| Outward Appearances |
 Outward Appearances: The Female Exterior in Restoration London
Author: Will Pritchard
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This book elucidates early modern attitudes toward women's public display. It is a cultural study that draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts from 1650-1700 to revisit the sites where women appeared most prominently: the playhouse, the park, and the New Exchange (a shopping arcade in the Strand). An academic study, "Outward Appearances" is written in a clear and engaging style. It is aimed primarily at literary scholars, but historians will take a keen interest in it as well. It offers a fresh context for the study of Restoration drama and a provocative argument about women and public space. Will Pritchard is an Assistant Professor of English at Lewis and Clark College.
ISBN 13/10: 9780838756881 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: JAN 2008 | PUBLISHER: BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R838.00(incl.)
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| Hunting the Unicorn |
 Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter
Author: Don W. King
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Assesses Ruth Pitter's place in the British poetic landscape. This biography presents an overview of her life and also offers a close, critical reading of her poetry, tracing her development as a poet.
This book is an important addition to the literature on modern English poets and poetry.A significant poet in her own right, Ruth Pitter has long deserved this biography, which thoughtfully assesses her place in the British poetic landscape. Popular in the United Kingdom from the early 1930s until her death in 1992, Pitter won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1937 for "A Trophy of Arms" and was the first woman to win the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry in 1955. A working artisan from Chelsea, she lived through World War I and World War II and appeared often on BBC radio and television. Pitter had a close relationship with C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Lord David Cecil, and other Inklings. King's exploration of these notable friendships brings a critical perspective to Pitter's remarkable life and work.Once she found her poetic voice, Pitter created work that is profound, amusing, and beautiful. The lyricism and accessibility of her poems reflect her personality - humorous, independent, brave, kind, stern, proud, and humble. Author Don King draws on Pitter's personal journals and letters to present this overview of her life and also offers a close, critical reading of Pitter's poetry, tracing her development as a poet."Hunting the Unicorn" is the first treatment to discuss the entire body of Pitter's verse. It will appeal to scholars and general readers as it places Pitter into the overall context of twentieth-century British poetry and portrays a rather modest, hard-working woman who also "witnessed" the world through the lens of a gifted poet.
About the author:
Don W. King is professor of English at Montreat College in North Carolina. He is also editor of The Christian Scholar's Review. His recently published C. S. Lewis: Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse (The Kent State University Press, 2001).
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9780873389471 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: MAY 2008 | PUBLISHER: KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R744.00(incl.)
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| Minette Walters and the Meaning of Justice |
 Minette Walters and the Meaning of Justice: Essays on the Crime Novels
Author: Mary Hadley, Sarah D. Fogle
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Edgar Award-winning crime novelist Minette Walters is known for revitalizing the tradition of the stand-alone psychological thriller in books such as "The Ice House", "The Dark Room", "Acid Row" and "Fox Evil". This book offers an in-depth analysis of Walters' narrative technique and examines the major themes found throughout her work, including truth and justice, the treatment of children, patterns of victimization, British social issues, body image and body politics, the fashioning of identity, and heroism and evil in society. In addition, it includes a valuable interview with Walters.
About the author:
An associate professor of writing and linguistics at Georgia Southern University, Mary Hadley lives in Statesboro, Georgia. She is also the author of British Women Mystery Writers (2002). Sarah D. Fogle is a professor of communication and humanities at Embry-Riddle University in Daytona Beach, Florida. She teaches courses about mystery and has a special research interest in Florida crime fiction. She lives in Ormond Beach, Florida.
ISBN 13/10: 9780786438426 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: MAR 2008 | PUBLISHER: MCFARLAND & COMPANY | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R537.00(incl.)
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| Housing Problems |
 Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger
Author: Susan Bernstein
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Taking as its point of departure Goethe's efforts to establish such a synthesis through the concept of Bildung, this book traces the destabilization of this symmetry between house and selfin Gothic literature and in narratives surrounding the founding of psychoanalysis.
About the author:
Susan Bernstein is Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire (Stanford, 1998).
