartmell
R4,403 Discovery Miles 44 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and chapters on the historical, ideological and economic aspects of adaptation, the volume reflects today s acceptance of intertextuality as a vital and progressive cultural force. * Incorporates new research in adaptation studies * Features a chapter on the Harry Potter franchise, as well as other contemporary perspectives * Showcases work by leading Shakespeare adaptation scholars * Explores fascinating topics such as unfilmable texts * Includes detailed considerations of Ian McEwan s Atonement and Conrad s Heart of Darkness

Kafka, Rilke, Nadel - Three German Writers Pulling Me Toward the East (Hardcover): Martin Wasserman Kafka, Rilke, Nadel - Three German Writers Pulling Me Toward the East (Hardcover)
Martin Wasserman
R549 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
History of Adyghe Literature (Hardcover): Kadir Natho History of Adyghe Literature (Hardcover)
Kadir Natho
R994 Discovery Miles 9 940 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Literary Culture and Translation - New Aspects of Comparative Literature (Hardcover): Dorothy M. Figueira, Chandra Mohan Literary Culture and Translation - New Aspects of Comparative Literature (Hardcover)
Dorothy M. Figueira, Chandra Mohan
R1,310 Discovery Miles 13 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Narrative Theory Unbound - Queer and Feminist Interventions (Hardcover): Robyn R. Warhol, Susan S. Lanser Narrative Theory Unbound - Queer and Feminist Interventions (Hardcover)
Robyn R. Warhol, Susan S. Lanser
R3,020 Discovery Miles 30 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Peculiar Whiteness - Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900-1965 (Hardcover): Justin Mellette Peculiar Whiteness - Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900-1965 (Hardcover)
Justin Mellette
R2,908 Discovery Miles 29 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900-1965 argues for deeper consideration of the complexities surrounding the disparate treatment of poor whites throughout southern literature and attests to how broad such experiences have been. While the history of prejudice against this group is not the same as the legacy of violence perpetrated against people of color in America, individuals regarded as ""white trash"" have suffered a dehumanizing process in the writings of various white authors. Poor white characters are frequently maligned as grotesque and anxiety inducing, especially when they are aligned in close proximity to blacks or to people with disabilities. Thus, as a symbol, much has been asked of poor whites, and various iterations of the label (e.g., ""white trash,"" tenant farmers, or even people with a little less money than average) have been subject to a broad spectrum of judgment, pity, compassion, fear, and anxiety. Peculiar Whiteness engages key issues in contemporary critical race studies, whiteness studies, and southern studies, both literary and historical. Through discussions of authors including Charles Chesnutt, Thomas Dixon, Sutton Griggs, Erskine Caldwell, Lillian Smith, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor, we see how whites in a position of power work to maintain their status, often by finding ways to recategorize and marginalize people who might not otherwise have seemed to fall under the auspices or boundaries of ""white trash.

Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 (Hardcover): Megan J. Coyer, David E. Shuttleton Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 (Hardcover)
Megan J. Coyer, David E. Shuttleton
R3,206 Discovery Miles 32 060 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The contributors take an informed historicist approach in examining the cultural, geographical, political, and other circumstances enabling the dissemination of distinctively Scottish medico-literary discourses.

The Borderlands of Asia - Culture, Place, Poetry (Hardcover): Mark Bender The Borderlands of Asia - Culture, Place, Poetry (Hardcover)
Mark Bender
R2,630 Discovery Miles 26 300 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Gospel of Matthew - A Bible Study (Hardcover): Carol Walker The Gospel of Matthew - A Bible Study (Hardcover)
Carol Walker
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Spaces of Madness - Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative (Hardcover): Eunice Rojas Spaces of Madness - Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative (Hardcover)
Eunice Rojas
R3,341 Discovery Miles 33 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symbolic representation of Argentine society during and immediately subsequent to the Dirty War, the figure of the asylum in Argentine literature has evolved along with the institution itself. The authors studied in Spaces of Madness include Manuel T. Podesta, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan Jose Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela.

Pacific Literatures as World Literature (Hardcover): Hsinya Huang, Chia-hua Yvonne Lin Pacific Literatures as World Literature (Hardcover)
Hsinya Huang, Chia-hua Yvonne Lin
R3,172 Discovery Miles 31 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pacific Literatures as World Literature is a conjuration of trans-Pacific poets and writers whose work enacts forces of "becoming oceanic" and suggests a different mode of understanding, viewing, and belonging to the world. The Pacific, past and present, remains uneasily amenable to territorial demarcations of national or marine sovereignty. At the same time, as a planetary element necessary to sustaining life and well-being, the Pacific could become the means to envisioning ecological solidarity, if compellingly framed in terms that elicit consent and inspire an imagination of co-belonging and care. The Pacific can signify a bioregional site of coalitional promise as much as a danger zone of antagonistic peril. With ground-breaking writings from authors based in North America, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hawaii, and Guam and new modes of research - including multispecies ethnography and practice, ecopoetics, and indigenous cosmopolitics - authors explore the socio-political significance of the Pacific and contribute to the development of a collective effort of comparative Pacific studies covering a refreshingly broad, ethnographically grounded range of research themes. This volume aims to decenter continental/land poetics as such via long-standing transnational Pacific ties, re-worlding Pacific literature as world literature.

