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Sydney Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List... Sydney Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List (Paperback)
Beautiful City
R467 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R25 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Sydney Skyline Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List... Sydney Skyline Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List (Paperback)
Beautiful City
R467 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R25 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Sydney Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List... Sydney Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List (Paperback)
Beautiful City
R467 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R25 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Tokyo Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List... Tokyo Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List (Paperback)
Beautiful City
R467 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R25 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Tower Bridge Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List... Tower Bridge Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List (Paperback)
Beautiful City
R467 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R25 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Washington Skyline Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do... Washington Skyline Notebook & Journal. Productivity Work Planner & Idea Notepad - Brainstorm Thoughts, Self Discovery, To Do List (Paperback)
Beautiful City
R467 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R25 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Somewhere Towards the End - A Memoir (Paperback): Diana Athill Somewhere Towards the End - A Memoir (Paperback)
Diana Athill
R403 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" (Sunday Telegraph), this book reflects candidly, sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old. Charming readers, writers, and critics alike, the memoir won the Costa Award for Biography and made Athill, then ninety-one, a surprising literary star. Diana Athill was one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Athill made her reputation for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs. Writing in her ninety-first year, "entirely untamed about both old and new conventions" (Literary Review) and freed from any of the inhibitions that even she may have once had, Athill reflects candidly, and sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old-the losses and occasionally the gains that age brings, the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Distinguished by "remarkable intelligence...[and the] easy elegance of her prose" (Daily Telegraph), this short, well-crafted book, hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" (Sunday Telegraph) presents an inspiring work for those hoping to flourish in their later years.

A Guest at the Feast (Paperback): Colm Toibin A Guest at the Feast (Paperback)
Colm Toibin
R295 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R64 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Toibin delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction. The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Toibin himself remarks, is extraordinarily powerful. In this collection, that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and literature, politics and power, family and the self.

Kontemporere Afrikaanse taalkunde (Afrikaans, Paperback, 2nd ed): W.A.M. Carstens, N. Bosman Kontemporere Afrikaanse taalkunde (Afrikaans, Paperback, 2nd ed)
W.A.M. Carstens, N. Bosman
R725 R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Save R56 (8%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

In die afgelope bykans 30 jaar het 'n groot leemte ontstaan aan omvattende verwysingsbronne en handboeke in die Afrikaanse taalkunde wat op universiteitsvlak voorgeskryf kan word. In 2014 word hierdie leemte gevul deur Kontemporere Afrikaanse Taalkunde. Die feit dat 'n tweede, hersiene uitgawe slegs drie jaar later verskyn, beklemtoon weereens die groot behoefte aan so 'n bron. Die samestelling van hierdie boek bied 'n nuwe blik op die taalkunde en het wye gebruikspotensiaal omdat dit die kernvelde van die taalkunde, en in die besonder van die Afrikaanse taalkunde, dek. Sodoende gee dit nuwe lewe aan 'n belangrike komponent in die bestudering van die Afrikaanse taal: die taalkunde en alles wat daarmee saamhang. Inhoud en konsepte strek van die ontstaan en aard van die Afrikaanse taal, leksikografie en dokumentontwerp tot fonetiek, fonologie, morfologie, sintaksis, semantiek, pragmatiek, taalverwerwing en die normatiewe taalkunde. Al die bestaande hoofstukke is op datum gebring, en 'n ekstra hoofstuk oor sintaksis is bygevoeg om nuwer sieninge te weerspieel. Bydraes deur spesialiste in die onderskeie velde bied daarom die nuutste navorsing en 'n verskeidenheid teoretiese vertrekpunte met die Afrikaanse taalkunde as fokus. Nuwe en moontlik selfs omstrede standpunte sal akademiese gesprek stimuleer, terwyl elke hoofstuk nasionale en internasionale ontwikkelinge op die bepaalde gebied voorle aan 'n nuwe geslag studente, onderwysers, akademici en taalpraktisyns.