Review:
"Housing Problems, to my knowledge unique, interprets material practices of historical restoration and presentation together with fictional, autobiographical, and philosophical texts. This book is bound to open a stirring chapter in the history of outstanding collaboration and genuine thought - a truly rare collation of intellectual energies." - Avital Ronell, New York University"
In "Housing Problems", Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author and house - an often unexamined fantasy of historicism. Taking as its point of departure Goethe's efforts to establish such a synthesis through the concept of Bildung, the book traces the destabilization of this symmetry between house and selfin Gothic literature and in narratives surrounding the founding of psychoanalysis. The interest in architecture holds open the tension between the generalizing figures of architectonics and the singular quality of housing features. These continue to mark theoretical thinking even as they dissolve and withdraw, as in Heidegger's "house of Being."
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ISBN 13/10: 9780804758550 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: JUL 2008 | PUBLISHER: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R357.00(incl.)
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| Mimesis and Theory |
 Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005
Author: Rene Girard, Robert Doran
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"Mimesis and Theory" brings together twenty of Rene Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, have left an indelible mark on the field of literary studies. Spanning over fifty years of critical production, this anthology offers unique insights into the origin, development, and expansion of Girard's mimetic theory - a groundbreaking account of human interaction and the genesis of cultural forms.Arranged chronologically in order of publication, the essays run the gamut of Western literary culture, from Racine and Shakespeare to the existentialist writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. The authors that have most influenced Girard - Stendhal, Proust, and Dostoevsky - receive extended treatment. In addition, Girard's observations on the changing landscape of literary studies are chronicled in several essays devoted to psychoanalysis, formalism, structuralism, and post-structuralism.Though at times overshadowed by his work in religious and cultural anthropology, Girard's work in the area of literary studies has been the wellspring of his thought. All of the essays contained in this volume develop the idea that the greatest authors are also the greatest students of human nature, that their intuitions are often more penetrating than those of the philosophers or the social scientists.
About the author:
Rene Girard is Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Civilization at Stanford University and a member of the Academie francaise. He is the author of over fifteen books, including Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Stanford, 1987), and Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire (Stanford, 2004). Robert Doran is Assistant Professor of French at Middlebury College.
ISBN 13/10: 9780804755801 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: MAY 2008 | PUBLISHER: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R744.00(incl.)
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| Neither with Them Nor without Them |
 Neither with Them Nor without Them: The Russian Writer and the Jew in the Age of Realism
Author: Elena M. Katz
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The debate over the representation of Jews in Russian literature has been dominated by the dichotomy of anti- and philo-Semitic discourses. This title explores the construction of Jewishness as "Otherness" in the works of three of Russia's greatest nineteenth-century authors - Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev.
Debate over the representation of Jews in Russian literature has long been dominated by the dichotomy of anti- and philo-Semitic discourses. Rather than analyzing "the image of the Jew" in terms of negative or positive characteristics, and branding the authors respectively as anti- or philo-Semitic, Elena M. Katz explores the complex and the ambiguous construction of Jewishness as "Otherness" in the works of three of Russia's greatest nineteenth-century authors. Katz identifies Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev as creators of special modes of Jewish discourse in Russian literature. She tackles traditional tropes of Jews in light of the sociohistoric and cultural contexts of the time and of the writers' own politics and aesthetics.
About the author:
Elena M. Katz is the Max Hayward Fellow in Russian Literature in the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
ISBN 13/10: 9780815631828 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: APR 2008 | PUBLISHER: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R537.00(incl.)
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| New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction |
 New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction
Author: Donald M. Hassler, Clyde Wilcox
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This book offers an interpretation of the evolution of a growing genre in literary, film, and television.As a follow-up to their 1997 collection "Political Science Fiction" Hassler and Wilcox have assembled twenty-four noted international scholars representing diverse fields of inquiry to assess the influential voices and trends from the past decade in "New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction". The terrors and technologies that permeate our daily lives have changed radically in the past decade, further highlighting the underlying speculations on our contested future that remain the core of this genre. In surveying the vast expanse of politically charged science fiction of recent years, the editors posit that the defining dilemma for these tales rests in whether identity and meaning germinate from progressive linear changes or progress or from a continuous return to primitive realities of war, death, and the competition for survival.The discussion of political implications ranges among writers from H. G. Wells, Robert A. Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov to more radical recent voices such as Iain M. Banks, William Gibson, Joanna Russ, Philip K. Dick, and China Mieville. While emphasizing the literature, the collection also addresses political science fiction found on film and television from the original "Star Trek" through the newest incarnation of "Battlestar Galactica".
