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The Mysterious Red Fog on Thunder Mountain (Hardcover): David Townsend, Pam Townsend The Mysterious Red Fog on Thunder Mountain (Hardcover)
David Townsend, Pam Townsend
R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Thunder Mountain Gang - Book Two - Thunder Mountain Gang Series (Hardcover): David Townsend, Pam Townsend The Thunder Mountain Gang - Book Two - Thunder Mountain Gang Series (Hardcover)
David Townsend, Pam Townsend
R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Saints' Lives, Volume II (Hardcover): Henry of Avranches Saints' Lives, Volume II (Hardcover)
Henry of Avranches; Edited by David Townsend
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The artistry, wit, and erudition of medieval Latin narrative poetry continued to thrive well into the middle of the thirteenth century. No better evidence of this survives than in the long and brilliantly successful career of Henry of Avranches (d. 1262). Professional versifier to abbots, bishops, kings, and at least one pope, Henry displays a pyrotechnical verbal skill and playfulness that rivals that of the "Carmina Burana" and similar collections of rhymed secular verse. Yet he also stands as self-conscious heir to the great classicizing tradition of the twelfth-century epic poets, above all of Walter of Chatillon. Henry entwines these two strands of his literary inheritance in what might surprise modern readers as an improbable genre. The bulk of Henry s known output is a series of versified saints lives, including those of Francis of Assisi, King Edmund, and Thomas Becket, nearly all of which are based on identified prose models. These two volumes present most of his work in the genre, as witnessed in the English manuscript that remains the linchpin of our knowledge of this remarkable poet s career."

Saints' Lives, Volume I (Hardcover): Henry of Avranches Saints' Lives, Volume I (Hardcover)
Henry of Avranches; Edited by David Townsend
R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The artistry, wit, and erudition of medieval Latin narrative poetry continued to thrive well into the middle of the thirteenth century. No better evidence of this survives than in the long and brilliantly successful career of Henry of Avranches (d. 1262). Professional versifier to abbots, bishops, kings, and at least one pope, Henry displays a pyrotechnical verbal skill and playfulness that rivals that of the "Carmina Burana" and similar collections of rhymed secular verse. Yet he also stands as self-conscious heir to the great classicizing tradition of the twelfth-century epic poets, above all of Walter of Chatillon. Henry entwines these two strands of his literary inheritance in what might surprise modern readers as an improbable genre. The bulk of Henry s known output is a series of versified saints lives, including those of Francis of Assisi, King Edmund, and Thomas Becket, nearly all of which are based on identified prose models. These two volumes present most of his work in the genre, as witnessed in the English manuscript that remains the linchpin of our knowledge of this remarkable poet s career."

Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric - Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy (Paperback): David Townsend Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric - Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy (Paperback)
David Townsend
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reflects on what medieval Latin authors don't say about the sex nobody had-or maybe some had-and about how they don't say it. Their silences are artfully constructed, according to a rhetorical tradition reaching back to classical practice and theory. The strategy of preterition calls attention to something scandalous precisely by claiming to pass over it. Because it gestures toward what's missing from the text itself, it epitomizes a destabilizing reliance on audience reaction that informs the whole of classical rhetoric's technology of persuasion. Medieval Latin preterition invites our growing awareness, when we attend to it closely, that silence is not single, but that silences are multiple. Their multiplicity consists not in what preterition is, but in what it does. Preterition's multiple silences enabled subversive interpretations by individuals and communities marginalized under dominant regimes of sexuality-as they still do today.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature (Hardcover): Ralph Hexter, David Townsend The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature (Hardcover)
Ralph Hexter, David Townsend
R5,641 Discovery Miles 56 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook represent the best of current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. The insights offered by the collective of authors not only illuminate the field of medieval Latin literature but shed new light on broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. The contributors to this volume--a collection of both senior scholars and gifted young thinkers--vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics through carefully chosen examples and challenges to settled answers of the past. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. While advanced specialists will find much here to engage and at times to provoke them, this handbook successfully orients non-specialists and students to this thriving field of study. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium that forms the bridge between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.

