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Abjection and Representation - An Exploration of Abjection in the Visual Arts, Film and Literature (Hardcover): R. Arya Abjection and Representation - An Exploration of Abjection in the Visual Arts, Film and Literature (Hardcover)
R. Arya
R1,942 Discovery Miles 19 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1980) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category.

Cross-Cultural Reckonings - A Triptych of Russian, American and Canadian Texts (Hardcover, New): Blanche H. Gelfant Cross-Cultural Reckonings - A Triptych of Russian, American and Canadian Texts (Hardcover, New)
Blanche H. Gelfant
R2,698 Discovery Miles 26 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This far-reaching collection of essays offers a serious and thought-provoking account of the complexities spawned by cross-cultural interpretation. The essays hold broad implications for issues spanning the range of literary criticism: the relations of text and context; the usefulness of genre as a defining term; the consequences of binary thinking; the links between practical criticism and literary theory; and--perhaps most explosively--from the visions and revisions invoked by shifting notions of nationality to the unpredictable attitudes toward gender and sexual difference entertained by the field of literary criticism at large.

Reforming the Humanities - Literature and Ethics from Dante through Modern Times (Hardcover): P. Levine Reforming the Humanities - Literature and Ethics from Dante through Modern Times (Hardcover)
P. Levine
R1,519 Discovery Miles 15 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book combines contemporary ethical theory, literary interpretation, and historical narrative to defend a view of the humanities as a source of moral guidance. Peter Levine argues that moral philosophers should interpret narratives and literary critics should adopt moral positions. His new analysis of Dante's story of Paolo and Francesca sheds new light on the moral advantages and pitfalls of narratives versus ethical theories and principles.

Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory - Bodies of Discourse (Hardcover, 2000 ed.): Nana Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory - Bodies of Discourse (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
Nana
R1,522 Discovery Miles 15 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern. Drawing on theorists ranging from St. Augustine and Alain de Lille to Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sturges approaches the Pardoner as a representative of the construction of historical--and sexual--identities in a variety of historically specific discourses, and argues that medieval understandings of gender remain sedimented in postmodern discourse.

Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals) - Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present (Paperback): George P. Landow Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals) - Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present (Paperback)
George P. Landow
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology. George Landow shows how the tumultuous history of the past two hundred years has resulted in a plethora of metaphors associated with moments of human crisis. Avalanches and volcanoes emerge as focal images in an aesthetic that concerns itself increasingly with the vulnerability of humanity. However, it is in the transformation of traditional religious images that the ideas of the vacant universe are most dramatically presented. Associated with this central idea are ironic transformations of other images that formerly had been associated with Christianity as paradigms of belief: the journey of Odysseus, the rainbow of the Covenant and Robinson Crusoe. Combining close textual analysis with a theory of literary iconology, this fascinating reissue will be of particular value to students with an interest in literary images, and literary and cultural history.

Lacan and the Concept of the 'Real' (Hardcover): T. Eyers Lacan and the Concept of the 'Real' (Hardcover)
T. Eyers
R3,887 Discovery Miles 38 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Philosophers and political theorists have engaged Lacan's concept of the 'Real' in particular, with Slavoj i ek and Alain Badiou deriving profound philosophical and political consequences from what is the most difficult of Lacan's ideas. This is the first book in English to explore in detail the genesis and consequences of Lacan's concept of the 'Real', providing readers with an invaluable key to one of the most influential ideas of modern times.

Authorship, Ethics and the Reader - Blake, Dickens, Joyce (Hardcover): D. Rainsford Authorship, Ethics and the Reader - Blake, Dickens, Joyce (Hardcover)
D. Rainsford
R2,881 Discovery Miles 28 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dominic Rainsford examines ways in which literary texts may seem to comment on their authors' ethical status. Its argument develops through readings of Blake, Dickens, and Joyce, three authors who find especially vivid ways of casting doubt on their own moral authority, at the same time as they expose wider social ills. The book combines its interest in ethics with post-structuralist scepticism, and thus develops a type of radical humanism with applications far beyond the three authors immediately discussed.

