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T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian (Hardcover): G. Atkins T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian. This book is the second in a trilogy which includes T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word.

T.S. Eliot and the Fulfillment of Christian Poetics (Hardcover): G. Atkins T.S. Eliot and the Fulfillment of Christian Poetics (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R1,741 Discovery Miles 17 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The culmination of a trilogy that began with T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word, and continued with T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian, this gracefully executed new book brings to a triumphant conclusion the unique effort to pinpoint and identify the Christian characteristics of Eliot's poetic art. The book offers a close but companionable reading of each of the complex poems that make up Four Quartets, the essay-poem that is Eliot's masterwork. Focusing on the range of speaking voices dramatized, Atkins reveals for the first time the Incarnational form that governs the work's 'purposive movement' toward purification and fulfilment of points of view that were represented earlier in the poems.

Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home - Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation (Hardcover, New): G. Atkins Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home - Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation (Hardcover, New)
G. Atkins
R1,430 Discovery Miles 14 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Consisting of six essayistic chapters, this book centers on two seminal yet not often associated Irish texts: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916). Practicing a comparative way of reading indebted to T.S. Eliot, Atkins traces the patterns of response the protagonists of these works show in leaving home and separating themselves from family and friends. Both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the messy burdens of ordinary life, seeking a transcendent existence, which Gulliver finds in the Flying or Floating Island, Laputa, whereas Stephen in art. Atkins also shows how Swift and Joyce both stand opposed to their characters, joined in the understanding that an ordinary life and an extra-ordinary one are often inseparable. Thus, Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can appear as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings.

T.S. Eliot's Christmas Poems - An Essay in Writing-as-Reading and Other "Impossible Unions" (Hardcover): G. Atkins T.S. Eliot's Christmas Poems - An Essay in Writing-as-Reading and Other "Impossible Unions" (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R1,435 Discovery Miles 14 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation.

Alexander Pope's Catholic Vision - "Slave to No Sect" (Hardcover, New): G. Atkins Alexander Pope's Catholic Vision - "Slave to No Sect" (Hardcover, New)
G. Atkins
R1,430 Discovery Miles 14 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This lively, accessible book reveals the character - and timeliness - of Alexander Pope's thinking and art. G. Douglas Atkins focuses on the religious position of a poet who would not abandon the Roman Catholic Church. In our own highly partisan culture, such a position offers an important example. Bringing his expertise in religion and literature to bear, Atkins establishes that Pope was, as an anti-sectarian, not a Deist but a Catholic, a layman, and essayist. Through comparison with John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, and T.E. Eliot, this study sheds new light on 'The Universal Prayer, ' 'An Essay on Criticism, ' Moral Essays, and the four-part Dunciad. Ultimately, Pope emerges as a religious poet of the first rank.

T.S. Eliot and the Failure to Connect - Satire on Modern Misunderstandings (Hardcover): G. Atkins T.S. Eliot and the Failure to Connect - Satire on Modern Misunderstandings (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R1,432 Discovery Miles 14 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This stimulating and provocative book focuses on the failure to connect that T.S. Eliot saw setting in during the seventeenth century. With special attention to The Waste Land and 'Gerontion, ' G. Douglas Atkins shows that Eliot roundly satirized modern misunderstandings and urges readers to make the connections that the "wastelanders" fail to make. Thus, a new approach to reading Eliot opens up, based on suggestions he himself made in the prose and enacted in the poetry.

T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word: Intersections of Literature and Christianity (Hardcover, New): G. Atkins T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word: Intersections of Literature and Christianity (Hardcover, New)
G. Atkins
R1,435 Discovery Miles 14 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this gracefully executed book, G. Douglas Atkins continues his explorations of the poetry and prose of T.S. Eliot. In highly original terms, Atkins offers a major new analysis of Eliot's debt to and use of Lancelot Andrewes, the seventeenth-century Anglican churchman, who was one of the greatest sermon-writers in the language, author of the enormously popular Preces Privatae (Private Prayers), and director of one of six 'companies' responsible for the King James translation of the Bible. Focusing on their shared attention to verbal and linguistic detail, Atkins for studies closely Eliot's 1928 collection For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order; demonstrates the poetic use Eliot makes of Andrewes's writing in Journey of the Magi, and presents a fresh and important, full-scale reading of Ash-Wednesday: Six Poems, a work heavily indebted to Andrewes's emphasis on the central Christian dogma of the Incarnation.

