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W. Somerset Maugham - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Anthony Curtis, John Whitehead W. Somerset Maugham - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Anthony Curtis, John Whitehead
R2,746 Discovery Miles 27 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The "Collected Critical Heritage II" comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of "Critical Heritage" published by Routledge in October 1995. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. This volume covers the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham.

The Mighty Dead - Why Homer Matters (Paperback): Adam Nicolson The Mighty Dead - Why Homer Matters (Paperback)
Adam Nicolson 1
R321 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Save R58 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... There's something that hits the mark on every page' Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant? 'The Mighty Dead' is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by some of the oldest stories we have - the great ancient poems of Homer and their metaphors of life and trouble. In this provocative and enthralling book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer still matters and how these vital, epic verses - with their focus on the eternal questions about the individual versus the community, honour and service, love and war - tell us how we became who we are.

Rewriting the Self - Histories from the Middle Ages to the Present (Hardcover): Roy Porter Rewriting the Self - Histories from the Middle Ages to the Present (Hardcover)
Roy Porter
R3,855 Discovery Miles 38 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The fundamental issue of identity has been endlessly explored by philosophers, poets, priests, psychologists, and men and women generally. Whilst the question has stayed the same, the answers offered have changed over time. This book examines changing notions of selfhood from a historical perspective. The overarching perception of Rewriting the Self is that the received version of the 'ascent of Western man' needs to be rethought in the light of the critical cultural analyses of today. Rereadings are offered of classic texts like those of Descartes, but wider perspectives are also presented. These assess the discursive construction of the self in the light of political, technological and social changes.

Bernanos - His Political Thought and Prophecy (Paperback): Thomas Molnar Bernanos - His Political Thought and Prophecy (Paperback)
Thomas Molnar
R1,411 Discovery Miles 14 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Thomas Molnar's "Bernanos "is an illuminating study of the personal evolution of the French Catholic novelist Georges Bernanos from a reactionary royalist to a religiously principled anti-fascist. It also provides a detailed account of the intellectual divisions within the French Catholic Right and suggests a number of parallels with intellectual and literary figures on the secular and religious left including Zola, Peguy, and Simone Weil. But, as Molnar points out, the significance of Bernanos is not exhausted by his writings. Bernanos the man is as deserving of attention as is Bernanos the novelist, essayist, and social critic.

Molnar shows Bernanos against the troubled political-religious background of modern France: the Dreyfus case, the disillusionment following World War I, the Franco regime, Vichy, and the beginnings of the cold war. Whatever touched France touched Bernanos, and he flung himself into each crisis, not armed with a political system nor an academically sanctioned philosophy, but with a peasant's respect for what is and a Christian's sense of what might be. The portrait that Molnar draws is that of a passionately concerned Christian who knows that truth is hard to come by, but who is ready to follow it wherever it leads, regardless of the consequences.

A crucial theme covered by Molnar is Bernanos' long and conflicted relations with Charles Maurras and the "Action Francaise. "He makes clear the extent to which Bernanos' fervent Catholicism set him apart from Maurras whose positivistic inspiration and passion for order helped lay the groundwork for the political collapse that led to the Vichy regime. Thomas Molnar's book is a fascinating account of Georges Bernanos' stature as both a political thinker and an important novelist. "Bernanos "will be enjoyed by historians, political scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars of literature.

Determinism and Enlightenment - The Collaboration of Diderot and d'Holbach (Paperback): Ruggero Sciuto Determinism and Enlightenment - The Collaboration of Diderot and d'Holbach (Paperback)
Ruggero Sciuto
R2,983 Discovery Miles 29 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines Diderot's and d'Holbach's views on determinism to illuminate some of the most important debates taking place in eighteenth-century Europe. Insisting on aspects of Diderot's and d'Holbach's thought that, to date, have been given scant, if any, scholarly attention, it proposes to restore both thinkers to their rightful position in the history of philosophy. The book problematises Diderot's and d'Holbach's atheism by showing their philosophy to be deeply rooted in the Christian tradition and offers a more nuanced and historicised interpretation of the so-called "Radical Enlightenment", challenging the notions that this movement can be taken to be a perfectly coherent set of ideas and that it represents a complete break with "the old". By examining Diderot's and d'Holbach's works in tandem and without post-romantic assumptions about originality and single authorship, it argues that the two philosophers' texts should be taken as the product of a fascinating collaborative form of philosophical enquiry that perfectly reflects the sociable nature of intellectual production during the Enlightenment. The book further proposes a fresh interpretation of such crucial texts as the Systeme de la nature and Jacques le fataliste et son maitre and unveils a key web of concepts that will help researchers to better understand Enlightenment philosophy and literature as a whole.

