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The Memory of Pain: Women's Testimonies of the Holocaust by Camila Loew 9789042034211
Booksplease Price: $163.57In this book, Camila Loew analyzes four women's testimonial literary writings on the Holocaust to examine and question some of the tenets of the fields of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and... -
Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation by Kim Socha 9789042034235
Booksplease Price: $169.71This interdisciplinary study fuses analysis of feminist literature and manifestos, radical political theory, critical vanguard studies, women’s performance art, and popular culture to argue for the... -
Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans)Nationalism, Social Change by Robbie B. H. Goh 9789042034242
Booksplease Price: $191.78The essays in this volume deal with the complexities of race in the Asia-Pacific context. Social tensions concerning race and ethnicity continue to pose profound challenges to Asia-Pacific countries... -
Identity and Social Transformation: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Five by John Ryder 9789042034426
Booksplease Price: $194.28This book is the fifth volume of selected papers from the Central European Pragmatist Forum (CEPF). The CEPF was founded in 2000 to provide an opportunity for American and European specialists in... -
Aspects of Dostoevskii: Art, Ethics and Faith by Robert Reid 9789042035140
Booksplease Price: $217.89Perhaps more than any other nineteenth-century Russian writer, Dostoevskii's continuing popularity rests on his contemporary relevance. The prophetic streak in his creativity gives him the same... -
Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit by Yuval Lurie 9789042035171
Booksplease Price: $194.28Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit provides a new understanding of Wittgenstein's discourse as an insightful philosophy of culture, pursued through self-reflection. It offers an edifying perspective on... -
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: The Spiritual in the Art of Kandinsky, Rothko, Warhol, and Kiefer by Wessel Stoker 9789042035447
Booksplease Price: $126.73Art has always been important for religion or spirituality. Secular art displayed in museums can also be spiritual, and it is this art that is the subject of this book. Many of the works of art... -
The Environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film by Jeff Persels 9789042036130
Booksplease Price: $129.79Volume 39 of FLS French Literature Series features ten articles on the topic of the environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film. Contributors engage with the work of such authors,... -
Oneness and the Displacement of Self: Dialogues on Self-Realization by Michael Krausz 9789042036369
Booksplease Price: $74.53This book presents a fictional dialogue among four former college friends about Oneness and self-realization. News of the sudden death of a relative occasions their discussion. One friend, a devotee... -
Tilting at Tradition: Problems of Genre in the Novels of Miguel de Cervantes and Charles Sorel by Daniel Syrovy 9789042037090
Booksplease Price: $191.20Don Quijote and Le Berger extravagant criticize fiction but come in the shape of novels. Far from breaking with their respective traditions, they engage with the chivalric and the pastoral in a... -
Narrative Ethics by Jakob Lothe 9789042037281
Booksplease Price: $225.62While Plato recommended expelling poets from the ideal society, W. H. Auden famously declared that poetry makes nothing happen. The 19 contributions to the present book avoid such polarized views... -
Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol. 88 – 2013: International Journal for Analytic Philosophy by Johannes L. Brandl 9789042038035
Booksplease Price: $208.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042038035Author Johannes L. BrandlFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
Multimedia Archaeologies: Gabriele D’Annunzio, Belle Époque Paris, and the Total Artwork by Andrea Mirabile 9789042038042
Booksplease Price: $126.73D’Annunzio’s hybrid experiments challenge Wagner’s ‘total artwork’ theories, search for a synthesis between pictorial stillness and filmic movement, and anticipate contemporary multimedia experiences... -
Fénelon in the Enlightenment: Traditions, Adaptations, and Variations: With a preface by Jacques Le Brun by Christoph Schmitt-Maaß 9789042038172
Booksplease Price: $229.30François Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651–1715) exerted a considerable influence on the development and spread of the Enlightenment. His most famous work, the Homeric novel... -
Dutch Contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists: Minsk.August 20-27, 2013. Linguistics by Egbert Fortuin 9789042038189
Booksplease Price: $163.57This volume, Dutch Contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) presents a comprehensive overview of current Slavic linguistic research in the Netherlands, and... -
Cognitive Iconology: When and How Psychology Explains Images by Ian Verstegen 9789042038240
Booksplease Price: $114.45Cognitive Iconology is a new theory of the relation of psychology to art. Instead of being an application of psychological principles, it is a methodologically aware account of psychology, art and... -
Innovation in Tradition: Tönnies Fonne’s Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov, 1607) by Pepijn Hendriks 9789042038301
