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Wuhan (Paperback)
John Fletcher; Narrated by Bruno Roubicek
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A multi-stranded historical epic set in China in 1937, when Wuhan
stood alone against a whirlwind of war and violence. 'Fletcher
impresses in this searing debut... Fletcher makes all his
characters realistic, even if they only appear briefly, and excels
at portraying the horrors of war and the moral challenges it poses.
Fans of J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun will be riveted'
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review 1937. CHINA IS AT WAR. Soldiers
of the Empire of Japan sweep through the country, killing and
displacing the millions who stand in their way. As vast swathes of
the country fall to the invaders, Wuhan, an industrial city in the
centre of China, is appointed wartime capital. While the rest of
the world looks the other way, the citizens of Wuhan stand alone
against a whirlwind of violence - transforming militarily,
educationally, medically and culturally. Their heroic efforts
halted the Japanese. Weaving together a multitude of narratives,
Wuhan is a historical fiction epic that pulls no punches: the
heart-in-mouth tale of a peasant family forced onto a thousand-mile
refugee death-march; the story of Lao She - China's greatest writer
- leaving his family in a war zone to assist with the propaganda
effort in Wuhan; the hellish battlefields of the Sino-Japanese war;
the approaching global conflict seen through a host of colourful
characters - from Chiang Kai-Shek, China's nationalist leader, to
Peter Fleming, a British journalist based in Wuhan and the
prototype for his younger brother Ian Fleming's James Bond.
The authoritative edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen from The Folger
Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series
for students and general readers. Written by Shakespeare and John
Fletcher, this play tells the familiar story of a love triangle.
Here, though, it seems distant and strange. Initially, the Theban
knights Arcite and Palamon are devoted kinsmen, both serving their
king, Creaon, who is defeated by Theseus, Duke of Athens. After
they are imprisoned in Athens, they see Emilia, sister of the
Duchess of Athens, through a window. They become rivals for her
love, eager to fight each other to the death, even though she does
not know they exist. After Arcite is released and banished, and
Palamon escapes, they begin their would-be fight to the death with
chivalric ceremony. Theseus, happening on them, decrees that they
must compete for her in a tournament, after which the loser will be
executed. Emilia is no willing bride; as a girl, she loved Flavina,
who has died. Still, she tries to avert the tournament by choosing
between Arcite and Palamon, only to find she cannot. The jailer's
daughter, a character added by the playwrights, is infatuated with
Palamon and helps him escape. But the social gulf between her and
Palamon is unimaginably wide. Only the gods can bring the play to
resolution. This edition includes: -Freshly edited text based on
the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes
conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play's famous lines
and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language -An
essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern
perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare
Library's vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to
further reading Essay by Dieter Mehl The Folger Shakespeare Library
in Washington, DC, is home to the world's largest collection of
Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars
from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the
public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of
performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.
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Wuhan (Hardcover)
John Fletcher; Narrated by Bruno Roubicek
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R651
Discovery Miles 6 510
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Wuhan, 1937. China is at war, invaded by the Japanese Army, who
sweep through the country killing indiscriminately. As the capital
city falls, Wuhan takes its place and will become pivotal in
China's future. 1937. China is at war. Japanese soldiers sweep
through the country, killing and displacing the millions who stand
in their way. Nanjing has fallen, and Wuhan promoted in its place.
While the rest of the world looks the other way, Wuhan stands alone
against a whirlwind of violence which forced unprecedented cultural
and political change. This will be a moment that shapes China's
future. Weaving together a multitude of narratives, Wuhan is a
historical fiction epic that pulls no punches: the heart-in-mouth
story of a peasant family forced onto a thousand-mile refugee
death-march; the story of Lao She - the influential Chinese
novelist - who leaves his family in a war-zone to assist with the
propaganda effort in Wuhan; the hellish battlefields of the
Sino-Japanese war; the incipient global conflict seen through a
host of colourful characters - from Chiang Kai-Shek, China's
nationalist leader, to Peter Fleming, British journalist based in
Wuhan and a prototype for his younger brother Ian Fleming's James
Bond.
