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Pastors in the Classics
Baker Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.99This 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 Literature
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 185.00In 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...
Pale Native
Random House Struik 2011; US$ 10.00Max 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 Devils
Random House Struik 2011; US$ 10.00For 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 Melancholia
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00This 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 Visions
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Explores 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, History
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00In 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, Theoretically
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00Though 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 Media
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011; US$ 114.95Volume 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...









