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Gender Violence in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Women's Writing (Hardcover): Maria Encarnacion Lopez, Stephen M.... Gender Violence in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Women's Writing (Hardcover)
Maria Encarnacion Lopez, Stephen M. Hart
R3,069 Discovery Miles 30 690 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

How do contemporary female authors in Latin America tackle gender violence in their writings? This book analyses the portrayal of violence against women in the works of ten contemporary Latin American female authors: Alejandra Jaramillo Morales, Laura Restrepo, Ena Lucia Portela, Wendy Guerra, Selva Almada, Claudia Pineiro, Diamela Eltit, Carla Guelfenbein, Lydia Cacho and Fernanda Melchor. Governments in Latin America have routinely failed to protect women from abuse, threats, censorship, repressive policies on reproduction rights, forced displacement, sex trafficking, disappearances and femicides, and this book beats a new path through these burning issues by drawing on the knowledges encapsulated by sociology as much as the visions articulated by literature. Through an exploration of works published in the twenty-first century by women writers from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico, this volume reconceptualises positions of privilege and power in the region and provides new readings about the meaning of gender, sexuality, violence and the female body in contemporary Latin America. The aim of this book is to raise awareness of the daily threat of violence against women in Latin America, underline the importance of the voice of Latin American women within that daily struggle, and encourage governments, organisations and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean to take gender violence seriously and fight to secure peace and social equality for all women in the modern world.

Travel Writing and the Transnational Author (Hardcover): S. Knowles Travel Writing and the Transnational Author (Hardcover)
S. Knowles
R2,471 R1,841 Discovery Miles 18 410 Save R630 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie.

Meredith and the Novel (Hardcover): Neil Roberts Meredith and the Novel (Hardcover)
Neil Roberts
R2,666 Discovery Miles 26 660 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Meredith is a novelist whom many readers have discovered with excitement, drawn to his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. Neil Robert's book is the first full-length study for ten years, and is the first to examine the novels in the light of modern literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, showing that Meredith is a writer who engages profoundly with the ideological discourses of his time and is a still not fully discovered precursor of the modernist novel.

George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels - Jewish Myth and Mysticism (Hardcover): S. Nurbhai, K. Newton George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels - Jewish Myth and Mysticism (Hardcover)
S. Nurbhai, K. Newton
R2,646 Discovery Miles 26 460 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced not only her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda, but all of George Eliot's novels. The reader is left with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism. Though previous studies have attempted to qualify the still-dominant view that Eliot is firmly a part of the realistic tradition, this study goes further by demonstrating that a cohesive mythic structure with its basis in Jewish mysticism is identifiable in her fiction.

I'm the King of the Castle: York Notes for GCSE (Paperback, 2nd edition): Caroline Woolfe I'm the King of the Castle: York Notes for GCSE (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Caroline Woolfe
R171 R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Save R15 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'York Notes for GCSE' offers a useful approach to English Literature and aims to help readers achieve a better grade. Updated to reflect the needs of today's students, the new editions are filled with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more.

The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter - Fiction, Femininity, Feminism (Paperback): Joseph Bristow, Trev Lynn Broughton The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter - Fiction, Femininity, Feminism (Paperback)
Joseph Bristow, Trev Lynn Broughton
R1,605 Discovery Miles 16 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on many aspects of contemporary feminist theory, this lively collection of essays assesses Angela Carter's polemical fictions of desire. Carter, renowned for her irreverent wit, was one of the most gifted, subversive, and stylish British writers to emerge in the 1960s.

The Poetics of Novels - Fiction and its Execution (Hardcover): M. Axelrod The Poetics of Novels - Fiction and its Execution (Hardcover)
M. Axelrod
R2,657 Discovery Miles 26 570 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This work deals with the fundamentals of novel writing and the execution of such. Though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. The novels include: Austen's "Northanger Abbey", Beckett's "Company", Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", Cervantes' "Don Quixote", Flaubert's "Madame Bovary", Hamsun's "Hunger", Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", Lispector's "Hour of the Star" and Smart's "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept".

Dragon Ball Culture Volume 6 - Gods (Chinese, English, Japanese, Hardcover): Derek Padula Dragon Ball Culture Volume 6 - Gods (Chinese, English, Japanese, Hardcover)
Derek Padula
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
TransLatin Joyce - Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature (Hardcover): B. Price, C. Salgado, J. Schwartz TransLatin Joyce - Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature (Hardcover)
B. Price, C. Salgado, J. Schwartz
R1,866 Discovery Miles 18 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, deconstruction, and post-Euclidean physics.

