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Surreal Entanglements - Essays on Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction (Paperback): Louise Economides, Laura Shackelford Surreal Entanglements - Essays on Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction (Paperback)
Louise Economides, Laura Shackelford
R1,164 Discovery Miles 11 640 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer's work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer's work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which "nature" has become radically uncanny due to global climate change and powerful bio-technologies. The first collection to survey academic engagements with VanderMeer, this book brings together scholars in the fields of environmental literature, science fiction, genre studies, American literary history, philosophy of technology, and digital cultures to reflect on the environmentally, culturally, aesthetically, and politically central questions his fiction poses to predominant understandings of the Anthropocene.

Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity - Poetics of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson (Hardcover): Beverley Nadin Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity - Poetics of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson (Hardcover)
Beverley Nadin
R1,382 Discovery Miles 13 820 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity examines the poetic works of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson and their advancement of a poetics of sound, sense, and language of meaning. Observing Donaghy's critical perspectives on orality, tradition, and memory, and Don Paterson's systems of collective relation and "lyric unity," this volume explores the intellectual curiosity of both poets from the classical to contemporary, perceived in music, literature, philosophy, scientific thought, and the rituals and austerities of the transcendent. This text also explores the tensions between craft and spontaneity, and between the intellect and intuition occupying their work, along with a fundamental respect for form as the poet's guiding principle. Investigating this overlap in critical perspective, Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity exposes persuasive rhetoric, and pursues a nuanced understanding of the enigmatic complexity of poetic language and its critical context. This volume interrogates valuable insights into form, language, and poetics, and clarifies and reframes these, with a focus on the creative process for readers interested in poetry and the informative nature of these works.

Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader - Eating Words (Hardcover): Jason Scott-Warren, Andrew Elder Zurcher Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader - Eating Words (Hardcover)
Jason Scott-Warren, Andrew Elder Zurcher
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In early modern culture, eating and reading were entangled acts. Our dead metaphors (swallowed stories, overcooked narratives, digested information) are all that now remains of a rich interplay between text and food, in which every element of dining, from preparation to purgation, had its equivalent in the literary sphere. Following the advice of the poet George Herbert, this essay collection "looks to the mouth", unfolding the charged relationship between ingestion and expression in a wide variety of texts and contexts. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader: Eating Words fills a significant gap in our understanding of early modern cultural history. Situated at the lively intersection between literary, historical and bibliographical studies, it opens new lines of dialogue between the study of material textuality and the history of the body.

Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique - Critical Engagements with Benita Parry (Hardcover): Sharae Deckard,... Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique - Critical Engagements with Benita Parry (Hardcover)
Sharae Deckard, Rashmi Varma
R3,915 Discovery Miles 39 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry's oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and alongside it, new possibilities for left critique. It is the first volume of essays focusing on the field-defining intellectual legacy of the literary scholar Benita Parry. As a leading critic of the post-structuralist turn within postcolonial studies, Parry has not only brought Marxism and postcolonial theory into a productive, albeit tense, dialogue, but has reinvigorated the field by bringing critical questions of resistance and struggle to bear on aesthetic forms. The book's aim is two-fold: first, to evaluate Parry's formative influence within postcolonial studies and its interface with Marxist literary criticism, and second, to explore new terrains of scholarship opened up by Parry's work. It provides a critical overview of Parry's key interventions, such as her contributions to colonial discourse theory; her debate with Spivak on subaltern consciousness and representation; her critique of post-apartheid reconciliation and neoliberalism in South Africa; her materialist critique of writers such as Kipling, Conrad, and Salih; her work on liberation theory, resistance, and radical agency; as well as more recent work on the aesthetics of "peripheral modernity." The volume contains cutting-edge work on peripheral aesthetics, the world-literary system, critiques of global capitalism and capitalist modernity, and the resurgence of Marxism, communism, and liberation theory by a range of established and new scholars who represent a dissident and new school of thought within postcolonial studies more generally. It concludes with the first-ever detailed interview with Benita Parry about her activism, political commitments, and her life and work as a scholar.