The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon - A Twelfth-Century Epic (Hardcover, Revised): David Townsend The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon - A Twelfth-Century Epic (Hardcover, Revised)
David Townsend
R1,813 Discovery Miles 18 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually all authors of the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries knew the poem. And an extraordinary two hundred surviving manuscripts, elaborately annotated, attest both to the popularity of the Alexandreis and to the care with which it was read by its medieval audience.

Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric - Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy (Hardcover): David Townsend Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric - Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy (Hardcover)
David Townsend
R1,886 Discovery Miles 18 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reflects on what medieval Latin authors don't say about the sex nobody had-or maybe some had-and about how they don't say it. Their silences are artfully constructed, according to a rhetorical tradition reaching back to classical practice and theory. The strategy of preterition calls attention to something scandalous precisely by claiming to pass over it. Because it gestures toward what's missing from the text itself, it epitomizes a destabilizing reliance on audience reaction that informs the whole of classical rhetoric's technology of persuasion. Medieval Latin preterition invites our growing awareness, when we attend to it closely, that silence is not single, but that silences are multiple. Their multiplicity consists not in what preterition is, but in what it does. Preterition's multiple silences enabled subversive interpretations by individuals and communities marginalized under dominant regimes of sexuality-as they still do today.

Leadership in Education - The Power of Generative Dialogue (Paperback): Pamela Adams, Carmen Mombourquette, David Townsend Leadership in Education - The Power of Generative Dialogue (Paperback)
Pamela Adams, Carmen Mombourquette, David Townsend
R1,537 Discovery Miles 15 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How do we encourage meaningful growth in our schools and classrooms? With over a decade of research and development, including thousands of conversations with leaders, teachers, and students from around the world, the authors of Leadership in Education suggest that sustained and purposeful growth starts with provocation: an emotional incitement that causes reflection, a shift in thinking, and a variation in the course of action. This resource shows educators how to adopt a "leader-as-provocateur" mindset by demonstrating highly effective ways of questioning that affirm mutual respect, build trust, stimulate reflection, strengthen partnerships, and use inquiry to guide action. A quick and compelling read, this textbook is the ideal resource for graduate students in education and leadership programs across North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

The Secret Pirate and Other Stories (Paperback): David Townsend The Secret Pirate and Other Stories (Paperback)
David Townsend
R454 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature (Paperback): Ralph Hexter, David Townsend The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature (Paperback)
Ralph Hexter, David Townsend
R1,776 Discovery Miles 17 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The twenty-eight essays in this handbook represent the best current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. Contributing authors-both senior scholars and gifted younger thinkers among them-not only illuminate the field as traditionally defined but also offer fresh insights into broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. Their studies vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics, including canonicity, literary styles and genres, and the materiality of manuscript culture. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium-long passage between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.

The Mysterious Red Fog on Thunder Mountain (Paperback): David Townsend, Pam Townsend The Mysterious Red Fog on Thunder Mountain (Paperback)
David Townsend, Pam Townsend
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Thunder Mountain Gang - Book Two - Thunder Mountain Gang Series (Paperback): David Townsend, Pam Townsend The Thunder Mountain Gang - Book Two - Thunder Mountain Gang Series (Paperback)
David Townsend, Pam Townsend
R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Timber Ownership and Lumber Production in the Inland Empire (Hardcover): David Townsend 1883-1973 Mason Timber Ownership and Lumber Production in the Inland Empire (Hardcover)
David Townsend 1883-1973 Mason
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Whisper of Snipe - Four Seasons of Haiku (Paperback): David Townsend Hoopes A Whisper of Snipe - Four Seasons of Haiku (Paperback)
David Townsend Hoopes
R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Overwhelmed? Squash the Pictures! (Paperback): David Townsend Overwhelmed? Squash the Pictures! (Paperback)
David Townsend
R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pogey, Poutine and Warm, Furry Beavers - Plus Twenty Other Reasons to Enjoy Being Canadian (Paperback): David Townsend Pogey, Poutine and Warm, Furry Beavers - Plus Twenty Other Reasons to Enjoy Being Canadian (Paperback)
David Townsend
R301 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R18 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A frenetic celebration of all things Canucky ... the sort of thing you might get if you pumped Dave Barry full of maple syrup and Moosehead, then left him tied up in a sack for a week with Ron James and the Littlest Hobo.

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