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Europe in Law and Literature - Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation (Hardcover): Laura Anina Zander, Nicola Kramp-Seidel Europe in Law and Literature - Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation (Hardcover)
Laura Anina Zander, Nicola Kramp-Seidel
R3,304 Discovery Miles 33 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Europe is a broad and multifaceted construct, variously understood as a geographical, political, legal, institutional, social, or cultural formation. It is characterized by numerous conflicts and processes of negotiation that have accompanied or sustained the development of normative orders and divergent conceptions of law, both in relation to individual states and to Europe as a whole. The same applies to the field of literature, language, and aesthetics; numerous myths and ideologies have shaped today's understanding of Europe and still support it today. This volume examines how such processes were legally structured, and literarily addressed, criticized, and complemented. Its interdisciplinary perspective and open and dynamic, both dialogical and dialectical format intends to replicate the fragmented, sometimes conflicting, but always productive mosaic of voices, ideas, and concepts that have constituted and still constitute Europe, whether in the past, present, or future. Instead of resolving any of the complexities and contradictions that frame discussions on law, literature, and Europe, it aims to induce further engagement and confrontations with new and alternative visions of Europe.

The Price of Slavery - Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (Hardcover): Nick Nesbitt The Price of Slavery - Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (Hardcover)
Nick Nesbitt
R2,699 Discovery Miles 26 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Price of Slavery analyzes Marx's critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C. L. R. James, Aime Cesaire, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and Suzanne Cesaire. Nick Nesbitt assesses the limitations of the literature on capitalism and slavery since Eric Williams in light of Marx's key concept of the social forms of labor, wealth, and value. To do so, Nesbitt systematically reconstructs for the first time Marx's analysis of capitalist slavery across the three volumes of Capital. The book then follows the legacy of Caribbean critique in its reflections on the social forms of labor, servitude, and freedom, as they culminate in the vehement call for the revolutionary transformation of an unjust colonial order into one of universal justice and equality.

The Companion to 'A Tale of Two Cities' (Paperback): Andrew Sanders The Companion to 'A Tale of Two Cities' (Paperback)
Andrew Sanders
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots. It also explores the aspects of Dickens's life, especially his interest in private theatricals, which contributed to the genesis of the novel. For the first time the historical sources for the very individual account of the French Revolution presented in A Tale of Two Cities are examined, and the book investigates the novelist's debt to French and English eye-witnesses. This Companion identifies the multitude of allusions to what Dickens often regarded as the whims of eighteenth-century justice, religion, philosophy, fashion and society. It provides the modern reader with both fundamental sources of information and a fascinating account of the creation of a complex historical novel.

The Companion to 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' (Paperback): Wendy S. Jacobson The Companion to 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' (Paperback)
Wendy S. Jacobson
R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens's work, such as current events and religious and intellectual issues, social customs, topography, costume, furniture and transportation. Together with an analysis of Dickens's imaginative responses to his culture, and their place in the genesis and composition of the text, this book is a full-scale, thoroughgoing annotation that The Mystery of Edwin Drood requires.

Routledge Library Editions: T. S. Eliot (Hardcover): Various Authors Routledge Library Editions: T. S. Eliot (Hardcover)
Various Authors
R16,204 Discovery Miles 162 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This set reissues 10 books on T. S. Eliot originally published between 1952 and 1991. The volumes examine many of Eliot's most respected works, including his Four Quartets and The Waste Land. As well as exploring Eliot's work, this collection also provides a comprehensive analysis of the man behind the poetry, particularly in Frederick Tomlin's T. S. Eliot: A Friendship. This set will be of particular interest to students of literature.

Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature (Hardcover): William Grange Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature (Hardcover)
William Grange
R2,934 Discovery Miles 29 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to "dealing with the German past." There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that find other contradictions of contemporary life troubling, while some find them funny or even worth celebrating. German postwar literature has, in the minds of some observers, developed a kind of split personality. In view of the traumatic monstrosities of the previous century that development may seem logical to some. The Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature is devoted to modern literature produced in the German language, whether from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or writers using German in other countries. This volume covers an extensive period of time, beginning in 1945 at what was called "zero hour" for German literature and proceeds into the 21st century, concluding in 2008. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on writers, such as Nobel Prize-winners Heinrich Boll, Gunter Grass, Elias Canetti, Elfriede Jelinek, and W. G. Sebald. There are also entries on individual works, genres, movements, literary styles, and forms."

