Subjects & Themes

First published in 1987. This study is an attempt to distinguish the problem of political obligation as it was formulated in the ancient world from the problem as it has presented itself in the modern world, and assesses the idealist achievement in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940177816Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint PSIPublisher PSIWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666781106Author C John MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams)...

The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how...

William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a...

The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities is a comparative study of architectural space in four (post-)colonial capitals: Belfast, Northern Ireland; Windhoek, Namibia; Bridgetown, Barbados; and Hanoi, Vietnam. Each chapter takes up one of these cities,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783898217354Author Andrew Hock Soon NgFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...

The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape. Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film, will be the first major study to offer fresh theoretical insight into...

This highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to...

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a 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...

The first full-length study on T. S. Eliot and the mother, this book responds to a shortfall in understanding the true importance of Eliot's poet-mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns, to his life and works. In doing so, it radically rethinks Eliot's...

The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field...

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The Anthropocene's urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts...

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the...

The book aims to introduce the Homeric oeuvre into the law and literature canon. It argues for a reading of Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey as primordial narratives on the significance of the rule of law. The book delineates moments of correspondence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943294114Author Andrew MomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Kudu PublishingPublisher Kudu PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788436499Author John E TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 82g

Felicitous uses of contextually sensitive expressions generally have unique semantic values in context. For example, a felicitous use of the singular pronoun 'she' generally has a single female as its unique semantic value in context. In the present...

Victorians’ views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people’s daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal...

Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature examines the deep connections between the romantic rebellion against modernity and ecological concern with modern threats to nature. The chapters deal with expressions of romantic culture from a wide variety of...

Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on economic concepts and topics. This volume addresses the economic and business aspects of her writings. The authors of this anthology are from a variety of fields and all of them are enthusiastic supporters of her ideas...

A rediscovery of the writings and life of Elizabeth Robins Pennell Twelve essays covering the broad range of Pennell's diverse writing career and interests Interdisciplinary contributions, from critics in English literature, art history, food...

Southeast Asian Ecocriticism presents a timely exploration of the rapidly expanding field of ecocriticism through its devotion to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asian countries. While ecocritics have...

William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a...

The Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges...