Subjects & Themes

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...

In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks. He imagined a future society of beings who consistently wrote and disseminated their personal diaries. Schmitt would go on to become the infamous philosopher of the...

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,...

Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that. Recently dominated by works of 'new nature writing', environmental writing includes works of poetry and fiction about the world around us. In the last two...

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...

Arab debates about the critical relationship between religion and modernity began in the early nineteenth century and are now integral to the struggle for influence and power between a variety of political groups and their opponents. This unique...

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...

Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of...

*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019* *Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019* Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to be published in decades, Barbara Foley argues that...

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...

Extending the limits of the award-winning Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers (2016) and its companion volume (and also award-winning) Researching the Nineteenth-Century Press: Case Studies (2017), Work and the...

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...

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In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species' arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our...

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 9781843422891Author AnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 156g

What sort of a life do you make for yourself when there is no focus? How does your life pan out as you ride the vicissitudes of a dog eat dog, cut throat employment market? How do you chase your dreams into adulthood to find love, happiness and success,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931038249Author Ron MockFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Cascadia Publishing HousePublisher Cascadia Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 359g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914150333Author Anne MoriceFormat PaperbackImprint Dean Street PressPublisher Dean Street Press

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948756057Author Khalid Hamid KashtwariFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin MacauleyPublisher Austin MacauleyWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

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...

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame,...

Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999303471Author Controllah GabiFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Controllah GabiPublisher Controllah GabiWeight(grams) 109g

The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity's displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis's homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home...

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...

Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka's War argues that the bloody war fought between the Sri Lankan state and the separatist Tamil Tigers from 1983 to 2009 should be understood as structured and animated by the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551646589Author Costas DespiniadisFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 344gDimensions(mm) 223mm *...