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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies

Jewish Writers/Irish Writers - Selected Essays on the Love of Words (Hardcover): Maurice Wohlgelernter Jewish Writers/Irish Writers - Selected Essays on the Love of Words (Hardcover)
Maurice Wohlgelernter
R4,476 Discovery Miles 44 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These essays on representative Jewish and Irish writers are true to the form's definition as an attempt or experiment rather than a credo. Wohlgelernter defines the author's "excited imagination" by thoroughgoing analysis of the work's constituent parts. He gives particular emphasis to the author's own words and expressions, those verbal inventions that linger in the mind long after the act of reading or criticism. He finds a passionate love of words and language forging a powerful link between Jewish and Irish literature, rooted as they are in similar historical experience. Both literatures engage the human struggle with life and death, virtue and weakness, success and failure, dreams and nightmares, all under the constant surveillance of tradition. Wohlgelernter divides his book into four general categories: the Holocaust, Jewish-American writers, Irish writers, and memoirs and autobiography. His chapters on Holocaust literature engage a range of literary perspectives that combine memoir, journalism, fiction, and philosophical reflection in the writings of Ladislas Fuks, Lucy Dawidowicz, Sabine Reichel, and Primo Levi. Chapters on postwar Jewish writers including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth explore the ambivalences of assimilation with its encroachments of a provincial past and dissatisfactions with mainstream culture. Wohlgelernter notes how all yoke street raciness and high cultural mandarin in a distinctive contribution to American prose style. A similar richness of language and preoccupation with the political and cultural claims of the past characterize the chapters on the great short story writer Frank O'Connor, the playwright Brendan Behan, and the Irish-American journalist and novelist Pete Hamill. The last decades of the twentieth century have seen a prolific outpouring of autobiographical writing, and in the concluding section of the book the author treats representative examples that amplify or reflect on the personal and historical themes encountered in Jewish and Irish fiction: assimilation, personal ambition, intermarriage, and political allegiance. Among the writers treated here are Norman Podhoretz, Calvin Trillin, James McBride, Ari Goldman, and Howard Shack. Wohlgelernter's emphasis on the timeless, recurring themes of literature is matched by a lucidity of style and soundness of method that yield what is central to all criticism, namely insight. "Jewish Writers/Irish Writers" will be of interest to literary scholars, Jewish studies specialists, and cultural historians.

Medea (Hardcover, POD): Mike Bartlett Medea (Hardcover, POD)
Mike Bartlett; Euripides
R1,301 Discovery Miles 13 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

If there's a God, which at the moment I DOUBT, I want you to curse him. If there's any justice, I want them - both of them - in a car crash. Her husband's gone and her future isn't bright. Imprisoned in her marital home, Medea can't work, can't sleep and increasingly can't cope. While her child plays, she plots her revenge. This startlingly modern version of Euripides' classic tragedy explores the private fury bubbling under public behaviour and how in today's world a mother, fuelled by anger at her husband's infidelity, might be driven to commit the worst possible crime. The production is written and directed by one of the UK's most exciting and in-demand writers, Mike Bartlett, who has received critical acclaim for his plays including Earthquakes in London; Cock (Olivier Award), a new stage version of Chariots of Fire, and Love Love Love. This programme text coincides with a run at the Headlong Theatre in London from the 27th of September to the 1st of December 2012.

Plato's Socratic Conversations - Drama and Dialectic in Three Dialogues (Hardcover): Michael C. Stokes Plato's Socratic Conversations - Drama and Dialectic in Three Dialogues (Hardcover)
Michael C. Stokes
R6,830 Discovery Miles 68 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study focuses on Laches, Protagoras, and the conversation between Socrates and Agathon in the Symposium. For these dialogues the author "proposes a strategy of interpretation that insists on the dialogues' essentially interrogatory character. . . . Stokes argues that we are not entitled to ascribea thesis to Socrates (far less to Plato) unless he unambiguously asserts it as his own belief. . . . For the most part, Stokes argues, Socrates is doing what he claims to be doing: cross-examining his interlocutor. He draws the materials of his own argument from the respondent's explicit admissions and from his own knowledge of the respondent's character, commitments and ways of life.What is shown by such a procedure is not, . . . according to Stokes], that acertain thesis is true or false, but, rather, that a certain sort of person, with certain commitments, can be led, on pain of inconsistency, to assent to theses that at first seem alien to him. Sometimes, as it turns out, these are theses that Socrates also endorses in his own person." "Times Literary Supplement"

