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Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works

Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge - On the Rise of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes (Paperback): G.Wilson Knight Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge - On the Rise of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes (Paperback)
G.Wilson Knight
R1,055 Discovery Miles 10 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2002. This is the Volume III of the five G. Wilson Knight collected works series and focuses on Shakespeare's tragic heroes for his early to later tragedies or Timon of Athens, Anthony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. This book has grown from Knight's dramatic recital 'Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge', and therefore includes a prefatory note on his stage experience. The complete record, with illustrations, has already been documented in Shakespearian Production (enlarged 1964), but a rather more personal account is offered here.

The Dickens Encyclopaedia (RLE Dickens) - Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 8 (Paperback): Arthur L. Hayward The Dickens Encyclopaedia (RLE Dickens) - Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 8 (Paperback)
Arthur L. Hayward
R1,353 Discovery Miles 13 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the standard reference guide to the works of Charles Dickens. The material is arranged alphabetically, in dictionary style, and provides a quick means of reference to the plots of the novels and to all the characters and places mentioned in the novels. There are also useful explanatory notes on allusions and phrases.

International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2012 (Hardcover, 27th edition): International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2012 (Hardcover, 27th edition)
R10,761 R8,686 Discovery Miles 86 860 Save R2,075 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2012 is an invaluable and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations of the literary world. All entrants have the opportunity to update their entries, confirming existing titles and contributions and listing new ones, providing career details and professional experience, and updating their contact information. This title is international in its scope and covers all literary genres.

Now in its twenty-seventh edition, this descriptive directory is revised and updated annually by our editorial team and covers the most important authors and writers at work today, along with lesser known ones for whom information is harder to find. This title will prove an invaluable acquisition for public and academic libraries, journalists, television and radio companies, PR companies, literary organizations and anyone needing up-to-date information in this field.

Entries:

Biographical details are listed for writers of all kinds, including novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, essayists, editors, columnists, journalists, as well as literary agents and publishers. Each entry provides personal information, career details, works published, literary awards and prizes, memberships and contact information, where available.

Key Features:

  • almost 8,000 entries
  • an additional directory section that includes current and detailed lists of major literary awards and prizes, literary organizations, literary festivals and national libraries from around the world
  • entries for established writers, as well as for those who have recently risen to prominence, featuring latest contact information, such as email and web addresses
  • hundreds of new entries are included in this edition.
A Literary Guide to Washington, DC - Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston... A Literary Guide to Washington, DC - Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston (Paperback)
Kim Roberts
R697 R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Save R128 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation's most acclaimed writers. From the city's founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminaries including Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston have lived and worked at their craft in our nation's capital. In A Literary Guide to Washington, DC, Kim Roberts offers a guide to the city's rich literary history. Part walking tour, part anthology, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC is organized into five sections, each corresponding to a particularly vibrant period in Washington's literary community. Starting with the city's earliest years, Roberts examines writers such as Hasty-Pudding poet Joel Barlow and ""Star-Spangled Banner"" lyricist Francis Scott Key before moving on to the Civil War and Reconstruction and touching on the lives of authors such as Charlotte Forten Grimke and James Weldon Johnson. She wraps up her tour with World War I and the Jazz Age, which brought to the city some writers at the forefront of modernism, including the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sinclair Lewis. The book's stimulating tours cover downtown, the LeDroit Park and Shaw neighborhoods, Lafayette Square, and the historic U Street district, bringing the history of the city to life in surprising ways. Written for tourists, literary enthusiasts, amateur historians, and armchair travelers, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC offers a cultural tour of our nation's capital through a lierary lens.

The Cambridge Companion to Boxing (Paperback): Gerald Early The Cambridge Companion to Boxing (Paperback)
Gerald Early
R779 Discovery Miles 7 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

While humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of the most popular, controversial and misunderstood sports in the world. For its advocates, it is a heroic expression of unfettered individualism. For its critics, it is a depraved and ruthless physical and commercial exploitation of mostly poor young men. This Companion offers engaging and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of the sport of boxing. It includes a comprehensive chronology of the sport, listing all the important events and personalities. Essays examine topics such as women in boxing, boxing and the rise of television, boxing in Africa, boxing and literature, and boxing and Hollywood films. A unique book for scholars and fans alike, this Companion explores the sport from its inception in Ancient Greece to the death of its most celebrated figure, Muhammad Ali.