A New Companion to Greek Tragedy (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback): Andrew Brown A New Companion to Greek Tragedy (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
Andrew Brown
R1,323 Discovery Miles 13 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually stumbles across concepts which are difficult to interpret or relate to - moral pollution, the authority of oracles, classical ideas of geography - as well as the names of unfamiliar legendary and mythological figures. A New Companion to Greek Tragedy provides a useful reference tool for the 'Greekless' reader: arranged on a strictly encyclopaedic pattern, with headings for all proper names occurring in the twelve most frequently read tragedies, it contains brief but adequately detailed essays on moral, religious and philosophical terms, as well as mythical genealogies where important. There are in addition entries on Greek theatre, technical terms and on other writers from Aristotle to Freud, whilst the essay by P. E. Easterling traces some connections between the ideas found in the tragedians and earlier Greek thought.

Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Elizabeth A. Blakesley Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Elizabeth A. Blakesley
R2,326 Discovery Miles 23 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mysteries are among the most popular books today, and women continue to be among the most creative and widely read mystery writers. This book includes alphabetically arranged entries on 90 women mystery writers. Many of the writers discussed were not even writing when the first edition of this book was published in 1994, while others have written numerous works since then. Writers were selected based on their status as award winners, their commercial success, and their critical acclaim. Each entry provides biographical information, a discussion of major works and themes, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with appendices and a selected, general bibliography. Public library patrons will value this guide to their favorite authors, while students will turn to it when writing reports. The volume provides alphabetically arranged entries on 90 great women mystery writers, including: Cara Black Sarah Caudwell Mary Higgins Clark Patricia Cornwell Amanda Cross Earlene Fowler Charlaine Harris Patricia Highsmith Sujata Massey Janet Neel Sara Paretsky Each entry provides a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The book closes with appendices of award winners and a selected, general bibliography. Public library patrons will value this guide to their favorite authors, while students will consult it when writing reports.

Night SparkNotes Literature Guide (Paperback): Spark Notes, Elie Wiesel Night SparkNotes Literature Guide (Paperback)
Spark Notes, Elie Wiesel
R178 R143 Discovery Miles 1 430 Save R35 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying and paper writing.

King Lear (Paperback): Spark Notes King Lear (Paperback)
Spark Notes
R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Romantics Chronology, 1780-1832 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Martin Garrett A Romantics Chronology, 1780-1832 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Martin Garrett
R2,944 R1,909 Discovery Miles 19 090 Save R1,035 (35%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book covers the life and work of a wide range of writers from Coleridge to Wollstonecraft, Hemans, Beckford and their contemporaries. Also encompassing a wealth of material on contexts from the treason trials of 1794 to the coming of gas-light to the London stage in 1817, it provides a panorama of one of the richest periods in British culture.

Caton's Manchester (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Bill Rogers Caton's Manchester (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Bill Rogers
R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces - How Ignatius J. Reilly Defeated Hollywood (Paperback): Stephan Eicke The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces - How Ignatius J. Reilly Defeated Hollywood (Paperback)
Stephan Eicke
R1,342 R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Save R495 (37%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For more than 40 years, dozens of film directors, writers and producers tried and failed to adapt John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Along the way lawsuits were filed, filming locations destroyed, friendships shattered, reputations trashed, production companies bankrupted. Drawing on exclusive interviews, internal documents and private correspondence, this book tells the remarkable story of the non-making of A Confederacy of Dunces as a breathless and absurdist thriller. Celebrity appearances include John Belushi, Steven Soderbergh, Stephen Fry, Robin Williams, Warren Beatty and Harvey Weinstein, among others.