On Nature and the Goddess in Romantic and Post-Romantic Literature (Hardcover): John O'Meara On Nature and the Goddess in Romantic and Post-Romantic Literature (Hardcover)
John O'Meara
R805 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R91 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A Trilogy bringing together titles by John O'Meara that are also individually available from iUniverse.

"The Modern Debacle"

Containing close readings of work by Beckett, Hemingway, and T.S.Eliot; Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Arthur Miller, and Brecht; Plath, Hughes, and Robert Graves, and W.B. Yeats.

"beautifully and fluently written and ingenious in its combination of catastrophes"

--Anthony Gash, Drama Head, The University of East Anglia

"Myth, Depravity, Impasse"

An in-depth study of Robert Graves, the modern theory of myth and Ted Hughes, with further reference to Shakespeare and to Keats.

"I am very sympathetic to the cause of myth and especially in relation to literature"

--Michael Bell, author of "Literature, Modernism and Myth" in a letter to John O'Meara

"This Life, This Death"

An extensive study of Wordsworth's great life-crisis, with additional reference to S.T. Coleridge, and to P.B. Shelley.

"Of this Wordsworth book, one recognizes its truth, its breadth of coverage and awareness, and above all its depth..."

--Richard Ramsbotham, editor of Vernon Watkins, "New Selected Poems," Carcanet Press.

History of Adyghe Literature - Ii (Hardcover): Kadir I. Natho History of Adyghe Literature - Ii (Hardcover)
Kadir I. Natho
R1,088 Discovery Miles 10 880 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Fantasy Literature of England (Hardcover): Colin N. Manlove The Fantasy Literature of England (Hardcover)
Colin N. Manlove
R1,041 R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Save R161 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Holy War (Hardcover): John Bunyan The Holy War (Hardcover)
John Bunyan; Edited by Daniel V Runyon
R1,435 Discovery Miles 14 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mania for Freedom - American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover): John Mac Kilgore Mania for Freedom - American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
John Mac Kilgore
R2,687 Discovery Miles 26 870 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote RalphWaldo Emerson in 1841. While this statement may read like an innocuoustruism today, the claim would have been controversial in the antebellumUnited States when enthusiasm was a hotly contested term associated withreligious fanaticism and poetic inspiration, revolutionary politics and imaginativeexcess. In analysing the language of enthusiasm in philosophy, religion,politics, and literature, John Mac Kilgore uncovers a tradition of enthusiasmlinked to a politics of emancipation. The dissenting voices chronicledhere fought against what they viewed as tyranny while using their writings toforge international or antinationalistic political affiliations. Pushing his analysis across national boundaries, Kilgore contends thatAmerican enthusiastic literature, unlike the era's concurrent sentimentalcounterpart, stressed democratic resistance over domestic reform as it navigatedthe global political sphere. By analysing a range of canonical Americanauthors-including William Apess, Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Beecher Stowe,and Walt Whitman-Kilgore places their works in context with the causes,wars, and revolutions that directly or indirectly engendered them. In doingso, he makes a unique and compelling case for enthusiasm's centrality in theshaping of American literary history.

Semiotics and City Poetics - Jakobson's Theory and Praxis (Hardcover): Mary Coghill Semiotics and City Poetics - Jakobson's Theory and Praxis (Hardcover)
Mary Coghill
R4,126 Discovery Miles 41 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Roman Jakobson stands alone in his semiotic theory of poetic analysis which combines semiotics, linguistics and structuralist poetics. This groundbreaking book proposes methods for developing Jakobson's theories of communication and poetic function. It provides an extensive range of examples of the kinds of Formalist praxis that have been neglected in recent years, developing them for the analysis of all poetry but, especially, the poetry of our urban future. Throughout the book the parameters of a city poetic genre are proposed and established; the book also develops the theory of the function of shifters and deixis with special reference to women as narrators. It also instantiates an experimental poetic praxis based on the work of one of Jakobson's great influences, Charles Sanders Peirce. Steadfastly adhering to the text in itself, this volume reveals the often surprising, hitherto unconsidered structural and semiotic patterns within poems as a whole.

Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Hans Walter Gabler Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Hans Walter Gabler
R1,383 Discovery Miles 13 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Broken Circle (Hardcover): David P Bridges The Broken Circle (Hardcover)
David P Bridges
R1,200 R1,018 Discovery Miles 10 180 Save R182 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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