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Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin's Three Body Trilogy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Will Peyton Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin's Three Body Trilogy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Will Peyton
R1,870 Discovery Miles 18 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin's Three Body Trilogy examines Liu Cixin's acclaimed trilogy, a Chinese science fiction epic whose translation is exceedingly popular in the Western world. Will Peyton argues that the ingenuity of Liu's writing is found in its conscious engagement with translated Western fiction rather than, as one might expect, in Chinese language science fiction of the past. The book illustrates how contemporary Chinese fiction, since the economic opening of China in the late 1980s, is deeply and complexly influenced by various strains in Western literary and intellectual thought, an area that scholars of Chinese literature have tended to neglect. Providing a lucid and succinct close-reading and textual analysis of Three Body trilogy, the book also makes reference to broader ideas and themes in modern Chinese and Western intellectual history.

Life Writing - Essays on Autobiography, Biography and Literature (Hardcover): R Bradford Life Writing - Essays on Autobiography, Biography and Literature (Hardcover)
R Bradford
R3,138 Discovery Miles 31 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Including original contributions by, among others, Martin Amis, Alan Sillitoe, Ruth Fainlight and D.J. Taylor, this important collection examines the status and practice of literary biography and autobiographical writing, and reasserts the centrality of the relationship between authors' lives and their works.

Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora - Exploring Tactics (Hardcover, New): Z. Pecic Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora - Exploring Tactics (Hardcover, New)
Z. Pecic
R1,508 Discovery Miles 15 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora: Exploring Tactics" combines the fields of queer and diasporic writing. It opens up an entire new domain where social and cultural meanings of sexuality within Caribbean space become objects of historical, colonial and literary investigations. By juxtaposing queerness, nation and belonging, this book unlocks both disciplines, making them permeable to other contexts and perspectives. Exploring the works of writers such as Shani Mootoo, Jamaica Kincaid and Lawrence Scott, this book investigates the Western notions of sexual identity and belongingness alongside postcolonial deployments of nation, diaspora and sexuality. The book adds to the abundant fields of queer and diaspora studies by intersecting them, in order not only to render their ability to work together but also to expose their weaknesses and highly contested underpinnings.

Trollope and the Magazines - Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain (Hardcover, 2000 ed.): M. Turner Trollope and the Magazines - Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
M. Turner
R2,884 Discovery Miles 28 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Trollope and the Magazines examines a serial publication of several of Trollope's novels in the context of the gendered discourses circulating in a range of Victorian magazines--including Cornhill, Good Words, Saint Pauls, and the Fortnightly Review. It highlights the importance of the periodical press in the literary culture of Victorian Britain, and argues that readers today need to engage with the lively cultural debates in the magazines, in order to appreciate more fully the complexity of Trollope's popular fiction.

Anima and Africa - Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature (Hardcover): Matthew A. Fike Anima and Africa - Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature (Hardcover)
Matthew A. Fike
R4,619 Discovery Miles 46 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

C. G. Jung understood the anima in a wide variety of ways but especially as a multifaceted archetype and as a field of energy. In Anima and Africa: Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature, Matthew A. Fike uses these principles to analyze male characters in well-known British, American, and African fiction. Jung wrote frequently about the Kore (maiden, matron, crone) and the "stages of eroticism" (Eve, Mary, Helen, Sophia). The feminine principle's many aspects resonate throughout the study and are emphasized in the opening chapters on Ernest Hemingway, Henry Rider Haggard, and Olive Schreiner. The anima-as-field can be "tapped" just as the collective unconscious can be reached through nekyia or descent. These processes are discussed in the middle chapters on novels by Laurens van der Post, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. The final chapters emphasize the anima's role in political/colonial dysfunction in novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Chinua Achebe/Nadine Gordimer, and Aphra Behn. Anima and Africa applies Jung's African journeys to literary texts, explores his interest in Haggard, and provides fresh insights into van der Post's late novels. The study discovers Lessing's use of Jung's autobiography, deepens the scholarship on Coetzee's use of Faust, and explores the anima's relationship to the personal and collective shadow. It will be essential reading for academics and scholars of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, literary studies, and postcolonial studies, and will also appeal to analytical psychologists and Jungian psychotherapists in practice and in training.