Reviews:
"Fascinating; a clear insight into current and highly informed thinking on matters as diverse as the political implications of Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek as a kind of Philosophy 101, and sexuality in Brazilian science fiction. That it works as a startling and highly germane overview of recent trends in American thinking about the U.S.'s own role in the world is an unexpected but highly welcome bonus." - Iain M. Banks"
About the author:
Donald M. Hassler is a professor of English at Kent State University. The executive editor of Extrapolation, he has published books on Erasmus Darwin, Isaac Asimov, Hal Clement, and others. Clyde Wilcox is a professor of government at Georgetown University. His numerous previous books include Onward Christian Soldiers? The Religious Right in American Politics and The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage.
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ISBN 13/10: 9781570037368 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: JUNE 2008 | PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R669.00(incl.)
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| Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction |
 Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
Author: John Reider
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A groundbreaking study of science fiction's relation to colonialism and imperialism
This is the first full-length study of emerging Anglo-American science fiction's relation to the history, discourses, and ideologies of colonialism and imperialism. Nearly all scholars and critics of early science fiction acknowledge that colonialism is an important and relevant part of its historical context, and recent scholarship has emphasized imperialism's impact on late Victorian Gothic and adventure fiction and on Anglo-American popular and literary culture in general.
John Rieder argues that colonial history and ideology are crucial components of science fiction's displaced references to history and its engagement in ideological production. He proposes that the profound ambivalence that pervades colonial accounts of the exotic "other" establishes the basic texture of much science fiction, in particular its vacillation between fantasies of discovery and visions of disaster. Combining original scholarship and theoretical sophistication with a clearly written presentation suitable for students as well as professional scholars, this study offers new and innovative readings of both acknowledged classics and rediscovered gems. It includes discussion of works by: Edwin A. Abbott, Edward Bellamy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John W. Campbell, George Tomkyns Chesney, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Edmond Hamilton, W. H. Hudson, Richard Jefferies, Henry Kuttner, Alun Llewellyn, Jack London, A. Merritt, Catherine L. Moore, William Morris, Garrett P. Serviss, Mary Shelley, Olaf Stapledon, H. G. Wells.It offers a groundbreaking study of science fiction's relation to colonialism and imperialism.
ISBN 13/10: 9780819568748 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: MAY 2008 | PUBLISHER: WESLEYAN PUBLISHING HOUSE | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R405.00(incl.)
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| Orpheus in the Bronx |
 Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Author: Reginald Shepherd
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What unifies the essays in "Orpheus in the Bronx", writes author Reginald Shepherd, "is a resolute defense of poetry's autonomy, and a celebration of the liberatory and utopian possibilities such autonomy offers." Among the pieces in "Orpheus in the Bronx": an unflinchingly honest meditation on the author's personal history and development as a writer and poet, a development that for many writers is often framed within the context of privilege - something Shepherd himself never had access to; an examination of the urban pastoral, which is an exploration, according to Shepherd, of "the splendor and misery of cities in which the cityscape is an active character, a presence that conditions and shapes the poems as much as it is appropriated and shaped by them"; and an essay on beauty and its meanings and forms.
Reviews:
"Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift - the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings." - James Longenbach"
ISBN 13/10: 9780472069989 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: JAN 2008 | PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R320.00(incl.)
