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The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities by Paul Crawford 9781032570341
RRP: €53.54€47.22The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of... -
A History Of Tigrinya Literature In Eritrea: The Oral and the Written 1890-1991 by Ghirmai Negash
RRP: €35.64€23.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592217526Author Ghirmai NegashFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 415g -
Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840 by Aileen Douglas 9780198789192
€34.72Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It... -
Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position by William Fitzgerald
RRP: €34.51€26.82Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own... -
Shakespeare's Binding Language by John Kerrigan 9780198757580
€70.44This remarkable, innovative book explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges and the other utterances and acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come. In early... -
Menander: Samia by Dr Matthew Wright 9781350124769
€28.69Matthew Wright brings Menander's Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and how it fits within the broader context of fourth-century Greek drama and society. He offers a scene-by-scene reading of the play, combining close attention... -
Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors by Charles Barber 9780803259751
RRP: €17.84€14.52Day after day, night after night, the desperate men come and sit in the black chair next to Charles Barber's desk in a basement office at Bellevue and tell of their travails, of prison and AIDS and heroin, of crack and methadone and sexual abuse, and the... -
A Companion to Roman Rhetoric William Dominik (University of Otago, New Zealand) 9781444334159
RRP: €51.11€45.18A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture. A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyondComprises 32 original essays by leading international... -
Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England by Erica Fudge 9781501730870
RRP: €33.31€28.73Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous declaration of the automatism of animals. But as Erica Fudge relates in Brutal... -
On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain by Edward Said
RRP: €22.60€19.97_______________ 'A series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists' - London Review of Books 'Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style' -... -
John Keble in Context by Kirstie Blair 9781843311478
RRP: €17.84€17.47This unique, interdisciplinary and timely volume offers the first major reassessment of Keble's work for several decades, and a comprehensive introduction to this key figure. 'John Keble in Context' provides a wide range of perspectives on Keble's place... -
The Painted Alphabet: A Mythical Story of Bali by Diana Darling 9789814610797
RRP: €11.84€10.58Magic, depravity, spiritual ambition, sensuality, and love - It binds mythic and modern time together in a rich, slyly suggestive novel based on an old Balinese poem. In a fresh and startling picture of Bali - where witches coexist with tourists and... -
Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785 by Stuart Pratt Sherman 9780226752778
RRP: €35.70€34.81A revolution in clock technology in England during the 1660s allowed people to measure time more accurately, attend to it more minutely, and possess it more privately than previously imaginable. In this text, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in... -
The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction by Stephen Kern
RRP: €30.93€26.05Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by... -
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 by J. Frank 9780691014227
€39.29The description for this book, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorJoseph Frank (1918-2013) was professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. The five volumes of his... -
The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth 9780691196947
RRP: €29.75€28.18"Fascinating, gorgeously illustrated and thought-provoking. . . . [A] masterful book."-Elizabeth Hand, Washington PostA lavishly illustrated look at the locales familiar to J. R. R. Tolkien, the creator of Middle-earthThis book takes you to the places... -
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between by Thomas C. Foster
RRP: €15.46€14.27The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in... -
The Matrimonial Trap: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage by Laura E. Thomason 9781611487053
RRP: €53.55€46.99Mary Delany's phrase "the matrimonial trap" illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely... -
La Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes by R.O. Jones
RRP: €11.89€8.60The Spanish novella La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidadeswas published anonymously in Alcala de Henares, Burgos and Antwerp in 1554. It is most famous as the book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel.Book... -
Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart by Chretien 9780300071214
RRP: €23.80€23.09In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers the fourth of Chretien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur... -
Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader by Hannah Field
RRP: €28.55€24.80A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts The Victorian era saw an explosion of novelty picture books with flaps to lift and tabs to pull, pages that could fold... -
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 3 by Leon Wieseltier
RRP: €16.65€11.02"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is" "Liberties sure is needed in these times."In a short time since its launch, Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics, a quarterly, has become essential... -
Gender in Translation by Sherry Simon
RRP: €49.97€43.73Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, imaginative and lively look at feminist issues surrounding translation studies. Students and teachers of translation studies, linguistics, gender studies and women's studies will find this unprecedented work... -
Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media by Stefan Andriopoulos 9781935408352
RRP: €33.32€24.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408352Author Stefan AndriopoulosFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 503g -
Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World by Charles Forsdick 9781846310553
RRP: €26.18€23.67In the late 1990's, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and an overemphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for... -
Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form by Judith Brown
RRP: €46.41€40.60Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions, Judith Brown... -
Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space by De Witt Douglas Kilgore
RRP: €33.31€30.14Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space is the first full-scale analysis of an aesthetic, scientific, and political movement that sought the amelioration of racial difference and social antagonisms through the conquest of space... -
The Art Of Perspective: Who Tells the Story by Christopher Castellani 9781555977269
RRP: €13.08€9.58A writer may have a story to tell, a sense of plot, and strong characters, but for all of these to come together some key questions must be answered. What form should the narrator take? An omniscient, invisible force, or one - or more - of the... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essays by Dorothea Kehler 9780815338901
RRP: €59.49€52.24This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.Reviews"The... -
Literature and Consolation: Fictions of Comfort by Jürgen Pieters
RRP: €30.93€28.06Provides a deeper understanding of the comforts of reading literature History of the concept of consolation Readings of canonical works (Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Flaubert) Critical analysis of bibliotherapy Chapter on contemporary writers and... -
Elizabethan and Jacobean England: Sources and Documents of the English Renaissance by Arthur F. Kinney 9781405149679
RRP: €47.54€42.89Through a combination of original essays and primary source material, Elizabethan and Jacobean England records the transformative changes that defined English society during the Renaissance. Combines original source documents with critical essays to... -
Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time: I. Los, A Chapter by Helene Cixous 9781509500550
RRP: €11.89€10.65Helene Cixous has dreamed for years of "The Book-I-Don't-Write," but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach. When Jacques Derrida told her the Book would get written one day, but differently, Cixous... -
On Medicine: v. 3: Bks.VII-VIII by Celsus
RRP: €29.69€27.83A Roman layman's account of medicine in his time.A. Cornelius Celsus was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37), of a general encyclopedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and... -
Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought by Vanda Zajko
RRP: €66.64€66.27Laughing with Medusa explores a series of interlinking questions, including: Does history's self-positioning as the successor of myth result in the exclusion of alternative narratives of the past? How does feminism exclude itself from certain historical... -
Twenty-First-Century Children's Gothic: From the Wanderer to Nomadic Subject by Chloe Germaine Buckley 9781474430180
RRP: €28.55€26.00This is the first monograph that brings together the fields of Gothic Studies and children's fiction to analyse a range of popular and literary works for children published since 2000.Book InformationISBN 9781474430180Author Chloe Germaine BuckleyFormat... -
Augustine: Political Writings by Augustine 9780872202108
RRP: €23.79€19.56The best available introduction to the political thought of Augustine, if not to Christian political thought in general. Included are generous selections from City of God, as well as from many lesser-known writings of Augustine.About the AuthorPaul... -
Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement by Caren Kaplan
RRP: €24.98€21.86Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel-displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and... -
How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers Afraid of Poetry by Adam Sol 9781770414563
RRP: €18.98€10.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414563Author Adam SolFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
The 'Danzig Trilogy' of Gunter Grass: A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years by John Reddick 9780156238298
RRP: €29.75€20.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156238298Author John ReddickFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 143mm *... -
The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal by Michael Steinberg
RRP: €26.17€22.84In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics-of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. Modern renderings of...