To Stand and Serve (Hardcover): Dan Miron, Koren Publisher Jerusalem To Stand and Serve (Hardcover)
Dan Miron, Koren Publisher Jerusalem; Edited by Aviad Tabory, Elli Fischer
R608 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R59 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Perspektief en profiel - 'n Afrikaanse literatuurgeskiedenis (Afrikaans, Paperback): H.P. van Coller Perspektief en profiel - 'n Afrikaanse literatuurgeskiedenis (Afrikaans, Paperback)
H.P. van Coller
R770 R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Save R63 (8%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

Die Afrikaanse literatuur het 'n aangrypende lewe in Afrika oopgeskryf. Hierdie lewe kry sy beslag in 'n boeiende takelwerk verse, in 'n kennis van die aand en deur die oe van 'n siener in die suburbs. Kannas kom huis toe en Poppies loop die lange swerfjare deur. Nie slegs die belletrie (die arbeid van skeppende skrywers) is indrukwekkend nie, maar ook die getuienis van kundige lesers - die leesaktiwiteite van akademici wat sin moet maak van skeppende arbeid, wat die patrone moet ople en die teoretiese lense instel op die gedig, die toneelstuk, die essay, die drama of roman. Akademies gesproke is Perspektief en profiel 'n onontbeerlike handleiding. Dit is tans die belangrikste beskouing van ons skryfwerk in Afrikaans en die begeleidende literere gesprek. Dit bied insig in die oeuvres van die belangrikste skrywers (die "profiel" in die boektitel), maar is ook 'n bestekopname van verskuiwende teoretiese gesigspunte en aksente en 'n kartering van die gebied, vandaar die "perspektief ". Dit toon by implikasie oortuigend aan hoedat die Afrikaanse letterkunde aansluit in suid-suidverband met ander literature van die halfrond, en ondersoek die historiese en tydgenootlike noordsuid-bande en -spanninge. Ook verken dit die skryftegnieke en die produksie en resepsie van die Afrikaanse teks in Afrika. Dis 'n boek wat sensitief is vir die polities-kulturele omgewing wat steeds omvorm word deur die momentum geskep deur die koms van demokrasie in 1994. Eerder as om 'n literatuurgeskiedenis te probeer wees wat die fi nale woord wil spreek en ondubbelsinnig kanoniseer, word die literatuur hier as strydperk aangebied. Hierdie veelstemmige gesprek matig sigself as literatuurgeskiedenis nie objektiwiteit aan nie, maar huldig verskeidenheid en teenspraak. Perspektief en profiel toon aan dat die Afrikaanse letterkunde diep geent is in die kontinent Afrika. Dit boekstaaf die geestesprestasie van mense aan die suidpunt van 'n uitdagende kontinent. Dit is mense wat rekenskap gee van hul ontheemding en twyfel, maar ook van inburgering en liefde vir die land, van verwantskap met landgenote wat ander geskiedenisse en huistale het. Dis 'n literatuur van hierwees en aanhanklikheid aan plant en dier, landskap en leemte. Perspektief en profiel verskyn tydens die groot wending. Dis 'n tyd waarin die Boek soos geslagte dit sedert Gutenberg geken het weens die oorgang na digitaliteit onder beleg kom. Die tydsbesteding aan ernstig lees as aktiwiteit verskraal en hierdie boek is 'n tydige herinnering aan die tydsaamheid en denke wat in 'n literatuur opgesluit is. Die boek verdien 'n staanplek in elke Afrikaanssprekende gesin se boekrak of leplek in hul e-boek-biblioteek. Dit is onontbeerlik vir die student en die akademikus. As jy wil weet hoe jou voorgeslagte hul hierwees verwoord het en hoe jou tydgenote jou eie situasie stem gee, is hierdie boek jou toevlug. Perspektief en profiel Deel 3 bevat drie perspektiewe, asook outeursprofiele alfabeties gerangskik van S tot Z.

