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A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric (Hardcover): Lee A. Sonnino A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric (Hardcover)
Lee A. Sonnino
R2,911 Discovery Miles 29 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1968, A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric is designed primarily to assist the student of renaissance literature in the science of rhetoric. It gathers together the information provided by the various different authorities who contributed to the education of the renaissance author, particularly the writer in English. These authorities include key classical rhetoricians he would probably have read, well-known and important renaissance rhetoricians, and the writers of vernacular treatises and of major school textbooks. The information is arranged in a schematic and tabular form, so that enquiry can start from the object, the particular rhetorical form as it appears in a given literary text. The core of the book is the central section on elocutio, the art of using the devices of rhetorical ornament.

Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition - An Annotated Bibliography, 1961-1991 (Paperback): Lewis Walker Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition - An Annotated Bibliography, 1961-1991 (Paperback)
Lewis Walker
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This bibliography will give comprehensive coverage to published commentary in English on Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition during the period from 1961-1985. Doctoral dissertations will also be included. Each entry will provide a clear and detailed summary of an item's contents. For pomes and plays based directly on classical sources like Antony and Cleopatra and The Rape of Lucrece, virtually all significant scholarly work during the period covered will be annotated. For other works such as Hamlet, any scholarship that deals with classical connotations will be annotated. Any other bibliographies used in the compiling of this volume will be described with emphasis on their value to a student of Shakespeare and the Classics.

The Bobbio Missal - Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul (Hardcover, New): Yitzhak Hen, Rob Meens The Bobbio Missal - Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul (Hardcover, New)
Yitzhak Hen, Rob Meens
R3,253 Discovery Miles 32 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The Missal is therefore highly regarded by liturgists; but, additionally, medieval historians welcome the information to be derived from material attached to the codex, which provides valuable data about the role and education of priests in Francia at that time, and indeed on their cultural and ideological background. The breadth of specialist knowledge provided by the team of scholars writing for this book enables the manuscript to be viewed as a whole, not as a narrow liturgical study. Collectively, the essays view the manuscript as physical object: they discuss the contents, they examine the language, and they look at the cultural context in which the codex was written.

Shapes of Apocalypse - Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought (Hardcover, New): Andrea Oppo Shapes of Apocalypse - Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought (Hardcover, New)
Andrea Oppo
R2,437 Discovery Miles 24 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse, within some key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century philosophy, and not omitting theatre, cinema or music, there is a specific examination of the concepts of "end of history" and "end of present time" as conditions for a redemptive image of the world. To understand this idea means to understand an essential part of Slavic culture, which, however divergent and variegated it may be in general, converges on this specific myth in a surprising manner.

A Concise Dictionary of Comics (Paperback): Nancy Pedri, Chuck Howitt A Concise Dictionary of Comics (Paperback)
Nancy Pedri, Chuck Howitt
R624 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R74 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship. A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides clear and informative definitions for each term. It includes twenty-five witty illustrations, and pairs most defined terms with references to books, articles, book chapters, and other relevant critical sources. All references are dated and listed in an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of comics scholarship. Each term is also categorized according to type in an index of thematic groupings. This organization serves as a pedagogical aid for teachers and students learning about a specific facet of comics studies and as a research tool for scholars who are unfamiliar with a particular term but know what category it falls into. These features make A Concise Dictionary of Comics especially useful for critics, students, teachers, and researchers, and a vital reference to anyone else who wants to learn more about comics.

English Register of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford - Part II (Hardcover): Andrew Clark English Register of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford - Part II (Hardcover)
Andrew Clark
R3,961 Discovery Miles 39 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 from the Bodleian Library in two parts. They consist of a preface followed the full Middle English text with glosses. The initial section of the manuscript is slightly older and consists of prefixed liturgical pieces such as the Articles of Excommunication. This follows the common historical practice of combining manuscripts to encourage their preservation. The remainder of the text presents the reader with the Register of the Estates of Godstow Abbey. The manuscript was initially created as a translation of the Latin register in order to allow the nuns, who were literate in English but not Latin, to manage their own estates. This manuscript was, at the time of publication, the only known complete English-language cartulary made for a monastic house. It holds significant implications not only for the status, linguistic development and usage of the English language, but also for women's history in the church and their socioeconomic agency, along with the ability of language to both restrict and open doors. The text includes its own introduction in which the founding of the Abbey by Dame Edyve of Winchester, first Abbess of Godstow, is recounted, followed by deeds relating to the local area.