International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2011 (Hardcover, 26th edition): International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2011 (Hardcover, 26th edition)
R7,569 Discovery Miles 75 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2011 provides an invaluable and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations of the literary world.

Now in its twenty-sixth edition, the book is revised and updated annually by our editorial team and covers the most important authors and writers at work today. This title will prove an invaluable acquisition for journalists, television and radio companies, public and academic libraries, PR companies, literary organizations and anyone needing up-to-date information in this field.

Entries:

Biographical details are listed for writers of all kinds, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, editors, columnists, journalists, as well as literary agents and publishers. Each entry provides personal information, career details, works published, literary awards and prizes, memberships and contact information, where available.

Key Features:

  • almost 8,000 entries
  • a directory section, including detailed lists of major international literary awards and prizes, principal literary organizations, literary festivals and national libraries
  • entries for established writers, as well as for those who have recently risen to prominence
  • hundreds of new entries are included in this edition.
Orations, Volume II (Hardcover): Aelius Aristides Orations, Volume II (Hardcover)
Aelius Aristides; Edited by Michael Trapp
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in 117, he studied in Athens and Pergamum before he fell chronically ill in the early 140s and retreated to Pergamum's healing shrine of Asclepius. By 147 Aristides was able to resume his public activities and pursue a successful oratorical career. Based at his family estate in Smyrna, he traveled between bouts of illness and produced speeches and lectures, declamations on historical themes, polemical works, prose hymns, and various essays, all of it displaying deep and creative familiarity with the classical literary heritage. He died between 180 and 185. This edition of Aristides, new to the Loeb Classical Library, offers fresh translations and texts based on the critical editions of Lenz-Behr (Orations 1-16) and Keil (Orations 17-53). Volume II contains Orations 3 and 4, which along with Oration 2 (A Reply to Plato) take issue with the attack on orators and oratory delivered in Plato's Gorgias.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek - SIC 10 (Paperback): Russell Sbriglia Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek - SIC 10 (Paperback)
Russell Sbriglia
R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Zizek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism, thereby urging a rethinking of historicity and universality. His methodology has implications for analyzing literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres and can enrich theoretical frameworks ranging from aesthetics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis to feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. The contributors also offer Zizekian interpretations of a wide variety of texts, including Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Samuel Beckett's Not I, and William Burroughs's Nova Trilogy. The collection includes an essay by Zizek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek affirms Zizek's value to literary studies while offering a rigorous model of Zizekian criticism. Contributors. Shawn Alfrey, Daniel Beaumont, Geoff Boucher, Andrew Hageman, Jamil Khader, Anna Kornbluh, Todd McGowan, Paul Megna, Russell Sbriglia, Louis-Paul Willis, Slavoj Zizek

Tolkien and the Great War - The Threshold of Middle-Earth (Paperback, New ed): John Garth Tolkien and the Great War - The Threshold of Middle-Earth (Paperback, New ed)
John Garth
R312 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. "To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 ... by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead." So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The Lord of the Rings as a reaction to the Second World War. Tolkien and the Great War tells for the first time the full story of how he embarked on the creation of Middle-earth in his youth as the world around him was plunged into catastrophe. This biography reveals the horror and heroism that he experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of the Somme and introduces the circle of friends who spurred his mythology to life. It shows how, after two of these brilliant young men were killed, Tolkien pursued the dream they had all shared by launching his epic of good and evil. John Garth argues that the foundation of tragic experience in the First World War is the key to Middle-earth's enduring power. Tolkien used his mythic imagination not to escape from reality but to reflect and transform the cataclysm of his generation. While his contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. This is the first substantially new biography of Tolkien since 1977, meticulously researched and distilled from his personal wartime papers and a multitude of other sources.