The Great Gatsby: York Notes for A-level (Paperback): Julian Cowley, F. Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby: York Notes for A-level (Paperback)
Julian Cowley, F. Fitzgerald 1
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Volume III: 1752-1762 (Hardcover): Mary Wortley Montagu The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Volume III: 1752-1762 (Hardcover)
Mary Wortley Montagu; Edited by Robert Halsband
R2,445 Discovery Miles 24 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A scholarly edition of letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Volume II: 1721-1751 (Hardcover): Mary Wortley Montagu The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Volume II: 1721-1751 (Hardcover)
Mary Wortley Montagu; Edited by Robert Halsband
R1,688 Discovery Miles 16 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A scholarly edition of letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Media Poetry - An International Anthology (Paperback, Revised): Eduardo Kac Media Poetry - An International Anthology (Paperback, Revised)
Eduardo Kac
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Today's innovative poets no longer express their dissenting voice on the printed page but in the experimental realm of contemporary media, where holograms, video projections, and even biotechnology form the basis of a new syntax. Celebrated poet and artist Eduardo Kac's" Media Poetry" is the first anthology to document this radically new form, which is taking language beyond the confines of verse and into the non-linear world of digital interactivity and hyperlinkage.This unparalleled volume takes up all the exhilarating incarnations of media poetry, from real-time text generation and spatiotemporal discontinuities to immateriality and visual tempo, exploring the international group of revolutionary poets responsible for such innovations. By embracing the vast possibilities made available by new media, the artists featured in this anthology have become the poetic pioneers of the next millennium.

Essays and Poems - and `Simplicity', a Comedy (Hardcover): Mary Wortley Montagu Essays and Poems - and `Simplicity', a Comedy (Hardcover)
Mary Wortley Montagu; Edited by Robert Halsband, Isobel Grundy
R2,451 Discovery Miles 24 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A scholarly edition of works by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Jane Eyre (Hardcover): Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (Hardcover)
Charlotte Bronte
R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester. However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors. Ultimately the grand passion of Jane and Rochester is called upon to survive cruel revelation, loss and reunion, only to be confronted with tragedy.

The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Volume I: 1708-1720 (Hardcover): Mary Wortley Montagu The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Volume I: 1708-1720 (Hardcover)
Mary Wortley Montagu; Edited by Robert Halsband
R1,815 Discovery Miles 18 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A scholarly edition of letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin (Hardcover): Sarah Knight, Stefan Tilg The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin (Hardcover)
Sarah Knight, Stefan Tilg
R5,000 Discovery Miles 50 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book printing and new literary and cultural dynamics. Latin also entered into a complex interplay with the rising vernacular languages. This Handbook gives an accessible survey of the main genres, contexts, and regions of Neo-Latin, as we have come to call Latin writing composed in the wake of Petrarch (1304-74). Its emphasis is on the period of Neo-Latin's greatest cultural relevance, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Its chapters, written by specialists in the field, present individual methodologies and focuses while retaining an introductory character. The Handbook will be valuable to all readers wanting to orientate themselves in the immense ocean of Neo-Latin literature and culture. It will be particularly helpful for those working on early modern languages and literatures as well as to classicists working on the culture of ancient Rome, its early modern reception and the shifting characteristics of post-classical Latin language and literature. Political, social, cultural and intellectual historians will find much relevant material in the Handbook, and it will provide a rich range of material to scholars researching the history of their respective geographical areas of interest.