Unediting the Renaissance - Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton (Hardcover): Leah Marcus Unediting the Renaissance - Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton (Hardcover)
Leah Marcus
R4,151 Discovery Miles 41 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar.
Marcus focuses on key Renaissance works - Dr Faustus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet and poems by Milton, Donne and Herrick - to re-exmaine how editorial intervention shapes the texts which are widely accepted as `definitive'.
A lively critique of current theoretical practices, Unediting the Renaissance will shift the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are edited and read.

Skaldic Versifying and Social Discrimination in Medieval Iceland (Paperback): Gudrun Nordal Skaldic Versifying and Social Discrimination in Medieval Iceland (Paperback)
Gudrun Nordal
R122 R109 Discovery Miles 1 090 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
John Donne: The Critical Heritage - Volume II (Hardcover): A.J. Smith John Donne: The Critical Heritage - Volume II (Hardcover)
A.J. Smith; Introduction by Catherine Phillips
R2,586 Discovery Miles 25 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contains writings about John Donne from 1873 to 1923, including Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Augustin Beers, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and many others.
Together these works present a record of how, from the nineteenth century onwards, critics viewed Donne, and how he became part of today's literary canon.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203416929

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1385-1837 (Hardcover, New edition): Derek Brewer Geoffrey Chaucer - The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1385-1837 (Hardcover, New edition)
Derek Brewer
R8,778 Discovery Miles 87 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

Contemporary Postcolonial Theory - A Reader (Paperback): Padmini Mongia Contemporary Postcolonial Theory - A Reader (Paperback)
Padmini Mongia
R1,245 Discovery Miles 12 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some of the 'classics' of the field; engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners; but also offers several of the arguments that strongly critique postcolonial theory. Although postcolonial theory purports to be inter-disciplinary and frequently anti-foundationalist, traces of disciplinary formations and linearity have continued to haunt its articulations. This Reader, on the other hand, offers a uniquely inter-disciplinary mapping. It is concerned with three main areas: definitional problems and contests including the current challenges to postcolonial theory; the 'disciplining of knowledge', where the multiple resonances of the word 'disciplining' are all engaged; and the location of practice where the relations between intellectual practice and historical conditions are explored. Finally, since the guiding principle of this Reader is simultaneous attention to the enabling and constraining mechanisms of historical realities and institutional practices, the commentary problematizes the writing of histories, the formations of canons, and indeed the production of Readers.

June Jordan's Poetry for the People - A Revolutionary Blueprint (Paperback): June Jordan, Lauren Muller, The Blueprint... June Jordan's Poetry for the People - A Revolutionary Blueprint (Paperback)
June Jordan, Lauren Muller, The Blueprint Collective
R1,681 Discovery Miles 16 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Her vision and politics have set her at the forefront of contemporary poetry and her work has a far-reaching impact on all poets and readers of poetry today. A dedicated and inspired teacher, her innovative and highly successful poetry program, Poetry for the People, has recently emerged as a national phenomenon.

The Reader, Issue 66 (Paperback): Philip Davis The Reader, Issue 66 (Paperback)
Philip Davis
R214 Discovery Miles 2 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Hardcover, New Ed): Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Hardcover, New Ed)
R24,938 Discovery Miles 249 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A seminal text in English literature, the "Reliques" is a collection of ballads, songs, romances and historical poetry, annotated with Percy's literary-antiquarian observations. The Reliques profoundly influenced writers from Thomas Chatterton to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats, and the Pre-Raphaelites. The publication of the "Reliques" marked the precise point at which early 18th-century neo-classicism became late- 18th-century Gothic Romanticism, and it encouraged the revival of interest in national folklore across Europe. Until now the first edition has not been available to scholars of the 18th century and British and European Romanticism. It contains additional scarce proofsheets, excluded from the original edition, and a new critical and bibliographical introduction.

