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Be Feared (Paperback): Jane Burn Be Feared (Paperback)
Jane Burn
R298 R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Business in Context (Paperback, 8th edition): David Needle, Jane Burns Business in Context (Paperback, 8th edition)
David Needle, Jane Burns
R1,161 R1,044 Discovery Miles 10 440 Save R117 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Nothing More to it Than Bubbles (Paperback): Jane Burn Nothing More to it Than Bubbles (Paperback)
Jane Burn
R216 Discovery Miles 2 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Lancelot-Grail: 6. The Quest for the Holy Grail - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation (Paperback):... Lancelot-Grail: 6. The Quest for the Holy Grail - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation (Paperback)
Norris J. Lacy; Translated by E. Jane Burns
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France - Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner (Hardcover): Daniel Daniel... Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France - Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner (Hardcover)
Daniel Daniel O'sullivan, Laurie Shepard; Contributions by Daniel Daniel O'sullivan, David Hult, Donald L Maddox, …
R2,647 Discovery Miles 26 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

Bodytalk - When Women Speak in Old French Literature (Paperback): E. Jane Burns Bodytalk - When Women Speak in Old French Literature (Paperback)
E. Jane Burns
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Yan Tan Tether (Paperback): Jane Burn Yan Tan Tether (Paperback)
Jane Burn
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R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Sea of Silk - A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature (Hardcover): E. Jane Burns Sea of Silk - A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature (Hardcover)
E. Jane Burns
R1,624 R1,511 Discovery Miles 15 110 Save R113 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Courtly Love Undressed - Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Paperback, Revised): E. Jane Burns Courtly Love Undressed - Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Paperback, Revised)
E. Jane Burns
R779 Discovery Miles 7 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

420 Questions - For the High Mind: Mary Jane Burns 420 Questions - For the High Mind
Mary Jane Burns
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Remnants (Paperback): Jane Burn, Bob Beagrie Remnants (Paperback)
Jane Burn, Bob Beagrie
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Watching God Work - Ministry among the Macushi (Paperback): Stephanie Smith Watching God Work - Ministry among the Macushi (Paperback)
Stephanie Smith; Miriam Abbott; Edited by Jane Burns
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R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ginger the Pony (Paperback): Jane Burn Ginger the Pony (Paperback)
Jane Burn
R154 Discovery Miles 1 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Crochet Infinity Scarves - 8 simple infinity scarves to crochet (Paperback): Jane Burns Crochet Infinity Scarves - 8 simple infinity scarves to crochet (Paperback)
Jane Burns
R324 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R52 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Up A Tree - A Novel and Shamanic Handbook (Paperback): Jane Burns Up A Tree - A Novel and Shamanic Handbook (Paperback)
Jane Burns
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R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Beasts to Souls - Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe (Paperback): E. Jane Burns, Peggy McCracken From Beasts to Souls - Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe (Paperback)
E. Jane Burns, Peggy McCracken
R959 R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Save R144 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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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