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Charles Dickens: Family History (Hardcover): Norman Page Charles Dickens: Family History (Hardcover)
Norman Page
R25,741 Discovery Miles 257 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Essential for students, researchers and fans, this unique set brings together a wide range of hard-to-find writings by relatives and friends of Charles Dickens. Contents include pieces such as "Memoirs of My Father" by Henry F. Dickens K.C.; "A Child's Memoir of Gad's" "Hill" by M.A. Dickens; "Personal Reminiscences of My Father" by Charles Dickens the Younger; and much more.

Einfach Deutsch - Kleider machen Leute (German, Paperback): Gottfried Keller Einfach Deutsch - Kleider machen Leute (German, Paperback)
Gottfried Keller
R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
War Plays by Women - An International Anthology (Hardcover): Agnes Cardinal, Elaine Turner, Claire M. Tylee War Plays by Women - An International Anthology (Hardcover)
Agnes Cardinal, Elaine Turner, Claire M. Tylee
R4,750 Discovery Miles 47 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in World War I, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation. The playwrights reconstruct imagined communities, challenge concepts of national identity, and rewrite history. Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, from comic sketch to musical, this anthology includes plays from: Muriel Box; Marion Wentworth Craig; Dorothy Hewitt; Berta Lask; Marie Leneru; Wendy Lill; Alice Dunbar Nelson; Christina Reid; and Gertrude Stein. Highly successful in their day, these plays demonstrate how women have attempted to use theatre to achieve social change. The collection explores the historical development of theatrical conventions and genres and the historical context of social and gender issues.

Voices From A Journal (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Bill Naughton Voices From A Journal (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Bill Naughton; Foreword by Brendan Kennelly
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a writer's journal of his friendships, encounters and observations during the 1950s and 60s, describing relationships with Cork author Frank O'Connor, Patrick Kavanagh, Charles Cape (onetime governor of Strangeways Prison) and the remarkable Margaret Radford, baglady and acquaintance of Shaw, Lawrence and Ford Madox Ford, with her vivid experiences of the Great War. Peopled by the colourful characters met in his profession, Naughton also gives an intimate portrait of a marriage and the onset of death as he survives a coronary thrombosis. Limpid, candid and tellingly written, it delineates the struggles and triumphs of a migrant Irish writer living in the English provinces, with sharp insights into human behaviour.

Shakespeare and the Young Writer (Paperback): Fred Sedgwick Shakespeare and the Young Writer (Paperback)
Fred Sedgwick
R1,277 Discovery Miles 12 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Shakespeare and the Young Writer presents fascinating and impressive accounts of primary school children encountering Shakespeare's work for the first time.
Fred Sedgwick shows how careful selection of scenes, lines and images from the plays and sonnets - in their original language - can be used to great effect as the starting point for children's writing. Examples of children's work show just how powerful the stimulus can be. The book will be of great value to all teachers looking for new ideas to improve their practice in teaching literacy.

Lucifer and Prometheus - A STUDY OF MILTON'S SATAN (Hardcover): R. J. Z. Werblowsky Lucifer and Prometheus - A STUDY OF MILTON'S SATAN (Hardcover)
R. J. Z. Werblowsky
R3,533 Discovery Miles 35 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request.

Writing and Society - Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 (Hardcover): Nigel Wheale Writing and Society - Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 (Hardcover)
Nigel Wheale
R4,144 Discovery Miles 41 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production.
This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses:
* the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain
* structures of patronage and censorship
* the fundamental role of the publishing industry
* the relation between elite literary and popular cultures
* and the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.

Writing and Society - Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 (Paperback): Nigel Wheale Writing and Society - Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 (Paperback)
Nigel Wheale
R1,294 Discovery Miles 12 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production.
This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses:
* the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain
* structures of patronage and censorship
* the fundamental role of the publishing industry
* the relation between elite literary and popular cultures
* the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.

Virginia Woolf at Home (Hardcover): Hilary Macaskill Virginia Woolf at Home (Hardcover)
Hilary Macaskill; Foreword by Cecil Woolf 1
R795 R594 Discovery Miles 5 940 Save R201 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Virginia Woolf, figurehead of the Bloomsbury Group and an innovative writer whose experimental style and lyrical prose ensured her position as one of the most influential of modern novelists, was also firmly anchored in the reality of the houses she lived in and those she visited regularly. Detailed and evocative accounts appear in her letters and diaries, as well as in her fiction, where they appear as backdrops or provide direct inspiration. Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant the most to Woolf, including: 22 Hyde Park Gate, London - where Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 Talland House, St Ives, Cornwall - the summer home of Virginia's family until 1895 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London - the birthplace of the Bloomsbury Group - Virginia lived here from 1904 to 1912 Hogarth House, Richmond, London - where the newly married Woolfs set up home and founded the Hogarth Press Asheham House, East Sussex - the summer home of the Woolfs, 1912-1919 52 Tavistock Square, London - a return to Bloomsbury, the heart of London Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex - where Virginia lived from 1919 until her death in 1941

