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Medea (Paperback): Euripides Medea (Paperback)
Euripides; Translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien; Introduction by Robin Mitchell-Boyask; Notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy without clumsiness. No English Medea can ever be Euripides', but this is as close as anyone has come so far, and a good deal closer than I thought anyone would ever come. Arnson Svarlien has shown herself exceedingly skillful in making Euripides sound Euripidean.--David M. Schaps, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Wings, Waves, and Webs - Patterns in Nature (Hardcover): Robin Mitchell-Cranfield Wings, Waves, and Webs - Patterns in Nature (Hardcover)
Robin Mitchell-Cranfield
R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A visually stunning introduction to patterns found in nature. Perfect for early STEM learning in preschool and kindergarten. From the dots on a ladybug to the spiral on a snail, patterns in nature can be found anywhere. This simple and playful concept book introduces the littlest of readers to both math and nature while engaging their creative potential. By the end, kids will be able to identify: Spots and stripes Spirals and symmetry Waves and honeycombs And more After learning about key patterns, the book's final page-a striking sunflower-will inspire kids to find patterns for themselves. Vibrant and immersive, Wings, Waves & Webs invites young children to discover the beauty of the world around them.

Art 7-11 - Developing Primary Teaching Skills (Paperback, New): Linda Green, Robin Mitchell Art 7-11 - Developing Primary Teaching Skills (Paperback, New)
Linda Green, Robin Mitchell
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Aimed at non-specialist primary teachers, this book offers support for the two attainment targets of the national cuuriculum in art: investigating and making, and knowledge and understanding. It uses examples and materials to explore various areas of children's development in art making and understanding, and also aims to equip teachers with strategies for developing their own understanding and appreciation of the subject. Units included cover such areas as:
* children's motivation to make art
* developing co-operative work with artists in schools
* learning about art from other cultures
* learning about art from different historical periods
* 2D and 3D art
* assessing children's art

Plague and the Athenian Imagination - Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius (Paperback): Robin Mitchell-Boyask Plague and the Athenian Imagination - Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius (Paperback)
Robin Mitchell-Boyask
R1,186 Discovery Miles 11 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing and the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides' History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work.

Plague and the Athenian Imagination - Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius (Hardcover, New): Robin Mitchell-Boyask Plague and the Athenian Imagination - Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius (Hardcover, New)
Robin Mitchell-Boyask
R2,297 R1,665 Discovery Miles 16 650 Save R632 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing and the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides??? History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work.

Odysseus at Troy - Ajax, Hecuba and Trojan Women (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Euripides, Stephen Esposito Odysseus at Troy - Ajax, Hecuba and Trojan Women (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Euripides, Stephen Esposito; Edited by Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Diskin Clay, Sophocles
R568 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Save R35 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book contains translations of three plays: Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women. They are all centered around the mythological theme of the Greek warrior, Odysseus, hero of the Trojan War. All three plays are complete, with notes and introductions, plus an introduction to the volume with background to the story which was one of the most popular themes and one of the most written about Greek hero in Greek literature.

Written during a tumultuous age of sophists and demagogues, these three plays (c. 450-425 BCE) bear witness to the gradual degradation of Odysseus' character. In presenting the unexpected devolution of a renowned mythic figure, the plays examine numerous themes relevant to contemporary American political life: the profound psychological consequences of brought on by the stress of war and why a once proud and noble warrior might commit suicide; and the dehumanizing darkness that descends upon innocent female war-victims when victors use act on false political necessity.

Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus (Paperback): Euripides Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus (Paperback)
Euripides; Translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien; Introduction by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic speech of its dialogue to the high formality of its choral odes.

Medea (Hardcover): Euripides Medea (Hardcover)
Euripides; Translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien; Introduction by Robin Mitchell-Boyask; Notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy without clumsiness. No English Medea can ever be Euripides', but this is as close as anyone has come so far, and a good deal closer than I thought anyone would ever come. Arnson Svarlien has shown herself exceedingly skillful in making Euripides sound Euripidean.--David M. Schaps, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Medea (Paperback, New edition): Euripides Medea (Paperback, New edition)
Euripides; Translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien; Introduction by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Introducing the problems of location lighting for single-camera operators, this guide provides an insight into the technology and techniques required to solve those problems. The approach is of a basic and introductory nature, geared toward the student and trainee cameraman. Professionals needing a refresher course on the subject should also find this a useful reference packed with key information, theory and practical approaches to different lighting situations.

Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus (Hardcover): Euripides Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus (Hardcover)
Euripides; Translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien; Introduction by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
R988 R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Save R84 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic speech of its dialogue to the high formality of its choral odes.

Venus Noire - Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (Paperback): Robin Mitchell Venus Noire - Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (Paperback)
Robin Mitchell; Series edited by Richard S Newman, Patrick Rael, Manisha Sinha
R1,009 Discovery Miles 10 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Even though there were relatively few people of colour in post-revolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Venus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country's post-revolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Venus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat by examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harboured by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Marechal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewellery fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonizations of Jeanne Duval, long-time lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France's need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Venus Noire - Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover): Robin Mitchell Venus Noire - Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
Robin Mitchell; Series edited by Richard S Newman, Patrick Rael, Manisha Sinha
R2,949 Discovery Miles 29 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vaenus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country's postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vaenus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maraechal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France's need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Hecuba (Paperback): Euripides Hecuba (Paperback)
Euripides; Edited by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Hecuba about Hecuba's grief over her daughter and son's deaths and the revenge she enacts over her son's death. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Euripides' Hecuba is one of the few tragedies that evoke a sense of utter desolation and destruction in the audience. The drama focuses on the status of women, those who are out of power and at the margins of society, by enacting the sufferings of Hecuba. With the city of Troy fallen, Hecuba and Polyxena, her daughter, are enslaved to Agamemnon. Hecuba is despondent with the news that Polyxena is chosen to be sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles. After the sacrifice, the body of her son Polydorus, already a ghost at the start of the drama, is discovered. Polymestor, a king in Thrace who Hecuba sent Polydorus to for safety reasons, murdered Polydorus for his gold. With the tacit complicity of Agamemnon, Hecuba plots her revenge against Polymestor. What transpires next has lasting implications for all involved, including a dramatic trial scene and Hecuba's ultimate metamorphosis.

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