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Labyrinth of Digressions: <i>Tristram Shandy</i> as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators by Rene Bosch 9789042022911
Booksplease Price: £107.77With their appearance during the 1760s, the five instalments of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman caused something like a booksellers' hype. Small publishers and... -
In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy by Zenon Luis-Martinez 9789042008441
Booksplease Price: £79.16Departing from earlier studies which regarded incest as a literary topos or dramatic metaphor foregrounding political, social, or legal issues, Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English... -
Compassion: A New Philosophy of the Other by Werner J. Krieglstein 9789042009035
Booksplease Price: £56.33This book makes compassionate caring and connectedness the central themes. Imbedded in the human psyche we find a deep yearning for connection. This book explores the many roadblocks that human... -
A Pedagogy of Becoming by Jon Mills 9789042015074
Booksplease Price: £64.20This book advocates a return to the spirit of the Greek notion of paideia, emphasizing a pedagogy of becoming. The authors offer a holistic approach to education that aspires toward the inclusion,... -
Hermann Hesse Today / Hermann Hesse Heute by Ingo Cornils 9789042016064
Booksplease Price: £70.50In November 2002, an international conference was held at the Institute of Germanic Studies in London in order to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Hermann Hesse’s birth. Twenty distinguished... -
Remapping Reality: Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe – Nietzsche – Grass) by John A. McCarthy 9789042018181
Booksplease Price: £107.77This book is about intersections among science, philosophy, and literature. It bridges the gap between the traditional "cultures" of science and the humanities by constituting an area of interaction... -
Provisionality and the Poem: Transitions in the Work of du Bouchet, Jaccottet and Noel by Emma Wagstaff 9789042019393
Booksplease Price: £70.50Much poetic writing in France in the post-1945 period is set in an elemental landscape and expressed through an impersonal poetic voice. It is therefore often seen as primarily spatial and cut off... -
Sites of Exchange: European Crossroads and Faultlines by Maurizio Ascari 9789042020153
Booksplease Price: £85.46Crossing borders - both physically and imaginatively - is part of our 'nomadic' postmodern identity, but transcultural and transnational exchanges have also played a major role in the centuries-long... -
German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945 by Gisela Holfter 9789042020337
Booksplease Price: £88.60German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945 is a pioneering study of the impact the German-speaking exiles of the Hitler years had on Ireland as the first large group of immigrants in the country in... -
English mediopassive constructions: A cognitive, corpus-based study of their origin, spread, and current status by Marianne Hundt 9789042021273
Booksplease Price: £83.88This book provides the first empirical study of the history and spread of mediopassive constructions. It investigates the productivity of the pattern, the spread of the construction in Modern... -
Science in Culture: Translated from the Polish by Hugh McDonald by Piotr Jaroszynski 9789042021365
Booksplease Price: £115.70This book tries to uncover science's discoverer and explain why the conception of science has been changing during the centuries, and why science can be beneficial and dangerous for humanity. Far... -
Problems for Democracy by John Kultgen 9789042020603
Booksplease Price: £85.46This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address,... -
Media for All: Subtitling for the Deaf, Audio Description, and Sign Language by Jorge Díaz Cintas 9789042023048
Booksplease Price: £87.03This book, a first in its kind, offers a survey of the present state of affairs in media accessibility research and practice. It focuses on professional practices which are relative newcomers within... -
Violence: 'Mercurial Gestalt' by Tobe Levin 9789042024038
Booksplease Price: £87.82"One afternoon, a patient who had been in three times weekly ... psychotherapy ... left my office after her session, drove down to the train tracks half a mile from my office, and sat down... -
Making Strange: Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post) Modern 'Third Aesthetic' by Herbert Grabes 9789042024335
Booksplease Price: £66.56This compact, indispensable overview answers a vexed question: Why do so many works of modern and postmodern literature and art seem designed to appear 'strange', and how can they still cause... -
Memories and Representations of War: The Case of World War I and World War II by Elena Lamberti 9789042025219
Booksplease Price: £118.08The contributors to the present volume approach World War I and World War II as complex and intertwined crossroads leading to the definition of the new European (and world) reality, and deeply... -
Heidegger and the Question of Psychology: Zollikon and Beyond by Mark Letteri 9789042025226
Booksplease Price: £42.16In Heidegger and the Question of Psychology: Zollikon and Beyond, Mark Letteri acquaints a broad readership (such as psychotherapists and counselors, not just professional philosophers) with Martin... -
Images of the North: Histories - Identities - Ideas by Sverrir Jakobsson 9789042025288
Booksplease Price: £98.05This interdisciplinary volume seeks to examine and explore the various issues surrounding image construction, identity making and representations of the North, as well as the interconnectedness... -
Grazer Philosophische Studien. Band 78: Internationale Zeitschrift für Analytische Philosophie by Johannes L. Brandl 9789042026049
Booksplease Price: £111.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042026049Author Johannes L. BrandlFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
Self and Society: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Four by Alexander Kremer 9789042026216