Introducing the Medieval Fox (Paperback): Paul Wackers Introducing the Medieval Fox (Paperback)
Paul Wackers
R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is an entertaining, informative and enchanting introduction to its subject - just as those medieval banes of the farmyard, the Fox and the Vixen, were enchanting in escapades from fables and funny tales, from beastly epic poems and bestiaries, and from medieval material culture (in Danish wall-paintings and Dutch manuscript illustrations and statues, stained-glass and Italian mosaics). There exist books on medieval fox stories and on the animal's iconography, which are important themes in this study, but this book is the first holistic approach to all types of manifestations of foxes in medieval culture - from medical recipes and fur trade, to Bible commentaries and hunting manuals.

Sikh Art and Literature (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Kerry Brown Sikh Art and Literature (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Kerry Brown
R4,152 Discovery Miles 41 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The full beauty and depth of 500 years of Sikh culture is explored in this lavishly illustrated collection of essays on the religion's art and literature. The collection is accompanied by more than 100 black-and-white photos and 24 color plates depicting the finest Sikh art, some of it reproduced for the first time.
Sikh culture emerged with the dawn of the modern age in a land that was a thoroughfare of invading armies, ideas, religions, and arts from the East and West. The poetry of scriptures, the illustrated life stores of Guru Nanak, the paintings from various early artistic schools and regions, the dazzling treasures of the Sikh Kingdoms, the romantic artworks of visiting European dignitaries, and the serenity of Sikh sacred architecture all provide doorways to this heroic and revolutionary faith. Journal excerpts, new translations of early twentieth-century poetry, popular poster art, and a depiction of the 1984 storming of the Golden Temple, add depth and originality to this fully accessible volume. Often overlooked, the importance of art, poetry and literature is crucial to our understanding of Sikh religions. Together this collection of remarkable essays and exquisite art illustrates the impact and value of Sikh culture-with its blend of tolerance, egalitarianism and rational mysticism-in the Modern Age.

Jacques Derrida - Critical Thought (Paperback): Ian MacLachlan Jacques Derrida - Critical Thought (Paperback)
Ian MacLachlan
R966 Discovery Miles 9 660 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This collection of essays on Jacques Derrida spans nearly thirty years of critical thinking about Derrida's work. The articles selected here have never previously been collected, yet they are significant contributions that illuminate difficult and important aspects of Derrida's writings. While not seeking to be comprehensive, the volume ranges over the entirety of Derrida's published output and addresses a number of crucial topics, including literature, iterability, the signature, time, alterity, Judaism, metaphor and death. Reprinted here in chronological order of first publication, the essays are complemented by an introduction by Ian Maclachlan which discusses the significance of Derrida's work for our critical thinking.

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (Paperback): Jayashree Kamble, Eric Murphy Selinger, Hsu-Ming Teo The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (Paperback)
Jayashree Kamble, Eric Murphy Selinger, Hsu-Ming Teo
R1,430 Discovery Miles 14 300 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In recognition of the diversity of the form, the Companion provides a history of the genre, an overview of disciplinary approaches to studying romance fiction, and critical analyses of important subgenres, themes, and topics. It also highlights new and understudied avenues of inquiry for future research in this vibrant and still-emerging field. The first systematic, comprehensive resource on romance fiction, this Companion will be invaluable to students and scholars, and accessible to romance readers.

Talking Books - Children's Authors Talk About the Craft, Creativity and Process of Writing (Hardcover): James Carter Talking Books - Children's Authors Talk About the Craft, Creativity and Process of Writing (Hardcover)
James Carter
R5,355 Discovery Miles 53 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This text features a collection of interviews with some contemporary children's writers. Authors such as Neil Ardley, Ian Beck, Helen Cresswell, Gillian Cross, Terry Deary, Berlie Doherty, Brian Moses, Alan Durant, Philip Pullman, Celia Rees, Norman Silver, Jacqueline Wilson and Benjamin Zephaniah talk about the joys and challenges, rewards and demands of the craft, creativity and process of writing for children. By discussing issues such as how the authors approach their writing on a daily basis, how they view the writing process, and how they perceive their visits to schools, this book will enable teachers to gain new ideas on ways to work with these authors' writings in relation to the literacy hour.; After a general introduction, each monologue is divided into individual sections, in which the writer talks about: their reading habits as children and adults; how they came to be published; how they approach their writing on a daily basis; how they view the writing process; the evolution of their titles - either books or poems; how they perceive their visits to schools, and finally, in a "specialist subject" section, the authors explore an issue of interest related to their work.

