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The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer - Landscape, Literature and Buddhism (Hardcover): Michael Charlesworth The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer - Landscape, Literature and Buddhism (Hardcover)
Michael Charlesworth
R2,441 Discovery Miles 24 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Medicine and Maladies - Representing Affliction in Nineteenth-Century France (English, French, Hardcover): Sophie Leroy Medicine and Maladies - Representing Affliction in Nineteenth-Century France (English, French, Hardcover)
Sophie Leroy
R3,796 Discovery Miles 37 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Medicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the relationship between the humanities and the medical sciences.

The Desiring Modes of Being Black - Literature and Critical Theory (Hardcover): Jean-Paul Rocchi The Desiring Modes of Being Black - Literature and Critical Theory (Hardcover)
Jean-Paul Rocchi
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish. This approach operates a critical shift by examining psychoanalytical texts from the literary perspective of black desiring subjectivities and experiences. This combination of psychoanalysis and the politics of literary interpretation of black texts helps determine how contemporary African American and black literature and queer texts come to defy and challenge the racial and sexual postulates of psychoanalysis or indeed any theoretical system that intends to define race, gender and sexualities. The Desiring Modes of Being Black includes essays on James Baldwin, Sigmund Freud, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Assotto Saint, and Rozena Maart. The metacritical reading they unfold interweaves African American Culture, Fanonian and Caribbean Thought, South African Black Consciousness, French Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Gender and Queer Studies.

Women and Nationhood in Restoration Spain 1874-1931 - The State as Family (Hardcover): Rocio Rodtjer Women and Nationhood in Restoration Spain 1874-1931 - The State as Family (Hardcover)
Rocio Rodtjer
R2,385 Discovery Miles 23 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Incomparable Poetry - An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature (Paperback): Robert Kiely Incomparable Poetry - An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature (Paperback)
Robert Kiely
R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
In the Highest Degree - Volume One (Hardcover): P. H. Brazier In the Highest Degree - Volume One (Hardcover)
P. H. Brazier; Foreword by Gregory Hagg
R1,201 R1,004 Discovery Miles 10 040 Save R197 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
All for Bc (Hardcover): Barbara Hagen All for Bc (Hardcover)
Barbara Hagen
R527 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric (Hardcover): Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Michael Edwards Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric (Hardcover)
Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Michael Edwards
R6,311 Discovery Miles 63 110 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about crucial political, social and economic matters have been made historically; or in organic interaction with literature, philosophy and culture at the core of the foundation principles of Western thought and values. Analysis is meant to cover the broadest possible spectrum of considerations that focus on the totality of rhetorical species (i.e. forensic, deliberative and epideictic) as they are applied to diversified topics (including, but not limited to, language, science, religion, literature, theatre and other cultural processes (e.g. athletics), politics and leadership, pedagogy and gender studies) and cross-cultural, geographical and temporal contexts.

Acts of Resistance in Late-Modernist Theatre - Writing and Directing in Contemporary Theatre Practice (Hardcover): Richard... Acts of Resistance in Late-Modernist Theatre - Writing and Directing in Contemporary Theatre Practice (Hardcover)
Richard Murphet
R3,447 Discovery Miles 34 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Acts of Resistance in Late-Modernist Theatre, Richard Murphet presents a close analysis of the theatre practice of two ground-breaking artists - Richard Foreman and Jenny Kemp - active over the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century. In addition, he tracks the development of a form of 'epileptic' writing over the course of his own career as writer/director. Murphet argues that these three auteurs have developed subversive alternatives to the previously dominant forms of dramatic realism in order to re-think the relationship between theatre and reality. They write and direct their own work, and their artistic experimentation is manifest in the tension created between their content and their form. Murphet investigates how the works are made, rather than focusing upon an interpretation of their meaning. Through an examination of these artists, we gain a deeper understanding of a late modernist paradigm shift in theatre practice.

Plautus: Curculio (Hardcover): T. H. M. Gellar-Goad Plautus: Curculio (Hardcover)
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
R2,850 Discovery Miles 28 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character ("The Weevil") bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp to secure the freedom of the enslaved girl his patron has fallen for while keeping her out of the clutches of a megalomaniacal soldier. It all takes place in the Greek city Epidaurus, the most important site for the worship of the healing god Aesculapius, an unusual setting for an ancient comedy. But a mid-play monologue by the stage manager shows us where the action really is: in the real-life Roman Forum, in the lives and low-lifes of the audience. This study explores the world of Curculio and the world of Plautus, with special attention to how the play was originally performed (including the first-ever comprehensive musical analysis of the play), the play's plots and themes, and its connections to ancient Roman cultural practices of love, sex, religion, food, and class. Plautus: Curculio also offers the first performance and reception history of the play: how it has survived through more than two millennia and its appearances in the modern world.

Original Fire (Paperback, Perennial ed.): Louise Erdrich Original Fire (Paperback, Perennial ed.)
Louise Erdrich 1
R409 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R27 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A passionate book of poetry from New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.In this important collection, award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and has added nineteen new poems to compose Original Fire. "These molten poems radiate with the ferocity of desire, and in them Erdrich does not spin verse so much as tell tales--of betrayal and revenge, of hunting and being hunted."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail - With especial reference to the hypothesis of its Celtic origin (Hardcover): Alfred... Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail - With especial reference to the hypothesis of its Celtic origin (Hardcover)
Alfred Nutt
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ovid (Paperback): Francesca Martelli Ovid (Paperback)
Francesca Martelli
R2,123 Discovery Miles 21 230 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In this volume, Francesca Martelli outlines some of the main contours of recent, current and future research on Ovid. Her study looks back to the rehabilitation of Ovid's oeuvre in the 1980s, and considers the post-modern aesthetic prerogatives and post-structuralist theoretical concerns that drove the critical recuperation of his poetry throughout that decade and in the decades that followed. But it also looks forward, by considering how the themes of this poet's oeuvre answer to a variety of new materialist concerns that are now gaining currency in the humanities and social sciences. It highlights the ecopoetic sensibility of the Metamorphoses, for example, and unpacks the environmental narratives that this poem yields when read in dialogue with the discourses of critical posthumanism. And it closes by considering the hauntological aesthetics of Ovid's exile poetry as a comment on the effects of the principate on time, space, media, and art.

Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai: Essays 2020 (Hardcover): Fiza Pathan Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai: Essays 2020 (Hardcover)
Fiza Pathan
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Green Matters - Ecocultural Functions of Literature (Hardcover): Maria Loeschnigg, Melanie Braunecker Green Matters - Ecocultural Functions of Literature (Hardcover)
Maria Loeschnigg, Melanie Braunecker
R4,590 Discovery Miles 45 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Green Matters offers a fascinating insight into the regenerative function of literature with regard to environmental concerns. Based on recent developments in ecocriticism, the book demonstrates how the aesthetic dimension of literary texts makes them a vital force in the struggle for sustainable futures. Applying this understanding to individual works from a number of different thematic fields, cultural contexts and literary genres, Green Matters presents novel approaches to the manifold ways in which literature can make a difference. While the first sections of the book highlight the transnational, the focus on Canada in the last section allows a more specific exploration of how themes, genres and literary forms develop their own manifestations within a national context. Through its unifying ecocultural focus and its variegated approaches, the volume is an essential contribution to contemporary environmental humanities.

Cicero, Philippic 2, 44-50, 78-92, 100-119 - Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (Hardcover, Hardback ed.):... Cicero, Philippic 2, 44-50, 78-92, 100-119 - Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Ingo Gildenhard
R1,271 Discovery Miles 12 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fantastic Cities - American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (Hardcover): Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs,... Fantastic Cities - American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (Hardcover)
Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs, Stefan L Brandt
R2,963 Discovery Miles 29 630 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction, Colson Whitehead's novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf's videos, and Samuel Delany's classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to "real-ize" that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city. Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, Maria Isabel Perez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramirez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates.

Collateral Damage - Women Write about War (Hardcover): Barbara Mujica Collateral Damage - Women Write about War (Hardcover)
Barbara Mujica
R2,369 Discovery Miles 23 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From Homer to Tim O'Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are carried by men. But women and children disproportionately suffer the consequences of conflict: famine, disease, sexual abuse, and emotional trauma caused by loss of loved ones, property, and means of subsistence.Collateral Damage tells the stories of those who struggle on the margins of armed conflict or who attempt to rebuild their lives after a war. Bringing together the writings of female authors from across the world, this collection animates the wartime experiences of women as military mothers, combatants, supporters, war resisters, and victims. Their stories stretch from Rwanda to El Salvador, Romania to Sri Lanka, Chile to Iraq. Spanning fiction, poetry, drama, essay, memoir, and reportage, the selections are contextualized by brief author commentaries. The first collection to embrace so wide a range of contemporary authors from such diverse backgrounds, Collateral Damage seeks to validate and shine a light on the experiences of women by revealing the consequences of war endured by millions whose voices are rarely heard.

The Figure of Beatrice - A Study in Dante (Hardcover): Charles Williams The Figure of Beatrice - A Study in Dante (Hardcover)
Charles Williams
R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Flush - A Biography (Hardcover): Virginia Woolf Flush - A Biography (Hardcover)
Virginia Woolf
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Exploring the Interior - Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Karl S. Guthke Exploring the Interior - Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Karl S. Guthke
R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism (Hardcover): Paul J. Contino Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism (Hardcover)
Paul J. Contino; Afterword by Caryl Emerson
R1,066 R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Save R156 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Samson's Cords - Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler (Hardcover): Alex Garganigo Samson's Cords - Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler (Hardcover)
Alex Garganigo
R2,355 Discovery Miles 23 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson's Cords argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had no choice but to respond. Alex Garganigo examines the radically different responses of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Samuel Butler to the existential crises caused by this explosion of loyalty oaths. After early support, all three developed serious reservations, confronting the irony that while oaths often exclude and destroy, they also include and create. Tackling issues such as performance, ritual, religion, secularization, gender, swearing, republicanism, and citizenship, Garganigo offers original readings of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, The Rehearsal Transpros'd, and Hudibras.

Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Cesaire, and a Poetics of Indirection (Hardcover): Michelle Zerba Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Cesaire, and a Poetics of Indirection (Hardcover)
Michelle Zerba
R2,681 Discovery Miles 26 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Taming of the Shrew: York Notes for A-level everything you need to catch up, study and prepare for and 2023 and 2024 exams... The Taming of the Shrew: York Notes for A-level everything you need to catch up, study and prepare for and 2023 and 2024 exams and assessments (Paperback)
Rebecca Warren, William Shakespeare, Frances Gray 1
R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An enhanced exam section: expert guidance on approaching exam questions, writing high-quality responses and using critical interpretations, plus practice tasks and annotated sample answer extracts. Key skills covered: focused tasks to develop analysis and understanding, plus regular study tips, revision questions and progress checks to help students track their learning. The most in-depth analysis: detailed text summaries and extract analysis to in-depth discussion of characters, themes, language, contexts and criticism, all helping students to reach their potential.

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