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Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Hardcover, New): P. Salvan, G. Salas, J. Heffernan Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Hardcover, New)
P. Salvan, G. Salas, J. Heffernan
R2,029 Discovery Miles 20 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Community in Twentieth Century Fiction is the first systematic study on the role that modern and contemporary fiction has played in the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), the essays in this collection examine narratives by Joyce, Waugh, Greene, LaGuma, Mansfield, Davies, O'Brien, Naipaul, DeLillo, Coetzee, Frame and Atwood. Through the integrated articulation of notions such as finitude, openness, exposure, immunity and death, we aim at uncovering the strategies of communal figuration at work in modern and contemporary fiction. Most of these strategies involve a rejection of organic communities based on essentialist fusion and an inclination to dramatize 'inoperative communities' (Nancy) of singularities aware of their own finitude and exposed to that of others.

The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity (Hardcover, New): Thomas J Heffernan The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity (Hardcover, New)
Thomas J Heffernan
R4,680 Discovery Miles 46 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One of the most widely read and studied texts produced in Late Antiquity is the prison diary of a young woman who was martyred in the year 202 or 203 C.E. in Carthage, as part of a civic celebration. Her name was Perpetua, and, despite her honorable marriage and her baby son, she refused to recant her faith after she was arrested with a group of Christians. Imprisoned with her was a slave girl called Felicitas, who was in an advanced state of pregnancy. Felicitas gave birth just before she entered the arena, where the two women were mauled by wild animals and died with their fellow inmates. A description of their heroic deaths is appended to the diary by an editor, who tells us that, as they died, Perpetua and Felicitas arranged each other's clothes modestly and finally bid farewell in this life with the kiss of peace. This remarkable document survives in one Greek manuscript and nine Latin versions. Perpetua's story is read in numerous courses and, thanks to the Frontline (PBS) special "From Jesus to Christ," it has found a growing popular audience. Thomas Heffernan's new edition of this extraordinary work contains much that has never been done before, including a new English translation and the first detailed historical commentary in English on the entire narrative of the Passion. It also includes newly edited versions of the Latin manuscripts and - rarer still - a version of the Greek manuscript. He concludes the book with a description of all of the known manuscripts and thorough scholarly indices of the text itself.

Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1984 Volume 6 (Hardcover): Thomas J Heffernan Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1984 Volume 6 (Hardcover)
Thomas J Heffernan
R1,765 Discovery Miles 17 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.

Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): P. Salvan, G. Salas, J. Heffernan Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
P. Salvan, G. Salas, J. Heffernan
R1,582 Discovery Miles 15 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), this collection examines narratives by Joyce, Mansfield, Davies, Naipaul, DeLillo, Atwood and others.

On Palace Green - A Wedding in Williamsburg, 1807, in the letters of those who were there. (Paperback): Patrick J Heffernan On Palace Green - A Wedding in Williamsburg, 1807, in the letters of those who were there. (Paperback)
Patrick J Heffernan
R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sacred Biography - Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages (Paperback, New Ed): Thomas J Heffernan Sacred Biography - Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages (Paperback, New Ed)
Thomas J Heffernan
R3,184 Discovery Miles 31 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Though medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as "pious fiction" by modern historiography. This book demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous fools nor men blinded by piety. Concentrating on English texts, Heffernan reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred biography in relation to the community for which it was written; identifies the genre's rhetorical practices and purposes; and demonstrates the syncretistic way in which the life of the medieval saint was transformed from oral tales to sacred text. In the process, Heffernan not only achieves a more contextually accurate understanding of the medieval saints' lives, but details a new critical method that has important implications for the practice of textual criticism.

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