Goethe's Modernisms (Hardcover, New): Astrida Orle Tantillo Goethe's Modernisms (Hardcover, New)
Astrida Orle Tantillo
R4,311 Discovery Miles 43 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These are pathbreaking works which draws out Goethe's pivotal influence on the development of Western society. "Goethe's Modernisms" demonstrates Goethe's pivotal influence on the development of Western society. It also reveals him to be one of modernity's profoundest critics. His influence has not only shaped aesthetic issues, but a myriad of cultural and intellectual ones as well. By studying his works, we can thus gain insights into the foundational principles of modern society and its shortcomings. Tantillo explores Goethe's role within the culture wars that have been with us for some time, his role as a both a progenitor and a critic of modernity, and suggests how we might rethink aspects of our current policies, whether educational or fiscal. Each chapter presents an interpretation of literary texts and then demonstrates their relationship to a contemporary issue: the ascendancy of science and technology and their close connection to new economic theories (Faust); the cultural success of religious evangelicalism and its consequences (The Sorrows of Young Werther); and, the ramifications of progressive, student-centered education (the Wilhelm Meisternovels). Each chapter further places these issues within the context of conservative and liberal philosophies.

The Marriage of Minds - Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot (Hardcover): Rachel Ablow The Marriage of Minds - Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot (Hardcover)
Rachel Ablow
R1,639 Discovery Miles 16 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Marriage of Minds" examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy in married life. Through close readings of canonical texts in relation to the histories of sympathy, marriage, and reading, "The Marriage of Minds" begins to fill a long-standing gap between eighteenth-century philosophical notions of sympathy and twentieth-century psychoanalytic concepts of identification. It examines the wide variety of ways in which novels were understood to educate or reform readers in the mid-nineteenth century. Finally, it demonstrates how both the form of the Victorian novel and the experience supposed to result from that form were implicated in ongoing debates about the nature, purpose, and law of marriage.

Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative - The Victorians and Us (Hardcover): L. Hadley Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative - The Victorians and Us (Hardcover)
L. Hadley
R2,413 Discovery Miles 24 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

More than 100 years after the death of Queen Victoria, contemporary culture remains fascinated by the Victorians. This fascination is most marked in fiction, where an entirely new genre of neo-Victorian fiction has emerged. Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative argues that while neo-Victorian fiction emerges within a wider cultural appropriation of the Victorians, it is characterized by its commitment to the historical specificity of the Victorian era. Neo-Victorian fiction is historical fiction and as such involves a dual approach to the present and the past: these novels are determined by both the contemporary moment of writing and the Victorian moment in which they are set. This book mimics that dual approach by analyzing neo-Victorian fiction in relation to both contemporary debates about history and Victorian historical narratives. It combines broad discussion of the genre with detailed analysis of a range of neo-Victorian texts from the last 20 years.

The Complete Scribes of Speculative Fiction (hardback) (Hardcover): Cristopher Derose The Complete Scribes of Speculative Fiction (hardback) (Hardcover)
Cristopher Derose
R934 Discovery Miles 9 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Modern British Novel of the Left - A Research Guide (Hardcover, New): M. Keith Booker The Modern British Novel of the Left - A Research Guide (Hardcover, New)
M. Keith Booker
R2,235 Discovery Miles 22 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The use of the spatial metaphor of a left vs. right opposition originated in the tendency of 19th century European legislatures to seat more radical members to the left of the presiding official. For nearly five decades, the left has come to be identified with totalitarianism and with Marxism and Communism, the most successful leftist movements of the 20th century. Many 20th century British novels reflect values antithetical to capitalism, explore the plight of the working class, and challenge the traditional socioeconomic and political views of the right. The British novel of the left represents a long and rich cultural tradition that includes a large number of important works. These novels are best understood as part of a cultural phenomenon that reacts against the mainstream tradition of British literature but also establishes and draws upon traditions of its own. British leftist novels have been produced in a number of modes and subgenres, including realism, modernism, historical novels, detective novels, and science fiction. This reference book provides students and scholars interested in pursuing research into modern British leftist and working-class culture with a convenient starting place that provides extensive coverage of British leftist and working-class novels of the past century. Through an introductory essay, the volume provides a brief historical survey of the development of this important cultural phenomenon from the Chartist period of the early 19th century to recent working class novels by such contemporary authors as Pat Barker and James Kelman. This survey is followed by an introductory discussion of Marxist literary theory, which is used throughout the book to illuminate individual novels within a theoretical framework consistent with that of most of the novels themselves. The second major part of the book is a guide to selected critical and historical works that presents brief descriptions of a variety of studies useful as background to any study of the British novel of the left. The bulk of the book consists of discussions of more than 130 individual novels of the left in a variety of modes and subgenres. This section includes late 19th century works by authors such as Margaret Harkness and George Bernard Shaw, important early 20th century works such as Robert Tressell's The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, a wide variety of works from the 1930s, when leftist cultural production was at its peak, and post World War II novels by writers such as Alan Sillitoe and John Berger. The book then ends with a discussion of a number of postcolonial novels of the left that help to illuminate issues relevant to British leftist culture as well.

Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition - Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb (Paperback): Valerie Purton Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition - Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb (Paperback)
Valerie Purton
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Irvine Welsh (Hardcover, 2007 Ed.): Robert Morace Irvine Welsh (Hardcover, 2007 Ed.)
Robert Morace
R2,690 Discovery Miles 26 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides students with an introduction to the work of Irvine Welsh that places his fiction in historical and theoretical context. It explores Welsh's biography, his impact on contemporary Scottish fiction and the cultural relevance of the "Irvine Welsh phenomenon." Including a timeline of key dates, it offers an accessible reading of Welsh's work and an overview of the varied critical reception this has provoked.

Siddhartha (Paperback): Hermann Hesse Siddhartha (Paperback)
Hermann Hesse; Translated by Hilda Rosner
R244 R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Save R18 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role on this earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but cannot be content with a disciple's role: he must work out his own destiny and solve his own doubt--a tortuous road that carries him through the sensuality of a love affair with the beautiful courtesan Kamala, the temptation of success and riches, the heartache of struggle with his own son, to final renunciation and self-knowledge. The name "Siddhartha" is one often given to the Buddha himself--perhaps a clue to Hesse's aims in contrasting the traditional legendary figure with his own conception, as a European (Hesse was Swiss), of a spiritual explorer.

Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918-1950 (Hardcover): Hazel Sheeky Bird Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918-1950 (Hardcover)
Hazel Sheeky Bird
R2,439 R1,808 Discovery Miles 18 080 Save R631 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed through the pursuit of leisure. Focusing on stories about hiking, camping and sailing, this book offers a fresh insight into a popular period of modern British cultural and political history.

The Kate Chopin Companion - With Chopin's Translations from French Fiction (Hardcover): Thomas Bonner The Kate Chopin Companion - With Chopin's Translations from French Fiction (Hardcover)
Thomas Bonner
R1,892 Discovery Miles 18 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bonner . . . provides a compendium of information, helpful to the undergraduate as well as to the scholar; a chronology of Chopin's life; nine translations by Chopin herself of French short stories, eight of which are by Guy de Maupassant, a major literary influence (five of these published here for the first time); period maps of Missouri, Louisiana, and New Orleans, and a 13-page bibliographic essay on primary and secondary sources, which is thorough and organized for easy reference. The bulk of the book is devoted to a Dictionary of Characters, Places, Titles, Terms, and People from the Life and Works of Kate Chopin.' The Dictionary' will be especially helpful to those readers . . . who are unfamiliar with the Cajun and Creole terms--e.g., lagniappe, jambalaya--appearing in Chopin's fiction, or with the many references to French Catholicism made by her characters. . . . Overall, this volume is a valuable tool for both the novice and experienced Chopin reader, and is highly recommended. "Choice"

Recent years have witnessed a major rebirth of interest in the works of Kate Chopin, author of two novels and nearly 100 short stories. The current volume makes an important contribution to the study of Chopin's work by providing a dictionary of characters, places, plot briefs, poem briefs, biographical items, and selected terms; period maps of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Missouri; and a bibliographic essay on primary and secondary sources. Also featured are Chopin's translations of eight Guy de Maupassant stories, five of which appear here in print for the first time, and one story by Adrien Vely.

The dictionary delineates the characters and places in Chopin's fiction, many of which reappear as major and minor elements throughout her work. Of particular significance are the many unnamed characters who contribute to the development of recurring social themes. The maps of relevant areas in Louisiana and Missouri will help make the connections between character and place, story, and setting more concrete. The bibliographic essay covers editions, manuscripts, and letters in the primary sources section. Biography and criticism, including general appraisals and those addressed to special topics or particular works, are included in the secondary sources section. The aim throughout is to resolve basic questions and confusions that persist regarding Chopin's work so that the reader can concentrate more productively--and more enjoyably--on the issues of form, theme, and influence that dominate her fiction.

