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Be Feared (Paperback)
Jane Burn
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Now in its eighth edition, Business in Context introduces students
to all aspects of modern business and its changing environment.
This classic text now covers the impact of recent global events and
developments, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK's departure
from the EU, globalization and the move towards more ethical
business practices. Essential reading for all introductory business
courses, particularly business environment modules, this edition
combines the hallmark qualities of David Needle's style with
co-author Jane Burns' over 20 years of industry experience. This
title is available with MindTap, a flexible online learning
solution that provides your students with all the tools they need
to succeed, including an interactive eReader, engaging multimedia,
practice questions, assessment materials, revision aids and
analytics to help you track their progress.
The Quest of the Holy Grail adds a spiritual dimension to the
adventures of Arthur's knights. Galahad replaces Lancelot as the
central figure, though he appears and disappears so often that many
of the knights are engaged in a quest to find him rather than the
Grail. The central concept of the Grail was never accepted by the
Church, and the Quest remains a secular romance which can be
interpreted as a spiritual allegory. This is done by the hermits
who appear throughout the story, pointing out the meaning of each
adventure. The adventures have a strong element of the magical and
otherworldly, and the story is more closely structured than
Lancelot, with the accomplishment of the Grail adventure by
Galahad, Perceval and Bors as its centre and culmination. For a
full description of the Vulgate Cycle see the blurb for the
complete set.
The question of what medieval "courtliness" was, both as a literary
influence and as a historical "reality", is debated in this volume.
The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this collection of
essays. Focused on works written in the Francophone world between
the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as
both an historical privilege and aliterary ideal, and as a concept
that operated on and was informed by complex social and economic
realities. Several essays reveal how courtliness is subject to
satire or is the subject of exhortation in works intended for
noblemen and women, not to mention ambitious bourgeois. Others,
more strictly literary in their focus, explore the witty,
thoughtful and innovative responses of writers engaged in the
conscious process of elevating the new vernacular culture through
the articulation of its complexities and contradictions. The volume
as a whole, uniting philosophical, theoretical, philological, and
cultural approaches, demonstrates that medieval "courtliness" is an
ideal that fascinates us to this day. It is thus a fitting tribute
to the scholarship of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, in its exploration
of the prrofound and wide-ranging ideas that define her
contribution to the field. DANIEL E O'SULLIVAN is Associate
Professor of French at the University of Mississippi; LAURIE
SHEPHARD is Associate Professor of Italian at Boston College in
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Contributors: Peter Haidu, Donald
Maddox, Michel-Andre Bossy, Kristin Burr, Joan Tasker Grimbert,
David Hult, Virgine Greene, Logan Whalen, Evelyn Birge Vitz,
Elizabeth W. Poe, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, William Schenck, Nadia
Margolis, Laine Doggett, E. Jane Burns, Nancy FreemanRegalado,
Laurie Shephard, Sarah White
Contemporary feminist readers have argued that old French literary
representations of women-from the excessively beautiful lady of
courtly romance to the lascivious shrew of fabliau and farce-are
the products of misogynous male imagination and fantasy. In
Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female protagonists in
medieval texts authored by men can be heard to talk back against
the stereotyped and codified roles that their fictive anatomy is
designed to convey. She investigates key moments in which the words
of these medieval "women" dissent from and significantly
restructure the conceptions of female sexuality, wifely obedience,
courtly love, and adultery that are so often used to define and
delimit femininity in the French Middle Ages. Burns provides the
feminist reader of medieval literature with a strategy for
reinterpreting the female body in its stereotyped, fetishized, and
fantasized for. Arguing that the gendered body mattters in our
reading of female protagonists, she shows how women characters can
rewrite, through their attributed speech, the narratives that
define and contain them. Bodytalk is an incisive, polemical,
sophisticated, and often witty book about the gender issues that
are raised by the very presence of female characters in
male-authored texts. It brings recent feminist theory to bear upon
the discussion of medieval texts, and contributes significantly to
current feminist criticism by offering historically specific
accounts of some of the founding moments of western conceptions of
love, desire, and sexuality. A volume in the New Cultural Studies
series.
Sea of Silk A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French
Literature E. Jane Burns "Burns shifts our focus from questions of
the consumption of silk to those of its production and circulation;
in so doing, she weaves a gendered history of the role this luxury
textile has played in the social and libidinal economy of cultural
exchange."--Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz
The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving
mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass
that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to
sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India.