In the fifth century, the Roman Empire collapsed and Western Europe
began remaking itself in the turmoil that followed. In south-west
Britain, old tribal authorities and identities reasserted
themselves and a ruling elite led a vibrant and outward-looking
kingdom with trade networks that stretched around the Atlantic
coast of Europe and abroad into the Mediterranean. They and their
descendants would forge their new kingdom into an identity and a
culture that lasts into the modern age. The Western Kingdom is the
story of Cornwall, and of how its unique language, culture and
heritage survived even after politically merging with England in
the tenth century. It’s a tale of warfare, trade and survival –
and defiance in the face of defeat.
This book, first published in 1985, stresses Beckett's success as
an innovator in the theatre through a close reading and analysis of
his plays. The differing backgrounds of the two authors enables
them to approach Beckett's drama in a particularly fruitful way:
'Their analysis is clever yet level-headed, readable but does not
shirk complexities.' (Times Educational Supplement). 'Brilliant
collection of essays on Beckett and his works.' (Irish Times)
Thanks to its engaging writing style and accessible structure,
Fletcher has become the ultimate one-stop text for any student
studying Tourism. Its broad appeal and popularity increases with
each new edition, making it excellent value for any student who
wants to understand and explore the principles of the subject.
Well-liked by students and lecturers alike, Tourism: Principles and
Practice is the ultimate reference text for anyone wishing to
understand the complex and varied issues involved with such a
diverse and constantly changing subject.
This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, 'The
Adolescent Novel', in which she examines the relation between
novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an 'open
structure'. It is this blend of the literary with the
psychoanalytic that places Kristeva's work central to current
thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and
psychoanalysis. The essays in this volume offer insight into the
workings of Kristeva's thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual
difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to
the mental states of abjection and melancholia, and their
representation in painting and literature. Kristeva's persistent
humanity, her profound understanding of the dynamics of intention
and creativity, mark her out as one of the leading theoreticians of
desire. Each essay offers the reader a new insight into the many
aspects that make up Kristeva's entire oeuvre.
Alain Robbe-Grillet had traditionally been seen as an austere
experimentalist in fiction, addicted to arid and interminable
descriptions of objects like coffee pots, erasers and pieces of
string. His own rather bellicose theoretical pronouncements were
partly to blame for this unattractive picture, belied by the
immense popular success of the film Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
(made by Alain Resnais from Robbe-Grillet's script) and the high
critical esteem in which novels like Jealousy and The Voyeur are
held. In his original study, first published in 1983, John Fletcher
attempts to resolve this paradox by offering a new interpretation
of Robbe-Grillet's work which stresses the subversive qualities of
his imagination and the disturbing power of his vision of a world
of labyrinths and bizarre sexual stereotypes, haunted by images of
love and loss.
This book, first published in 1985, stresses Beckett's success as
an innovator in the theatre through a close reading and analysis of
his plays. The differing backgrounds of the two authors enables
them to approach Beckett's drama in a particularly fruitful way:
'Their analysis is clever yet level-headed, readable but does not
shirk complexities.' (Times Educational Supplement). 'Brilliant
collection of essays on Beckett and his works.' (Irish Times)
This is the fifth volume in a ten-volume series of the critical
old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon,
in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical
principles. Each play is introduced by a discussion of the text,
has variant readings in footnotes, and is followed by full textual
notes and lists of press-variants, emendations of accidentals and
historical collations.
Published in 1987: This thesis presents an edition of the author's
play, Monsieur Thomas, with a substantial introduction in several
sections and a sizeable apparatus.
This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, 'The
Adolescent Novel', in which she examines the relation between
novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an 'open
structure'. It is this blend of the literary with the
psychoanalytic that places Kristeva's work central to current
thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and
psychoanalysis. The essays in this volume offer insight into the
workings of Kristeva's thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual
difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to
the mental states of abjection and melancholia, and their
representation in painting and literature. Kristeva's persistent
humanity, her profound understanding of the dynamics of intention
and creativity, mark her out as one of the leading theoreticians of
desire. Each essay offers the reader a new insight into the many
aspects that make up Kristeva's entire oeuvre.
