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Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist - Second Edition Revised and Expanded (Hardcover, 2nd Enlarged edition): Oronzo... Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist - Second Edition Revised and Expanded (Hardcover, 2nd Enlarged edition)
Oronzo Cilli
R1,344 Discovery Miles 13 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lost If Not Found (Hardcover): Nicholas V Malinowski Lost If Not Found (Hardcover)
Nicholas V Malinowski
R633 R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gaslight Sonatas (Hardcover): Fannie Hurst Gaslight Sonatas (Hardcover)
Fannie Hurst
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Letters of Emily Dickinson (Hardcover): Emily Dickinson Letters of Emily Dickinson (Hardcover)
Emily Dickinson
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Literature in a Time of Migration - British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815-1876 (Hardcover): Josephine McDonagh Literature in a Time of Migration - British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815-1876 (Hardcover)
Josephine McDonagh
R2,838 Discovery Miles 28 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Literature in a Time of Migration offers a profound rethinking of British fiction in light of the new practices of human mobility that reshaped the nineteenth-century world. Building on the growing critical engagement with globalization in literary studies, it confronts the paradox that at a time when transnational human movement occurred globally on an unprecedented scale, British fiction appeared to turn inward to tell stories of local places that valorized stability and rootedness. In contrast, this book reveals how literary works, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the advent of the New Imperialism, were active components of a culture of colonization and emigration. Fictional texts, as print commodities, were enmeshed in technologies of transport and communication, and innovations in literary form were spurred by the conditions and consequences of human movement. Examining works by Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, and George Eliot, as well as popular contemporaries, Mary Russell Mitford, John Galt, and Thomas Martin Wheeler, this volume demonstrates how literary texts overlap with an agenda set in public discussions of colonial emigration that they also helped to shape. Debates about assisted emigration, 'forced' and 'free' migration, colonization, settlement, and the removal of native peoples, figure in fictions in complex ways. Read alongside writings by emigration theorists, practitioners, and enthusiasts for colonization, fictional texts reveal a powerful and sustained engagement with British migratory practices and their worldwide consequences. Literature in a Time of Migration is a timely reminder of the place and importance of migration within British cultural heritage.

Origins Of The Wheel Of Time - The Legends And Mythologies That Inspired Robert Jordan (Paperback): Michael Livingston Origins Of The Wheel Of Time - The Legends And Mythologies That Inspired Robert Jordan (Paperback)
Michael Livingston
R385 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

With an introduction by Harriet McDougal, Origins of The Wheel of Time by Michael Livingston explores the inspirations behind the acclaimed series The Wheel of Time, including a biography of Robert Jordan for the first time.

Explore never-before-seen insights into The Wheel of Time, including a brand-new, redrawn world map by Ellisa Mitchell using change requests discovered in Robert Jordan's unpublished notes and an alternate scene from an early draft of The Eye of the World.

This companion to the internationally bestselling series will delve into the creation of Robert Jordan's masterpiece, drawing from interviews and an unprecedented examination of his unpublished notes. Michael Livingston tells the behind-the-scenes story of who Jordan was (including a chapter that is the very first published biography of the author), how he worked, and why he holds such an important place in modern literature.

The second part of the book is a glossary to the 'real world' in The Wheel of Time. King Arthur is in The Wheel of Time. Merlin, too. But so is Alexander the Great and the Apollo Space Program, the Norse gods and Napoleon's greatest defeat - and so much more.

The Translingual Verse - Migration, Rhythm, and Resistance in Contemporary Italophone Poetry (Hardcover): Alice Loda The Translingual Verse - Migration, Rhythm, and Resistance in Contemporary Italophone Poetry (Hardcover)
Alice Loda
R2,696 Discovery Miles 26 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba - A Critical Edition (Hardcover): James J O'Kelly The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba - A Critical Edition (Hardcover)
James J O'Kelly; Edited by Jennifer Brittan
R3,322 Discovery Miles 33 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In late 1872, the New York Herald named James J. O'Kelly its special correspondent to Cuba, to cover what would later be known as the Ten Years' War. O'Kelly was tasked with crossing Spanish lines, locating the insurgent camps, and interviewing the president of the Cuban republic, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. O'Kelly became a political lightning rod when, after fulfilling his mission, he was arrested, court-martialed, and threatened with execution in Spanish Cuba. For the book that followed, The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba, O'Kelly assembled edited versions of the eighteen dispatches he sent to the Herald, some written in the remotest imaginable places in the Cuban interior. The Mambi-Land constitutes the first book-length account of Cuba's Ten Years' War for independence from Spain (1868-1878) and provides a window on an understudied moment in U.S.-Cuba relations. More than recovering an important lost work, this critical edition draws attention to Cuba's crucial place in American national consciousness in the post-Civil War period and represents a timely and significant contribution to our understanding of the complicated history of Cuba-U.S. relations.