Perspektief en profiel - 'n Afrikaanse literatuurgeskiedenis (Afrikaans, Paperback): H.P. van Coller Perspektief en profiel - 'n Afrikaanse literatuurgeskiedenis (Afrikaans, Paperback)
H.P. van Coller
R770 R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Save R63 (8%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

Die Afrikaanse literatuur het 'n aangrypende lewe in Afrika oopgeskryf. Hierdie lewe kry sy beslag in 'n boeiende takelwerk verse, in 'n kennis van die aand en deur die oe van 'n siener in die suburbs. Kannas kom huis toe en Poppies loop die lange swerfjare deur. Nie slegs die belletrie (die arbeid van skeppende skrywers) is indrukwekkend nie, maar ook die getuienis van kundige lesers - die leesaktiwiteite van akademici wat sin moet maak van skeppende arbeid, wat die patrone moet ople en die teoretiese lense instel op die gedig, die toneelstuk, die essay, die drama of roman. Akademies gesproke is Perspektief en profiel 'n onontbeerlike handleiding. Dit is tans die belangrikste beskouing van ons skryfwerk in Afrikaans en die begeleidende literere gesprek. Dit bied insig in die oeuvres van die belangrikste skrywers (die "profiel" in die boektitel), maar is ook 'n bestekopname van verskuiwende teoretiese gesigspunte en aksente en 'n kartering van die gebied, vandaar die "perspektief". Dit toon by implikasie oortuigend aan hoedat die Afrikaanse letterkunde aansluit in suid-suid-verband met ander literature van die halfrond, en ondersoek die historiese en tydgenootlike noord-suid-bande en -spanninge. Ook verken dit die skryftegnieke en die produksie en resepsie van die Afrikaanse teks in Afrika. Dis 'n boek wat sensitief is vir die polities-kulturele omgewing wat steeds omvorm word deur die momentum geskep deur die koms van demokrasie in 1994. Eerder as om 'n literatuurgeskiedenis te probeer wees wat die finale woord wil spreek en ondubbelsinnig kanoniseer, word die literatuur hier as strydperk aangebied. Hierdie veelstemmige gesprek matig sigself as literatuurgeskiedenis nie objektiwiteit aan nie, maar huldig verskeidenheid en teenspraak. Perspektief en profiel toon aan dat die Afrikaanse letterkunde diep geent is in die kontinent Afrika. Dit boekstaaf die geestesprestasie van mense aan die suidpunt van 'n uitdagende kontinent. Dit is mense wat rekenskap gee van hul ontheemding en twyfel, maar ook van inburgering en liefde vir die land, van verwantskap met landgenote wat ander geskiedenisse en huistale het. Dis 'n literatuur van hierwees en aanhanklikheid aan plant en dier, landskap en leemte. Perspektief en profiel verskyn tydens die groot wending. Dis 'n tyd waarin die Boek soos geslagte dit sedert Gutenberg geken het weens die oorgang na digitaliteit onder beleg kom. Die tydsbesteding aan ernstig lees as aktiwiteit verskraal en hierdie boek is 'n tydige herinnering aan die tydsaamheid en denke wat in 'n literatuur opgesluit is. Die boek verdien 'n staanplek in elke Afrikaanssprekende gesin se boekrak of leplek in hul e-boek-biblioteek. Dit is onontbeerlik vir die student en die akademikus. As jy wil weet hoe jou voorgeslagte hul hierwees verwoord het en hoe jou tydgenote jou eie situasie stem gee, is hierdie boek jou toevlug. Deel 2 - Verkorte inhoud: 'n Oorsig van die Afrikaanse drama en teater van 1990 tot 2010 'n Perspektief op die Afrikaanse drama van 1906 tot 1966 Die vroueskrywer in die Afrikaanse letterkunde 'n Perspektief op die Afrikaanse literere tydskrifte 'n Perspektief op kinder- en jeugliteratuur

Read 'em and Weep - A Bedside Poker Companion (Paperback): John Stravinsky Read 'em and Weep - A Bedside Poker Companion (Paperback)
John Stravinsky
R362 R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Save R63 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Poker is much more than just a popular game. It is a world unto itself, populated with a multitude of colorful characters: professionals and amateurs, hustlers and dreamers. This royal flush of a collection brings together short stories, essays, poems, and excerpts from novels by a host of renowned writers -- from the Wild West to present day -- who have mined their personal experience of the game. Entertaining and enlightening, you'll want to ante up for Read 'Em and Weep.

With pieces by ...

