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Medieval Mythography, Volume Three (Hardcover): Jane Chance Medieval Mythography, Volume Three (Hardcover)
Jane Chance
R1,942 R1,539 Discovery Miles 15 390 Save R403 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Medieval Mythography, Volume Two (Hardcover): Jane Chance Medieval Mythography, Volume Two (Hardcover)
Jane Chance
R1,793 R1,420 Discovery Miles 14 200 Save R373 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Medieval Mythography, Volume One (Hardcover): Jane Chance Medieval Mythography, Volume One (Hardcover)
Jane Chance
R2,048 R1,622 Discovery Miles 16 220 Save R426 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 2 (Hardcover): Jane Chance Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Jane Chance
R2,100 R1,656 Discovery Miles 16 560 Save R444 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 1 (Hardcover): Jane Chance Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Jane Chance
R2,299 R1,808 Discovery Miles 18 080 Save R491 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): Jane Chance The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Jane Chance
R1,467 Discovery Miles 14 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed "unhomely" spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality-the homely female space-to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.

Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (Hardcover): Jane Chance Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Jane Chance
R1,505 R1,197 Discovery Miles 11 970 Save R308 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tolkien the Medievalist (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Jane Chance Tolkien the Medievalist (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Jane Chance
R3,899 Discovery Miles 38 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the author influenced by his profession, religious faith and important issues of the time; by his relationships with other medievalists; by the medieval sources that he read and taught, and by his own medieval mythologizing.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203218019

Lord of the Rings - The Mythology of Power (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition): Jane Chance Lord of the Rings - The Mythology of Power (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
Jane Chance
R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

" With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is unparalleled. Tolkien's books continue to be bestsellers decades after their original publication. An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, begun during Hitler's rise to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the modern world. Jane Chance's critical appraisal of Tolkien's heroic masterwork is the first to explore its "mythology of power"--that is, how power, politics, and language interact. Chance looks beyond the fantastic, self-contained world of Middle-earth to the twentieth-century parallels presented in the trilogy.

Studies in Medievalism XVIII - Defining Medievalism(s) II (Hardcover): Karl Fugelso Studies in Medievalism XVIII - Defining Medievalism(s) II (Hardcover)
Karl Fugelso; Contributions by Aida Audeh, Alain Corbellari, Carla A. Arnell, Carol Jamison, …
R2,595 Discovery Miles 25 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Articles which survey and map out the increasingly significant discipline of medievalism; and explore its numerous aspects. This latest volume of Studies in Medievalism further explores definitions of the field, complementing its landmark predecessor. In its first section, essays by seven leading medievalists seeks to determine precisely how tocharacterize the subjects of study, their relationship to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism, and their relevance to the middle ages, whose definition is itself a matter of debate. Their observations and conclusions are then tested in the articles second part of the book. Their topics include the notion of progress over the last eighty or ninety years in our perception of the middle ages; medievalism in Gustave Dore's mid-nineteenth-century engravings of the Divine Comedy; the role of music in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films; cinematic representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval courtly love tradition in Jeanette Winterson's The Passionand The.Powerbook; Eleanor of Aquitaine in twentieth-century histories; modern updates of the Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques de Voragine's Golden Legend. CONTRIBUTORS: Carla A. Arnell,Aida Audeh, Jane Chance, Pamela Clements, Alain Corbellari, Roberta Davidson, Michael Evans, Nickolas Haydock, Carol Jamison, Stephen Meyer, E.L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Clare A. Simmons, Richard Utz, Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling

Tolkien's Art - A Mythology for England (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition): Jane Chance Tolkien's Art - A Mythology for England (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
Jane Chance
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

" J.R.R. Tolkien's zeal for medieval literary, religious, and cultural ideas deeply influenced his entire life and provided the seeds for his own fiction. In Tolkien's Art, Chance discusses not only such classics as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, but focuses on his minor works as well, outlining in detail the sources and influences--from pagan epic to Christian legend-that formed the foundation of Tolkien's masterpieces, his "mythology for England."