Historical Modernisms - Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics (Hardcover): Jean-Michel Rabate, Angeliki Spiropoulou Historical Modernisms - Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics (Hardcover)
Jean-Michel Rabate, Angeliki Spiropoulou
R3,373 Discovery Miles 33 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific historical contexts, as well as how it redefines the concept of history itself, this book sheds new light on the historical-mindedness of modernism and the artistic avant-gardes. Cutting across Anglophone and less explored European traditions and featuring work from a variety of eminent scholars, it deals with issues as diverse as artistic medium, modernist print culture, autobiography as history writing, avant-garde experimentations and modernism's futurity. Contributors examine both literary and artistic modernism, combining theoretical overviews and archival research with case studies of Anglophone as well as European modernism, which speak to the current historicizing trend in modernist and literary studies.

What about the Baby? - Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Paperback): Alice McDermott What about the Baby? - Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R417 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No Document (Paperback): Anwen Crawford No Document (Paperback)
Anwen Crawford
R389 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R27 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mysteries of Free Masonry - Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred (Hardcover): William Morgan The Mysteries of Free Masonry - Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred (Hardcover)
William Morgan
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Narrating Trauma - Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders (Hardcover): Gretchen Braun Narrating Trauma - Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders (Hardcover)
Gretchen Braun
R2,084 Discovery Miles 20 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Watch and Ward (Hardcover): Henry James Watch and Ward (Hardcover)
Henry James
R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Against the Map - The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover): Adam Sills Against the Map - The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
Adam Sills
R3,287 Discovery Miles 32 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the increasing accuracy and legibility of cartographic projections, the proliferation of empirically based chorographies, and the popular vogue for travel narratives served to order, package, and commodify space in a manner that was critical to the formation of a unified Britain. In tandem with such developments, however, a trenchant anti-cartographic skepticism also emerged. This critique of the map can be seen in many literary works of the period that satirize the efficacy and value of maps and highlight their ideological purposes. Against the Map argues that our understanding of the production of national space during this time must also account for these sites of resistance and opposition to hegemonic forms of geographical representation, such as the map. This study utilizes the methodologies of critical geography, as well as literary criticism and theory, to detail the conflicted and often adversarial relationship between cartographic and literary representations of the nation and its geography. While examining atlases, almanacs, itineraries, and other materials, Adam Sills focuses particularly on the construction of heterotopias in the works of John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, and Jane Austen. These "other" spaces, such as neighborhood, home, and country, are not reducible to the map but have played an equally important role in the shaping of British national identity. Ultimately, Against the Map suggests that nation is forged not only in concert with the map but, just as important, against it.

Chronological Outlines of American Literature (Hardcover): Selden Lincoln Whitcomb Chronological Outlines of American Literature (Hardcover)
Selden Lincoln Whitcomb
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Unsettling Nature - Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination (Hardcover): Taylor Eggan Unsettling Nature - Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination (Hardcover)
Taylor Eggan
R3,345 Discovery Miles 33 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity's displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis's homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might reverse the degradation we humans have wrought-and in saving the earth we can once again dwell in the nearness of our own being. Unsettling Nature opens with a meditation on the trouble with such ecological homecoming narratives, which bear a close resemblance to narratives of settler colonial homemaking. Taylor Eggan demonstrates that the Heideggerian strain of eco-phenomenology-along with its well-trod categories of home, dwelling, and world-produces uncanny effects in settler colonial contexts. He reads instances of nature's defamiliarization not merely as psychological phenomena but also as symptoms of the repressed consciousness of coloniality. The book at once critiques Heidegger's phenomenology and brings it forward through chapters on Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Schreiner, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. Suggesting that alienation may in fact be "natural" to the human condition and hence something worth embracing instead of repressing, Unsettling Nature concludes with a speculative proposal to transform eco-phenomenology into "exo-phenomenology"-an experiential mode that engages deeply with the alterity of others and with the self as its own Other.