All the Roads Are Open - The Afghan Journey (Paperback): Annemarie Schwarzenbach All the Roads Are Open - The Afghan Journey (Paperback)
Annemarie Schwarzenbach; Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole
R326 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R56 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan journey documented in All the Roads Are Open is one of the most important episodes of Schwarzenbach's turbulent life. Her incisive, lyrical essays offer a unique glimpse of an Afghanistan already touched by the "fateful laws known as progress," a remote yet "sensitive nerve centre of world politics" caught amid great powers in upheaval. In her writings, Schwarzenbach conjures up the desolate beauty of landscapes both internal and external, reflecting on the longings and loneliness of travel as well as its grace. Maillart's account of their trip, The Cruel Way, stands as a classic of travel literature, and, now available for the first time in English, Schwarzenbach's memoir rounds out the story of the adventure. Praise for the German Edition "Above all, [Schwarzenbach's] discovery of the Orient was a personal one. But the author never loses sight of the historical and social context. . . . She shows no trace of colonialist arrogance. In fact, the pieces also reflect the experience of crisis, the loss of confidence which, in that decade, seized the long-arrogant culture of the West."-Suddeutsche Zeitung

International Who's Who of Authors & Writers 2010 (Hardcover, 25th edition): Europa Publications International Who's Who of Authors & Writers 2010 (Hardcover, 25th edition)
Europa Publications
R9,807 R7,566 Discovery Miles 75 660 Save R2,241 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2010 provides an invaluable and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations of the literary world.

Now in its twenty-fifth edition, the book is revised and updated annually by our editorial team and covers the most important authors and writers at work today. This title will prove an invaluable acquisition for journalists, television and radio companies, public and academic libraries, PR companies, literary organizations and anyone needing up-to-date information in this field.

Entries:

Biographical details are listed for writers of all kinds, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, editors, columnists, journalists, as well as literary agents and publishers. Each entry provides personal information, career details, works published, literary awards and prizes, memberships and contact information, where available.

Key features:

  • almost 8,000 entries
  • a directory section, including detailed lists of major international literary awards and prizes, principal literary organizations literary festivals and national libraries
  • entries for established writers, as well as for those who have recently risen to prominence
  • hundreds of new entries are included in this edition.
Contradictory Indianness - Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary (Paperback): Atreyee Phukan Contradictory Indianness - Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary (Paperback)
Atreyee Phukan
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Evidence of Things Not Seen - Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions (Paperback): Rhonda D Frederick Evidence of Things Not Seen - Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions (Paperback)
Rhonda D Frederick
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
International Who's Who of Authors & Writers 2009 (Hardcover, 24th edition): Europa Publications International Who's Who of Authors & Writers 2009 (Hardcover, 24th edition)
Europa Publications
R10,495 Discovery Miles 104 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2009 provides an invaluable and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations of the literary world.


Now in its twenty-fourth edition, the book is revised and updated annually by our editorial team and covers the most important authors and writers at work today. This title will prove an invaluable acquisition for journalists, television and radio companies, public and academic libraries, PR companies, literary organizations and anyone needing up-to-date information in this field.

Entries:

Biographical details are listed for writers of all kinds, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, editors, columnists, journalists, as well as literary agents and publishers. Each entry provides personal information, career details, works published, literary awards and prizes, memberships and contact information, where available. Entries listed include Thomas Pynchon, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Xinran Xue, Fred Vargas and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Key features:


  • almost 8,000 entries

  • a directory section, including detailed lists of major international literary awards and prizes, principal literary organizations, and literary agents

  • entries for established writers, as well as for those who have recently risen to prominence

  • hundreds of new entries are included in this edition.
Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia (Hardcover): Maria Claudia Andre, Eva Paulino Bueno Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
Maria Claudia Andre, Eva Paulino Bueno
R8,081 Discovery Miles 80 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies. Focusing on drama, poetry, and fiction, this work includes authors who have published at least three literary texts that have had a significant impact on Latin American literature and culture. Each entry is followed by extensive bibliographic references, including primary and secondary sources. Coverage consists of critical appreciation and analysis of the writers' works. Brief biographical data is included, but the main focus is on the meanings and contexts of the works as well as their cultural and political impact. In addition to author entries, other themes are explored, such as humor in contemporary Latin American fiction, lesbian literature in Latin America, magic, realism, or mother images in Latin American literature. The aim is to provide a unique, thorough, scholarly survey of women writers and their works in Latin America. This Encyclopedia will be of interest to both to the student of literature as well as to any reader interested in understanding more about Latin American culture, literature, and how women have represented gender and national issues throughout the centuries.