Nelson Algren Andy Bellin Anthony Holden Katy Lederer James Thurber Barbara Tuchman Billy Collins Pete Dexter Martin Amis David Mamet Herbert O. Yardley A. Alvarez

...And More

Narrative, catastrophe and historicity in eighteenth-century French literature (Paperback): Jessica Stacey Narrative, catastrophe and historicity in eighteenth-century French literature (Paperback)
Jessica Stacey
R2,557 Discovery Miles 25 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How do communities tell and retell stories of catastrophe to explain their own origins, imagine their future, and work for their survival? This book contends that such stories are central to how communities claim a position within history. It explores this question, so vital for our present moment, through narratives produced in eighteenth-century France: a tumultuous period when a new understanding of a properly 'modern' national history was being elaborated. Who gets to belong to the modern era? And who or what is relegated to a gothic, barbarous or medieval past? Is an enlightened future assured, or is a return to a Dark Age inevitable? Following barbarians, bastards, usurpers, prophets and Revolutionary martyrs through stories of catastrophes real and imagined, the book traces how narrative temporalities become historicities: visions of the laws which govern the past, present and future. Ultimately it argues that the complex temporality of catastrophe offers a privileged insight into how a modern French historical consciousness was formed out of the multiple pasts and possible futures that coexisted alongside the age of Enlightenment. Further, examining the tension between a desire to place the imagined community definitively beyond catastrophic times, and a fascination with catastrophe in its revelatory or regenerative aspect, it offers an important historical perspective on the presence of this same tension in the stories of catastrophe that we tell in our own multiple, tumultuous present.

Perspektief en profiel - n Afrikaanse literatuurgeskiedenis (Afrikaans, Paperback, 2): H.P. van Coller Perspektief en profiel - n Afrikaanse literatuurgeskiedenis (Afrikaans, Paperback, 2)
H.P. van Coller
R770 R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Save R63 (8%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

Perspektief en profiel - 'n Afrikaanse literatuurgeskiedenis in drie dele (1998, 1999, 2006) is die enigste omvattende Afrikaanse literatuurgeskiedenis wat tans op die mark is. Dit word wyd benut hier en in die buiteland. Van die belangrikste skrywers soos Etienne van Heerden, Marlene van Niekerk, Eben Venter, Alexander Strachan, Ingrid Winterbach en Breyten Breytenbach het egter sedert die verskyning van die deel waarin hulle oeuvres behandel is, van hul beste werk gelewer. Dit het daarom tyd geword om 'n totaal bygewerkte uitgawe die lig te laat sien. Boonop bied dit die geleentheid om van die perspektiewe by te werk en selfs nuwes (byvoorbeeld oor die) in te sluit. Dit kan met reg beweer word dat hierdie literatuurgeskiedenis toenemend bykans alle relevante aspekte van die Afrikaanse literere veld dek. 'n Nuwe uitgawe het ook die voordeel dat dit die geleentheid bied om jonger literatore as medewerkers te betrek. Nie net is hulle die akademici van die toekoms nie, maar bring hulle meestal ander (teoretiese) perspektiewe wat verrykend inwerk op die geheel. Hierdie nuwe uitgawe is ingrypend geherstruktureer: telkens met enkele perspektiewe en 'n aantal profiele, alfabeties ingedeel. Hierdie uitgawe (Deel 1) bevat die volgende perspektiewe: "Klein begin is aanhou wen" (oor die ontstaansgeskiedenis van die Afrikaanse letterkunde); 'n blik op die Nederlandstalige Suid-Afrikaanse letterkunde, 1652-1925; 'n Inleiding tot buite-kanonieke Afrikaanse kulturele praktyke; 'n perspektief op die Afrikaanse prosa. Die profiele strek van Hennie Aucamp to Henriette Grove (A-G).