But if we shift our focus from economic histories that chart the
exchange of silk along Asian and Mediterranean trade routes to
medieval literary depictions of silk, a strikingly different
picture comes into view. In Old French literary texts from the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, emphasis falls on production
rather than trade and on female protagonists who make, decorate,
and handle silk. "Sea of Silk" maps a textile geography of silk
work done by these fictional women. Situated in northern France and
across the medieval Mediterranean, from Saint-Denis to
Constantinople, from North Africa to Muslim Spain, and even from
the fantasy realm of Arthurian romance to the historical silkworks
of the Norman kings in Palermo, these medieval heroines provide
important glimpses of distant economic and cultural geographies. E.
Jane Burns argues, in brief, that literary portraits of medieval
heroines who produce and decorate silk cloth or otherwise
manipulate items of silk outline a metaphorical geography that
includes France as an important cultural player in the silk
economics of the Mediterranean. Within this literary sea of silk,
female protagonists who "work" silk in a variety of ways often
deploy it successfully as a social and cultural currency that
enables them to traverse religious and political barriers while
also crossing lines of gender and class. E. Jane Burns is Druscilla
French Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of "Courtly Love
Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture" and
"Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature," both also
available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. The Middle
Ages Series 2009 272 pages 6 x 9 25 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-4154-9
Cloth $59.95s 39.00 World Rights Literature, Women's/Gender Studies
Short copy: E. Jane Burns argues that literary portraits of
medieval heroines who produce and decorate silk cloth or otherwise
manipulate items of silk outline a metaphorical geography that
includes northern France as an important cultural player within the
silk economics of the Mediterranean.
Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military,
and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious
display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of
self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly
lovers among them. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns unfolds
the rich display of costly garments worn by amorous partners in
literary texts and other cultural documents in the French High
Middle Ages. Burns "reads through clothes" in lyric, romance, and
didactic literary works, vernacular sermons, and sumptuary laws to
show how courtly attire is used to negotiate desire, sexuality, and
symbolic space as well as social class. Reading through clothes
reveals that the expression of female desire, so often effaced in
courtly lyric and romance, can be registered in the poetic
deployment of fabric and adornment, and that gender is often
configured along a sartorial continuum, rather than in terms of
naturally derived categories of woman and man. The symbolic
identification of the court itself as a hybrid crossing place
between Europe and the East also emerges through Burns's reading of
literary allusions to the trade, travel, and pilgrimage that
brought luxury cloth to France.
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Remnants (Paperback)
Jane Burn, Bob Beagrie
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R625
Discovery Miles 6 250
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Crochet yourself a one-off infinity scarf with this collection of 8
new and individual patterns. Choose from a selection including a
delicate lacy crochet scarf to a unique design inspired by the
traditional granny square. Or why not try the 'Perfectly Plaid
Infinity' scarf inspired by the plaid fabric that dominated the
autumn winter 2014 catwalk collections. Whether you are looking for
the latest crochet ideas, a pattern for a trendy Mobius Scarf or a
contemporary take on a crochet classic, you will find it in this
collection. All the scarves are perfect teamed with jeans and a
sweater or paired with a winter coat for a walk in the country or
the commute to work.
The Middle Ages provides a particularly rich trove of hybrid
creatures, semi-human beings, and composite bodies: we need only
consider manuscript pages and stone capitals in Romanesque churches
to picture the myriad figures incorporating both human and animal
elements that allow movement between, and even confusion of,
components of each realm. From Beasts to Souls: Gender and
Embodiment in Medieval Europe raises the issues of species and
gender in tandem, asking readers to consider more fully what
happens to gender in medieval representations of nonhuman
embodiment. The contributors reflect on the gender of stones and
the soul, of worms and dragons, showing that medieval cultural
artifacts, whether literary, historical, or visual, do not limit
questions of gender to predictable forms of human or semi-human
embodiment. By expanding what counts as "the body" in medieval
cultural studies, the essays shift our understanding of gendered
embodiment and articulate new perspectives on its range, functions,
and effects on a broader theoretical spectrum. Drawing on
depictions of differently bodied creatures in the Middle Ages, they
dislodge and reconfigure long-standing views of the body as always
human and the human body as merely male and female. The essays
address a number of cultural contexts and academic disciplines:
from French and English literature to objects of Germanic and
Netherlandish material culture, from theological debates to
literary concerns with the soul. They engage with issues of gender
and embodiment located in stones, skeletons, and snake tails,
swan-knights, and werewolves, along with a host of other unexpected
places in a thought-provoking addition to somatic cultural history.
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