Climate and American Literature (Hardcover): Michael Boyden Climate and American Literature (Hardcover)
Michael Boyden
R3,279 Discovery Miles 32 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. This volume traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literature to examine rhetorical and philosophical discourses that continue to propel and constrain American climate perceptions today. It explores how American literature from its inception up until the present engages with the climate, both real and perceived. Climate and American Literature attends to the central place that the climate has historically occupied in virtually all aspects of American life, from public health and medicine, over the organization of the political system and the public sphere, to the culture of sensibility, aesthetics and literary culture. It details American inflections of climate perceptions over time to offer revealing new perspectives on one of the most pressing issues of our time.

Resisting the Marriage Plot - Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Bronte, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft (Paperback): Dalene Joy... Resisting the Marriage Plot - Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Bronte, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft (Paperback)
Dalene Joy Fisher
R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I cannot suppose any situation more distressing than for a woman of sensibility with an improving mind to be bound to such a man as I have described." Mary Wollstonecraft's response to one of her early critics points to the fact that fiction has long been employed by authors to cast a vision for social change. Less acknowledged, however, has been the role of the Christian faith in such works. In this Studies in Theology and the Arts volume, literary scholar Dalene Joy Fisher explores the work of four beloved female novelists: Jane Austen, Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Each of these authors, she argues, appealed to the Christian faith through their heroines to challenge cultural expectations regarding women, especially in terms of marriage. Although Christianity has all too often been used to oppress women, Fisher demonstrates that in the hands of these novelists and through the actions of their characters, it could also be a transformative force to liberate women. The Studies in Theology and the Arts series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.

Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (Paperback): Stephen H. Gregg Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (Paperback)
Stephen H. Gregg
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a history of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, a database of over 180,000 titles. Published by Gale in 2003 it has had an enormous impact of the study of the eighteenth century. Like many commercial digital archives, ECCO's continuing development obscures its precedents. This Element examines its prehistory as, first, a computer catalogue of eighteenth-century print, and then as a commercial microfilm collection, before moving to the digitisation and development of the interfaces to ECCO, as well as Gale's various partnerships and licensing deals. An essential aspect of this Element is how it explores the socio-cultural and technological debates around the access to old books from the 1930s to the present day: Stephen Gregg demonstrates how these contexts powerfully shape the way ECCO works to this day. The Element's aim is to make us better users and better readers of digital archives. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The Network Turn - Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Paperback): Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole... The Network Turn - Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Paperback)
Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, Scott B. Weingart
R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks, their study has predominantly taken place within the domains of computer science and related scientific fields. But arts and humanities scholars are increasingly using the same kinds of visual and quantitative analysis to shed light on aspects of culture and society hitherto concealed. This Element contends that networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines through a shared understanding of complexity in our world. Moreover, we are at a moment in time when it is crucial that arts and humanities scholars join the critique of how large-scale network data and advanced network analysis are being harnessed for the purposes of power, surveillance, and commercial gain. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Ibsen in Context (Hardcover): Narve Fulsas, Tore Rem Ibsen in Context (Hardcover)
Narve Fulsas, Tore Rem
R3,256 Discovery Miles 32 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Henrik Ibsen, the 'Father of Modern Drama', came from a seemingly inauspicious background. What are the key contexts for understanding his appearance on the world stage? This collection provides thirty contributions from leading scholars in theatre studies, literary studies, book history, philosophy, music, and history, offering a rich interdisciplinary understanding of Ibsen's work, with chapters ranging across cultural and aesthetic contexts including feminism, scientific discovery, genre, publishing, music, and the visual arts. The book ends by charting Ibsen's ongoing globalization and gives valuable overviews of major trends within Ibsen studies. Accessibly written, while drawing on the most recent scholarship, Ibsen in Context provides unique access to Ibsen the man, his works, and their afterlives across the world.

Television's Outlander - A Companion, Seasons 1-5 (Paperback): Mary Ellen Snodgrass Television's Outlander - A Companion, Seasons 1-5 (Paperback)
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
R1,565 R1,189 Discovery Miles 11 890 Save R376 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over its five seasons on the air, the televised series Outlander has combined romance, adventure, history, and time travel into a classic saga of love, war, and the ties that bind family together. After surviving the 1746 uprising of the Scottish Highlanders, the intrigue-ridden Paris of Charles Stuart, and a sea voyage across the Caribbean, Claire and Jamie Fraser finally settle in the mountains of North Carolina. There, they build a community of immigrant farmers who continue to struggle for justice, democracy, and independence from British colonialism This companion offers detailed information on over 125 topics including characters, themes, places, events, actors, herbalism, and historical chronology. Written for fans and scholars alike, it separates fact from fiction and aids in understanding the effects of the 1746 Jacobite uprising on the formation of the United States.