Young Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom - Essays on Instructive Applications (Paperback): Tamara Girardi, Abigail... Young Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom - Essays on Instructive Applications (Paperback)
Tamara Girardi, Abigail G. Scheg
R1,397 R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Save R507 (36%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Young adult literature holds an exceptional place in modern American popular culture-accessible to readers of all levels, it captures a diverse audience and tends to adapt to the big screen in an exciting way. With its wide readership, YAL sparks interesting discussions inside and outside of the classroom. This collection of new essays examines how it has impacted college composition courses, primarily focusing on the first year. Contributors discuss popular YA stories, their educational potential, and possibilities for classroom discussion and exercise.

Jacob's Room is Full of Books - A Year of Reading (Paperback): Susan Hill Jacob's Room is Full of Books - A Year of Reading (Paperback)
Susan Hill 1
R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books.

Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and the writings of twelfth century monk Aelred of Rievaulx, Susan Hill charts a year of her life through the books she has read, reread or returned to the shelf. From beneath a shady tree in a hot French summer, or the warmth of a kitchen during an English winter, Hill reflects on what her reading throws up, from writing and writers to politics and religion, as well as the joy of dandies or the pleasure of watching a line of geese cross a meadow.

Full of wry observations and warm humour, as well as strong opinions freely aired, this is a rare and wonderful insight into the rich world of reading from one of the nation's most accomplished authors.

All the Way to the Tigers - A Memoir (Hardcover): Mary Morris All the Way to the Tigers - A Memoir (Hardcover)
Mary Morris
R593 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R167 (28%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture (Paperback): Karen Dillon The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture (Paperback)
Karen Dillon
R1,395 R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Save R507 (36%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently reproduce the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a supposed alikeness-standing side by side, speaking and acting in unison. Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon, this first comprehensive study of twins in American literature and popular culture examines their historical narrative-embedded within discourses of aberrance, experimentation and eugenics-and how it has shaped their public and personal representations in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature (Hardcover, New): William Hughes Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature (Hardcover, New)
William Hughes
R3,998 R3,627 Discovery Miles 36 270 Save R371 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than others, like Gothic literature which has existed ever since The Castle of Otranto in 1764. During this long while, it has spread from England, to the rest of Great Britain, and across to the continent, and off to America and Australia, filling in the gaps more recently. Most of it is in English, but hardly all, and it has adopted all styles, from romanticism, to modernism, to postmodernism and even adjusted to feminist and queer literature, and science fiction. We have all, read some Gothic tales or if not read then seen them in the cinema, since they adapt well to film treatment, and it would be hard to find anyone who has not heard of ghosts and vampires, let alone Count Dracula and Frankenstein. On the other hand, some of us are inveterate Gothic fans, reading one book or story after the other. The Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature follows this long and winding path, first in an extensive chronology and then a useful introduction which explains the nature of Gothic and shows how it has evolved. Obviously, the dictionary section has entries on major writers, and some of the best-known works, but also on geographical variants like Irish, Scottish or Russian Gothic and Female Gothic, Queer Gothic and Science Fiction. This is provided in over 200 often substantial and always intriguing entries. More can be found in a detailed bibliography, including general works but also more specialized ones on different styles and genres, and also specific authors. This book should certainly interest the fans but also more serious researchers.

Chapaev and his Comrades - War and the Russian Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New): Angela Brintlinger Chapaev and his Comrades - War and the Russian Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New)
Angela Brintlinger
R2,614 Discovery Miles 26 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Across the twentieth century, the Russian literary hero remained central to Russian fiction and frequently "battled" one enemy or another, whether on the battlefield or on a civilian front. War was the experience of the Russian people, and it became a dominant trope to represent the Soviet experience in literature as well as other areas of cultural life. This book traces those war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors in the literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, examining the work of Dmitry Furmanov, Fyodor Gladkov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Vera Panova, Viktor Nekrasov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Voinovich, Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Makanin, Viktor Astafiev, Viktor Pelevin, and Vasily Aksyonov. These authors represented official Soviet literature and underground or dissident literature; they fell into and out of favor, were exiled and returned to Russia, died at home and abroad. Most importantly, they were all touched by war, and they reacted to the state of war in their literary works.

Shocking and Sensational - The Stories Behind Famous True Crime and Scandal Books (Paperback): Julian Upton Shocking and Sensational - The Stories Behind Famous True Crime and Scandal Books (Paperback)
Julian Upton
R791 R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Save R204 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Even in a genre well known for generating controversy, some true-crime and scandal books have wielded a particular power to unsettle readers, provoke the authorities, and generate renewed focus on a case. For crimes and scandals that have attracted a library of more dubious investigations, the cumulative effect of the literature has been equally contentious, clouding the "truth" with a trail of myths and inaccuracies. From high-profile publishing sensations such as Ten Rillington Place, Fatal Vision, and Mommie Dearest to the wealth of writing on the JFK assassination, the death of Marilyn Monroe, and the Black Dahlia murder, this work delves into that hard copy era when crime and scandal books had a cultural impact beyond the genre's film and TV documentaries, fueling outcries that sometimes matched the notoriety of the cases they discussed, and leaving legacies that still resonate today.