Decolonizing Indigeneity - New Approaches to Latin American Literature (Hardcover): Thomas Ward Decolonizing Indigeneity - New Approaches to Latin American Literature (Hardcover)
Thomas Ward
R3,944 R2,776 Discovery Miles 27 760 Save R1,168 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our time. The thesis of this book is that there are various ways to decolonize the representation of Amerindian peoples. Each chapter has its own decolonial thesis which it then resolves. Chapter 1 proves that there is coloniality in contemporary scholarship and argues that word choices can be improved to decolonize the way we describe the first Americans. Chapter 2 argues that literature in Latin American begins before 1492 and shows the long arc of Mayan expression, taking the Popol Wuj as a case study. Chapter 3 demonstrates how colonialist discourse is reinforced by a dualist rhetorical ploy of ignorance and arrogance in a Renaissance historical chronicle, Agustin de Zarate's Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Peru. Chapter 4 shows how by inverting the Renaissance dualist configuration of civilization and barbarian, the Nahua (Aztecs) who were formerly considered barbarian can be "civilized" within Spanish norms. This is done by modeling the categories of civilization discussed at length by the Friar Bartolome de las Casas as a template that can serve to evaluate Nahua civil society as encapsulated by the historiography of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, a possibility that would have been available to Spaniards during that time. Chapter 5 maintains that the colonialities of the pre-Independence era survive, but that Criollo-indigenous dialogue is capable of excavating their roots to extirpate them. By comparing the discussions of the hacienda system by the Peruvian essayist Manuel Gonzalez Prada and by the Mayan-Quiche eye-witness to history Rigoberta Menchu, this books shows that there is common ground between their viewpoints despite the different genres in which their work appears and despite the different countries and the eight decades that separated them, suggesting a universality to the problem of the hacienda which can be dissected. This book models five different decolonizing methods to extricate from the continuities of coloniality both indigenous writing and the representation of indigenous peoples by learned elites.

Perspectives on World War I Poetry (Hardcover, New): Robert C. Evans Perspectives on World War I Poetry (Hardcover, New)
Robert C. Evans
R3,376 Discovery Miles 33 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Introducing students to the full range of critical approachesto the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18. Each chapter covers one or more major poets, and guides the reader through close readings of poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including: . Classical . Formalist . Psychoanalytic . Marxist . Structuralist . Reader-response . New Historicist . Feminist Including the full text of each poem discussed and poetry from British, North American and Commonwealth writers, the book explores the work of such poets as: Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, Alys Fane Trotter, Eva Dobell, Charlotte Mew, John McCrae, Edward Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon, Margaret Sackville, Sara Teasdale, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Teresa Hooley, Isaac Rosenberg, Leon Gellert, Marian Allen, Vera Brittain, Margaret Postgate Cole, Wilfred Owen, E.E. Cummings and David Jones.

Angels of Modernism - Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 (Hardcover): S. Hobson Angels of Modernism - Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 (Hardcover)
S. Hobson
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age.

The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics - A Hoot in the Light (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Alex C. Parrish The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics - A Hoot in the Light (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Alex C. Parrish
R3,639 Discovery Miles 36 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics: A Hoot in the Light presents the latest research in animal perception and cognition in the context of rhetorical theory. Alex C. Parrish explores the science of animal signaling that shows human and nonhuman animals share similar rhetorical strategies-such as communicating to manipulate or persuade-which suggests the vast impact sensory modalities have on communication in nature. The book demonstrates new ways of seeing humans and how we have separated ourselves from, and subjectified, the animal rhetor. This type of cross-species study allows us to trace the origins of our own persuasive behaviors, providing a deeper and more inclusive history of rhetoric than ever before.

Literature, Theory, History (Hardcover): J. Hart Literature, Theory, History (Hardcover)
J. Hart
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses literature, theory and history in close relation. Its main focus is on comparative literature and history, culture, poetics, rhetoric, theatricality, genre and gender, and balances close reading with theory and historical context.

Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot - Sources of Derrida's Notion and Practice of Literature (Hardcover, New): Timothy Clark Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot - Sources of Derrida's Notion and Practice of Literature (Hardcover, New)
Timothy Clark
R2,815 Discovery Miles 28 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jacques Derrida is undoubtedly one of the foremost figures in the development of twentienth-century literary theory. The school of 'deconstruction' that has grown out of his work has been either absorbed into the corpus of modern literary theory, or criticized for its departures from the original texts of Derrida in whose name it is practised. Timothy Clark's innovative book traces instead sources of Derrida's practice of 'literature' as a form of philosophical thinking, in the work of Heidegger and Blanchot. It offers a welcome stylistic clarity in a field beleaguered by its philosophical and linguistic difficulty. Clark gives close readings of key texts including Heidegger's Conversation on a Country Path, Blanchot's L'attente l'oubli, and Derrida's Pas and Signsponge, and widens the scope of his discussion of philosophical cultivation of 'literary' forms to include in addition the issues of creativity, influence and responsibility as they appear in the work of Lyotard and Levinas.

