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The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge (Hardcover, New): Paul R. Davis The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge (Hardcover, New)
Paul R. Davis
R1,940 R1,603 Discovery Miles 16 030 Save R337 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Bah! Humbug!" and "God bless us, every one!" are phrases that have resounded through the years, instantly recognizable as exclamations from Scrooge and Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens's beloved Christmas Carol. Told and retold to generations of children and adults, A Christmas Carol has been adapted, revised, condensed, added to, and modernized more than any other work in English literature. In this engaging and delightfully illustrated book, Paul Davis explores the various British and American versions of this work--on stage, film, radio, and television and in literature, cartoons, and comic books--showing how these interpretations have reflected the changing cultural perspectives of successive eras. According to Davis, six periods have shaped this cultural history, each contributing to the evolving culture-text of A Christmas Carol that is what we remember of all its parodies, piracies, and retellings. Dickens's original story, written in 1843, provided proof that urbanization had not destroyed Christmas and that the old country traditions could flourish in the new cities. By the 1870s, A Christmas Carol had become secular scripture, read as a retelling of the biblical Christmas story. The sophisticated decade preceding World War I treated the work for the first time as a story for children. In the Depression era, while the British reaffirmed a traditional Carol, Americans interpreted Scrooge's transformation as the triumph of a new business ethic of service and sharing. The Scrooge of the 1960s became a Freudian figure tormented by his past, who conjured up Marley as a way of calling for help and who turned on to Christmas and tuned into joys he had denied himself. Now, when our focus in on hunger and homelessness rather than joy in the streets, Scrooge is again a social figure placed in the center of unsettling economic realities.

Forgotten Castles of Wales and the Marches (Paperback, 2nd Enlarged edition): Paul R. Davis Forgotten Castles of Wales and the Marches (Paperback, 2nd Enlarged edition)
Paul R. Davis
R541 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Towers of Defiance - Castles and Fortifications of the Princes of Wales (Paperback): Paul R. Davis Towers of Defiance - Castles and Fortifications of the Princes of Wales (Paperback)
Paul R. Davis; Illustrated by Paul R. Davis
R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

An extremely comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the castle under Wales' native rulers (c.1066-1283). Spectacular aerial photography, plans and reconstruction drawings examine the various architectural designs and layouts that created the distinctive form of the Welsh castle. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

The Three Rats of Washington (Paperback): Paul R. Davis The Three Rats of Washington (Paperback)
Paul R. Davis
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R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eight Weeks in Africa (Paperback): Paul R Davies Eight Weeks in Africa (Paperback)
Paul R Davies
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Object Biographies - Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art (Hardcover): John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt... Object Biographies - Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art (Hardcover)
John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, Paul R. Davis
R1,237 Discovery Miles 12 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context This innovative presentation of ancient objects in the Menil Collection offers a new model for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Editors John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis with 11 additional authors employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and known provenance to gain insight into both the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly about archaeology, art history, and collecting practices. As they take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste, these essays bring to life works that are often consigned to either the imperial past or conceptual limbo and introduce a fresh framework through which to engage with the multilayered history that these objects represent.

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