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| Charles Simic |
 Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry
Author: Bruce Weigl
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This book offers new perspectives on the work of this original and hard-to-categorize American poet, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States.Charles Simic, the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States, is one of America's most popular - and enigmatic - contemporary poets. Set apart from his contemporaries by a particularly inclusive and worldly vision, his is a poetic voice singular in our time for its quality of empathy, for its imagination-enriched logic, and for its deep and abiding clarity. In "Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry" the perspectives of a range of critics, poets, and scholars (including James Atlas, William Matthews, Liam Rector, Helen Vendler and Diane Wakoski, among others) are brought together in an attempt to offer an appraisal of his art.This book traces the critical reception to Simic's poetry, beginning with the earliest responses, and reveals a constantly changing image of the relationship between the poet and his work. Essays and book reviews from sometimes radically different points of view address the body of Simic's verse and attempt to delineate the aesthetic from which his art emerges.
About the author:
Bruce Weigl is a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. His other books include The Imagination of Glory: On the Poetry of James Dickey and volumes of poetry including Declension in the Village of Chung Luong, The Unraveling Strangeness, The Monkey Wars, and Sweet Lorain.
ISBN 13/10: 9780472032907 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: FEB 2008 | PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R349.00(incl.)
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Edward Albee
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 Edward Albee
Author: Toby Silverman Zinman
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Edward Albee's prolific career includes three Pulitzer Prizes and the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. At the age of 80, Albee is still producing major works for the theater, most recently a prequel to "The Zoo Story", which shocked the country when it first appeared in 1958, and his plays have seen major revivals on and off Broadway in recent years. Yet even with this resurgence of popularity, no up-to-date treatment of his plays is currently in print.With engaging discussions of his most famous plays, such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "Three Tall Women", as well as his lesser known works, this essential guide reveals the heart of Albee's drama, highlighting the themes of sex, death, loneliness, and time that have occupied the playwright during his almost fifty years in the theater.
About the author:
Toby Zinman is the theater critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has written for numerous magazines, including Variety, American Theater, and Theater Journal. She is Professor of English at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
ISBN 13/10: 9780472069194 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: FEB 2008 | PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R320.00(incl.)
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| Left-Handed Story |
 Left-Handed Story: Writing and the Writer's Life
Author: Nancy Willard
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In "The Left-Handed Story", poet, novelist, and children's author Nancy Willard presents an eclectic collection that will appeal to writers and established fans of her work.Willard expounds on topics as diverse as the many muses of writers, the origins and meaning of inspiration, the astonishing and mysterious powers of the litany form in poetry, writing about love, an essay on fairy tales, and an interview with Harry Roseman, an assistant to the artist and filmmaker Joseph Cornell.
About the author:
Originally from Ann Arbor, Nancy Willard is the author of two novels, Things Invisible to See (Knopf 1984) and Sister Water (Knopf 1993), and eleven previous books of poetry, including Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems (Knopf 1998). She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in both fiction and poetry, and her book A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (Harcourt 1981) was awarded the Newbery Medal. She teaches in the English department at Vassar College
ISBN 13/10: 9780472069996 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: FEB 2008 | PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R320.00(incl.)
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| History of Western Literature |
 History of Western Literature: From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry
Author: J. M. Cohen
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This book begins in a narrow territory, strictly Western, and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry, plays, novels, and works of speculation of the great authors of the past and present, from Russia to Mexico. His objective is to tell the whole story of Western writing in languages other than English from the twelfth-century Chanson de Roland to Evtushenko's poetry of the 1960's.Cohen not only presents a factual account of historical growth. The book reflects the author's own judgments and valuations, arrived at in the course of almost forty years' reading in the main European languages. A work of original criticism, "A History of Western Literature" immediately became a standard reference when first published. In this new edition, the author has included revisions covering the most important recent writers and their work.
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"Especially for American or British readers who want to explore under sensible guidance the main lines of Western letters, this carefully wrought handbook is indispensable." - Library Journal. "Considering Mr. Cohen's vast scope, his achievement is commendable. The information he presents is accurate. His style is surprisingly readable...." - Modern Language Journal."
About the author:
John M. Cohen (1903-1989) was a widely known critic and a translator of French and Spanish literature. He was born in London and graduated from Cambridge University. His versions of Don Quixote, Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Rousseau's Confessions are recognized as among the finest modern translations.