Virgil - Critical Assessments (Hardcover): Philip Hardie Virgil - Critical Assessments (Hardcover)
Philip Hardie
R24,254 Discovery Miles 242 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Virgil:Critical Assessments collects eighty-four of the most important articles on Virgil published in the last hundred years, many of which remain the starting-points for modern scholarship and criticism. The set gathers together articles from a wide range of journals in English, as well as from the German and Italian traditions of Virgil studies, some in new translations, which would not otherwise be available.
The selections are arranged under the following headings:
* general articles, including a discussion of the influence of Lucretius' poetry on the Virgilian corpus
* the Eclogues, containing critical interpretations of all ten of Virgil's bucolic poems, an exploration of the Greek sources and a discussion of the complex poetic structure of the Eclogues
* the Georgics, incorporating an examination of the agricultural methods detailed in the poem, an exploration of the Augustan and Roman themes implicit in the poem and critical interpretations of all four books
* the Aeneid, featuring a discussion of the similarities between Virgil's Aeneas and Homer's Achilles, an exploration of the epic genre and crucial recurring themes in the Aeneid, an examination of Virgilian similes and a study of the Homeric allusions of the poem.
In volumes II-IV general studies on the works are followed by items on the individual poems and books.

International Authors and Writers Who's Who (Hardcover, 16th edition): K. Dennis McIntyre International Authors and Writers Who's Who (Hardcover, 16th edition)
K. Dennis McIntyre
R6,788 Discovery Miles 67 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Revised and updated for 1999, this reference provides information on living authors and writers internationally. There are over 8000 entries on leading authors, novelists, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors and critics. The appendices section lists major literary awards and recipients, literary agents and societies worldwide.

Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677 - Imprints of the Invisible (Paperback): Imtiaz Habib Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677 - Imprints of the Invisible (Paperback)
Imtiaz Habib
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly extends the insights of current theoretical excursus on race in early modern England. Here for the first time Imtiaz Habib collects the scattered references to black people-whether from Africa, India or America-in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and arranges them into a systematic, chronological descriptive index. He offers an extended historical and theoretical interpretation of the records in six chapters, which serve as an introductory guide to the index even as they articulate a specific argument about the meaning of the records. Both the archival information and interpretive scholarship provide a strong framework from which future historical debates on race in early modern England can proceed.

A Literary History of Persia - 4 Volume Set (Hardcover, New Ed): E. G. Browne A Literary History of Persia - 4 Volume Set (Hardcover, New Ed)
E. G. Browne
R25,011 Discovery Miles 250 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Browne's famous work, first published in 1902, was the essential text on literary history in Persian studies for many years. As an overview of Persian literature from the earliest times until Firdawsi, it continues to be a valuable reference. Out of print for some time, it is now reissued as a library edition, in facsimile to capture the feel of the original edition.

The Grass Lark - A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (Paperback): Elizabeth Stevenson The Grass Lark - A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (Paperback)
Elizabeth Stevenson
R1,432 Discovery Miles 14 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It is remarkable how persistent a "minor" writer may be. He may lack the large vision and universal message of the great writer, but instead possess a clear, true, intense view of particular places, peoples, and situations that renders his work unique and irreplacable. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is such a figure in American literature. Best known as a scholar of Japanese culture, Hearn was a remarkable journalist, translator, travel writer, and perhaps second only to Poe in the literature of the macabre and supernatural. Hearn's life, as strange and colorful as his work, is brilliantly recounted in Elizabeth Stevenson's sensitive and sympathetic biography. The range of Hearn's writing is reflected in the peripatetic course of his life. The son of an Irish father and a Greek mother, he was born on the Ionian island of Leucadia, was raised in Dublin, and came to America at the age of nineteen. His early career was spent as a journalist. Without a trace of condescension or pity he entered into the lives of the dock workers of Cincinnati, the Creoles of New Orleans and Martinique, and later the common villagers of Japan, describing how they lived and worked and what they believed. No mere seeker after the exotic, Hearn's immersion in Japanese culture following his emigration in 1890 was born of a profound affinity of mind and sensibility. In Japan, the clarity and force of his expression matured. Here Hearn found a beautifully ordered, artistically sensitive society, but one indifferent to individualism. In later years, he saw a society also increasingly susceptible to modern forces of authoritarianism, militarism, and xenophobia. Horrified by the dehumanizing potential of these forces, in East and West alike, Hearn remained acutely sensitive to the most minute experience. His study of Japanese folklore and his retelling of its tales and ghost stories combine insight into the universals of the larger human world with an exquisite appreciation of how small things matter. Elizabeth Stevenson's book is as much about the writer as the man. While giving an accurate measure of the scale of Hearn's achievement, she makes a compelling case for its artistry. Her reading demonstrates that his writings are not mere aids to the understanding of various cultures but ends in themselves. Hearn did not just translate the folklore of other cultures, he recreated it. "The Grass Lark" will interest literary scholars, American studies specialists, and folklorists.