The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing (Paperback): Amy Monticello, Jason Tucker The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing (Paperback)
Amy Monticello, Jason Tucker
R1,204 Discovery Miles 12 040 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The stories of lived experience offer powerful representations of a nation’s complex and often fractured identity. Personal narratives have taken many forms in American literature. From the letters and journals of the famous and the lesser known to the memoirs of former slaves to hit true crime podcasts to lyric essays to the curated archives we keep on social media, life writing has been a tool of both the influential and the disenfranchised to spark cultural and political evolution, to help define the larger identity of the nation, and to claim a sense of belonging within it. Taken together, individual stories of real American lives weave a tapestry of history, humanity, and art while raising questions about the veracity of memory and the slippery nature of truth. This volume surveys the forms of life writing that have contributed to the richness of American literature and shaped American discourse. It examines life writing as a rhetorical tool for social change and explores how technological advancement has allowed ordinary Americans to chronicle and share their lives with others.

Ethical Sense and Literary Significance - Deep Sociality and the Cultural Agency of Imaginative Discourse (Paperback): Donald... Ethical Sense and Literary Significance - Deep Sociality and the Cultural Agency of Imaginative Discourse (Paperback)
Donald R. Wehrs
R1,295 Discovery Miles 12 950 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

• Links the cultural agency of imaginative discourse to its capacity to address, challenge, and evoke a deep sociality characteristic of humans; • Brings together two prominent currents informing contemporary literary theory—affective and neurocognitive-evolutionary literary studies and work calling for renewed attentiveness to ethical and aesthetic qualities in literary works; • Develops and illustrates his arguments through analyses of a wide range of literary works

Materializing Bakhtin - The Bakhtin Circle and Social Theory (Hardcover): C. Brandist, G. Tihanov Materializing Bakhtin - The Bakhtin Circle and Social Theory (Hardcover)
C. Brandist, G. Tihanov
R2,868 Discovery Miles 28 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Interdisciplinary by design and intent, this volume brings together nine essays by scholars from Russia, Britain, and North America, that explore the historical context, and current relevance of the work of the Bakhtin Circle for social theory, philosophy, history and linguistics. The articles argue that exploring the background of Bakhtinian thought is a better way of appreciating their influence on how social and cultural phenomena are analyzed at the end of the 20th century.

The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age - Canons, Transformations, Reception (Hardcover): Federica Bessone, Marco Fucecchi The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age - Canons, Transformations, Reception (Hardcover)
Federica Bessone, Marco Fucecchi
R4,233 Discovery Miles 42 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inhibiting factor. The literary flourishing of the Flavian age shows that awareness of this canon rather stimulated creative tension. In the changing socio-cultural context, daring innovations transform the genres of poetry and prose. This volume, which collects papers by influential scholars of early Imperial literature, sheds light on the productive dynamics of the ancient genre system and can also offer insightful perspectives to a non-classicist readership.

Theory Matters - The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Martin Middeke,... Theory Matters - The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt
R3,966 Discovery Miles 39 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of particularity and contingency - including its own. What is the place of literary and cultural theory after the Age of Theory has ended? Grouping its chapters into rubrics of metatheory, cultural theory, critical theory and textual theory, the collection demonstrates that the practice of "doing theory" has neither lost its vitality nor can it be in any way dispensable. Current directions covered include the renewed interest in phenomenology, the increased acknowledgement of the importance of media history for all cultural practices and formations, complexity studies, new narratology, literary ethics, cultural ecology, and an intensified interest in textual as well as cultural matter.

The Subject of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals) - Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama (Paperback): Catherine Belsey The Subject of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals) - Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama (Paperback)
Catherine Belsey
R1,500 Discovery Miles 15 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1985, The Subject of Tragedy takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman. Catherine Belsey charts, in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts, the production in the Renaissance of a meaning for subjectivity that is identifiably modern. The subject of liberal humanism - self-determining, free origin of language, choice and action - is highlighted as the product of a specific period in which man was the subject to which woman was related.

