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English Court Hand, A.D. 1066 to 1500 - Illustrated Chiefly From the Public Records; 1 (Hardcover): Charles 1870- Johnson English Court Hand, A.D. 1066 to 1500 - Illustrated Chiefly From the Public Records; 1 (Hardcover)
Charles 1870- Johnson; Created by Hilary Jenkinson
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
You Can Never Satisfy a Woman (Hardcover): Robert Gonzalez You Can Never Satisfy a Woman (Hardcover)
Robert Gonzalez
R1,123 Discovery Miles 11 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Modern Languages Study Guides: No et moi - Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level French (Paperback): Karine Harrington Modern Languages Study Guides: No et moi - Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level French (Paperback)
Karine Harrington
R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas & CCEA Level: AS/A-level Subject: Modern Languages First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2017 Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialist terminology. Breaking down each scene, character and theme in No et moi (No and Me), this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay. - Strengthen language skills with relevant grammar, vocab and writing exercises throughout - Aim for top marks by building a bank of textual examples and quotes to enhance exam response - Build confidence with knowledge-check questions at the end of every chapter - Revise effectively with pages of essential vocabulary and key mind maps throughout - Feel prepared for exams with advice on how to write an essay, plus sample essay questions, two levels of model answers and examiner commentary

Fixing Nick (Hardcover): Howie Groff Fixing Nick (Hardcover)
Howie Groff
R609 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wheelwright's Shop (Hardcover): George Sturt The Wheelwright's Shop (Hardcover)
George Sturt
R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rumors of Revolution - Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial Louisiana (Hardcover): Jennifer Tsien Rumors of Revolution - Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial Louisiana (Hardcover)
Jennifer Tsien
R2,757 Discovery Miles 27 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1682 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a century later, there had never been a revolution, per se, in Louisiana. However, as Jennifer Tsien highlights in this groundbreaking work, revolutionary sentiment clearly surfaced in the literature and discourse both in the Louisiana colony and in France with dramatic and far-reaching consequences. In Rumors of Revolution, Tsien analyzes documented observations made in Paris and in New Orleans about the exercise of royal power over French subjects and colonial Louisiana stories that laid bare the arbitrary powers and abuses that the government could exert on its people against their will. Ultimately, Tsien establishes an implicit connection between histories of settler colonialism in the Americas and the fate of absolutism in Europe that has been largely overlooked in scholarship to date.

Teaspoons full of Love & Positivity - Life Eitched Into Poems (Hardcover): Swati Munjal Teaspoons full of Love & Positivity - Life Eitched Into Poems (Hardcover)
Swati Munjal
R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Tears, Liquids and Porous Bodies in Literature Across the Ages - Niobe's Siblings (Hardcover): Norbert Lennartz Tears, Liquids and Porous Bodies in Literature Across the Ages - Niobe's Siblings (Hardcover)
Norbert Lennartz
R3,384 Discovery Miles 33 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Taking in works from writers as diverse as William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronte, John Keats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, this book spans approximately 300 years and unpacks how bodily liquidity, porosity and petrification recur as a pattern and underlie the chequered history of the body and genders in literature. Lennartz examines the precarious relationship between porosity and its opposite - closure, containment and stoniness - and explores literary history as a meandering narrative in which 'female' porosity and 'manly' stoniness clash, showing how different societies and epochs respond to and engage with bodily porosity. This book considers the ways that this relationship is constantly renegotiated and where effusive and 'feminine' genres, such as 'sloppy' letters and streams of consciousness, are pitted against stony and astringent forms of masculinity, like epitaphs, sonnets and the Bildungsroman.

Shakespeare's Storytellers (Hardcover): Barbara Hardy Shakespeare's Storytellers (Hardcover)
Barbara Hardy
R117 R102 Discovery Miles 1 020 Save R15 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and offers some new insight into the playwright's craft. Shakespeare makes narrative theatrical and it is as prominent in his craft and language as characterization and imagery. Hardy analyzes key structures, including reflexive narrative and the narrative compoundings used to begin and end plays. She also examines narrative subtleties in the works of Plutarch, Holinshed, Brooke, and Sidney that Shakespeare read. Finally, she explores common narrative techniques -- memory, forecast, and gendered story -- and extensively analyzes these issues in three plays: Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth.