ISBN 13/10: 9780202361857 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: MAY 2008 | PUBLISHER: ALDINE | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R575.00(incl.)
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| Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky |
 Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky
Author: Susanne Fusso
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Most discussions of sexuality in the work of Dostoevsky have been framed in Freudian terms. But Dostoevsky himself wrote from a decidedly pre-Freudian perspective. By looking at the views of human sexual development that were available in Dostoevsky's time, Fusso gives us a new way of understanding a critical element in the writing of one of Russia's literary masters. Fusso also explores his artistic treatment of how children and adolescents discover sexuality.
About the author:
Susanne Fusso is a professor of Russian language and literature at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Designing Dead Souls. She is the translator and editor of A Russian Prince in the Soviet State and coeditor of Essays on Karolina Pavlova and Essays on Gogol, all published by Northwestern University Press.
ISBN 13/10: 9780810151901 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: APR 2008 | PUBLISHER: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R443.00(incl.)
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| Understanding Tony Kushner |
 Understanding Tony Kushner
Author: James Fisher
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This is a comprehensive guide to the writing career of the author of "Angels in America"."Understanding Tony Kushner" surveys the acclaimed writings of the author of the Pulitzer Prize - winning drama "Angels in America" and coauthor of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film "Munich". Viewing Kushner as a sociopolitical dramatist in the tradition of Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, and Bertolt Brecht, James Fisher guides readers through Kushner's influences and creations to map the importance of the writer's body of work in expanding the postmodern literary and cultural landscapes. After grounding his discussions in Kushner's early plays, "A Bright Room Called Day" and "Hydriotaphia", or "The Death of Dr. Brown", Fisher engages with the two plays of "Angels in America" to identify the major themes to be revisited in subsequent works. Fisher reads the depiction of the clash of values in the mid-1980s in Angels as Kushner's placement of humanity's fate at the nexus of divergent views on morality, politics, religion, history, gender, and sexuality, views that complicate individual and national identity and beg the overarching question, is change to be embraced or challenged? Fisher concludes with an exploration of how Kushner moves his themes from stage to screen in Munich and the forthcoming film Lincoln, both directed by Steven Spielberg.
About the author:
James Fisher is a professor and chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2007 Fisher received the Betty Jean Jones Award for Excellence in the Teaching of American Theatre from the American Theatre and Drama Society. His other books include The Theater of Tony Kushner: Living Past Hope, Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays, and Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Contemporary.
ISBN 13/10: 9781570037498 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: JUN 2008 | PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R575.00(incl.)
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| Facts on File Companion to the 20th-century World Novel |
 Facts on File Companion to the 20th-century World Novel
Author: Michael D. Sollars
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A two-volume reference guide featuring more than 600 entries on the world's greatest modern novels and novelists, including everything from acknowledged classics to the best of contemporary fiction.
"The Facts On File Companion to the World Novel, 1900 to the Present" is a new two-volume reference guide featuring more than 600 entries on the world's greatest modern novels and novelists, including everything from acknowledged classics to the best of contemporary fiction. Written in a clear, engaging style with contributions from literary scholars around the world, this appealing work is an essential tool for students of great literature. The analyses of novels and biographies of authors are complemented by appendixes including a bibliography and a list of writers by geographic region.
ISBN 13/10: 9780816062331 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: OCT 2007 | PUBLISHER: FACTS ON FILE INC | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R1534.00(incl.)
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| Workings of Memory |
 Workings of Memory: Life-writing by Women in Early Twentieth-century Spain
Author: Sarah Leggott
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Focuses on the life-writing produced by four women writers and intellectuals who were active in the Madrid cultural arena during this period: Carmen Baroja, Maria Martinez Sierra, Maria Teresa Leon, and Concha Mendez. This study examines the ways in which these writers portray their positioning in relation to dominant cultural models of the time.