Journeys Exposed - Women's Writing, Photography and Mobility (Hardcover): Giorgia Alu Journeys Exposed - Women's Writing, Photography and Mobility (Hardcover)
Giorgia Alu
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all related to Italy in different ways. It argues that photography provides women with a means to expose aspects of their nomadic self and of others' mobile lives within and beyond the writing process. By resorting to the visual, women individualistically respond to forms of hegemonic power, fragmentation, displacement, loss and marginality and make these experiences key to their creative production.

Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction (Hardcover): Armelle Parey Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction (Hardcover)
Armelle Parey
R3,905 Discovery Miles 39 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished novel are retrieved to be developed in new adventures set before, after or during the narrative time of the source-text. If autographic and allographic sequels are almost as old as literature, prequels - that imagine the anteriority of a narrative - and coquels - that develop secondary characters in the same story time as the source-text - are more recent. The overall trend for novel expansion spread in the mid-1980s and 1990s and has since shown no sign of abating. This volume is organised following three types of relationships to the source-texts even if these occasionally combine to produce a more complex structure. This book comprises 11 essays, preceded by an introduction, that examine narrative strategies, aesthetic, ethical and political tendencies underlying these novel expansions. Following the overview provided in the introduction, the reader will find case studies of prequels, coquels and sequels before a final chapter that encompasses them all and more.

Gender and Short Fiction - Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain (Hardcover): Jorge Sacido-Romero, Laura Lojo Rodriguez Gender and Short Fiction - Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain (Hardcover)
Jorge Sacido-Romero, Laura Lojo Rodriguez
R3,934 Discovery Miles 39 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turning to the short story, a genre that has not yet attained the degree of literary prestige and social recognition the novel has had in the modern period. In this timely volume, the editors endorse the view that the genre still retains its potential as a vehicle for the expression of female experience alternative to and/or critical with dominant patriarchal ideology present at the very onset of the development of the modern British short story at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon (Hardcover): Lesley Coote, Alexander L Kaufman Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon (Hardcover)
Lesley Coote, Alexander L Kaufman
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This cutting-edge volume demonstrates both the literary quality and the socio-economic importance of works on "the matter of the greenwood" over a long chronological period. These include drama texts, prose literature and novels (among them, children's literature), and poetry. Whilst some of these are anonymous, others are by acknowledged canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and John Keats. The editors and the contributors argue that it is vitally important to include Robin Hood texts in the canon of English literary works, because of the high quality of many of these texts, and because of their significance in the development of English literature.

Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives - Writing Haiti's Futures (Hardcover): Kasia Mika Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives - Writing Haiti's Futures (Hardcover)
Kasia Mika
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery. The turn to a wide range of literary works enables a composite comparative analysis, which encompasses the social, political and individual dimensions of the earthquake. This book focuses on a vision of an open-ended future, otherwise than as a threat or fear. Mika turns to concepts of hinged chronologies, slow healing and remnant dwelling. Weaving theory with attentive close-readings, the book offers an open-ended framework for conceptualising post-disaster recovery and healing. These processes happen at different times and must entail the elimination of compound vulnerabilities that created the disaster in the first place. Challenging characterisations of the region as a continuous catastrophe this book works towards a bold vision of Haiti's and the Caribbean's futures. The study shows how narratives can extend some of the key concepts within discipline-bound approaches to disasters, while making an important contribution to the interface between disaster studies, postcolonial ecocriticism and Haitian Studies.

Medieval Herbal Remedies - The Old English Herbarium and Early-Medieval Medicine (Paperback, 2nd edition): Anne Van Arsdall Medieval Herbal Remedies - The Old English Herbarium and Early-Medieval Medicine (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Anne Van Arsdall
R1,130 Discovery Miles 11 300 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has been revised and updated throughout to reflect new scholarship and new findings. New information is presented on Oswald Cockayne, the nineteenth-century philologist who first translated the Old English medical texts for the modern world. Here the medieval text is read as an example of technical writing (i.e., intended to convey instructions/information), not as literature. The audience it was originally aimed at would know how to diagnose and treat medical conditions and knew or was learning how to follow its instructions. For that reason, while working on the translation, specialists in relevant fields were asked to shed light on its terse wording, for example, herbalists and physicians. Unlike many current studies, this work discusses the Herbarium and other medical texts in Old English as part of a tradition developed throughout early-medieval Europe associated with monasteries and their libraries. The book is intended for scholars in cross-cultural fields; that is, with roots in one field and branches in several, such as nineteenth-century or medieval studies, for historians of herbalism, medicine, pharmacy, botany, and of the Western Middle Ages, broadly and inclusively defined, and for readers interested in the history of herbalism and medicine.