The Poetry of Michelangelo - An Introduction (Hardcover): Christopher Ryan The Poetry of Michelangelo - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Christopher Ryan
R6,647 Discovery Miles 66 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The poetry of Michelangelo offers an insight into one of the greatest artists of all time, and is a notable literary achievement in its own right. This text lays out the broad chronological evolution of the poems and clarifies both their meaning and the verbal artistry that shaped their construction. The poetry is always quoted in Italian and in translation.

The Complete Poems of Thomas Gray - English, Latin and Greek (Hardcover): Gray. The Complete Poems of Thomas Gray - English, Latin and Greek (Hardcover)
Gray.
R4,169 Discovery Miles 41 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A scholarly edition of the poems of Thomas Gray. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Hardcover): William A. Ringer, Jr. The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Hardcover)
William A. Ringer, Jr.
R4,108 Discovery Miles 41 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A scholarly edition of poems by Sir Philip Sidney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Tracing The (Post)Apartheid Novel Beyond 2000 (Paperback): D.D. Demir, O. Moreillon Tracing The (Post)Apartheid Novel Beyond 2000 (Paperback)
D.D. Demir, O. Moreillon
R315 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R24 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This volume contains interviews with fourteen contemporary South African authors: Mariam Akabor, Sifiso Mzobe, Fred Khumalo, Futhi Ntshingila, Niq Mhlongo, Zukiswa Wanner, Nthikeng Mohlele, Mohale Mashigo, Lauren Beukes, Charlie Human, Yewande Omotoso, Andrew Salomon, Imraan Coovadia and Fred Strydom. The conversations with the writers are accompanied by vignettes of the authors' lives and summaries of their works. In curating this book, Danyela Dimakatso Demir and Olivier Moreillon step beyond pure literary theory and analysis by allowing the authors to speak to and assess the literary landscape, of which they form a part and which they co-create. However, Demir and Moreillon also trace concepts and terms that describe the current moment of South African literature, such as post-transitional literature and literature beyond 2000. By adopting a world-literary approach to (post)apartheid literature, this book makes an important contribution to debates on contemporary South African writing. In addition, Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 seeks to raise awareness of the imbalance in both critical and public attention between literary 'big names', such as Andre P. Brink, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Zakes Mda, who are nationally and internationally celebrated, and the younger and newer generation of South African writers, who go largely unnoticed.

Dubliners (Collector's Edition) (Hardcover): James Joyce Dubliners (Collector's Edition) (Hardcover)
James Joyce
R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature.

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth (Hardcover): Richard Gravil, Daniel Robinson The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth (Hardcover)
Richard Gravil, Daniel Robinson
R4,844 Discovery Miles 48 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-eight original essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. Nineteen essays explore the highlights of a long career systematically, giving special prominence to the lyric Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads and the Poems in Two Volumes and to the blank verse poet of 'The Recluse'. Most of the other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.

The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (Hardcover): Carol A. Senf The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (Hardcover)
Carol A. Senf
R926 Discovery Miles 9 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Carol A. Senf traces the vampire's evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.

A History of South African Literature - The Period of Emancipation 1900 - 1930 (Paperback): Jerzy Koch A History of South African Literature - The Period of Emancipation 1900 - 1930 (Paperback)
Jerzy Koch
R940 R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Save R50 (5%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