Three-Dimensional Reading - Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911-1932 (Hardcover, New): Angela Yiu... Three-Dimensional Reading - Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911-1932 (Hardcover, New)
Angela Yiu Takei
R1,646 Discovery Miles 16 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A 29th-century dystopian society seen through the eyes of a mutant-cum-romantic poet; a post-impressionist landscape of orbs and cubes experienced by a wandering underdog; an imaginary sick room generated entirely from sounds reaching the ears of an invalid: These and other haunting re-presentations of time and space constitute the Japanese modernist landscape depicted in this volume of stories from the 1910s to the 1930s. The fourteen stories selected for this anthology-by both relatively unknown and "must-read" authors-experiment with a protean modernist style in the vivacious period between the nation-building Meiji and the early years of Showa. The writers capture imaginary temporal and spatial dimensions that embody forms of futuristic urban space, colonial space, utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia. Their work invites readers to abandon the conventional naturalistic approach to spatial and temporal representations and explore how the physical and empirical experience of time and space is distorted and reconfigured through the prism of modernist Japanese prose. An introduction and prefatory materials provide historical and critical context for Japanese modernism, making Three-Dimensional Reading a valuable teaching text not only for the study of modern Japanese literature, but for world literature, global modernism, and utopian studies as well. The volume also includes drawings by contemporary artist Sakaguchi Ky?hei, whose ability to create a stunning visual reality beyond the borders of time and place is a testament to the power and reverberations of the modernist imagination.

What's in a Word - Fascinating Stories of More Than 350 Everyday Words and Phrases (Paperback, Limited Edition): Webb... What's in a Word - Fascinating Stories of More Than 350 Everyday Words and Phrases (Paperback, Limited Edition)
Webb Garrison
R303 R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Save R50 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Here is a fascinating and humorous encyclopedia of more than three hundred

words and phrases and how they have taken on new meanings over time. It is an

informative reference book for the whole family. "What's in a Word?" is a

sequel to Garrison's popular "Why You Say It." Indexed.

Perilous Escapades - Dimensions of Popular Adventure Fiction (Paperback): Gary Hoppenstand Perilous Escapades - Dimensions of Popular Adventure Fiction (Paperback)
Gary Hoppenstand
R1,241 R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Save R353 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Award-winning popular culture scholar and expert, Gary Hoppenstand, assembles a collection of essays published over the past few decades that examine a vast array of popular adventure fiction. Some of the most famous novels in all of popular fiction are featured in these essays, such as Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel and Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood. Hoppenstand examines the cultural and literary impact of these great works of entertainment, often presenting forgotten classics in a new light. Informative analysis offers the interested reader of popular fiction important insights into the adventure story of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in American and British literature.

The Women of Orphan Black - Faces of the Feminist Spectrum (Paperback): Valerie Estelle Frankel The Women of Orphan Black - Faces of the Feminist Spectrum (Paperback)
Valerie Estelle Frankel
R1,250 R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Save R354 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

BBC's Orphan Black shattered conventions with one actress-Tatiana Maslany-playing a host of main characters. At the same time, it burst through the expectations of a crowd that anticipated male heroes and female victims. As the mighty heroines save one another and destroy the patriarchy, they're aided by supportive, gentle, even bumbling male love interests and friends. Even as the characters subvert gender expectations, they provide models that celebrate the many types of feminism through history and emerging today: Sarah, the punk feminist and protagonist, clashes with her foster-mother Siobhan, herself a veteran of radical feminism and literal combat. Housewife Alison begins as the quintessential post-feminist, while Krystal sports pink tops and high heels as a girl power icon. Cosima hails from Berkeley in her Birkenstocks and dreadlocks, the herald of second-wave lesbian feminism as she earns herself a science PhD. Beth has it all in the spirit of third-wave feminism, though her drug habits and relationship problems show the weakness of the era. M.K., hidden in her trailer yet ruling the internet as its hacker-queen, offers a new image as a fourth-wave feminist, conquering her disability through the new medium of the internet. At the same time, the science and ethics of cloning emphasizes the women's war against corporate power. Together with metafiction, allusions, symbolism, and deeper imagery, the show breaks all the barriers of gender as well as science fiction television.

Wildsam Field Guides: Denver (Paperback): Taylor Bruce Wildsam Field Guides: Denver (Paperback)
Taylor Bruce; Illustrated by John Vogl
R481 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Tale of Two Cities SparkNotes Literature Guide (Paperback): Spark Notes, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities SparkNotes Literature Guide (Paperback)
Spark Notes, Charles Dickens
R178 R162 Discovery Miles 1 620 Save R16 (9%) 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.

