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Chasing Stars (Hardcover): Jonathan Bolton Chasing Stars (Hardcover)
Jonathan Bolton
R577 R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Save R90 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Blunt Affair - Official Secrecy and Treason in Literature, Television and Film, 1980-89 (Hardcover): Jonathan Bolton The Blunt Affair - Official Secrecy and Treason in Literature, Television and Film, 1980-89 (Hardcover)
Jonathan Bolton
R2,307 Discovery Miles 23 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The case of the Cambridge spies has long captured the public's attention, but perhaps never more so than in the wake of Anthony Blunt's exposure as the fourth man in November 1979. With the Cold War intensifying, patriotism running high during the Falklands War and the AIDS crisis leading to widespread homophobia, these notorious traitors were more relevant than ever. This book explores how they were depicted in literature, television and film throughout the 1980s. Examining works by an array of distinguished writers, including Dennis Potter, Alan Bennett, Tom Stoppard and John le Carre, it sheds new light on the affair, asking why such privileged young men chose to betray their country, whether loyalty to one's friends is more important than patriotism and whether we can really trust the intelligence services. -- .

Medieval Knighthood V - Papers from the sixth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1994 (Hardcover): Stephen D. Church, Ruth Harvey Medieval Knighthood V - Papers from the sixth Strawberry Hill Conference, 1994 (Hardcover)
Stephen D. Church, Ruth Harvey; Contributions by Ad Putter, Charles Coulson, Elspeth Kennedy, …
R2,188 Discovery Miles 21 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cumulatively [the volumes] are of increasing value as repositories of scholarship on the multi-dimensional subject of knighthood ... highly informative and useful. ALBION Studies treating a wide variety of aspects of knighthood. Topics include the way in which the word "knight" has been used, studying the terminology and ritual concerned with "making a knight"; the circumstances and implications ofthe knighting of the social elite of England between 1066 and 1272; the difficulties of distinguishing between knight and clerk, as exemplified by Abelard's multi-faceted image; the debt which Geoffrey de Charny's treatise on chivalry owes to the ideas and ideals of knighthood in Arthurian prose romances; and the linguistic competence of the twelfth-century knightly classes as courtly audience of troubadour song. There are also important contributions onthe warhorse; and on the fortifications of fourteenth-century English towns, arguing that they were more the expression of bourgeois aspirations than a response to serious military threat. Professor STEPHEN CHURCH teaches in the Department of History, University of East Anglia; Dr RUTH HARVEY is lecturer in French, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, MATTHEW BENNETT, JONATHAN BOULTON, MICHAEL CLANCHY, CHARLES COULSON, RUTH HARVEY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, AD PUTTER

Worlds of Dissent - Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (Paperback): Jonathan... Worlds of Dissent - Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (Paperback)
Jonathan Bolton
R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Worlds of Dissent" analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name themselves "dissidents." Their personal and political experiences-diverse, uncertain, nameless-have been obscured by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia.

Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience. Bolton considers not only Vaclav Havel but also a range of men and women writers who have received less attention in the West-including Ludvik Vaculik, whose 1980 diary "The Czech Dream Book" is a compelling portrait of dissident life.

Bolton recovers the stories that dissidents told about themselves, and brings their dilemmas and decisions to life for contemporary readers. Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the messiness of real life. Portraying dissent as a human, imperfect phenomenon, Bolton frees the dissidents from the suffocating confines of moral absolutes. "Worlds of Dissent" offers a rare opportunity to understand the texture of dissent in a closed society."

Chasing Stars (Paperback): Jonathan Bolton Chasing Stars (Paperback)
Jonathan Bolton
R392 R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Save R70 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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