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  • Pastors in the Classicsby Leland Ryken; Philip Ryken; Todd Wilson

    Baker Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.99

    This one-of-a-kind resource introduces pastors and seminarians to wisdom found in literary classics that can shape their ministries today. more...

  • The Routledge Companion to World Literatureby Theo D'haen; David Damrosch; Djelal Kadir

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 185.00

    In the age of globalization, the category of "World Literature" is increasingly important to academic teaching and research. The Routledge Companion to World Literature offers a comprehensive pathway into this burgeoning and popular field. Separated into four key sections, the volume covers: the history of World Literature through... more...

  • Veeringby Nicholas Royle

    Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 104.00

    Reflections on the figure of veering form the basis for a new theory of literature. more...

  • Pale Nativeby Max du Preez

    Random House Struik 2011; US$ 10.00

    Max du Preez has one hell of a story to tell. In his career as a renegade reporter, he?s survived three dismissals, seven libel suits, thirteen criminal cases, four aeroplane crashes, a bombing, two assassination attempts and was a regular on right-wing hit lists. He was in Soweto on 16 June 1976, witnessed the debauched parties of apartheid cabinet... more...

  • Dances with Devilsby Jacques Pauw

    Random House Struik 2011; US$ 10.00

    For more than a decade, Jacques Pauw has traversed his native continent in pursuit of warlords and drug traffickers, child soldiers and charlatans, adventure and anarchy. What he found was a rich array of personalities and a panoply of stories, ranging from the profoundly tragic to the intensely personal. Pauw?s stories range from South Africa to Rwanda,... more...

  • The Literature of Melancholiaby Martin Middeke; Christina Wald

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker. more...

  • Ekphrastic Medieval Visionsby Claire Barbetti

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition. more...

  • Literature, Theory, Historyby Jonathan Hart

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    In this interdisciplinary work that ranges from the ancients through the Renaissance to the present, Jonathan Hart examines systems, law,  theatre,  nature, stereotype, otherness, authority,  new historicism,  deconstruction,  feminism, reading, interpretation, poetry, and poetics.  Whatever the period, this towering study assumes that meaning, genre,... more...

  • Blue Collar, Theoreticallyby John F. Lavelle

    McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00

    Though Marxism is the dominant philosophical theory applied to class in academia, its real-life inconsistencies, particularly stereotyping, have troubling effects on working class studies. As a result of its hegemony, alternative discourses have been effectively shut out of the academic world. This critical work seeks to establish a new philosophy... more...

  • Human Rights and Mediaby Diana Papademas

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011; US$ 114.95

    Volume 6 on "Human Rights and Media" introduces and analyzes the significant relationship and discourse of human rights and media. As agenda setters, framers and integral actors in human rights movements, various forms of media are analyzed by the contributing authors. News media, the press, television, cinema, photojournalism, the internet and other... more...