Abundance from the Desert - Classical Arabic Poetry (Hardcover, New): Raymond Farrin Abundance from the Desert - Classical Arabic Poetry (Hardcover, New)
Raymond Farrin
R1,101 Discovery Miles 11 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classi cal Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the pe riod roughly from 500 c.e. to 1250 a.d., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a variety of genres. The poems are presented chronologically, each situated within a specific historical and literary context. Together, the selected poems suggest the range and depth of classical Arabic poetic expression; read in sequence, they suggest the gradual evolution of a tradition. Moving beyond a mere chronicle, Farrin outlines a new approach to appreciating classical Arabic poetry based on an awareness of concentric symmetry, in which the poem's unity is viewed not as a linear progression but as an elaborate symmetrical plot. In doing so, the author presents these works in a broader, comparative light, revealing connec tions with other literatures. The reader is invited to examine these classical Arabic works not as isolated phenomena-notwithstanding their unique ness and their association with a discrete tradition-but rather as part of a great multicultural heritage. This pioneering book marks an important step forward in the study of Arabic poetry. At the same time, it opens the door to this rich poetic tradi tion for the general reader.

War and Literary Studies (Hardcover): Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Neil Ramsey War and Literary Studies (Hardcover)
Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Neil Ramsey
R2,740 R2,386 Discovery Miles 23 860 Save R354 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

War and Literary Studies poses two main questions: First, how has war shaped the field of literary studies? And second, when scholars today study the literature of war what are the key concepts in play? Seeking to complement the extant scholarship, this volume adopts a wider and more systematic approach as it directs our attention to the relation between warfare and literary studies as a field of knowledge. What are the key characteristics of the language of war? Of gender in war? Which questions are central to the way we engage with war and trauma or war and sensation? In which ways were prominent 20th century theories such as critical theory, French postwar theory, postcolonial theory shaped by war? How might emergent concepts such as 'revolution,' 'the anthropocene' or 'capitalism' inflect the study of war and literature?

The Aristotelian Mechanics - Text and Diagrams (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Joyce Van Leeuwen The Aristotelian Mechanics - Text and Diagrams (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Joyce Van Leeuwen
R3,214 R1,897 Discovery Miles 18 970 Save R1,317 (41%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the transmission processes of the Aristotelian Mechanics. It does so to enable readers to appreciate the value of the treatise based on solid knowledge of the principles of the text. In addition, the book's critical examination helps clear up many of the current misunderstandings about the transmission of the text and the diagrams. The first part of the book sets out the Greek manuscript tradition of the Mechanics, resulting in a newly established stemma codicum that illustrates the affiliations of the manuscripts. This research has led to new insights into the transmission of the treatise, most importantly, it also demonstrates an urgent need for a new text. A first critical edition of the diagrams contained in the Greek manuscripts of the treatise is also presented. These diagrams are not only significant for a reconstruction of the text but can also be considered as a commentary on the text. Diagrams are thus revealed to be a powerful tool in studying processes of the transfer and transformation of knowledge. This becomes especially relevant when the manuscript diagrams are compared with those in the printed editions and in commentaries from the early modern period. The final part of the book shows that these early modern diagrams and images reflect the altered scope of the mechanical discipline in the sixteenth century.

The Anatomy of Literary Studies (Routledge Revivals) - An Introduction to the Study of English Literature (Hardcover): Marjorie... The Anatomy of Literary Studies (Routledge Revivals) - An Introduction to the Study of English Literature (Hardcover)
Marjorie Boulton
R4,165 Discovery Miles 41 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1980, The Anatomy of Literary Studies provides students of English Literature with a clearer understanding of the significance and scope of the subject and a comprehensive background to its study. It gives pointers towards intellectual integrity and advice on independent study, libraries, essay writing and examinations. This reissue of Marjorie Boulton's classic work will be of particular value to students studying English at university or those applying to a course who would like a fuller understanding of what it might entail.

Fellow Travelers - How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas (Hardcover): John Ochoa Fellow Travelers - How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas (Hardcover)
John Ochoa
R2,283 Discovery Miles 22 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Road trips loom large in the American imagination, and stories from the road have been central to crafting national identities across North and South America. Tales of traversing this vast geography, with its singular landscape, have helped foster a sense of American exceptionalism. Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the frontier, and the Cold War John Ochoa pursues literary travelers across landscapes and centuries. At each historical crossroads, the nations of North and South invented or reinvented themselves in the shadow of empire. Travel accounts from these periods offered master narratives that shaped the notion of America's postimperial future.Fellow Travelers recounts the complex, on-the-road relationships between travelers such as Lewis and Clark, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimei Bonpland, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, Kerouac's Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, and the Che Guevara and Alberto Granado of The Motorcycle Diaries. Such journeys reflect concerns far larger than their characters: tensions between the voices of the rugged individual and the democratic many, between the metropolis and the backcountry, and between the intimate and the vast. Working across national literatures, Fellow Travelers offers insight into a shared process of national reinvention and the construction of modern national imaginaries.