The process of modernization that occurred in Spanish society in the first decades of the twentieth century resulted in significant changes in all aspects of life, from economic and social structures to the emergence of new cultural modes and values. While these decades brought new opportunities for women and a degree of social and intellectual freedom, female writers and intellectuals in early twentieth-century Spain nevertheless encountered many obstacles in their efforts to transcend gender barriers and participate in the literary and cultural scene of the day.This book focuses on the life-writing produced by four women writers and intellectuals who were active in the Madrid cultural arena during this period: Carmen Baroja (1883-1950), Maria Martinez Sierra (1874-1974), Maria Teresa Leon (1903-1988), and Concha Mendez (1898-1986). The study examines the ways in which these writers portray their positioning in relation to dominant cultural models of the time and their engagement with political and social issues in a period of changing gender dynamics and political instability. In broader terms, this book examines the complex relationships between memory, writing, and identity, and thus contributes to the growing field of explorations of the workings of memory in narrative.
ISBN 13/10: 9780838756829 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: JAN 2008 | PUBLISHER: ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITY PRESSES | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R621.00(incl.)
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Book Self
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 Book Self: The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic
Author: C K Stead
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For more than 40 years, Karl Stead has been New Zealand's leading literary and cultural critic. Whether writing about Christianity or a trip to Croatia, he always brings a clear personal point of view, a strong analytical bent, and a witty pen to his work. In this latest collection of critical writing, a sequel to his successful books Kin of Place, Answering to the Language and The Writer at Work, Stead takes the reader on a personal journey, from his earliest discovery of poetry as a young man to his experiences on the literary trail over the last few years. And he takes us on a trip through literary history, from Katherine Mansfield and T S Eliot to Michael King and Elizabeth Knox. For the first time, Stead includes in this book a series of journal extracts that allow readers closer to the mind of the writer. "Here the ego is exposed-not quite naked, but now and then with its shirt off," he writes. In Book Self we see a great New Zealand critic at work - a writer with strong personal views about other writers and a deep commitment to the role of role of criticism in literary life.
ISBN 13/10: 9781869404123 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: MAR 2008 | PUBLISHER: AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R357.00(incl.)
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Staging Shakespeare
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 Staging Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Alan C. Dessen
Author: Lena Cowen Orlin, Miranda Johnson Haddad
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The twelve essays in this volume explore the relationships between Shakespearean pedagogy, performance, and scholarship. The volume consists of four sections, entitled "Acts of Recovery," which includes essays that take an historicist approach to performance concerns: "Performing the Moment," in which the authors describe their experience staging a particular Shakespearean scene in an actual production; "Recordings," or analyses of Shakespearean productions that were preserved on film or audiotape; and "Extensions and Explorations," discussions of adaptations and variations of Shakespeare's plays on stage.Throughout the volume the authors examine the ways in which performance criticism and performance studies illuminate our approaches to those texts. The contributors include Leslie Thomson, Daniel Colvin, Ellen Summers, Eric Binnie, Cary Mazer, Edward Isser, Edward Rocklin, Michael Friedman, Caroline McManus, Lisa McDonnell, Sheila Cavanaugh, and Lois Potter. Lena Cowen Orlin is Professor of English at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Miranda Johnson-Haddad is an independent scholar.
ISBN 13/10: 9780874139877 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: JAN 2008 | PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R744.00(incl.)
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Holocaust Literature
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 Holocaust Literature
Author: John K. Roth
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Identifies the important works on the Holocaust and contains reviews of the classics of Holocaust literature that are arranged alphabetically by title and cover the literature of the subject. This work includes histories, biographies, memoirs, diaries, testimonials, philosophy, social criticism, novels, short fiction, poetry, and plays.
"Holocaust Literature" offers literature reviews of more than 100 core works about the Holocaust. "Holocaust Literature" identifies the most important works on the Holocaust, by both first- and second-generation survivors as well as philosophers, novelists, poets, and playwrights reflecting on the Holocaust today.
Reviews of the classics of Holocaust literature are arranged alphabetically by title and cover the essential literature of the subject. "Holocaust literature" includes histories, biographies, memoirs, diaries, testimonials, philosophy, social criticism, novels, short fiction, poetry, and plays. It includes key works, from Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" to Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalm", Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz", Elie Wiesel's "Night", and Simon Wiesenthal's "The Sunflower".
