In this fresh edition of his tried-and-tested guide, Rob Pope continues to help students get to grips with Chaucer—all the way from the first tentative encounters with the language to sophisticated critical and historical engagement with Chaucer's narrative art in context. All the commonly studied tales are featured, and each is approached through a series of clear and well-defined steps. In addition to guidance on 'translating' and interpreting Chaucer, there are new sections reviewing key terms and arguments in contemporary critical debates. This is a practical, authoritative, and enjoyable handbook that brings the study of Chaucer up-to-date.

How to Study Chaucer (Bloomsbury Study Skills, 115)

Literature & Fiction

Pope, Robert

British & Irish

Red Globe Press

Much work in the field of theology and film lacks a really theological focus. This book suggests a methodology based on the recognition of the imagination as the fundamental category in producing and interpreting film. The argument is presented that the imagination holds theological significance when it is conceived of in certain ways. As a result, the book adopts the 'paradigmatic imagination' (an imagination which works within the paradigms of scripture) or 'theological imagination' (one grounded in theological forms), which is both noetic (it is the image-making faculty of the mind) and almost ontological (it is that which draws human beings into the future which they are able to construct or bring into being). Once the theological (paradigmatic) imagination has been identified and justified, its insights will be applied to 'Jesus films' and 'Christ figure films' asking whether or not they provide us with valid Christological understanding. Films with redemptive or salvific themes are discussed as is the popularity of mythical stories and animation. The final chapter will make the case that the engagement of the theological imagination with film is a method in practical theology.

Salvation in Celluloid: Theology, Imagination and Film (T&t Clark)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

T&T Clark

The Writer's Reader: Ways of Writing, Ways of Reading (Blackwell History of Literature)

Harper, Graeme

Stacey, Robert

Lomax, Marion

Bolam, Robyn

History & Criticism

Wiley/Blackwell

Much of the social and industrial history written over the past twenty years has presented the working-class culture of early twentieth-century Wales in terms of a thirst for knowledge that was secular, economic and political.  The emphasis has been on the influence of the union lodge and the workingmen's institute, and high priority given to sport and the public house.  Relatively little attention has been given to religion, despite the fact that the 1904-5 revival brought many thousands into contact with the chapel.  This study examines the relationship between the labor movement and the Nonconformist chapels, and assesses whether the evidence supports claims of a massive exodus from the chapels to the labor movement, with the latter taking the lead in addressing the social and personal needs of the working class.  The author argues that the role of the chapel has been underestimated and that it retained a significant hold on community life during the early part of the twentieth century.

Building Jerusalem: Nonconformity, Labour and the Social Question in Wales, 1906-1939 (Studies in Welsh History)

History

Europe

University of Wales Press

The Thorn

Contemporary

Authorhouse Uk

Illness & Healing: Images of Cancer

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert Pope Foundation

Step right up to the modern freakshow — We have mermaids, monsters, and more. You won't be disappointed, but you may not get out alive. UnCommon Bodies presents a collection of 20 beautifully irreverent stories which blend the surreal and the mundane. Together, the authors explore the lives of the odd, the unbelievable, and the impossible. Imagine a world where magic exists, where the physical form has the power to heal or repulse, where a deal with the devil means losing so much more than your soul.

UnCommon Bodies

Williams, Bob

Harris, Philip

Hariharan, Laxmi

Telford, Keira Michelle

Grindstaff, Robb

Batto, Sessha

Godsoe, Christopher

Poole, Rebecca

Meske, Brent

Basmajian, Sally

Cohen, Michael Harris

Fuller, Jordanne

Charlton, Deanne

Deckard, Bey

Tuchkov, Vasil

Johnson, SM

Tyler, PK

Daniel Arthur Smith

Warren, Samantha

Wells, Kim

Short Stories & Anthologies

Fighting Monkey Press

An anthology of bizarre and unsettling short fiction. Enter a world of strange rituals, mysterious creatures, otherworldly beings, worlds both old and new, and dark and twisted fairytales. And what about those dreams and desires that are always, always just out of reach? Dark Lane Anthology Volume 13 contains stories by Maggie Wadey, J.F. Gleeson, Jason Gots, Suzanne Garcia Pino, Fred Nolan, Ava Barnaby, Virginia Watts, Megan Taylor, Delaney Kelly, D.G. Bracey, Carolyn Stockdale, Martin Greaves, Matthew G. Rees, J. Rosina Harlow, Tim Jeffreys, Robert Pope, Charles Wilkinson, Ariel Dodson, Pete Barnstrom, and Cristina Mirzoi.

Dark Lane Anthology: Volume 13

Wilkinson, Charles

Jeffreys, Tim

Barnstrom, Pete

Wadey, Maggie

Rees, Matthew G.

Taylor, Megan

Gleeson, J.F.

Murzoi, Cristina

Garcia Pino, Suzanne

Genre Fiction

lulu.com

"Robert Pope's latest collection offers a beautifully rendered selection of short stories in which reality and dreams overlap in a most captivating way. Pope is an accomplished author whose love of language is clear. He uses it with precision and poise to create fiction which may be funny, dark, often wild, and always original. Be ready to meet some quirky protagonists facing challenging moments in their lives. Compelling enough, one might say, but then you'll be taken to some surprising and quite unexpected places--every time. An impressive book I wholeheartedly recommend."Laura BlackEditor, Fictive DreamThese stories are mindscapes where the ancient past overlaps the present future, where ghosts co-exist with the living, where dream has encroached upon reality. The results are funny if you tilt your head one way or the other. Otherwise, they are somber reminders of ourselves.

Disappearing Things: Selected Flash Fiction

In Not a Jot or A Tittle, Robert Pope presents us with 16 magnificent short stories that not only explore myth, magic, aliens, androids, love and murder, but also reality as it is and what it means to be human, regardless of genre or setting. Writing in a direct, honest style, Pope gets right to the essentials while paying proper heed to the details, advancing each story at the perfect pace. Each compact tale makes the reader hunger for the next, as all are set within beautiful, evocative, enigmatic atmospheres combining horror and delight in a way that only Robert Pope can! –Albert Mamet, Editor-in-Chief, Granfalloon: A Speculative Fiction Zine Robert Pope’s Not a Jot or a Tittle offers us 16 concise, beautifully written short stories, each a door into the author’s rich imagination, each bubbling with substantive reflections, and all set in atmospheres where the touch of fantasy provides an opening to myth, hybrid creatures, alien landscapes, cyborgs, and most importantly, an exploration of the depths of human emotion ‘in the thick of it all.’ It’s not often that one comes across such a wonderful collection—this one will occupy a central spot in my library for years to come! –Fiona Chew-Mcleod, Assistant Editor, Granfalloon: A Speculative Fiction Zine

Not A Jot or A Tittle: 16 Stories by Robert Pope

Humor

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