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett - A Selective Bibliography of Publications About his Plays and their Conceptual... The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett - A Selective Bibliography of Publications About his Plays and their Conceptual Foundations (Hardcover, New)
Charles A. Carpenter
R13,738 Discovery Miles 137 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels. The scholarship devoted to the dramatic writings of Samuel Beckett is so vast that there is a real need for a full and easy-to-use secondary bibliography enabling students and scholars at all levels to locate and select what they need. This requires comprehensive coverage of those publications which can be deemed both substantial and accessible treatments of topics relevant to his career as a dramatist. In Beckett's case, full coverage extends from the influences and origins of his great variety of plays to their presentations on stage, television, film, and radio, in many countries and venues. This essential bibliography offers comprehensive coverage of the thousands of substantial studies in all Roman-alphabet languages, a clear and helpful arrangement by topics and individual plays, and a lucid, uncluttered bibliographical format to make it as user-friendly as possible.

A History of English Georgic Writing (Hardcover): Paddy Bullard A History of English Georgic Writing (Hardcover)
Paddy Bullard
R3,074 R2,676 Discovery Miles 26 760 Save R398 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The interconnected themes of land and labour were a common recourse for English literary writers between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the twenty-first they have become pressing again in the work of nature writers, environmentalists, poets, novelists and dramatists. Written by a team of sixteen subject specialists, this volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the present day, offering a range of scholarly perspectives on the georgic tradition, with insights from literary criticism, historical scholarship, classics, post-colonial studies, rural studies and ecocriticism. Providing an overview of the current scholarship in georgic literature and criticism, this collection argues that the work of people and animals in farming communities, and the land as it is understood through that work, has provided writers in English with one of their most complex and enduring themes.

Places I Remember - Tales, Truths, Delights from 100 Countries (Hardcover): Lea Lane Places I Remember - Tales, Truths, Delights from 100 Countries (Hardcover)
Lea Lane; Illustrated by Greg Correll
R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Chief Rivals of Corneille and Racine (Hardcover): Lacy Lockert The Chief Rivals of Corneille and Racine (Hardcover)
Lacy Lockert
R1,965 R1,787 Discovery Miles 17 870 Save R178 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Here are blank verse translations of ten of the best tragedies by French dramatists contemporary with Corneille and Racine, and two by the most noted successors. No great dramatist can be properly understood and appreciated without some knowledge of the lesser playwrights surrounding him. The fact has long been realized as regards to Shakespeare; but the lesser figures of the great age of French drama--men comparable to such Elizabethans as Middleton and Fletcher and Massinger--have been generally neglected. This book makes a selection of their best works available to English readers. French students who do not have access to the frequently rare French texts of these plays will find it valuable. No play by any of these dramatists, except Voltaire, has ever before been translated into English. The faithfulness and literary qualities of Dr. Lockert's translations are avouched by his two previous volumes in this field, The Chief Plays of Corneille and The Best Plays of Racine.

Invisible Ball of Dreams - Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line (Hardcover): Emily Ruth Rutter Invisible Ball of Dreams - Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line (Hardcover)
Emily Ruth Rutter
R3,079 Discovery Miles 30 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson's momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, author Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history by William Brashler, Jerome Charyn, August Wilson, Gloria Naylor, Harmony Holiday, Kevin King, Kadir Nelson, and Denzel Washington, among others. Reading representations across the literary color line, Rutter opens a propitious space for exploring black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Exploring these topics is necessary to the project of enriching the archives of segregated baseball in particular and African American cultural history more generally.

York Notes Companions Nineteenth Century American Literature (Paperback): Rowland Hughes York Notes Companions Nineteenth Century American Literature (Paperback)
Rowland Hughes
R354 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Save R64 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume examines the literature and culture of nineteenth century America, covering genres such as the early American novel, realist fiction and historical romance.

The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture - A Feminist Critique (Hardcover): Mary J. Magoulick The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture - A Feminist Critique (Hardcover)
Mary J. Magoulick
R3,058 Discovery Miles 30 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women's speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, breakthrough these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince "hopepunk." They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today's world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture's still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.

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