The Unappeasable Shadow - Shelley's Influence on Yeats (Paperback): Adele M. Dalsimer The Unappeasable Shadow - Shelley's Influence on Yeats (Paperback)
Adele M. Dalsimer
R1,200 Discovery Miles 12 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Yeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history. The meaning and significance Yeats gave to the entity by which he was constantly pursued and with which he held frequent colloquy have been held under the critical microscope, and the shadow has emerged alternately as the course of human history, the poet's alter-ego, his inner self, the natural man, or as anything that Yeats wanted but believed himself not to be. This title, first published in 1988, examines the influence that Shelley had on Yeats and this 'shadow'. The study concentrates primarily on the complex influence of Shelley's Alastor on Yeats, tracing the problems it suggests and the questions it raises from Yeats's early, highly imitative poems through the austere, unromantic middle poems to the late poems where Yeats sees himself as the "last of the romantics". This title will be of interest to students of literature.

Wildsam Field Guides: San Antonio (Paperback): Taylor Bruce Wildsam Field Guides: San Antonio (Paperback)
Taylor Bruce; Illustrated by Scott Campbell
R476 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R39 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Dashiell Hammett Companion (Hardcover, New): Robert L. Gale A Dashiell Hammett Companion (Hardcover, New)
Robert L. Gale
R2,540 Discovery Miles 25 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dashiell Hammett's writing career began with the publication of The Parthian Shot, a tiny short story in "The Smart Set" in 1922, and virtually ended when he published 3 outstanding stories in "Collier's" in 1934. During this period, he published 60 short stories, 5 novels--including "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man"--a few minor poems, some nonfictional prose, and a series of astute book reviews. Though he lived until 1961, he wrote little after 1934 and suffered from alcoholism, tuberculosis, and other illnesses. His influence on other writers, however, and on movies and television, has survived to this day. This reference work is a comprehensive guide to Hammett's life and works.

The volume begins with a chronology that highlights the major events in Hammett's life. The bulk of the book comprises alphabetically arranged entries for Hammett's works, characters, family members, and acquaintances. Some of the entries cite sources of additional information, and the volume concludes with a brief bibliography. While the reference is first and foremost a guide to Hammett, it is also a helpful aid to the study of the development of the American hard-boiled detective novel.

Table Lands - Food in Children's Literature (Hardcover): Scott T. Pollard, Kara K. Keeling Table Lands - Food in Children's Literature (Hardcover)
Scott T. Pollard, Kara K. Keeling
R3,260 Discovery Miles 32 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Food is a signifier of power for both adults and children, a sign of both inclusion and exclusion and of conformity and resistance. Many academic disciplines - from sociology to literary studies - have studied food and its function as a complex social discourse, and the wide variety of approaches to the topic provides multidisciplinary frames for understanding the construction and uses of food in all types of media, including children's literature.Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature is a survey of food's function in children's texts, showing how the sociocultural contexts of food reveal children's agency. Authors Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard examine texts that vary from historical to contemporary, noncanonical to classics, and Anglo-American to multicultural traditions, including a variety of genres, formats, and audiences: realism, fantasy, cookbooks, picture books, chapter books, YA novels, and film. Table Lands offers a unified approach to studying food in a wide variety of texts for children. Spanning nearly 150 years of children's literature, Keeling and Pollard's analysis covers a selection of texts that show the omnipresence of food in children's literature and culture and how they vary in representations of race, region, and class, due to the impact of these issues on food. Furthermore, they include not only classic children's books, such as Winnie-the-Pooh, but recent award-winning multicultural novels as well as cookbooks and even one film, Pixar's Ratatouille.

W. B. Yeats: The Tragic Phase - A Study of the Last Poems (Paperback): Vivienne Koch W. B. Yeats: The Tragic Phase - A Study of the Last Poems (Paperback)
Vivienne Koch
R1,220 Discovery Miles 12 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this study, first published in 1951, the author examines the poetry of Yeats's last years, that poetry which reached and held to the 'intensity' which he had striven for all his life. Vivienne Koch explores the ways in which the great but troubled poems derive their energy from suffering, and examines thirteen of his last poems in detail, each with a slightly different focus. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

W. B. Yeats - A Critical Introduction (Paperback): Balachandra Rajan W. B. Yeats - A Critical Introduction (Paperback)
Balachandra Rajan
R1,228 Discovery Miles 12 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This chief aim of this title, first published in 1965, is to present a comprehensive picture of Yeats's achievement and some of the means for an evaluation of that achievement. To this end both the poems and plays have been examined and some of Yeats's critical ideas have been briefly discussed. Professor Rajan's study provides a compact introduction to Yeats's work, and will be of interest to the general reader as well as to students of literature.

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