Post-Colonial Drama - Theory, Practice, Politics (Hardcover): Helen Gilbert, Joanne Tompkins Post-Colonial Drama - Theory, Practice, Politics (Hardcover)
Helen Gilbert, Joanne Tompkins
R4,146 Discovery Miles 41 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. It brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies to a range of plays from Australia, Africa, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean and other former colonial regions. Some of the major topics discussed include:
* the interactions of post-colonial and performance theories
* the post-colonial re-stagings of language and history
* the specific enactments of ritual and carnival
* the theatrical citations of the post-colonial body
Post-Colonial Drama combines a rich intersection of theoretical approaches with close attention to a wide range of performance texts.

eBook available with sample pages: 020342106X

Modernism and Modernity in British Women's Magazines (Paperback): Alice Wood Modernism and Modernity in British Women's Magazines (Paperback)
Alice Wood
R1,258 Discovery Miles 12 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women's magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive study of interwar Vogue (UK), Eve, Good Housekeeping (UK), and Harper's Bazaar (UK), Wood uncovers how modernism was received and disseminated by these fashion and domestic periodicals and recovers experimental journalism and fiction within them by an array of canonical and marginalized writers, including Storm Jameson, Rose Macaulay, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. The book's analysis is attentive to text and image and to interactions between editorial, feature, and advertising material. Its detailed survey of these largely neglected magazines reveals how they situated radical aesthetics in relation to modernity's broader new challenges, diversions, and opportunities for women, and how they approached high modernist art and literature through discourses of fashion and celebrity. Modernism and Modernity in British Women's Magazines extends recent research into modernism's circulation through diverse markets and publication outlets and adds to the substantial body of scholarship concerned with the relationship between modernism and popular culture. It demonstrates that commercial women's magazines subversively disrupted and sustained contemporary hierarchies of high and low culture as well as actively participating in the construction of modernism's public profile.

Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy (Paperback): Iman Sheeha Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy (Paperback)
Iman Sheeha
R1,212 R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Save R160 (13%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, to whom the protagonists of domestic tragedy belong, the book expands our understanding of employer-servant relationships beyond elite and aristocratic circles, the focus of previous studies. Drawing on early modern advice literature, household guides, domestic manuals, sermons, treatises, proverbs, mothers' legacies, funeral sermons, diaries, letters, and jest books as well as making use of the recent findings by social and cultural historians of early modern England, the book examines the consequences of disordered domesticity for the master-servant relationship. This study nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship, arguing against overarching, reductive narratives. The book argues that the experience of household service as depicted in domestic tragedy, like in real life, was complex and varied and that there was no typical experience of service.

Post-Colonial Drama - Theory, Practice, Politics (Paperback): Helen Gilbert, Joanne Tompkins Post-Colonial Drama - Theory, Practice, Politics (Paperback)
Helen Gilbert, Joanne Tompkins
R1,386 Discovery Miles 13 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. It brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies to a range of plays from Australia, Africa, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean and other former colonial regions. Some of the major topics discussed in Post-Colonial Drama include:
* the interactions of post-colonial and performance theories
* the post-colonial re-stagings of language and history
* the specific enactments of ritual and carnival
* the theatrical citations of the post-colonial body
Post-Colonial Drama combines a rich intersection of theoretical approaches with close attention to a wide range of performance texts.

Frances E. W. Harper - A Call to Conscience (Paperback): U McKnight Frances E. W. Harper - A Call to Conscience (Paperback)
U McKnight
R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century's most important advocates of Abolitionism and female suffrage, and her pioneering work still has profound lessons for us today. In this new book, Utz McKnight shows how Harper's life and work inspired her contemporaries to imagine a better America. He seeks to recover her importance by examining not only her vision of the possibilities of Emancipation, but also her subsequent role in challenging Jim Crow. He argues that engaging with her ideas and writings is vital in understanding not only our historical inheritance, but also contemporary issues ranging from racial violence to the role of Christianity. This lucid book is essential reading not only for students of African American history, but also for all progressives interested in issues of race, politics, and society.