Guard The Mysteries (Paperback): Cedar Sigo Guard The Mysteries (Paperback)
Cedar Sigo
R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Guard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo plumbs the particulars of modern critique, identity politics, early influences, and poetic form to produce a singular 'autobiography of voice.' Across these lectures, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, while paying homage to revolutionary artists, teachers, and thinkers whom have shaped his poetic aesthetic. Simultaneously timeless and extremely timely, these talks ponder the presences that California Buddhism, LGBTQ+ experiences, and Native Nations occupy in the poetic world and the world at large.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: York Notes Advanced (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles: York Notes Advanced (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Thomas Hardy
R248 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R24 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

The Eternal Storyteller - Oral Literature in Modern China (Hardcover): Vibeke Boerdahl The Eternal Storyteller - Oral Literature in Modern China (Hardcover)
Vibeke Boerdahl
R4,616 Discovery Miles 46 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


A wide range of topics relating to Chinese oral literature are lavishly illustrated in word and picture from performances & storytellers.The world of Chinese story telling is not just described and analysed - it is also brought to life.

Wendy Wasserstein - A Casebook (Hardcover, annotated edition): Claudia Barnett Wendy Wasserstein - A Casebook (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Claudia Barnett
R4,147 Discovery Miles 41 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook "contains in-depth discussions of the playwright's major works, including her recent play 1 "An American Daughter." Wasserstein's plays and essays are explored within diverse traditions, including Jewish storytelling, women's writing, and classical comedy. Critical perspectives include feminist, Bakhtinian, and actor/director. Comparisons with other playwrights, such as Rachel Crothers, Caryl Churchill, and Anton Chekhov, provide context and understanding. An interview with the playwright and an annotated bibliography are included.

Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others - Finding the Heart of the Play (Hardcover): Sidney Homan Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others - Finding the Heart of the Play (Hardcover)
Sidney Homan
R4,130 Discovery Miles 41 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others defines a pivotal line as "a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play ... a magnet to which the rest of the play, scenes before and after, adheres." Homan offers his personal choices of such lines in five plays by Shakespeare and works by Beckett, Brecht, Pinter, Shepard, and Stoppard. Drawing on his own experience in the theatre as actor and director and on campus as a teacher and scholar, he pairs a Shakespearean play with one by a modern playwright as mirrors for each other. One reviewer calls his approach "ground-breaking." Another observes that his "experience with the particular plays he has chosen is invaluable" since it allows us to find "a wedge into such ironic texts." Academics and students alike will find this volume particularly useful in aiding their own discovery of a pivotal line or moment in the experience of reading about, watching, or performing in a play.

Fuzzy Language in Literature and Translation (Hardcover): Lu SHAO Fuzzy Language in Literature and Translation (Hardcover)
Lu SHAO; Translated by Chaofeng Guo
R4,129 Discovery Miles 41 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bringing a fuzzy logic-based approach into translation studies and drawing on the theory of information entropy, this book discusses the translation of fuzzy language in literary works and advances a new method of measuring text fuzziness between translation and source text. Based on illustrative examples from the popular novel The Da Vinci Code and its two translated Chinese versions, the study demonstrates the fuzziness measuring method through an algorithmic process. More specifically, information entropy is applied to measure the uncertainty associated with readers' understanding of the original and its corresponding target texts. The underlying hypothesis is that the probability distribution in which readers will understand identified fuzzy discourse is measurable. By further explicating the validity of the hypothesis, it seeks to solve translational "fuzzy" problems in the translation process and offers an alternative, novel approach to the study of "fuzzy" literary texts and their translation. Hopefully, the argument of the book that the intrinsic uncertainty of fuzzy language can be evaluated through Shannon's information entropy will open up a new avenue to the quantitative description of the fuzziness of language and translation. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in translation studies, applied linguistics and literary criticism.

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