Reconstituting Americans - Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature (Hardcover): M. Obourn Reconstituting Americans - Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature (Hardcover)
M. Obourn
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on Louis Althusser's concept of internal distantiation, " Reconstituting Americans" reads post-1960s U.S. literature to reveal the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood. This engaging study uses historicist and formalist methodologies within Marxist, psychoanalytic, and critical race frameworks to discuss the formal techniques in the work of Arturo Islas, Bharati Mukherjee, Jamaica Kincaid, Reginald McKnight, and Audre Lorde. Megan Obourn deftly looks at the historical and social realities of social identities, while simultaneously bringing to the fore the limitations of liberal multicultural ways of conceptualizing identity and difference.

The Future of Writing (Hardcover): J. Potts The Future of Writing (Hardcover)
J. Potts
R1,866 Discovery Miles 18 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This fascinating collection draws together perspectives on the future of writing in publishing, journalism and online sites. Discussion ranges across the challenges and opportunities for writing and publishing in the context of new content platforms, formats and distribution networks, including e-books, online news and publishing, and social media.

Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism - The Uncanniest of Guests (Hardcover): Shane Weller Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism - The Uncanniest of Guests (Hardcover)
Shane Weller
R1,519 Discovery Miles 15 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book charts the history of the concept of nihilism in some of the most important philosophers and literary theorists of the modern and postmodern periods, including Wyndham Lewis, Heidegger, Adorno, Blanchot, Derrida, and Vattimo. Focusing in particular on the ways in which each of these thinkers produces a theory of the literary as the privileged form of resistance to nihilism, Weller offers the first in-depth analysis of nihilism's key role in the thinking of the aesthetic since Nietzsche.

Political Economy and the Novel - A Literary History of "Homo Economicus" (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Sarah Comyn Political Economy and the Novel - A Literary History of "Homo Economicus" (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Sarah Comyn
R2,865 Discovery Miles 28 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of 'Homo Economicus' provides a transhistorical account of homo economicus (economic man), demonstrating this figure's significance to economic theory and the Anglo-American novel over a 250-year period. Beginning with Adam Smith's seminal texts - Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations - and Henry Fielding's A History of Tom Jones, this book combines the methodologies of new historicism and new economic criticism to investigate the evolution of the homo economicus model as it traverses through Ricardian economics and Jane Austen's Sanditon; J. S. Mill and Charles Dickens' engagement with mid-Victorian dualities; Keynesianism and Mrs Dalloway's exploration of post-war consumer impulses; the a/moralistic discourses of Friedrich von Hayek, and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged; and finally the virtual crises of the twenty-first century financial market and Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis. Through its sustained comparative analysis of literary and economic discourses, this book transforms our understanding of the genre of the novel and offers critical new understandings of literary value, cultural capital and the moral foundations of political economy.

The Invention of Europe in French Literature and Film (Hardcover): E. Ousselin The Invention of Europe in French Literature and Film (Hardcover)
E. Ousselin
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ousselin sets out to show that Europe is essentially a literary fiction and that the ongoing movement towards European unity cannot be understood without reference to the literary works that helped bring it about.

Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary (Hardcover): Raymond D Boisvert Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary (Hardcover)
Raymond D Boisvert
R2,927 Discovery Miles 29 270 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the prototypical "absurdist" thinker. Such a reading freezes Camus at the stage at which he wrote The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus. By taking seriously how (1) Camus was always searching and (2) the rest of his corpus, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary corrects the one-sided, and thus faulty, depiction of Camus as committed to a philosophy of absurdism. His guiding project, which he explicitly acknowledged, was an attempt to get beyond nihilism, the general dismissal of value and meaning in ordinary life. Tracing this project via Camus's works, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary, offers a new lens for thinking about the well-known author.

Language, Logic and Epistemology - A Modal-Realist Approach (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): C. Norris Language, Logic and Epistemology - A Modal-Realist Approach (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
C. Norris
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields. While to this extent adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Norris also very forcefully challenges the view that the academic "disciplines" as we know them are so many artificial constructs of recent date and with no further role than to prop up existing divisions of intellectual labour. He makes his case through some exceptionally acute revisionist readings of diverse thinkers such as Derrida, Paul de Man, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Michael Dummett and John McDowell. In each instance Norris stresses the value of bringing various trans-disciplinary perspectives to bear while none-the-less maintaining adequate standards of area-specific relevance and method. Most importantly he asserts the central role of recent developments in cognitive science as pointing a way beyond certain otherwise intractable problems in philosophy of mind and language.