E. B. White - The Essayist as First-Class Writer (Hardcover): G. Atkins E. B. White - The Essayist as First-Class Writer (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R1,452 Discovery Miles 14 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book-length critical study of E.B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan . G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and the writing life, offering detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White's distinctiveness as an essayist.

Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing (Hardcover): G. Atkins Swift's Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R1,434 Discovery Miles 14 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than three centuries since their first publication, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, 'The Battle of the Books, ' 'The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, ' and An Argument against Abolishing Christianity remain striking, prescient, and still-relevant challenges to Modern commitments to inwardness, reflection, and spiritualism. In this lively and engaging study - grounded in the intellectual and historical currents of Swift's time, with an eye on the implications for the present day - G. Douglas Atkins brings forty-plus years of scholarly and critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written. The study reveals new contexts for understanding Swift's satires, including post-Reformation reading practices and the development of the modern personal essay. This book revisits, from fresh perspectives, the late seventeenth-century version of the perennial warfare between Ancients and Moderns, then often instanced as 'the battle of the books

Reading T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding (Hardcover): G. Atkins Reading T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R1,454 Discovery Miles 14 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This book offers an exciting new approach to T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men," and Ash-Wednesday. In Four Quartets, Incarnation is the universal, timeless pattern, the paradigmatic instance of which occurs in and as the Incarnation"--

Literary Paths to Religious Understanding - Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White... Literary Paths to Religious Understanding - Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R1,458 Discovery Miles 14 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controversial matter of the relations of literature and religion. From the minor seventeenth-century English tradition of "layman's faiths," Atkins moves seamlessly through a wide range of post-Reformation writers encountering and sometimes confronting institutional Christianity. After fresh, engaging discussions of John Dryden's and Alexander Pope's work come insightful, new readings of John Keats, George Eliot, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and perhaps most surprisingly, E.B. White. Atkins eschews linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern.

T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth (Hardcover): G. Atkins T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R1,430 Discovery Miles 14 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing, literature and commentary.

German Literature Through Nazi Eyes (RLE Responding to Fascism) (Hardcover): G. Atkins German Literature Through Nazi Eyes (RLE Responding to Fascism) (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R3,973 Discovery Miles 39 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The influence of Nazism on German culture was a key concern for many Anglo-American writers, who struggled to reconcile the many contributions of Germany to European civilization, with the barbarity of the new regime.

In German Literature Through Nazi Eyes, H.G. Atkins gives an account of how the Nazis undertook a re-evaluation of German literature, making it sub-ordinate to their own interests. All reference to Jewish writers and influence was virtually eliminated, and key writers such as Goethe and Lessing were re-interpreted. What was left was a military history that was avowedly militant and propagandist.

On the Familiar Essay - Challenging Academic Orthodoxies (Hardcover): G. Atkins On the Familiar Essay - Challenging Academic Orthodoxies (Hardcover)
G. Atkins
R1,459 Discovery Miles 14 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form. This book transforms our understanding of the recent political history of Central Africa. It charts the complex life and thought of Harry Nkumbula (ca. 1917-1983), the first openly nationalist African politician in Northern Rhodesia and, later, the leader of parliamentary opposition during Zambia's multi-party First Republic. Based mainly on his personal papers and the newly opened archives of UNIP, Zambia's ruling party between 1964 and 1991, the volume looks at how Nkumbula imagined a Zambian nation for the first time and, later, presented a liberal alternative to dominant state-led models of political and economic development. By exploring the trajectory of Nkumbula's ANC, a minority liberal party with strong ethnic roots, the book throws new light on the under-acknowledged fractiousness of Zambian nationalism and warns against reading African post-colonial politics solely in terms of clientelism.

