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Nemesis (Hardcover)
Anna Banks
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Princess Sepora of Serubel is the last Forger in all the five
kingdoms. The spectorium she creates provides energy for all, but
now her father has found a way to weaponise it, and his intentions
to incite war force her to flee from his a grasp. She escapes
across enemy lines into the kingdom of Theoria, but her plans to
hide are thwarted when she is captured and placed in the young
king's servitude. Tarik has just taken over ruler ship of Theoria,
and must now face a new plague sweeping through his kingdom and
killing his citizens. The last thing he needs is a troublesome
servant vying for his attention. But mistress Sepora will not be
ignored. When the two finally meet face to face, they form an
unlikely bond that complicates life in ways neither of them could
have imagined. Sepora's gift could save Tarik's kingdom from the
Quiet Plague. But should she trust her growing feelings for her
nemesis, or should she hide her gifts at all costs?
Fiction and Social Research brings together writers from a variety
of disciplines to explore and illustrate the possibilities of new
narrative forms in social research. At the intersections of
fiction, ethnography, and cultural studies, these essays
demonstrate narratives that simultaneously enrich fieldwork and
enliven research reporting. By arranging this volume into four
areas of concern, this volume demonstrates how fiction can express
issues of representation, subjectivity, critique and postmodern
discourse. This volume is unique in its accessibility and will
prove a valuable tool to the veteran scholar and beginning
ethnographer alike.
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Ally (Paperback)
Anna Banks
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R465
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Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the
Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led
to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have
avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by
approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while
the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring
nature to a state untouched by human hands, there is also the
pessimistic vision of a post-apocalyptic world, exhausted by
humanity's consumption of natural resources. Against this
background, the decline of nature has become a narrative template
quite common among the public environmental discourse and
environmental scientists alike. The volume revisits Antiquity as an
epoch which witnessed similar environmental problems and came up
with its own interpretations and solutions in dealing with them.
This decidedly historical perspective is not only supposed to fill
in a blank in ecocritical discourse, but also to question,
problematize, and inform our contemporary debates with a completely
different take on "nature" and humanity's place in the world.
Thereby, a productive dialogue between contemporary ecocritical
theories and the classical tradition is established that highlights
similarities as well as differences. This volume is the first book
to bring ecocriticism and the classical tradition into a
comprehensive dialogue. It assembles recognized experts in the
field and advanced scholars as well as young and aspiring
ecocritics. In order to ensure a dialogic exchange between the
contributions, the volume includes four response essays by
established ecocritics which embed the sections within a larger
theoretical and practical ecocritical framework and discuss the
potential of including the pre-modern world into our environmental
debates.
Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the
Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led
to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have
avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by
approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while
the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring
nature to a state untouched by human hands, there is also the
pessimistic vision of a post-apocalyptic world, exhausted by
humanity's consumption of natural resources. Against this
background, the decline of nature has become a narrative template
quite common among the public environmental discourse and
environmental scientists alike. The volume revisits Antiquity as an
epoch which witnessed similar environmental problems and came up
with its own interpretations and solutions in dealing with them.
This decidedly historical perspective is not only supposed to fill
in a blank in ecocritical discourse, but also to question,
problematize, and inform our contemporary debates with a completely
different take on "nature" and humanity's place in the world.
Thereby, a productive dialogue between contemporary ecocritical
theories and the classical tradition is established that highlights
similarities as well as differences. This volume is the first book
to bring ecocriticism and the classical tradition into a
comprehensive dialogue. It assembles recognized experts in the
field and advanced scholars as well as young and aspiring
ecocritics. In order to ensure a dialogic exchange between the
contributions, the volume includes four response essays by
established ecocritics which embed the sections within a larger
theoretical and practical ecocritical framework and discuss the
potential of including the pre-modern world into our environmental
debates.
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