Anancy in the Great House - Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction (Hardcover, New): Joyce E. Jonas Anancy in the Great House - Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction (Hardcover, New)
Joyce E. Jonas
R2,211 Discovery Miles 22 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to six examples of West Indian fiction, combining symbolic anthropology with traditional literary criticism. Focusing on works by George Lamming and Wilson Harris, two vastly dissimilar Caribbean writers, Joyce Jonas identifies an emerging West Indian aesthetic, stressing the conflict between oral and written communication, and between folk culture and imperialist domination. By applying post-modernist literary theories to the texts, Dr. Jonas explores colonization as a key metaphor for exploitation of gender, class, race, and environment. The six novels surveyed all describe a "plantation landscape" within which the action takes place, and which provides a context for a study of the polarized world of colonizer and colonized. Two icons are employed in the analysis: the Great House, a colonial world view of binary oppositions, and Anancy, a trickster-figure of West Indian folklore. The first of the three essays focuses on the collision between imperialist culture and the submerged folk heritage. The second explores the phenomenon of exile through the artist-in-the-text, a feature common to all six novels that places the artist at the crossroads of a colonized world. Finally, the third essay blends the anthropological concept of liminality with a feminist perspective, widening the discussion to embrace all types of oppressive exploitation. With its subtle literary readings and its philosophical commentary, this volume will be a significant resource for courses in West Indian and Third World literature, literature and culture, and race and gender in literature. It will also be an important addition to academic and public libraries.

Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere (Hardcover, 2000 ed.): M. Walhout, Susan Vanzanten Gallagher Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
M. Walhout, Susan Vanzanten Gallagher
R1,522 Discovery Miles 15 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the diminished influence of intellectuals outside the academy and a marked decline in the quality of public discourse, many observers have called for the return of the "public intellectual." At the same time, religion is playing an increasingly public role in the modern world. This collection of essays examines the possibility that both religion and literature, in their complex interactions, are capable of reentering and renewing what the eminent German philosopher Jürgen Habermas refers to as "the public sphere."

Holocaust Literature and Representation - Their Lives, Our Words (Hardcover): Phyllis Lassner, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Holocaust Literature and Representation - Their Lives, Our Words (Hardcover)
Phyllis Lassner, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
R3,094 Discovery Miles 30 940 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Each scholar working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation has a story to tell. Not only the scholarly story of the work they do, but their personal story, their journey to becoming a specialist in Holocaust studies. What academic, political, cultural, and personal experiences led them to choose Holocaust representation as their subject of research and teaching? What challenges did they face on their journey? What approaches, genres, media, or other forms of Holocaust representation did they choose and why? How and where did they find a scholarly "home" in which to share their work productively? Have political, social, and cultural conditions today affected how they think about their work on Holocaust representation? How do they imagine their work moving forward, including new challenges, responses, and audiences? These are but a few of the questions that the authors in this volume address, showing how a scholar's field of research and resulting writings are not arbitrary, and are often informed by their personal history and professional experiences.

Critical Essays on Roman Literature (Hardcover): J.P. Sullivan Critical Essays on Roman Literature (Hardcover)
J.P. Sullivan
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1962 and 1963, these two volumes bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and attempt to reconcile the two disciplines. The collection of essays offers a critical examination of Latin literature and aims to stimulate critical discussion of a selection of Latin poets. This experimental and ground-breaking set will be of particular interest to students of Roman Literature, Classics and Poetry.

Literature, Social Wisdom, and Global Justice - Developing Systems Thinking through Literary Study (Paperback): Mark Bracher Literature, Social Wisdom, and Global Justice - Developing Systems Thinking through Literary Study (Paperback)
Mark Bracher
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

1. Offers a new approach to teaching/thinking and analysing in literary studies 2. Responds to the key concerns of most researchers and students right now - global social justice and sustainability and the value of literature/humanities 3. There are no other books that tie together systems thinking, wisdom, literary studies and social justice - it is unique

Masquerade, Crime and Fiction - Criminal Deceptions (Hardcover, annotated edition): L. Peach Masquerade, Crime and Fiction - Criminal Deceptions (Hardcover, annotated edition)
L. Peach
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This ground-breaking study argues that literature and criminology share a common concern to understand modernity and that this project is often focused upon gender-specific criminality. Central to this concern is duplicity masquerade and performance. These subjects are explored for the first time in relation to criminality with reference to a range of literary and popular texts, from Dickens and Poe through to Toni Morrison and Easton Ellis, in which the traditional boundaries between different genders and sexualities are made more fluid and complex than in traditional criminal narratives.

Death and the Labyrinth - World of Raymond Roussel (Hardcover): Michel Foucault Death and the Labyrinth - World of Raymond Roussel (Hardcover)
Michel Foucault; Translated by C. Ruas
R5,878 R5,234 Discovery Miles 52 340 Save R644 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Major study in literary theory, criticism and psychology.