Uncommon Sense - Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste (Hardcover): Carrie D Shanafelt Uncommon Sense - Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste (Hardcover)
Carrie D Shanafelt
R2,764 Discovery Miles 27 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Infamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government powers seeking license for ruthlessness-the utilitarian notion of privileging the greatest happiness for the most people and the panopticon-Jeremy Bentham is not commonly associated with political emancipation. But perhaps he should be. In his private manuscripts, Bentham agonized over the injustice of laws prohibiting sexual nonconformity, questioning state policy that would put someone to death merely for enjoying an uncommon pleasure. He identified sources of hatred for sexual nonconformists in philosophy, law, religion, and literature, arguing that his goal of "the greatest happiness" would be impossible as long as authorities dictate whose pleasures can be tolerated and whose must be forbidden. Ultimately, Bentham came to believe that authorities worked to maximize the suffering of women, colonized and enslaved persons, and sexual nonconformists in order to demoralize disenfranchised people and prevent any challenge to power. In Uncommon Sense, Carrie Shanafelt reads Bentham's sexual nonconformity papers as an argument for the toleration of aesthetic difference as the foundation for egalitarian liberty, shedding new light on eighteenth-century aesthetics and politics. At odds with the common image of Bentham as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this innovative study shows Bentham at his most intimate, outraged by injustice and desperate for the end of sanctioned, discriminatory violence.

The Amateur Emigrant - From the Clyde to Sandy Hook (Hardcover): Robert Louis Stevenson The Amateur Emigrant - From the Clyde to Sandy Hook (Hardcover)
Robert Louis Stevenson
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Notes from the Crawl Room - A Collection of Philosophical Horrors (Hardcover): A.M. Moskovitz Notes from the Crawl Room - A Collection of Philosophical Horrors (Hardcover)
A.M. Moskovitz
R2,503 Discovery Miles 25 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Notes from the Crawl Room employs the lens and methods of horror writing to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy. Each story reveals disastrous and de-humanising effects of philosophies that are separated from real, lived experience (e.g. the absurdity of arguing over a sentence in Kant while the world burns around us). From a Kafkaesque exploration of administrative absurdities to the horrors of discursive violence, white supremacy and the living spectres of patriarchy, A.M. Moskovitz doesn't shy away from addressing the complex aspects of our lives. In addition to offering often humourous critiques of philosophy, these works are also, somewhat ironically, pieces of philosophy themselves. Each story seeks to move a subject area forward offering the reader the capacity to think through ideas in a weirder and more open way than traditional philosophy usually allows. An antidote to philosophy that seeks to close down and shut off the imaginative potential of human thought, Notes from the Crawl Room revels in the unsettling and creative potential of stories for revealing what thinking philosophically might really mean.

Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index (Hardcover): Allen H. Redmon Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index (Hardcover)
Allen H. Redmon
R3,154 Discovery Miles 31 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index offers a reassessment of the cinematic index as it sits at the intersection of film studies, trauma studies, and adaptation studies. Author Allen H. Redmon argues that far too often scholars imagine the cinematic index to be nothing more than an acknowledgment that the lens-based camera captures and brings to the screen a reality that existed before the camera. When cinema's indexicality is so narrowly defined, the entire nature of film is called into question the moment film no longer relies on a lens-based camera. The presence of digital technologies seemingly strips cinema of its indexical standing. This volume pushes for a broader understanding of the cinematic index by returning to the early discussions of the index in film studies and the more recent discussions of the index in other digital arts. Bolstered by the insights these discussions can offer, the volume looks to replace what might be best deemed a diminished concept of the cinematic index with a series of more complex cinematic indices, the impoverished index, the indefinite index, the intertextual index, and the imaginative index. The central argument of this book is that these more complex indices encourage spectators to enter a process of ongoing adaptation of the reality they see on the screen, and that it is on the point of these indices that the most significant instances of rewatching movies occur. Examining such films as John Lee Hancock's Saving Mr. Banks (2013); Richard Linklater's oeuvre; Paul Greengrass's United 93 (2006); Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (2006); Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011); and Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017), Inception (2010), and Memento (2000), Redmon demonstrates that the cinematic index invites spectators to enter a process of ongoing adaptation.

The Romantic Movement in English Poetry (Hardcover): Arthur Symons The Romantic Movement in English Poetry (Hardcover)
Arthur Symons
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Equus (Paperback, 1st New edition): Peter Shaffer, Roy Blatchford, Adrian Burke Equus (Paperback, 1st New edition)
Peter Shaffer, Roy Blatchford, Adrian Burke
R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why? While treating the boy, a psychiatrist discovers his own life is paradoxically in the witness box.

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
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