Tolkien, Self and Other - "This Queer Creature" (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): Jane Chance Tolkien, Self and Other - "This Queer Creature" (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Jane Chance
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien's life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized-namely, the Other. Jane Chance argues such empathy derived from a variety of causes ranging from the loss of his parents during his early life to a consciousness of the injustice and violence in both World Wars. As a result of his obligation to research and publish in his field and propelled by his sense of abjection and diminution of self, Tolkien concealed aspects of the personal in relatively consistent ways in his medieval adaptations, lectures, essays, and translations, many only recently published. These scholarly writings blend with and relate to his fictional writings in various ways depending on the moment at which he began teaching, translating, or editing a specific medieval work and, simultaneously, composing a specific poem, fantasy, or fairy-story. What Tolkien read and studied from the time before and during his college days at Exeter and continued researching until he died opens a door into understanding how he uniquely interpreted and repurposed the medieval in constructing fantasy.

Tolkien the Medievalist (Paperback): Jane Chance Tolkien the Medievalist (Paperback)
Jane Chance
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the author influenced by his profession, religious faith and important issues of the time; by his relationships with other medievalists; by the medieval sources that he read and taught, and by his own medieval mythologizing.

Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 1 (Paperback): Jane Chance Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Jane Chance
R1,709 R1,365 Discovery Miles 13 650 Save R344 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007): Jane Chance The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (Paperback, 1st ed. 2007)
Jane Chance
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed 'unhomely' spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality the homely female space to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.

Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector (Paperback, New Ed): Jane Jane Chance Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector (Paperback, New Ed)
Jane Jane Chance
R705 R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Save R36 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Christine de Pizan (1364-?1430) was the first French woman poet to make her living by the pen, and the first female interpreter of classical myths; she held enormous power in the French court and influenced late medieval culture in France and in England in a number of ways. The Letter of Othea to Hector, her most popular work, is a series of a hundred verse texts about a mythological figure or moment, with prose moral glosses explaining how to read the myth in order to improve human character. It is translated here with introduction, notes, and interpretative essay.

Medieval Mythography, Volume One - From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433-1177 (Paperback): Jane Chance Medieval Mythography, Volume One - From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433-1177 (Paperback)
Jane Chance
R1,576 R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Save R309 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Middle Ages (Paperback): Jane Chance The Middle Ages (Paperback)
Jane Chance
R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Medieval Mythography, Volume Two - From the School of Chartres to the Court at Avignon, 1177-1350 (Paperback): Jane Chance Medieval Mythography, Volume Two - From the School of Chartres to the Court at Avignon, 1177-1350 (Paperback)
Jane Chance
R1,321 R1,065 Discovery Miles 10 650 Save R256 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Medieval Mythography, Volume Three - The Emergence of Italian Humanism, 1321-1475 (Paperback): Jane Chance Medieval Mythography, Volume Three - The Emergence of Italian Humanism, 1321-1475 (Paperback)
Jane Chance
R1,470 R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Save R286 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (Paperback): Jane Chance Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (Paperback)
Jane Chance
R1,035 R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Save R192 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 2 (Paperback): Jane Chance Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 2 (Paperback)
Jane Chance
R1,512 R1,214 Discovery Miles 12 140 Save R298 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (Paperback, illustrated edition): Jane Chance Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Jane Chance
R617 R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Save R106 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mythographic Chaucer - The Fabulation of Sexual Politics (Paperback, New Ed): Jane Chance Mythographic Chaucer - The Fabulation of Sexual Politics (Paperback, New Ed)
Jane Chance
R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The concealment of embarrassing, often sexual, secrets and the burden of political alliances and strategies - in short, sexual politics - motivated Chaucer in much of his work. This concept, long suspected but mostly ignored by Chaucer critics, receives full treatment in "The mythographic Chaucer". Firmly placing Chaucer in the cultural politics of his time, this study shows how the author inverted the mythographic and textual conventions of the period for his own literary, social, and political purposes. Comparing significant mythological images, references, and figures in Chaucerian poems with those of other medieval mythographers, Chance discloses Chaucer's ironic use of mythographic tradition to disguise the scandalous and politically sensitive. Here we see, for instance, how Chaucer deployed the medieval model of poetic concealment to construct the fabulation (the narratio fabulosa, itself a medieval techne) of sexual politics. This analysis gives us a rich sense of the complexity of Chaucer's mythographic options and his playful employment of contextual material as he rewrote, and tried to resolve, tensions among vernacular, classical, and Christian (sometimes Hebraic) scriptural and textual traditions. Invaluable to an understanding of Chaucer, this book is also instructive in showing how mythographic analysis can combine "traditional" literary elucidation with the issues of contemporary cultural theory.

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