Collected Prose Works of William Barnes (Hardcover): Bradbury Collected Prose Works of William Barnes (Hardcover)
Bradbury
R24,022 Discovery Miles 240 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

William Barnes' reputation as one of the pre-eminent British "dialect" poets, the equal of Robert Burns and John Clare, is being increasingly recognized. The range of his writings is extraordinary as evidenced by the contents of this collection, which includes works on etymology, philology, topography, mathematics, ancient history and economics. This collection displays the full diversity of Barnes' considerable intellect. Included are major and lesser-known works, biographical pieces by Thomas Hardy, and the biography by his daughter, Lucy Baxter.

Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Hardcover, New Ed): Graham Rees Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Hardcover, New Ed)
Graham Rees; Edited by Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, James Spedding
R69,621 Discovery Miles 696 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sir Francis Bacon, statesman, essayist and philosopher, studied law and rose to high office as Lord Chancellor. He had enormous influence on the change of direction for scientific method from speculative and philosophical in the Aristotelian tradition to experimental and factual. Bacon's philosophical influence extended to Locke and through him to subsequent English schools of psychology and ethics. Abroad, his influence also extended to Leibniz, Huygens and Voltaire who called him 'le pere de la philosophie experimentale'.
This edition contains all Bacon's philosophical works as well as translations, plus literary and professional works, and includes illuminating introductions and explanatory footnotes by the three editors as well as a new introduction by Graham Rees.

A Magazine of Her Own? - Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914 (Hardcover): Margaret Beetham A Magazine of Her Own? - Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914 (Hardcover)
Margaret Beetham
R4,151 Discovery Miles 41 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Like the corset, the women's magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural' idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman; the romancing and desirable girl. Their legacy, from agony aunts to fashion plates, are easily traced in their modern counterparts. But do these magazines and their promises empower or disempower their readers?
A Magazine of Her Own? is a lively and revealing exploration of this immensely popular form from its beginnings. It is at once a chronological tracing of the history, a collection of intriguing case studies and an intervention into recent debates about gender and sexuality in popular reading.

A Magazine of Her Own? - Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914 (Paperback): Margaret Beetham A Magazine of Her Own? - Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914 (Paperback)
Margaret Beetham
R1,242 Discovery Miles 12 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Like the corset, the women's magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural' idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman; the romancing and desirable girl. Their legacy, from agony aunts to fashion plates, are easily traced in their modern counterparts. But do these magazines and their promises empower or disempower their readers?
A Magazine of Her Own? is a lively and revealing exploration of this immensely popular form from its beginnings. In fascinating detail Margaret Beetham investigates the desires, images and interpretations of femininity posed by a medium whose readership was and still is almost exclusively female.
A Magazine of Her Own is at once a chronological tracing of the history, a collection of intriguing case studies and an intervention into recent debates about gender and sexuality in popular reading. It is a book which anyone who is interested in the unique, influential world of the woman's magazine - students, scholars and general readers alike - will want to read

Student Guide to George Orwell (Paperback): Warren Hope Student Guide to George Orwell (Paperback)
Warren Hope
R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Discusses Orwell's writings from his first book, Down and Out In Paris and London, through his documentaries, novels and essays to his last major works - Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Sophocles - The Theban Plays (Hardcover): Don Taylor Sophocles - The Theban Plays (Hardcover)
Don Taylor; Edited by R.D. Dawe
R2,187 Discovery Miles 21 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Linked by their common setting in Thebes, Antigone,Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus stand at the fountainhead of world drama. This volume presents a new, and accurate yet poetic and playable translation by playwright Don Taylor, who has also directed plays for a BBC-TV production.

Denkbilder (Paperback): Walter Benjamin Denkbilder (Paperback)
Walter Benjamin
R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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