The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde - An Annotated Selection (Hardcover): Oscar Wilde The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde - An Annotated Selection (Hardcover)
Oscar Wilde; Edited by Nicholas Frankel
R717 R672 Discovery Miles 6 720 Save R45 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde's critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transformed the art of commentary. Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama and fiction, Oscar Wilde was also one of the greatest critics of his generation. Annotated and introduced by Wilde scholar Nicholas Frankel, this unique collection reveals Wilde as a writer who transformed criticism, giving the genre new purpose, injecting it with style and wit, and reorienting it toward the kinds of social concerns that still occupy our most engaging cultural commentators. "Criticism is itself an art," Wilde wrote, and The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde demonstrates this philosophy in action. Readers will encounter some of Wilde's most quotable writings, such as "The Decay of Lying," which famously avers that "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates life." But Frankel also includes lesser-known works like "The American Invasion," a witty celebration of modern femininity, and "Aristotle at Afternoon Tea," in which Wilde deftly (and anonymously) carves up his former tutor's own criticism. The essays, reviews, dialogues, and epigrams collected here cover an astonishing range of themes: literature, of course, but also fashion, politics, masculinity, cuisine, courtship, marriage-the breadth of Victorian England. If today's critics address such topics as a matter of course, it is because Wilde showed that they could. It is hard to imagine a twenty-first-century criticism without him.

Wordsworth and Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads (1798) (Paperback): Andrew Keanie Wordsworth and Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads (1798) (Paperback)
Andrew Keanie
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Female Fantastic - Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s (Hardcover): Jennifer Mitchell, Rebecca Soares, Lizzie... The Female Fantastic - Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s (Hardcover)
Jennifer Mitchell, Rebecca Soares, Lizzie McCormick
R3,926 Discovery Miles 39 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For women-identified writers of both eras, the fantastic offered double vision. Not only did the genre offer strategic cover for challenging the status quo, but also a heuristic mechanism for teasing out the gendered psyche's links to creative, personal, and erotic agency. These dynamic presentations of female and gender-queer subjectivity, are linked in intriguing and complex matrices to key moments in gender(ed) history. This volume contains essays from international scholars covering a wide range of topics, including werewolves, mummies, fairies, demons, time travel, ghosts, haunted spaces and objects, race, gender, queerness, monstrosity, madness, incest, empire, medicine, and science. By interrogating two non-consecutive decades, we seek to uncover the inter-relationships among fantastic literature, feminism, and modern identity and culture. Indeed, while this book considers the relationship between the 1890s and 1920s, it is more an examination of women's modernism in light of gendered literary production during the fin-de-siecle than the reverse.

The Connell Guide To Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Paperback): Stephen Fender The Connell Guide To Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
Stephen Fender
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

English writers have a way of invoking paternal imagery when thinking of Chaucer. "The Medieval word for a Poet, was a Maker," said G.K Chesterton, and "there was never a man who was more of a maker than Chaucer. He made a national language; he came very near to making a nation. At least without him it would probably have been neither so fine a language or so great a nation. Shakespeare and Milton were the greatest sons of their country; but Chaucer was the father of his country, rather in the manner of George Washington." A sweeping claim, maybe, but with a nucleus of truth. Chaucer really was a kind of English founding father. He didn't invent the language for literature but he chose it - and put his energy into exploiting and developing it. And The Canterbury Tales is where it happened. The Canterbury Tales was truly original. Chaucer's narrators, pilgrims on the road to Canterbury, range from a knight to a wealthy landowner, a merchant, a miller and minor church officials. They are brought to life by vivid descriptions of their clothing, bodily appearance and behaviour - and through the wide variety of English vernacular they voice. These are the raw materials out of which Chaucer not only produces comedy but develops themes like the condition of the church, the conflict between fate and free will, and what it is that constitutes authority, whether in the Bible or the conventions of courtly-love romance. In 1478, the printer William Caxton thought it to be such an English monument that he invested a fortune in time and money to publish The Canterbury Tales as the first ever book in English to be printed in England. It has never been out of print since.