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Coral Ann Howells The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Coral Ann Howells
R2,653 Discovery Miles 26 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood provides substantial reconceptualization of Atwood's writing in multiple genres that has spanned six decades, with particular focus on developments since 2000. Exploring Atwood in our contemporary context, this edition discusses the relationship between her Canadian identity and her role as an international literary celebrity and spokesperson on global issues, ranging from environmentalism to women's rights to digital technology. As well as providing novel insights into Atwood's recent dystopias and classic texts, this edition highlights a significant dimension in the reception of Atwood's work, with new material on the striking Hulu and MGM television adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale. This up-to-date volume illuminates new directions in Atwood's career, and introduces students, scholars and general readers alike to the ever-expanding dimensions of her literary art.

This is the Canon - Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books (Hardcover): Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne, Kadija Sesay George This is the Canon - Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books (Hardcover)
Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne, Kadija Sesay George
R525 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R96 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'A vital and timely introduction to some of the best books I've ever read. Perfectly curated and filled with brilliant literature' Nikesh Shukla 'The ultimate introduction to post-colonial literature for those who want to understand the classics and the pioneers in this exciting area of books' Symeon Brown These are the books you should read. This is the canon. Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne and Kadija Sesay have curated a decolonized reading list that celebrates the wide and diverse experiences of people from around the world, of all backgrounds and all races. It disrupts the all-too-often white-dominated 'required reading' collections that have become the accepted norm and highlights powerful voices and cultural perspectives that demand a place on our shelves. From literary giants such as Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe to less well known (but equally vital) writers such as Caribbean novelist Earl Lovelace or Indigenous Australian author Tony Birch, the novels recommended here are in turn haunting and lyrical; innovative and inspiring; edgy and poignant. The power of great fiction is that readers have the opportunity to discover new worlds and encounter other beliefs and opinions. This is the Canon offers a rich and multifaceted perspective on our past, present and future which deserves to be read by all bibliophiles - whether they are book club members or solitary readers, self-educators or teachers.

The Afterlife of St Cuthbert - Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500 (Hardcover): Christiania Whitehead The Afterlife of St Cuthbert - Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500 (Hardcover)
Christiania Whitehead
R2,622 Discovery Miles 26 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This ambitious book presents the first sustained analysis of the evolving representation of Cuthbert, the premier saint of northern England. The study spans both major and neglected texts across eight centuries, from his earliest depictions in anonymous and Bedan vitae, through twelfth-century ecclesiastical histories and miracle collections produced at Durham, to his late medieval appearances in Latin meditations, legendaries, and vernacular verse. Whitehead reveals the coherence of these texts as one tradition, exploring the way that ideologies and literary strategies persist across generations. An innovative addition to the literature of insular spirituality and hagiography, The Afterlife of St Cuthbert emphasises the related categories of place and asceticism. It charts Cuthbert's conceptual alignment with a range of institutional, masculine, northern, and national spaces, and examines the distinctive characteristics and changing value of his ascetic lifestyle and environment - frequently constituted as a nature sanctuary - interrogating its relation to his other jurisdictions.

After the Human - Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century (Hardcover): Sherryl Vint After the Human - Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Sherryl Vint
R2,786 Discovery Miles 27 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After the Human provides a comprehensive overview of how a range of philosophical, ethical, and political ideas under the framework of posthumanism have transformed humanities scholarship today. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary scholars and perspectives, it puts into dialogue the major influences from philosophy, literary study, anthropology, and science studies that set the stage for a range of new questions to be asked about the relationship of the human to other life. The book's central argument is that posthumanism's challenge to and disruption of traditional humanist knowledge is so significant as to presage a sea-change from the humanities into the posthumanities. After the Human documents the emergence of posthumanist ideas in the fractures within traditional disciplines, examines the new objects of analysis that thus came into prominence, and theorizes new interdisciplinary methods of study that followed.

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