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The Literature of Hell (Hardcover): Margaret Kean The Literature of Hell (Hardcover)
Margaret Kean; Contributions by Margaret Kean, Helen Appleton, Charlotte Jones, Jeya Ayadurai, …
R1,201 Discovery Miles 12 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts. Narratives of a descent to the underworld, of the sights to be seen and the punishments meted out there, have kept a hold on the popular imagination for millennia. The legacy from doctrinal warnings and the deep-set literary markers that identify a place of suffering and alienation continue to stimulate creative exchange and critical thinking. Such work takes risks: it braves the dark and questions the past. The contributions in this volume reflect on the exigency of hell in the stories that we tell. They consider the transfer and repurposing of motifs across genres and generational divides, and acknowledge the sustained immediacy of physical and psychological landscapes of hell. The essays span a wide chronological range and apply various contemporary critical approaches, including cognitive science, performance studies and narratology. This cross-period analysis is complemented by interviews with three creative practitioners: Jeya Ayadurai, director of "Hell's Museum" in Singapore, the actor Lisa Dwan, who is acclaimed for her dramatisation of Samuel Beckett's late works, and the writer David Almond. From ancient myth and early English sermons to mid-twentieth-century surrealism and current responses to terrorist activities and environmental damage, the literature of hell engages with issues of immediate relevance and asks its audiences to reflect on their cultural history, the meaning of social justice and the nature of embodied existence.

An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author (Hardcover): Laura Seymour An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author (Hardcover)
Laura Seymour
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing "the birth of the reader," Barthes posits a new abstract notion of the reader as the conceptual space containing all the text's possible meanings. The essay has become one of the most cited works in literary criticism and is a key text for any reader approaching reader response theory.

An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author (Paperback): Laura Seymour An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author (Paperback)
Laura Seymour
R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing "the birth of the reader," Barthes posits a new abstract notion of the reader as the conceptual space containing all the text's possible meanings. The essay has become one of the most cited works in literary criticism and is a key text for any reader approaching reader response theory.

Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature (Hardcover): Laura Seymour Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature (Hardcover)
Laura Seymour
R2,820 Discovery Miles 28 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social milieu, congregation and family. The book encompasses the period from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, examining early modern shrew and devil plays, picaresque and rogue literature, and Quaker life-writing. Refusing to Behave examines the ways in which Thomas Dekker, Thomas Ellwood, Mateo Aleman and his translator James Mabbe, and the anonymous author of Grim the Collier of Croydon use textual tricks to provoke bodily responses in readers, and also draw on readers' bodily experiences to enrich their textual descriptions. This study broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural norms.

A Japanese Diary (Paperback): Helen Wells Seymour A Japanese Diary (Paperback)
Helen Wells Seymour; Foreword by Laura Seymour Doolittle
R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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