It also contains core works of non-fiction - histories, biographies, memoirs, diaries, survivor testimonies, reflections on religion, philosophy, ethics that form two-thirds of the list, joined by literary fiction, poetry, and drama: classics such as Aharon Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939, William Styron's Sophie's Choice, and Yehuda Amichai's Open Closed Open. It also represents more recent works, such as Joshua Sobol's play "Ghetto" (1989), Wladyslaw Szpilman's "The Pianist" (1998), Ian Kershaw's two-volume biography "Hitler" (completed in 2000), Deborah Lipstadt's "History on Trial" (2004), William T. Vollmann's "Europe Central" (2005), and Heather Pringle's "The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocause" (2006).
"Holocaust Literature" includes 77 essays on Holocaust titles from Masterplots, various Masterplots II sets and Magill's Literary Annuals and edits them into a uniform format. To these have been added 27 completely new essays, written specifically for this work. Essays are arranged alphabetically by the work's title. Each essay begins with the title and subtitle if any; the work's author (including years of birth and death); the year in which the work was first published (for non-English works, the original title and its year of publication are followed by the work's English title in translation and the translation year); the work's genre (drama, novel, novella, non-fiction, poetry, or short fiction); for non-fiction works, the subgenre (such as history, biography, memoir, diary, survivor testimony, reflection, religion, philosophy, ethics); a list of principal personages (non-fiction works) or principal characters (fiction works); an overview of the work's contents; and a list of sources for further study about the work, the author, or the subject of the work.
ISBN 13/10: 9781587653759 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: MAR 2008 | PUBLISHER: SALEM PRESS INC | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R1599.00(incl.)
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| Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel |
 Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel
Author: Chip Rhodes
What the publisher says:
Considers how novels about the film industry changed between the studio era of the 1930s and 1940s. This title asserts that Americans are driven by cultural, rather than class, differences and that our mainstream notion of love has gone from repressed desire to "abnormal desire" to, finally, strictly business.
About the author:
Chip Rhodes is an associate professor and chair in the Department of English at Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts. He is the author of Structures of the Jazz Age: Mass Culture, Progressive Education, and Racial Disclosures in American Modernism.
Review
"Chip Rhodes's close readings of six novels concerning Hollywood are informed by critical intelligence, close attention to detail, quickness of mind, a generous use of literary theory and literary history, and a charming ease and grace. He makes a modest claim - 'to tell a story' - but he achieves important insights. By 2008 nearly 500 Hollywood novels have been published; Rhodes's work on the mastery evinced by a few is also a good guide and introduction to the drift of them all." - Jay Martin, author, Nathanael West: The Art of His Life and psychoanalyst in private practice in California"
The story of what happens when a serious writer goes to Hollywood has become a cliche: the writer is paid well but underappreciated, treated like a factory worker, and forced to write bad, formulaic movies. Most fail, become cynical, drink to excess, and at some point write a bitter novel that attacks the film industry in the name of high art. Like many too familiar stories, this one neither holds up to the facts nor helps us understand Hollywood novels. Instead, Chip Rhodes argues, these novels tell us a great deal about the ways that Hollywood has shaped both the American political landscape and American definitions of romance and desire.Rhodes considers how novels about the film industry changed between the studio era of the 1930s and 1940s and the era of deregulated film making that has existed since the 1960s. He asserts that Americans are now driven by cultural, rather than class, differences and that our mainstream notion of love has gone from repressed desire to "abnormal desire" to, finally, strictly business." Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel" pays close attention to six authors - Nathanael West, Raymond Chandler, Budd Schulberg, Joan Didion, Bruce Wagner, and Elmore Leonard - who have toiled in the film industry and written to tell about it. More specifically, Rhodes considers both screenplays and novels with an eye toward the different formulations of sexuality, art, and ultimately political action that exist in these two kinds of storytelling.
ISBN 13/10: 9781587296291 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: MAR 2008 | PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R508.00(incl.)
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