Alain Robbe-Grillet had traditionally been seen as an austere
experimentalist in fiction, addicted to arid and interminable
descriptions of objects like coffee pots, erasers and pieces of
string. His own rather bellicose theoretical pronouncements were
partly to blame for this unattractive picture, belied by the
immense popular success of the film Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
(made by Alain Resnais from Robbe-Grillet's script) and the high
critical esteem in which novels like Jealousy and The Voyeur are
held. In his original study, first published in 1983, John Fletcher
attempts to resolve this paradox by offering a new interpretation
of Robbe-Grillet's work which stresses the subversive qualities of
his imagination and the disturbing power of his vision of a world
of labyrinths and bizarre sexual stereotypes, haunted by images of
love and loss.
Published in 1987: This thesis presents an edition of the author's
play, Monsieur Thomas, with a substantial introduction in several
sections and a sizeable apparatus.
'Essays on Otherness offers the most original, philosophical sophisticated, and far-reaching critical reading of Freud's metapsychology since Lacan. Exegetically scrupulous and rigorously argued, these essays go straight to the heart of the psychoanalytical enterprise.' - Peter Osborne, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University
'[Laplanche's] philosophical and psychoanalytical studies are now becoming increasingly drawn upon by cultural theorists and critics, and this work is helped enormously by the publication of Essays on Otherness and the comprehensive and illuminating introduction by John Fletcher.' - New Formations
'[Laplanche's] philosophical and psychoanalytical studies are now becoming increasingly drawn upon by cultural theorists and critics, and this work is helped enormously by the publication of Essays on Otherness and the comprehensive and illuminating introduction by John Fletcher.' - New Formations
Originally published in 1915, this book presents the text of The
Elder Brother, a comedy by the Jacobean playwright John Fletcher.
An introduction and illustrative figures are also included. This
book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of
Fletcher and Jacobean drama.
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The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: Volume 8, The Queen of Corinth, The False One, Four Plays, or Moral Representations, in One, The Knight of Malta, The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt, The Custom of the Country (Paperback)
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher; Edited by Fredson Bowers
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Discovery Miles 22 600
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This is the eighth volume in a ten-volume series of the critical
old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon,
in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical
principles. This volume contains the texts of five plays and one
composite Fours Plays in One, written by Fletcher and his
collaborators, Nathan Field and Philip Massinger. Each play is
introduced by a discussion of the text, has variant readings in
footnotes, and is followed by full textual notes and lists of
press-variants, emendations of accidentals and historical
collations.
This is the third volume in a ten-volume series of the critical
old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon,
in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical
principles. Each play is introduced by a discussion of the text,
has variant readings in footnotes, and is followed by full textual
notes and lists of press-variants, emendations of accidentals and
historical collations.
This is the first volume in a ten-volume series of the complete
dramatic works of Beaumont and Fletcher, published under the
general editorship of Fredson Bowers. Each volume contains several
plays accompanied by a textual introduction and critical apparatus.
The plays of Beaumont alone are published first, followed by those
by Beaumont and Fletcher together, Beaumont and Fletcher revised by
Massinger, Fletcher alone and finally Fletcher with his numerous
collaborators.
This is the tenth and final volume in a ten-volume series of the
critical old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and
Fletcher canon, in which the texts are established on modern
bibliographical principles. This volume contains the texts of six
plays written by Fletcher and his collaborators, Nathan Field,
Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Ford and John
Webster. Each play is introduced by a discussion of the text and
authorship, has variant readings in footnotes, and is followed by
full textual notes and lists of press-variants, emendations of
accidentals and historical collations. At the back of this
concluding volume there is a useful index showing how the plays are
distributed between the volumes, and a table giving the authorship
of the plays.
This is the second volume in a ten-volume series of the critical
old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon,
in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical
principles. Each play is preceded by detailed notes on the text of
the play, and is followed by textual notes, lists of variants,
emendations of accidentals, and an historical collation. A general
note of the principles on which the text of this edition was
established is contained in Volume I.
This is the fourth volume in a ten-volume series of the critical
old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon,
in which the texts are established on modern bibliographical
principles. Each play is introduced by a discussion of the text,
has variant readings in footnotes, and is followed by full textual
notes and lists of press-variants, emendations of accidentals and
historical collations.
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