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The intellectual societies known as Academies played a vital role in the development of culture, and scholarly debate throughout Italy between 1525-1700. They were fundamental in establishing the intellectual networks later defined as the 'Republique des...

This book offers an intriguing account of photobiographic works ranging from texts containing metaphorical photographs through ekphrastic narratives to photo-texts. It is dedicated to the writers who embody an attitude towards the self through the...

This book aims to show new ways in which Dada explains itself, and that Dada, in turn, can help to animate and expand debates about a diverse range of other fields including poetics, psychoanalysis, ethics, semantics, intellectual history and science...

Journeys of RemembranceAbout the AuthorKathryn JonesBook InformationISBN 9780367604127Author Kathryn JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 290g

This book depicts a fictional encounter between Artaud, Michaux and Zhuangzi to raise important issues about comparative literature. It shows that the themes of rationality, cosmology and ethics are particularly pertinent to bridging a comparative...

Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of the...

This book, focusing on the nature of representation and exchange in the seventeenth century, shows how, within the disarticulated narrative of the Roman bourgeois, Antoine Furetiere was placed to explore a changing literary economy marked by the trial of...

Western missionaries contributed largely to Chinese lexicography. Their involvement was basically a practical rather than a theoretical one. In order to preach and convert, it was necessary to speak Chinese. A missionary on post needed to learn at least...

Persian: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to the grammar system for intermediate to advanced learners of Persian. It presents an accessible and systematic description of the language, focusing on real patterns of use in contemporary...

First published in 1908, this volume emerged in the midst of the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone. The author, F.W.H. Migeod, studied the Mende nation in eastern Sierra Leone and followed the example of the grammar (1882) and vocabulary (1884)...

Colloquial Korean provides a step-by-step course in Korean as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and...

Though primarily known for his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro Paramo and the unrelenting depictions of the failures of post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection, El Llano en llamas, Juan Rulfo also worked as scriptwriter on various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781864485431Author George QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 1328Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 390g

This study of a wide selection of literary texts from the beginning of the twenty-first century aims to explore various ways in which a sense of belonging is being articulated and understood in contemporary Germany.About the AuthorLinda ShorttBook...

This book presents a number of essays written by specialists in various fields that include literary criticism, linguistics, sociology, history and art criticism. It offers an excellent overview of Portuguese modernism in a current, challenging and...

This book provides an understanding of the kind of work that representations of African dictatorship do. It explores the contradictions that arise from postcolonial critics' simultaneous investment in aesthetics and in politics.About the AuthorCecile...

Perform Suzhou is a task- and performance-oriented textbook course for Chinese study abroad programs serving intermediate- to advanced-level learners. Performance is the key concept; developing communication skills through role playing. Field performance...

The Routledge Intermediate Welsh Reader is a comprehensive reader designed to provide varied, stimulating and up-to-date reading material for learners of Welsh at the intermediate level. The Welsh Reader provides a bridge between basic literacy skills...

The Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon is an invaluable resource for all learners of Arabic.It contains some 8,000 entries, arranged into themes, including flora and fauna, food and drink, the human body, health care, the family, housing, clothing,...

Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Catalan grammar, presenting an accessible and systematic description of the modern language. It is the only comprehensive grammar of the language available in EnglishThe Grammar...

Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field.Reviews`A fine, scholarly...

This book includes a collection of interdisciplinary essays that provide a valuable introduction to the field of literature and music, mapping the contours of recent research and investigating the mutual aesthetic influence of the two arts and their...

This volume includes contributions by an international team of leading scholars dealing with various aspects of history, arts and literature, which tell the dramatic story of Yiddish cultural life in Weimar Berlin as a case study in modern European...

This book examines depictions of the cosmos in natural-philosophical poetry and love lyric in the Renaissance. It argues that some poetic presentations of the cosmos offer particular insight into possible conceptions of it, precisely because of the...

This book discusses the styles of performance developed in different European countries in response to prevailing conditions, drawing attention to the complex relationship between scripted text and improvisation.About the AuthorT. F. EarleBook...

Connecting words and phrases are essential for discussion, clarity and fluency in any language. French is particularly reliant on connecting language: also and in fact have around 15 equivalent words and expressions in French. This is the first...

This book discusses the interrelation between Francoise's malapropisms in Proust and the erudite allusions of Stephen's interior monologue in Joyce. It provides interconnected close readings of socio-political debate, listening processes, gossip,...

Kanji Clues: A Mnemonic Approach to Mastering Japanese Characters introduces a novel approach to character acquisition that combines the ancient practice of memory enhancement with a modern appreciation for active learning.By placing phonology at the...

This book examines the gradual development of Paul Celan's reception of the surrealist texts, including presenting studies of the compositional processes of the translations and of his poetological writings. It provides a valuable insight into his...

This book examines both the notion that the non-political fiction of the Revolution is responding to the events in France and the idea that trauma theory might shed light on the ways in which novelists responded to the Revolution.About the...

: A Basic Course in Russian (Sixth Edition), strikes a true balance between communication and structure. It takes a contemporary approach to language learning by focusing on the development of functional competence in the four skills (listening,...

The 'Korean wave' in music and film and Korea's rise to become the twelfth economic power in the world have boosted the world-wide popularity of Korean language study. The linguistic study of Korean, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure,...

Thinking Italian Translation is an indispensable course for students who want to develop their Italian to English translation skills.This new edition includes:up-to-date examples and new source texts from a variety of genres, from journalistic to...

Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume.The book introduces German people and culture through the medium of the language used today, covering the core material which students...

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature,...

Colloquial Tibetan provides a step-by-step course in Central Tibetan as it is spoken by native speakers. Combining a thorough treatment of the language as it is used in everyday situations with an accurate written representation of this spoken form, it...

Translingual Words is a detailed case study on lexical integration, or mediation, occurring between East Asian languages and English(es). In Part I, specific examples from global linguistic corpora are used to discuss the issues involved in lexical...

The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that...

Serbian: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of Serbian as used by contemporary native speakers of the language.Refreshingly jargon free, it presents an accessible description of the language,...

Anglophone students abroad: Identity, social relationships and language learning presents the findings of a major study of British students of French and Spanish undertaking residence abroad. The new dataset presented here provides both quantitative and...