New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman (Hardcover, New): Giovanna Summerfield, Lisa Downward New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman (Hardcover, New)
Giovanna Summerfield, Lisa Downward
R4,630 Discovery Miles 46 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New Perspectives on the European Bildungsro man reflects the change in direction of research on the Bildungsroman, focusing on more psychological, authorial and feminist contents. Departing from the father of the archetype of the genre, Goethe, the authors trace imperative pathways to its French, British, and Italian counterparts, examining spiritual and female Bildungsromane. A wide-ranging analysis provides fresh insights into the genre through comparative analyses of Bildungsromane both diatopically and diachronically, while critical analysis of novels such as Voltaire's Candide, Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre, Bernardin de Saint Pierre's Paul et Virginie, Collodi's Pinocchio, Aleramo's Una donna present new readings of the characters, plots and purposes of the most famous European novels.

The Impulse of Fantasy Literature (Hardcover): Colin N. Manlove The Impulse of Fantasy Literature (Hardcover)
Colin N. Manlove
R952 R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Save R141 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law - Critiquing the Contract (Hardcover): N Johnson The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law - Critiquing the Contract (Hardcover)
N Johnson
R1,400 Discovery Miles 14 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s. Focusing on selected novels by Thomas Holcroft, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Robert Bage, William Godwin, Mary Hays, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Maria Edgeworth, this book examines narrative investigations into the intricate relationships between theories of rights, the requirements of proprietorship in civil society, and the construction of the legal subject. MARKET 1: Eighteenth-century Studies; Romantic scholars and students MARKET 2: General readers interested in law and literature, and the development of the novel

British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875 (Hardcover): Elisabeth Jay British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875 (Hardcover)
Elisabeth Jay
R3,066 Discovery Miles 30 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'A wicked and detestable place, though wonderfully attractive': Charles Dickens's conflicted feelings about Paris typify the fascination and repulsion with which a host of mid-nineteenth-century British writers viewed their nearest foreign capital. Variously perceived as the showcase for sophisticated, cosmopolitan talent, the home of revolution, a stronghold of Roman Catholicism, and a shrine to irreligious hedonism, Paris was also a city where writers were respected and journalism flourished. This historically-grounded account of the ways in which Paris touched the careers and work of both major and minor Victorian writers considers both their actual experiences of an urban environment, distinctively different from anything Britain offered, and the extent to which this became absorbed and expressed within the Victorian imaginary. Casting a wide literary net, the first part of this book explores these writers' reaction to the swiftly changing politics and topography of Paris, before considering the nature of their social interactions with the Parisians, through networks provided by institutions such as the British Embassy and the salons. The second part of the book examines the significance of Paris for mid-nineteenth-century Anglophone journalists., paying particular attention to the ways in which the young Thackeray's exposure to Parisian print culture shaped him as both writer and artist. The final part focuses on fictional representations of Paris, revealing the frequency with which they relied upon previous literary sources, and how the surprisingly narrow palette of subgenres, structures and characters they employed contributed to the characteristic, and sometimes contradictory, prejudices of a swiftly-growing British readership.

Literature's Children - The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Hardcover): Louise Joy Literature's Children - The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization (Hardcover)
Louise Joy
R3,990 Discovery Miles 39 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Literature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyzes the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasizing what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of works for children which have shaped our understanding of what children's literature entails, including works by Isaac Watts, John Newbery, Kate Greenaway, E. Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, J.R.R. Tolkien and Malcolm Saville, it demonstrates how the critical child resists the processes of idealization in operation in and through such texts. Bringing into dialogue ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, it provides a compelling new account of the complex relations between literary aesthetics and literary didacticism.

Hemingway Repossessed (Hardcover, New): Kenneth Rosen Hemingway Repossessed (Hardcover, New)
Kenneth Rosen
R2,534 Discovery Miles 25 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume is a wide ranging collection of essays on Ernest Hemingway and his work by some of the world's leading scholars and critics in the field of Hemingway studies. The collection offers the latest views--and some of the most challenging--of many of the best scholars in the field. The conclusions drawn are as various as the sixteen contributors; many of which challenge generally accepted views in the field. This study will be of interest and use to Hemingway "buffs," to scholars of modern American literature, and to academic libraries.

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