A history of South African literature - Afrikaans literature 17th - 19th centuries (Paperback): Jerzy Koch A history of South African literature - Afrikaans literature 17th - 19th centuries (Paperback)
Jerzy Koch
R710 R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Save R53 (7%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

Literary history is a problematic and shifting discourse, especially in the multilingual, post-colonial South African situation. In this book, the author draws on his intimate knowledge of documents written in Dutch during the 17th century and the texts that were produced in this language and its variations as it gradually became Afrikaans by the end of the 19th century. A History of South African Literature: Afrikaans Literature 17th-19th centuries brings an important expansion and regeneration of Afrikaans historiography within the context of South African literary history. A History of South African Literature: Afrikaans Literature 17th-19th centuries is divided into three broad historical periods: the Dutch colonial time (1652-1795), British colonial time (first part of the 19th century) and the time of the language movements (latter half of the 19th century). It follows an inclusive approach, discussing and contextualising a wide variety of documents, like travelogues and personal as well as official journals and other "non-literary texts". The thorough analyses of previously neglected works, like those produced at Genadendal, provide a rich and textured image of the history of writing in South Africa.

Twelve Angry Men (Paperback): Reginald Rose Twelve Angry Men (Paperback)
Reginald Rose; Introduction by Steven Price
R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Methuen Drama Student Edition of Twelve Angry Men is the first critical edition of Reginald Rose's play, providing the play text alongside commentary and notes geared towards student readers. In New York, 1954, a man is dead and the life of another is at stake. A 'guilty' verdict seems a foregone conclusion, but one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. The conflict that follows is fierce and passionate, cutting straight to the heart of the issues of civil liberties and social justice. Ideal for the student reader, the accompanying pedagogical notes include elements such as an author chronology; plot summary; suggested further reading; explanatory endnotes; and questions for further study. The introduction discusses in detail the play's origins as a 1954 American television play, Rose's re-working of the piece for the stage, and Lumet's 1957 film version, identifying textual variations between these versions and discussing later significant productions. The commentary also situates the play in relation to the genre of courtroom drama, as a milestone in the development of televised drama, and as an engagement with questions of American individualism and democracy. Together, this provides students with an edition that situates the play in its contemporary social and dramatic contexts, while encouraging reflection on its wider thematic implications.

The People Speak - American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known, from Columbus to the Present (Paperback): Howard Zinn The People Speak - American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known, from Columbus to the Present (Paperback)
Howard Zinn
R256 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R45 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To celebrate the millionth copy sold of Howard Zinn's great People's History of the United States, Zinn drew on the words of Americans -- some famous, some little known -- across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City that included James Earl Jones, Alice Walker, Jeff Zinn, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfre Woodard, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Myla Pitt, Harris Yulin, and Andre Gregory.

From that celebration, this book was born. Collected here under one cover is a brief history of America told through dramatic readings applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.

Here in their own words, and interwoven with commentary by Zinn, are Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Eugene V. Debs; Langston Hughes; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors (Paperback, Tenth Edition): Stephen Greenblatt The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors (Paperback, Tenth Edition)
Stephen Greenblatt
R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The most-trusted and best-selling anthology continues to set the bar with a vibrant revision of the Major Authors Edition. Major Authors offers new complete major works, new contemporary writers, and new dynamic and convenient digital resources. Now the Norton is an even better teaching tool and, as ever, an unmatched value for students.

The Page is Printed 2021 - Ted Hughes's Creative Process (Hardcover): Carrie Smith The Page is Printed 2021 - Ted Hughes's Creative Process (Hardcover)
Carrie Smith
R3,586 Discovery Miles 35 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Does it matter when and where a poem was written? Or on what kind of paper? How do the author's ideas about inspiration or how a poem should be written precondition the moment of putting pen to paper? This monograph explores these questions in offering the first full-length study of Ted Hughes's poetic process. Hughes's extensive archives held in the UK and US form the basis of the book's unique exploration of his writing process. It analyses Hughes's techniques throughout his career, arguing that his self-conscious experimentation with the processes by which he wrote profoundly affected both the style and subject matter of his work. The book considers Hughes's changing ideas about how poetry 'ought' to be written, discussing how these affect his creative process. It presents a fresh exploration of Hughes's major collections across the span of his career to build a detailed illustration of how his writing methods altered. The book thus restores the materiality of paper and ink to Hughes's poems, reading their histories, the stories they tell of their composition, and of the intellectual and creative environments in which they were gestated, born and matured. In the process, it offers a template for new approaches in authorship studies, reframing one of the twentieth century's most iconic literary figures through the unseen histories of his creative process.