Twelfth Night: York Notes for AS & A2 (Paperback): Emma Smith, William Shakespeare Twelfth Night: York Notes for AS & A2 (Paperback)
Emma Smith, William Shakespeare
R258 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R18 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy to use, packed with valuable features and written by experienced experts to give you an in-depth understanding of the text, critical approaches and the all-important exam. An enhanced exam skills section which includes essay plans, expert guidance on understanding questions and sample answers. You'll know exactly what you need to do and say to get the best grades. A wealth of useful content like key quotations, revision tasks and vital study tips that'll help you revise, remember and recall all the most important information. The widest coverage and the best, most in-depth analysis of characters, themes, language, form, context and style to help you demonstrate an exhaustive understanding of all aspects of the text. York Notes for AS & A2 are available for these popular titles: The Bloody Chamber (9781447913153) Doctor Faustus (9781447913177) Frankenstein (9781447913214) The Great Gatsby (9781447913207) The Kite Runner (9781447913160) Macbeth (9781447913146) Othello (9781447913191) Wuthering Heights (9781447913184) Jane Eyre (9781447948834) Hamlet (9781447948872) A Midsummer Night's Dream (9781447948841) Northanger Abbey (9781447948858 Pride & Prejudice (9781447948865) Twelfth Night (9781447948889)

Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture - Bad Beatitudes (Hardcover): David Deutsch Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture - Bad Beatitudes (Hardcover)
David Deutsch
R3,369 Discovery Miles 33 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From Allen Ginsberg's 'angel-headed hipsters' to angelic outlaws in Essex Hemphill's Conditions, angelic imagery is pervasive in queer American art and culture. This book examines how the period after 1945 expanded a unique mixture of sacred and profane angelic imagery in American literature and culture to fashion queer characters, primarily gay men, as embodiments of 'bad beatitudes'. Deutsch explores how authors across diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, including John Rechy, Richard Bruce Nugent, Allen Ginsberg, and Rabih Alameddine, sought to find the sacred in the profane and the profane in the sacred. Exploring how these writers used the trope of angelic outlaws to celebrate men who rebelled wilfully and nobly against religious, medical, legal and social repression in American society, this book sheds new light on dissent and queer identities in postmodern American literature.

Hamlet: York Notes for AS & A2 (Paperback): Jeff Wood, William Shakespeare Hamlet: York Notes for AS & A2 (Paperback)
Jeff Wood, William Shakespeare
R261 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R18 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy to use, packed with valuable features and written by experienced experts to give you an in-depth understanding of the text, critical approaches and the all-important exam. An enhanced exam skills section which includes essay plans, expert guidance on understanding questions and sample answers. You'll know exactly what you need to do and say to get the best grades. A wealth of useful content like key quotations, revision tasks and vital study tips that'll help you revise, remember and recall all the most important information. The widest coverage and the best, most in-depth analysis of characters, themes, language, form, context and style to help you demonstrate an exhaustive understanding of all aspects of the text. York Notes for AS & A2 are available for these popular titles: The Bloody Chamber (9781447913153) Doctor Faustus (9781447913177) Frankenstein (9781447913214) The Great Gatsby (9781447913207) The Kite Runner (9781447913160) Macbeth (9781447913146) Othello (9781447913191) Wuthering Heights (9781447913184) Jane Eyre (9781447948834) Hamlet (9781447948872) A Midsummer Night's Dream (9781447948841) Northanger Abbey (9781447948858 Pride & Prejudice (9781447948865) Twelfth Night (9781447948889)