The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and Modern Cinema - Robert Greene's Theatre of Attractions (Hardcover,... The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and Modern Cinema - Robert Greene's Theatre of Attractions (Hardcover, New)
J. Sager
R2,599 R1,923 Discovery Miles 19 230 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a highly original study, which offers an innovative new approach towards the study of early modern drama. This book examines the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, arguing that his plays are innovative in their use of spectacle. This study's most striking feature is the use of the one-to-one analogies between Greene's drama and modern cinema, in order to explore the plays' stage effects. While recent Shakespearean criticism interprets his drama through the lens of performance, criticism of non-Shakespearean drama continues to disconnect the plays from even the scarce performances of them today. This book aims to bring the study of performance into the realm of non-Shakespearean drama so that the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries might not descend further into obscurity. This innovative study advocates the rejection of a purely text-based interpretation of drama and emphasizes the powerful visual dimension of the early modern stage.

Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond (Paperback): Peter Dayan Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond (Paperback)
Peter Dayan
R1,827 Discovery Miles 18 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1877, Ruskin accused Whistler of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face'. Was he right? After all, Whistler always denied that the true function of art was to represent anything. If a painting does not represent, what is it, other than mere paint, flung in the public's face? Whistler's answer was simple: painting is music - or it is poetry. Georges Braque, half a century later, echoed Whistler's answer. So did Braque's friends Apollinaire and Ponge. They presented their poetry as music too - and as painting. But meanwhile, composers such as Satie and Stravinsky were presenting their own art - music - as if it transposed the values of painting or of poetry. The fundamental principle of this intermedial aesthetic, which bound together an extraordinary fraternity of artists in all media in Paris, from 1885 to 1945, was this: we must always think about the value of a work of art, not within the logic of its own medium, but as if it transposed the value of art in another medium. Peter Dayan traces the history of this principle: how it created our very notion of 'great art', why it declined as a vision from the 1960s and how, in the 21st century, it is fighting back.

Re-Imagining Nature - Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics (Hardcover): Alfred Kentigern Siewers Re-Imagining Nature - Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics (Hardcover)
Alfred Kentigern Siewers; Contributions by John Carey, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Katherine M. Faull, Timo Maran, …
R2,859 Discovery Miles 28 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology and ecosemiotics to literary, historical, and philosophical study of the relationship between text and landscape. It considers in particular examples and lessons to be drawn from case studies of medieval and Native American cultures, to illustrate in an applied way the promise of environmental humanities today. In doing so, it highlights an environmental future for the humanities, on the cutting edge of cultural endeavor today.

Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution - Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Idea of African Literature (Hardcover):... Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution - Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Idea of African Literature (Hardcover)
A. Amoko
R1,512 Discovery Miles 15 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures.

Critical Essays (Hardcover): Ford Madox Ford Critical Essays (Hardcover)
Ford Madox Ford; Edited by Max Saunders, Richard Stang
R3,106 Discovery Miles 31 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If there is any English critic worth reading on Modernism it is Ford Madox Ford, whose Critical Essays remind us that he was one of the first to admire Joyce's Ulysses and one of the bravest to argue with E.M. Forster. --The Times (London) This collection contains more unexpected fun, more delighted, chatty wisdom, than any other book of criticism you could think of. --The Guardian In Critical Essays, a new selection of Ford's previously uncollected writings on literature and art, there are sweeping dicta aplenty. --The American Scholar Critical Essays showcases a critic whom Ezra Pound called in 1914, the best critic in England, one might say the only critic of any importance. This volume provides access to the best of Ford Madox Ford's essays. The essays are arranged chronologically and span nearly forty years--covering most of Ford's writing life. Saunders and Stang have included essays, literary portraits, and book reviews that Ford published in the English Review, The Tribune, The Bystander, The Outlook, Piccadilly Review, the Transatlantic Review, and the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, among other places.

Romantic Liars - Obscure Women Who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire (Hardcover): D. Lee Romantic Liars - Obscure Women Who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire (Hardcover)
D. Lee
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

They were homeless wanderers, prostitutes, orphans, and factory girls. They hurdled terrible obstacles, reinvented themselves as men, goddesses, witches, and princesses to become legends in their own right as England rose to world power. No other group of people rivaled their inventiveness or their grip on the nation's imagination. Debbie Lee unfolds the small stories of six women, with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, Stamford Raffles, and Napoleon, against the grand narrative of England's eighteenth-century empire building. "Romantic Liars: Obscure Women who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire" is a meticulously researched, spellbinding tale of tragedy, transformation and triumph in the age of reason.

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