Autofiction 2021 - A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile (Hardcover): Antonia Wimbush Autofiction 2021 - A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile (Hardcover)
Antonia Wimbush
R3,766 Discovery Miles 37 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile explores the multiple aspects of exile, displacement, mobility, and identity as expressed in contemporary autofictional work written in French by women writers from across the francophone world. Drawing on postcolonial theory, gender theory, and autobiographical theory, the book analyses narratives of exile by six authors who are shaped by their multiple locales of attachment: Kim Lefevre (Vietnam/France), Gisele Pineau (Guadeloupe/mainland France), Nina Bouraoui (Algeria/France), Michele Rakotoson (Madagascar/France), Veronique Tadjo (Cote d'Ivoire/France), and Abla Farhoud (Lebanon/Quebec). In this way, the book argues that the French colonial past continues to mould female articulations of mobility and identity in the postcolonial present. Responding to gaps in the critical discourse of exile, namely gender, this book brings genre in both its forms - gender and literary genre - to bear on narratives of exile, arguing that the reconceptualization of categories of mobility occurs specifically in women's autofictional writing. The six authors complicate discussions of exile as they are highly mobile, hybrid subjects. This rootless existence, however, often renders them alienated and 'out of place'. While ensuring not to trivialize the very real difficulties faced by those whose exile is not a matter of choice, the book argues that the six authors experience their hybridity as both a literal and a metaphorical exile, a source of both creativity and trauma.

Primal Vision - Selected Writings (Paperback, New edition): Gottfried Benn Primal Vision - Selected Writings (Paperback, New edition)
Gottfried Benn; Volume editing by E.B. Ashton
R289 Discovery Miles 2 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) - An Easy Rawlins Novel (Paperback, Reissue ed.): Walter Mosley Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) - An Easy Rawlins Novel (Paperback, Reissue ed.)
Walter Mosley
R434 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Novel Ideas - Mapping Textual Analysis within the Novel (Paperback): Chris Daniels Novel Ideas - Mapping Textual Analysis within the Novel (Paperback)
Chris Daniels
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Novel Ideas explores meaning within novels with the aid of block diagrams. Written without jargon the book takes in a wide range of sometimes complex novels written over a period in excess of 200 years by British, Commonwealth, French, American, and Russian authors. These novels also take on important issues of their day that, in most cases, pursue points still relevant in today's world. Such as this can easily be seen by comparing the work of Mary Wollstonecraft in the 1790s with those that followed such as Kate Chopin and even Katherine Mansfield in the 1920s. The idea is to then reduce the content of the essays in question to a still more manageable level by containing the points raised therein on single page block diagrams. What this form of block diagram does is to give students a more easily retained visual representation of an essay that might comprise of over twelve thousand words relating to complex issues raised in the novels. It also allows students to compare and contrast similarities and differences across the novels chosen, a question frequently asked of students throughout most literature courses and under exam conditions. Other authors' works discussed are Eliot, Zola, Hardy, Flaubert, James, Conrad, De Laclose and Turgenev. If students were to operate this system for themselves it could also help by consolidating literary points brought up throughout the year. In other words this methodology can be used as a template and need not only apply to the novels dealt with here. Although primarily of use to students throughout a literary degree course the same system could be employed by students on A-level courses as an aid to disciplining their approach to this wide and often complex subject.

Murder in His Eyes - Sherlock Holmes and Panoptic Power (Paperback): Michael Plakotaris Murder in His Eyes - Sherlock Holmes and Panoptic Power (Paperback)
Michael Plakotaris
R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This study of Sherlock Holmes and panoptic power will intrigue both fans of the Holmes canon and anyone interested in the history of crime literature and how such a character has captured the imagination of countless generations. Dr Michael Plakotaris has succeeded in bringing together the most authoritative works on the matter to create a revealing insight into one of the most prominent figures of English literature. From comparisons between Holmes and his creator to studies of his Nietzschean personality, his panoptic-semiotic modus operandi and his successful relationship with Watson, we begin to understand the components used that created this astounding success in Victorian literature.

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