The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre (Hardcover): Jade Boyd The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre (Hardcover)
Jade Boyd
R2,326 Discovery Miles 23 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Teaching Palahniuk: The Treasures of Transgression in the Age of Trump and Beyond (Hardcover): Christopher J. Burlingame Teaching Palahniuk: The Treasures of Transgression in the Age of Trump and Beyond (Hardcover)
Christopher J. Burlingame
R1,815 Discovery Miles 18 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Conversations with Dave Eggers (Hardcover): Scott F. Parker Conversations with Dave Eggers (Hardcover)
Scott F. Parker
R3,187 Discovery Miles 31 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It's been barely twenty years since Dave Eggers (b. 1970) burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. In that time, he has gone on to publish several books of fiction, a few more books of nonfiction, a dozen books for children, and many harder-to-classify works. In addition to his authorship, Eggers has established himself as an influential publisher, editor, and designer. He has also founded a publishing company, McSweeney's; two magazines, Might and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern; and several nonprofit organizations. This whirlwind of productivity, within publishing and beyond, gives Eggers a unique standing among American writers: jack of all trades, master of same. The interviews contained in Conversations with Dave Eggers suggest the range of Eggers's pursuits-a range that is reflected in the variety of the interviews themselves. In addition to the expected interviews with major publications, Eggers engages here with obscure magazines and blogs, trade publications, international publications, student publications, and children from a mentoring program run by one of his nonprofits. To read the interviews in sequence is to witness Eggers's rapid evolution. The cultural hysteria around Staggering Genius and Eggers's complicated relationship with celebrity are clear in many of the earlier interviews. From there, as the buzz around him mellows, Eggers responds in kind, allowing writing and his other endeavors to come to the fore of his conversations. Together, these interviews provide valuable insight into a driving force in contemporary American literature.

Warrior of Mercia - The BRAND NEW action-packed historical thriller from MJ Porter (Hardcover): M J Porter Warrior of Mercia - The BRAND NEW action-packed historical thriller from MJ Porter (Hardcover)
M J Porter
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The next thrilling adventure, all NEW from MJ Porter Icel is a lone wolf no more... Oath sworn to Wiglaf, King of Mercia and acknowledged as a member of Ealdorman AElfstan's warrior band, Icel continues to forge his own destiny on the path to becoming the Warrior of Mercia. With King Ecgberht of Wessex defeated and Londonium back under Mercian control, the Wessex invasion of Mercia is over. But the Wessex king was never Mercia's only enemy. An unknown danger lurks in the form of merciless Viking raiders, who set their sights on infiltrating the waterways of the traitorous breakaway kingdom of the East Angles, within touching distance of Mercia's eastern borders. Icel must journey to the kingdom of the East Angles and unite against a common enemy to ensure Mercia's hard-won freedom prevails. Praise for MJ Porter 'Immediate and personal' Bestselling author Matthew Harffy 'No lover of Dark Age warfare is going to be disappointed. Personal, real, fascinating and satisfying.' S.J.A. Turney 'If you love history, fiction, adventure and great stories - You won't regret it!" Eric Schumacher 'MJ Porter recounts a sensitive, reluctant hero's coming-of-age within a Dark Age realm riven by chaos and conflict' Bestselling author Matthew Harffy 'Refreshing... I was reluctant to put the book down' Historical Novel Society Readers are spell-bound 'So real I felt I was there!... A page-turner' Reader review 'Wonderful to read and hard to put down' Reader review 'I found the pages flying by... A great book' Reader review

Blood Passion - Volume One (Hardcover): J. M. Valente Blood Passion - Volume One (Hardcover)
J. M. Valente
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Modern Languages Study Guides: Un sac de billes - Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level French (Paperback): Karine Harrington Modern Languages Study Guides: Un sac de billes - Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level French (Paperback)
Karine Harrington
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Exam Board: AQA & Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: Modern Languages First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2017 Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialist terminology. Breaking down each scene, character and theme in Un Sac de Billes (A Bag of Marbles), this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay. - Strengthen language skills with relevant grammar, vocab and writing exercises throughout - Aim for top marks by building a bank of textual examples and quotes to enhance exam response - Build confidence with knowledge-check questions at the end of every chapter - Revise effectively with pages of essential vocabulary and key mind maps throughout - Feel prepared for exams with advice on how to write an essay, plus sample essay questions, two levels of model answers and examiner commentary

Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West - Familiar Strangers (Hardcover): Varsha Panjwani, Koel Chatterjee Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West - Familiar Strangers (Hardcover)
Varsha Panjwani, Koel Chatterjee; Series edited by Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, David Schalkwyk, Silvia Bigliazzi
R2,682 Discovery Miles 26 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Featuring case studies, essays, and conversation pieces by scholars and practitioners, this volume explores how Indian cinematic adaptations outside the geopolitical and cultural boundaries of India are revitalizing the broader landscape of Shakespeare research, performance, and pedagogy. Chapters in this volume address practical and thematic concerns and opportunities that are specific to studying Indian cinematic Shakespeares in the West. For instance, how have intercultural encounters between Indian Shakespeare films and American students inspired new pedagogic methodologies? How has the presence and popularity of Indian Shakespeare films affected policy change at British cultural institutions? How can disagreement between eastern and western perspectives on the politics of a Shakespeare film become the site for productive cross-cultural dialogue? This is the first book to explore such complex interactions between Indian Shakespeare films and Western audiences to contribute to the assessment of the new networks that have emerged as a result of Global Shakespeare studies and practices. The volume argues that by tracking critical currents from India towards the West new insights are afforded on the wider field of Shakespeare Studies - including feminist Shakespeares, translation in Shakespeare, or the study of music in Shakespeare - and are shaping debates on the ownership and meaning of Shakespeare itself. Contributing to the current studies in Global Shakespeare, this book marks a discursive shift in the way Shakespeare on Indian screen is predominantly theorised and offers an alternative methodology for examining non-Anglophone cinematic Shakespeares as a whole.

Enchanted April (Paperback, Revised edition): Matthew Barber Enchanted April (Paperback, Revised edition)
Matthew Barber
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (Hardcover): Isiah Lavender III Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (Hardcover)
Isiah Lavender III
R3,168 Discovery Miles 31 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a "Grand Master" of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives-Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine-project complex futures and complex identities for people of color in terms of race, sex, and gender. Hopkinson has always had a vested interest in expanding racial and ethnic diversity in all facets of speculative fiction from its writers to its readers, and this desire is reflected in her award-winning anthologies. Her work best represents the current and ongoing colored wave of science fiction in the twenty-first century. In twenty-one interviews ranging from 1999 until 2021, Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson reveals a writer of fierce intelligence and humor in love with ideas and concerned with issues of identity. She provides powerful insights on code-switching, race, Afrofuturism, queer identities, sexuality, Caribbean folklore, and postcolonial science fictions, among other things. As a result, the conversations presented here very much demonstrate the uniqueness of her mind and her influence as a writer.

Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics (Hardcover): Peter Sloane Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics (Hardcover)
Peter Sloane
R3,202 Discovery Miles 32 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics examines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but never quite reveal, the ineffable, inexpressible essence of his narrators' emotionally fraught worlds. Reformulating Martin Heidegger's suggestion that the 'essence of world can only be indicated' as 'the essence of world can only be gestured towards,' Sloane argues that while Ishiguro's novels and short stories are profoundly sensitive to the limitations of literary form, their narrators are, to varying degrees, equally keenly attuned to the failures of language itself. In order to communicate something of the emotional worlds of characters adrift in various uncertainties, while also commenting on the expressive possibilities of fiction and the mimetic arts more widely, Ishiguro appropriates a range of metaphors which enable both author and character to gesture towards the undisclosable essences of fiction and being.

The American Western in Canadian Literature (Hardcover): Joel Deshaye The American Western in Canadian Literature (Hardcover)
Joel Deshaye
R1,829 Discovery Miles 18 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary tradition. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.

Preventing Crimes, Insurgencies and Desperate Migrations in Nations of the World - A Collection of 3 Sequel Books: Preventing... Preventing Crimes, Insurgencies and Desperate Migrations in Nations of the World - A Collection of 3 Sequel Books: Preventing Crimes, Insurgencies and Desperate Migrations from Developing Nations Preventing Crimes, Insurgencies and Desperate Migration from Africa; Preventing Crimes, Insurgencies and Desperate Migrations in Asia, Latin (Hardcover)
Iliyasu Buhari Maijega
R1,248 Discovery Miles 12 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Reading Sumerian Poetry - A Study of the Oldest Literature (Hardcover): Jeremy Black Reading Sumerian Poetry - A Study of the Oldest Literature (Hardcover)
Jeremy Black
R6,637 Discovery Miles 66 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An analysis of the oldest form of poetry. Sumer, in the southern part of Iraq, created the first literary culture in history, as early as 2500BC. The account is structured around a complete English translation of the fragmentary Lugalbanda poems, narrating the adventures of the eponymous hero. The study reveals a work of a rich and sophisticated poetic imagination and technique, which, far from being in any sense 'primitive', are so complex as to resist much modern literary analysis.

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