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Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

By: Michael Titlestad

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Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

By: Michael Titlestad

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works. The first part of the book examines historical shipwreck narratives published over a period of two centuries and their legacies. Michael Titlestad points to a range of narrative conventions, literary tropes and questions concerning representation and its limits in narratives about these historic shipwrecks. The second part engages novels, poems, films, artwork, and musical composition that grapple with shipwreck. Collectively the chapters suggest the spectacular productivity of shipwreck narrative; the multiple ways in which its concerns and logic have inspired anxious creativity in the last century. Titlestad recognizes in weaving in his personal experience that shipwreck—the destruction of form and the advent of disorder—could be seen not only as a corollary for his own neurological disorder, but also an abiding principle in tropology. This book describes how shipwreck has figured in texts (from historical narratives to fiction, film and music) as an analogue for emotional, psychological, and physical fragmentation.

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Springer Nature

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3030870413

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9783030870416

Making the Changes

Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage

By: Michael Titlestad

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Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage

By: Michael Titlestad

Throughout its history, South African Jazz has been formed from complex transactions with other black Atlantic cultures, identities and political possibilities. Making the Changes considers jazz discourse from the legendary élan vital of the Sophiatown writers, through the King Kong reportage and 'white writing', to the agonised poetics of exile.

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BRILL

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9004491589

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9789004491588

On Literary Attachment in South Africa

Tough Love

By: Michael Chapman

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On Literary Attachment in South Africa

Tough Love

By: Michael Chapman

This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy – its "tough love" – in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead of configuring literary works to "state-of-the-nation" issues – the usual approach to literature from South Africa – the chapters keep alive a space for conversation, whether accented inwards to locality or outwards to the Anglophone world: the world to which literature in South Africa continues to belong, albeit as a "problem child". A postcolony that is not quite a postcolony, South Africa is richly but frustratingly textured between Africa and the West, or the South and the North. Its literature – hovering on the cusp of its locality and its global reach – raises peculiar questions of reader reception, epistemological and aesthetic frame, and archival use. Are the Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee local writers or global writers? Is the novel or the short story the more appropriate form at the edges of metropolitan cultures? Given language, race, and culture contestation, how do we recover Bushman expression for contemporary use? How to consider the aesthetic appeal of two contemporaneous works, one in English the other in isiXhosa, the one indebted to Bloomsbury modernism the other to African custom? How does Douglas Livingstone attach the Third World to the First World in both science and poetry? What has a "born free" novelist, Kopano Matlwa, got to do with the Bard of Avon? In a time of theorisation, is it permissible for Lewis Nkosi to embody literary criticism in an autobiographical journey? How to read the rupturing event – the statue of Rhodes must fall – through a literary sensibility? Alert to the influence of critique, the study is equally alert to the "limits of critique". Reflecting on several writers, works, and events that do not feature in current publications, On Literary Attachment in South Africa releases literature to speak to us today, within the contours of its originating energy.

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Routledge

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1000431797

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Practical Transfusion Medicine

By: Michael F. Murphy,Derwood H. Pamphilon

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Practical Transfusion Medicine

By: Michael F. Murphy,Derwood H. Pamphilon

Highly Commended - 2010 BMA Medical Book Awards An essential, practical manual for all those working in transfusion medicine Concise and user-friendly guide to transfusion medicine Focuses on clinical aspects but also covers background science and organizational issues Complications encountered in transfusion are addressed throughout Highlights controversial issues and provides advice for everyday clinical questions in transfusion medicine This comprehensive guide to transfusion medicine takes a practical and didactic approach. The third edition of this text includes many new contributions and has expanded to seven sections. The first of these takes the reader systematically through the principles of transfusion medicine. The second deals with the complications which can arise in transfusion and is followed by a section on the practice of transfusion in blood centres and hospitals. The fourth section covers clinical transfusion practice and the fifth looks at alternatives to transfusion. Section six addresses cellular and tissue therapy and organ transplantation and the final section of the book examines the development of the evidence base for transfusion. As with previous editions; the final section includes a visionary chapter on future advances in the field. This new edition of Practical Transfusion Medicine benefits from even more international authorship than the previous two editions and is an invaluable resource for trainee doctors, scientists, technicians and other staff in haematology and transfusion and as a reference book for clinical staff in haematology and other disciplines faced with specific problems.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118702999

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Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

By: Michael Titlestad

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Making the Changes

Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage

By: Michael F. Titlestad

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Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage

By: Michael F. Titlestad

Maps the representation of jazz and the occasions of its performance in South African literature and reportage, from King Kong reportage to the agonised poetics of exile, Soweto poets of the 1970s to the Staffrider generation of the 1980s. Argues that South African jazz has been formed from complex transactions with other black Atlantic cultures, identities and politics, and local contingencies have been managed through elaborating a relational history that has cut across the hierarchies of colonial and apartheid ideology.

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Unisa Press

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1868882918

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Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

Making the Changes

Making the Changes

On Literary Attachment in South Africa

On Literary Attachment in South Africa

Practical Transfusion Medicine

Practical Transfusion Medicine

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

Making the Changes

Making the Changes

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