Women on the Move - Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (Hardcover): Silvia... Women on the Move - Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (Hardcover)
Silvia Pellicer-Ortin, Julia Tofantshuk
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Feminity in Present-day Transnational Diasporic Writing explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. Silvia Pellicer-Ortin and Julia Kuznetski have brought together a collection of essays from scholars in diaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization by covering topics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender contruction, which will continue to shape contemporary literature and the culture at large.

Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Supernatural Will in  American Literature (Hardcover): Brad Bannon Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Supernatural Will in American Literature (Hardcover)
Brad Bannon
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In a work that will be of interest to students and scholars of American Literature, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, the History of Ideas,and Religious Studies, Brad Bannon examines Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with the philosophical theology of Jonathan Edwards. A closer look at Coleridge's response to Edwards clarifies the important influence that both thinkers had on seminal works of the nineteenth century, ranging from the antebellum period to the aftermath of the American Civil War-from Poe's fiction and Emerson's essays to Melville's Billy Budd and Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. Similarly, Coleridge's early espousal of an abolitionist theology that had evolved from Edwards and been shaped by John Woolman and Olaudah Equiano sheds light on the way that American Romantics later worked to affirm a philosophy of supernatural self-determination. Ultimately, what Coleridge offered the American Romantics was a supernatural modification of Edwards' theological determinism, a compromise that provided Emerson and other nineteenth-century thinkers with an acceptable extension of an essentially Calvinist theology. Indeed, a thoroughgoing skepticism with respect to salvation, as well as a faith in the absolute inscrutability of Providence, led both the Transcendentalists and the Dark Romantics to speculate freely on the possibility of supernatural self-determination while doubting that anything other than God, or nature, could harness the power of causation.

A Taste for the Negative - Beckett and Nihilism (Paperback): Shane Weller A Taste for the Negative - Beckett and Nihilism (Paperback)
Shane Weller
R2,018 Discovery Miles 20 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Since the mid-1950s, when the works of Samuel Beckett began to attract sustained critical attention, commentators have tended either to dismiss his oeuvre as nihilist or defend it as anti-nihilist. On the one side are figures such as Georg Lukacs; on the other, some of the most influential philosophers and literary theorists of the post-war era, from Theodor Adorno to Alain Badiou. Taking as his point of departure Nietzsche's description of nihilism as the 'uncanniest of all guests', Weller calls this critical tradition into question, arguing that the relationship between Beckett's texts and nihilism is one that will always be missed by those who are simply for or against Beckett. (Legenda 2005)

Sensational Deviance - Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction (Hardcover): Heidi Logan Sensational Deviance - Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction (Hardcover)
Heidi Logan
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre and how various sensation novels respond to traditional viewpoints of disability and to new developments in physiological and psychiatric knowledge. The depictions of disabled characters in sensation fiction frequently deviate strongly from typical depictions of disability in mainstream Victorian literature, undermining its stigmatized positioning as tragic deficit, severe limitation, or pathology. Close readings of nine individual novels situate their investigations of physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities against the period's disability discourses and interest in senses, perception, stimuli, the nervous system, and the hereditability of impairments. The importance of moral insanity and degeneration theory within sensation fiction connect the genre with criminal anthropology, suggesting the genre's further significance in the light of the later emergence of eugenics, psychoanalysis, and genetics.

Jane Austen - A Style in History (Hardcover): Cris Yelland Jane Austen - A Style in History (Hardcover)
Cris Yelland
R3,942 Discovery Miles 39 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From 1809 until just before her death, Jane Austen lived in a small, all-female household at Chawton, where reading aloud was the evening's entertainment and a crucial factor in the way Austen formed and modified her writing. This book looks in detail at Jane Austen's style. It discusses her characteristic abstract vocabulary, her adaptations of Johnsonian syntax and how she came to make her most important contribution to the technique of fiction, free indirect discourse. The book draws extensively on historical sources, especially the work of writers like Johnson, Hugh Blair and Thomas Sheridan, and analyses how Austen negotiated her path between the fundamentally masculine concerns of eighteenth-century prescriptivists and her own situation of a female writer reading her work aloud to a female audience.