Booksplease Price: £90.18This book is the fourth volume of selected papers from the Central European Pragmatist Forum (CEPF). It deals with the general question of self and society, and the papers are organized into sections... -
Managing Environmental Justice by Dennis Pavlich 9789042029378
Booksplease Price: £98.05Environmental justice is the subtext of this collection of anxieties around the need for a sustainable future on Planet Earth. Thinkers and scholars from a diversity of backgrounds reflect on what it... -
The Methodology of Maurice Hauriou: Legal, Sociological, Philosophical by Christopher Berry Gray 9789042030077
Booksplease Price: £87.82This book shows that Hauriou's positivist and pragmatic jurisprudence and social theory, as well as their application to the study of institutions, is satisfactorily supported by his idealistic... -
Hope Against Hope: Philosophies, Cultures and Politics of Possibility and Doubt by Janet Horrigan 9789042030091
Booksplease Price: £79.16In September 2006, when 45 scholars and activists from 19 countries around the world gathered amid the spires and gargoyles of Oxford for a conference entitled, "Hope: Probing the Boundaries,"... -
Reading Song Lyrics by Lars Eckstein 9789042030350
Booksplease Price: £98.05Reading Song Lyrics offers the first systematic introduction to lyrics as a vibrant genre of (performed) literature. It takes lyrics seriously as a complex form of verbal art that has been unjustly... -
Reception and Memory: A Cognitive Approach to the <i>Chansons de geste</i> by Paula Leverage 9789042030428
Booksplease Price: £115.70This book is the first cognitive literary analysis in the field of medieval French literature. As such, it focuses on the question of audience in the Old French epic poems known as chansons de geste... -
Sexed Sentiments: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Emotion by Willemijn Ruberg 9789042032415
Booksplease Price: £83.88Sexed Sentiments provides a gender perspective on the recent turn to affect in criticism. It presents new work by scholars from different disciplines working on gender and emotion, a field par... -
The Medieval Chronicle VII by Juliana Dresvina 9789042033429
Booksplease Price: £77.19There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were... -
Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism by Maurizia Boscagli 9789042034259
Booksplease Price: £83.88Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism offers for the first time a sustained exploration of parallels between the fiction of James Joyce and the cultural criticism of Walter Benjamin. Benjamin is... -
The Translation of Fictive Dialogue by Jenny Brumme 9789042035041
Booksplease Price: £108.56This volume presents a systematic overview of current research on the issues that arise when recreating and translating dialogue in works of fiction (including narrative, drama and film scripts). The... -
Facets of Self-Consciousness by Katja Crone 9789042035157
Booksplease Price: £91.75This special issue of Grazer Philosophische Studien brings together a number of carefully selected and timely articles that explore the discussion of different facets of self-consciousness from... -
From Conflict to Recognition: Moving Multiculturalism Forward by Michael Kearney 9789042035355
Booksplease Price: £94.90This volume will be of interest to scholars examining the relationship between culture and identity, concepts of individual and group agency in multicultural settings, and the effect that our... -
Difference Unbound: The Rise of Pluralism in Literature and Criticism. 2nd Edition by Stamos Metzidakis 9789042036260
Booksplease Price: £50.03This is the first book to examine the precise relationship between pluralism and the production of Western literature and criticism from the eighteenth century to the present. It underscores the... -
George Moore: Across Borders by Christine Huguet 9789042036376
Booksplease Price: £107.27A truly cosmopolitan Irish writer, George Moore (1852-1933) was a fascinating figure of the fin de siecle, moving between countries, crossing genre and medium boundaries, forever exploring and... -
Refusals in instructional contexts and beyond by Otilia Marti-Arnandiz 9789042037151
Booksplease Price: £91.75Little exposure and few opportunities for practice are two main drawbacks for learners in instructional contexts. These problems are intensified when dealing with face-threatening acts such as... -
The Medieval Chronicle VIII by Erik Kooper 9789042037366
Booksplease Price: £77.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042037366Author Erik KooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Modernism Today by Sjef Houppermans 9789042037441
Booksplease Price: £105.39This book manifests at least four recent shifts and tendencies within Modernist studies in general that point at the expansion of this increasingly interdisciplinary field. First, Modernist studies... -
English as a foreign language teacher education: Current perspectives and challenges by Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo 9789042038004
Booksplease Price: £108.56The field of Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE) is mainly concerned with the professional preparation of L2 teachers. In order to improve teaching in the multilingual and multicultural... -
Arts Activism, Education, and Therapies: Transforming Communities Across Africa by Hazel Barnes 9789042038073
Booksplease Price: £115.70This second volume of research emanating from Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand, explores the transformative and healing qualities of the arts in South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon,... -
In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography by Mary Bergstein 9789042038295
Booksplease Price: £87.82Marcel Proust offered the twentieth century a new psychology of memory and seeing. His novel In Search of Lost Time was written in the modern age of photography and art history. In Looking Back One... -
Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics: Critical Perspectives on the Arts by Wojciech Małecki 9789042038363
Booksplease Price: £68.92This is the first collection in English devoted exclusively to pragmatist aesthetics. Its main aim is to employ the resources of that rich and exciting tradition in studying artistic phenomena such...