Koch's A History of South African Literature: Afrikaans Literature, Part 2 is an extensive and thorough study of the development of Afrikaans literature during the first three decades of the 20th century. It follows Part 1, in which the earlier origins of Afrikaans and Afrikaans literature as well as the local Dutch writings tradition were discussed. Koch uses the metaphor of mapping to describe the work of the historiographer, and it becomes clear that his study analyses the literary texts within the context of space and time. Accordingly, it includes information on the authors' lives and times as well as the developments in Afrikaans literature, criticism and literary historiography. The exposition starts with the origin and development of the Afrikaans language during the so-called 'Second Language Movement'. Koch also describes the polemics between historians emphasising the 'spontaneous development' of Afrikaans from Dutch and those regarding it as a creole language; his balanced conclusion is that neither of the two groups can lay absolute claim to the truth. The interest of the book is heightened by the inclusion of texts written in Dutch, as Koch discussed in Part 1, and also works which are not 'literary' in the strict sense of the word, like war diaries. These are discussed not primarily for their literary value but for the insights they provide into the effect of the Anglo-Boer War on the formation of Afrikaner identity. It confirms that this literary history does not isolate the development of Afrikaans literature from the development of Afrikaner ideology and identity. This is followed by the two main parts of the study: a discussion of the literary works of the 'first generation' (Celliers, Totius and Leipoldt) and those of the 'writers of the twenties' (Toon van den Heever, A G Visser, C J Langenhoven and Eugene Marais). Jerzy Koch is professor in the Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, research fellow at the Free State University, Bloemfontein, and extraordinary professor at Stellenbosch University. He is an acclaimed translator of Dutch and Afrikaans literature into Polish and has published widely on Dutch and post-colonial literature.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (Paperback): George... A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (Paperback)
George Saunders
R566 R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Save R233 (41%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
MoliAre and the tradition of folly in farces a  sottiesa   and ballets (Paperback): Louis Bardou MoliAre and the tradition of folly in farces a sottiesa and ballets (Paperback)
Louis Bardou
R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Seven Against Thebes (Hardcover): Aleksander Krawczuk Seven Against Thebes (Hardcover)
Aleksander Krawczuk; Translated by Tom Pinch
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Stories Of Fathers, Stories Of The Nation - Fatherhood And Paternal Power In South African Literature (Paperback): Grant Andrews Stories Of Fathers, Stories Of The Nation - Fatherhood And Paternal Power In South African Literature (Paperback)
Grant Andrews
R315 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R24 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This book explores representations of fathers in select South African novels published from the birth of apartheid to the post-transitional moment.

Father figures in the texts reflect political and social climates in South Africa – at different times representing the oppressive apartheid government, righteous and authoritative liberation leaders and the unfulfilled promise of a democratic South Africa. Grant Andrews examines how father characters are linked to storytelling; they narrate the lives of their children and their patriarchal power is constituted through narratives. He features authors such as Alan Paton, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, K. Sello Duiker, Mark Behr, Zoë Wicomb, Lisa Fugard and Zukiswa Wanner.

Stories of Fathers, Stories of the Nation also investigates how fatherhoods are being reimagined in light of shifting discourses of gender and identity. More recent novels have deconstructed the father figure and his paternal narrative power, representing conflicts around racial identity, sexuality, legacy and how the sins of the father are visited on his children.

The Gospel of Mary (Hardcover, New): Christopher Tuckett The Gospel of Mary (Hardcover, New)
Christopher Tuckett
R5,904 Discovery Miles 59 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume, the first in a major new series which will provide authoritative texts of key non-canonical gospel writings, comprises a critical edition, with full translations, of all the extant manuscripts of the Gospel of Mary. In addition, an extended Introduction discusses the key issues involved in the interpretation of the text, as well as locating it in its proper historical context, while a Commentary explicates points of detail. The gospel has been important in many recent discussions of non-canonical gospels, of early Christian Gnosticism, and of discussions of the figure of Mary Magdalene. The present volume will provide a valuable resource for all future discussions of this important early Christian text.

States of Suspense - The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose (Hardcover): Daniel Cordle States of Suspense - The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose (Hardcover)
Daniel Cordle
R1,648 Discovery Miles 16 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, it precipitated a nuclear age that shaped the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. States of suspense is about the representation of this nuclear age in United States literature from 1945-2005. The profound psychological and cultural impact of living in anticipation of the Bomb is apparent not only in end-of-the-world fantasies, but also in mainstream and postmodern literature. This book traces the ways in which key motifs - the fragility of reality; the fear of closure; the inadequacies of language to represent the world - move between nuclear and postmodern cultures of the Cold War era. Taking three symbolically threatened environments - the home, the city, the planet - the book explores their recasting as 'nuclear places' in literature, and shows how these nuclear concerns resonate with those of other cultures. States of suspense will be of interest to students and scholars of American literature, and postmodern and technological culture. It will also be interest to those more generally intrigued by the cultural fallout of the nuclear age. -- .

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