Racial Rhapsody - The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity (Hardcover): John Donald Kerkering Racial Rhapsody - The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity (Hardcover)
John Donald Kerkering
R1,649 Discovery Miles 16 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity aims to explain and to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which literary criticism has come to organize its attention to literary texts around this primary object of analysis, the "racial" body.

The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Writing for Children - Correcting Culture's Error (Hardcover): Lorraine Kerslake The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Writing for Children - Correcting Culture's Error (Hardcover)
Lorraine Kerslake
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite the fame Ted Hughes's poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his children's literature. This book identifies the importance of Hughes's children's writing from an ecocritical perspective and argues that the healing function that Hughes ascribes to nature in his children's literature is closely linked to the development of his own sense of environmental responsibility. This book will be the first sustained examination of Hughes's greening in relation to his writing for children, providing a detailed reading of Hughes's children's literature through his poetry, prose and drama as well as his critical essays and letters. In addition, it also explores how Hughes's children's writing is a window to the poet's own emotional struggles, as well as his environmental consciousness and concern to reconnect a society that has become alienated from nature. This book will be of great interest to not only those studying Ted Hughes, but also students and scholars of environment and literature, ecocriticism, children's literature and twentieth-century literature.

Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature (Hardcover): Goutam Karmakar, Zeenat Khan Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature (Hardcover)
Goutam Karmakar, Zeenat Khan
R3,565 Discovery Miles 35 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The volume: * the cross-cultural perspective on trauma theory. * connects Western Trauma Theory and South Asian Literature * will be of interest to scholars and researchers of literature, history, politics and South Asian studies

Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature (Paperback): Goutam Karmakar, Zeenat Khan Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature (Paperback)
Goutam Karmakar, Zeenat Khan
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The volume: * the cross-cultural perspective on trauma theory. * connects Western Trauma Theory and South Asian Literature * will be of interest to scholars and researchers of literature, history, politics and South Asian studies

Nayantara Sahgal - A Century of Political Insights (Paperback): Maninder Sidhu Nayantara Sahgal - A Century of Political Insights (Paperback)
Maninder Sidhu
R1,096 Discovery Miles 10 960 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is a comprehensive critical re-reading of Nayantara Sahgal's oeuvre. One of the most significant Indian English writers, her fictional and non-fictional engagement with historical events and political dilemmas inextricably links her to the colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial discourse in India. Drawing transcontinental connections with the ideas of Fanon, Foucault, Said, Beauvoir, White, Beck and Habermas the monograph juxtaposes recurring themes in her writing with the ideas of significant Indian post-colonial commentators. Tracing the subliminal tendencies in her writing to Gandhian humanity and Nehruvian pragmaticism, the book moves beyond cliches of feminist criticism and genealogical ties to unveil a unique artist who has folded nearly a century of Indian experience in her work. Drawing on novels, essays, speeches, journalism and interviews by Nayantara Sahgal, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of South Asian literature, post-colonialism, politics and contemporary history/culture/change.

Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India (Paperback): Nishat Zaidi, A. Sean Pue Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India (Paperback)
Nishat Zaidi, A. Sean Pue
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores the use of digital humanities (DH) to understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary and cultural texts, which circulate in digital forms - in manuscripts - and as oral or musical performance. Drawing on the linguistic, cultural, historical, social, and geographic diversity of Indian texts and contexts, it foregrounds the use of digital technologies - including minimal computing, novel digital humanities research and teaching methodologies, critical archive generation and maintenance - for explicating poetics of Indian literatures and generating scholarly digital resources which will facilitate comparative readings. With contributions from DH scholars and practitioners from across India, the United States, the United Kingdom, and more, this book will be a key intervention for scholars and researchers of literature and literary theory, DH, media studies, and South Asian Studies.

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