The Art of Creating Fiction (Hardcover): Zulfikar Ghose The Art of Creating Fiction (Hardcover)
Zulfikar Ghose
R4,333 Discovery Miles 43 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Anyone wishing to write short stories and novels will learn from The Art of Creating Fiction how some eminent writers, such as William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, created their art. By giving the new writer an understanding of fiction as it has been produced by the great novelists, The Art of Creating Fiction serves a double purpose: it is an implicit manual on how to write fiction and at the same time a work that provokes, challenges and inspires the new writer to cultivate an ambition for greatness.

Herbert Read and Selected Works (Hardcover): Herbert Read Herbert Read and Selected Works (Hardcover)
Herbert Read
R15,986 Discovery Miles 159 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Herbert Read and Selected Works includes four of Herbert Read's most seminal works; A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays, The English Vision: An Anthology, The Tenth Muse: Essays in Criticism and The Politics of the Unpolitical. This collection also includes the title Herbert Read: A Memorial Symposium - a collection of essays that illustrates the many different aspects and achievements of Read's career.

Contemporary African Literature in English - Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (Hardcover): M. Krishnan Contemporary African Literature in English - Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (Hardcover)
M. Krishnan
R1,930 Discovery Miles 19 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.

The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses (Paperback): Patrick Hastings The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses (Paperback)
Patrick Hastings
R569 R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves together plot summaries, interpretive analyses, scholarly perspectives, and historical and biographical context to create an easy-to-read, entertaining, and thorough review of Ulysses. In The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' Patrick Hastings provides comprehensive support to readers of Joyce's magnum opus by illuminating crucial details and reveling in the mischievous genius of this unparalleled novel. Written in a voice that offers encouragement and good humor, this guidebook maintains a closeness to the original text and supports the first-time reader of Ulysses with the information needed to successfully finish and appreciate the novel. Deftly weaving together spirited plot summaries, helpful interpretive analyses, scholarly criticism, and explanations of historical and biographical context, Hastings makes Joyce's famously intimidating novel-one that challenges the conventions and limits of language-more accessible and enjoyable than ever before. He unpacks each chapter of Ulysses with episode guides, which offer pointed and readable explanations of what occurs in the text. He also deals adroitly with many of the puzzles Joyce hoped would "keep the professors busy for centuries." Full of practical resources-including maps, explanations of the old British system of money, photos of places and things mentioned in the text, annotated bibliographies, and a detailed chronology of Bloomsday (June 16, 1904-the single day on which Ulysses is set)-this is an invaluable first resource about a work of art that celebrates the strength of spirit required to endure the trials of everyday existence. The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is perfect for anyone undertaking a reading of Joyce's novel, whether as a student, a member of a reading group, or a lover of literature finally crossing this novel off the bucket list.

God and Self in the Confessional Novel (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): John D. Sykes Jr. God and Self in the Confessional Novel (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
John D. Sykes Jr.
R1,890 Discovery Miles 18 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel? Beginning with the premise that guilt remains a universal human concern, this book considers confession via the classic confessional texts of Augustine and Rousseau. Employing this framework, John D. Sykes, Jr. examines Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Percy's Lancelot, and McEwan's Atonement to investigate the evolution of confession and guilt in literature from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

History, Trauma, and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives - Reconstructing Identities (Hardcover, New): O. Ifowodo History, Trauma, and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives - Reconstructing Identities (Hardcover, New)
O. Ifowodo
R1,923 Discovery Miles 19 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Did colonialism, a world-historical catastrophe, inflict only material damage on the colonized, or did it cause psychic injury as well? What would it mean, then, to read postcolonial writings under the prism of trauma? In History, Trauma, and Healing in Post-Colonial Narratives, Ifowodo tackles these questions through a psycho-social examination of the lingering impact of imperialist domination. His hybrid method that encompasses historicism, psychoanalysis and a realist concept of linguistic reference stakes a bold, new ground in postcolonial studies. The focus is trans-continental and the analysis centered on primary texts that explore the African, African-American, and Caribbean experience of slavery/colonialism. The result is a refreshing and necessary complement to the cultural-materialist studies that dominate the field.

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