German Literature Through Nazi Eyes (RLE Responding to Fascism) (Paperback): G. Atkins German Literature Through Nazi Eyes (RLE Responding to Fascism) (Paperback)
G. Atkins
R1,346 Discovery Miles 13 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The influence of Nazism on German culture was a key concern for many Anglo-American writers, who struggled to reconcile the many contributions of Germany to European civilization, with the barbarity of the new regime. In German Literature Through Nazi Eyes, H.G. Atkins gives an account of how the Nazis undertook a re-evaluation of German literature, making it sub-ordinate to their own interests. All reference to Jewish writers and influence was virtually eliminated, and key writers such as Goethe and Lessing were re-interpreted. What was left was a military history that was avowedly militant and propagandist.

Writing and Reading Differently - Deconstruction and the Teaching of Literature and Composition (Paperback): Douglas G. Atkins,... Writing and Reading Differently - Deconstruction and the Teaching of Literature and Composition (Paperback)
Douglas G. Atkins, Michael L. Johnson
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book to explore the opportunities deconstruction opens up for the teaching of both composition and literature. It is a unique and timely response to crucial issues facing teachers of composition and literature at all levels: high school, college, and university. "The critical rage" (and likely to remain so), deconstruction is the most controversial and arguably the most promising critical-theoretical movement of recent decades. It has proven to be enormously influential as a strategy of textual analysis, thanks in large part to the enterprise of such critics as J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Barbara E. Johnson, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, all of whom are contributors to this collection. The implications of deconstruction for the teaching of both writing and reading are just now being explored, however. These groundbreaking essays exemplify and assess that potential. The scope of consideration is wide. The essays all discuss deconstruction, treat its pedagogical implications, and evaluate its impact upon the teaching of composition and literature. In doing so, the contributors address specific questions concerning "the literary crisis" and "the crisis in literary studies" and offer a reasoned, balanced, and provocative account of the usefulness of deconstruction in solving at least some of the problems that beset the profession.

Reading T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): G. Atkins Reading T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
G. Atkins
R1,589 Discovery Miles 15 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday.

E. B. White - The Essayist as First-Class Writer (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012): G. Atkins E. B. White - The Essayist as First-Class Writer (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
G. Atkins
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book-length critical study of E.B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan . G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and the writing life, offering detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White's distinctiveness as an essayist.

Literary Paths to Religious Understanding - Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White... Literary Paths to Religious Understanding - Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009)
G. Atkins
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern.

On the Familiar Essay - Challenging Academic Orthodoxies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009): G. Atkins On the Familiar Essay - Challenging Academic Orthodoxies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009)
G. Atkins
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form.

Colibri` - Illusions (Paperback): Lambert Atkins Colibri` - Illusions (Paperback)
Lambert Atkins; Kenvil G. Atkins
R368 Discovery Miles 3 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Review of Not My First Rodeo - Lessons from the Heartland by Kristi Noem (Paperback): Kevin G Atkins Review of Not My First Rodeo - Lessons from the Heartland by Kristi Noem (Paperback)
Kevin G Atkins
R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Upstream - A Humble Saint Lucian (Paperback): Therese Atkins Upstream - A Humble Saint Lucian (Paperback)
Therese Atkins; Kenvil G. Atkins
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R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Having A Baby - Trial by Faith - The Storm of Life (Paperback): Ann G Johnson, Kenvil G. Atkins Having A Baby - Trial by Faith - The Storm of Life (Paperback)
Ann G Johnson, Kenvil G. Atkins
R216 Discovery Miles 2 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shedding Light on a Dark Subject - Demons and Christians (Paperback): Douglas G. Atkins Shedding Light on a Dark Subject - Demons and Christians (Paperback)
Douglas G. Atkins
R186 Discovery Miles 1 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Can a Christian have a Demon? It might surprise you to know that you could be living in a house along side of a fallen angel. This book is conversational in tone and is about how the possibility is there for two sentient beings to reside along side of each other and not even know it Fallen angels who left their first estate and were the subject of one-third of Christ's ministry are alive and doing well on planet Earth Biblical knowledge is used by the author to stir the thinking of people who are asking, "Why is this happening to me? Why are good people experiencing so many bad things?" In easy to understand language mixed with biblical references, the author tackles a dark subject that the devil would like for Christians to remain uninformed about

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