Booksplease Price: $176.44This study explores the history of the language of Tönnies Fonne’s Russian-German phrasebook by careful textological analysis and by comparing the text with the earlier phrasebook of Thomas Schroue,... -
Doubtful Points: Joyce and Punctuation by Elizabeth M. Bonapfel 9789042039018
Booksplease Price: $134.39As unusual or esoteric as the subject might seem, Joyce's punctuation offers a way to study and appreciate his stylistic innovations and the materiality of his textual productions. Joyce's shunning... -
Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction by Magali Cornier Michael 9789042039070
Booksplease Price: $169.71Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction explores fiction that experiments in innovative ways with formal strategies so as to engage with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and... -
This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life by Rosi Braidotti 9789042039162
Booksplease Price: $185.06According to Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) philosophy is not for the privileged few or the specialized ones: it is an activity that appeals to anyone who is attuned to the desire for the ethical life... -
When Storyworlds Collide: Metalepsis in Popular Fiction, Film and Comics by Jeff Thoss 9789042039209
Booksplease Price: $143.62One can find it in the classics of experimental literature such as Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy or the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, but also in the horror and fantasy fiction of Stephen... -
Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics by Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis 9789042039278
Booksplease Price: $79.15This work attempts a psychoanalytic listening to the ‘oral’ Homeric epics in an effort to extract, as it were, from the ancient text certain elements of psychoanalytic understanding that are of... -
Corpus Linguistics II by Jan Aarts 9789062035199
Booksplease Price: $103.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789062035199Author Jan AartsFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher Brill -
Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture: Public Culture in Hamburg 1700-1933 by Peter Uwe Hohendahl 9789042011854
Booksplease Price: $140.54The essays assembled in this volume grew out of a conference held at Cornell University in November 2001. The goal of the conference was to examine the claim that the city-state of Hamburg had a... -
Edmond de Goncourt and the Novel: Naturalism and Decadence by Katherine Ashley 9789042016460
Booksplease Price: $140.54Edmond de Goncourt's four solo novels are not simply extensions of the Goncourt brothers' joint project, but attempts to deviate from the Naturalism with which their name had come to be associated... -
Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville by Elke D'hoker 9789042016712
Booksplease Price: $140.54Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville offers detailed and original readings of the work of the Irish author John Banville, one of the foremost figures in contemporary... -
Image into Identity: Constructing and Assigning Identity in a Culture of Modernity by Michael Wintle 9789042020641
Booksplease Price: $158.96The pervading theme of this book is the construction and allocation of identity, especially through images and imagery. The essays analyse how the dominant social discourses and imageries construct... -
A Man of Many Parts: Gissing's Short Stories, Essays and Other Works by Barbara Rawlinson 9789042020856
Booksplease Price: $172.77This comprehensive study of George Gissing's short stories and related non-fiction is essential reading for students of nineteenth-century realism. For the first time readers will be able to follow... -
Un-Civilizing Processes?: Excess and Transgression in German Society and Culture: Perspectives Debating with Norbert Elias by Mary Fulbrook 9789042021518
Booksplease Price: $206.10The collapse of the supposedly 'civilized' German nation into the 'barbarism' of Hitler's Third Reich has cast a long shadow over interpretations of German culture and society. In the remarkable work... -
Education for a Democratic Society: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Three by John Ryder 9789042021532
Booksplease Price: $142.08This book is the third volume of selected papers from the Central European Pragmatist Forum (CEPF). It deals with the general question of education, and the papers are organized into sections on... -
Erotik, aus dem Dreck gezogen by Johan H. Winkelman 9789042019522
Booksplease Price: $209.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042019522Author Johan H. WinkelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
The Secret Agent: Centennial Essays by Allan H. Simmons 9789042021761
Booksplease Price: $129.79This collection of thirteen essays by writers from several countries lavishly celebrates the centenary of the publication of Conrad's The Secret Agent. It reconsiders one of Conrad's most important... -
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Philosophical Perspectives on the "War on Terrorism" by Gail M. Presbey 9789042021976
Booksplease Price: $127.32This book responds to the Bush Administration position on the "war on terror." It examines preemption within the context of "just war"; justification for the United States-led invasion of Iraq, with... -
Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture by Nigel Harkness 9789042022607
Booksplease Price: $171.25This volume draws contributors from around the globe who represent the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies: historical, literary, cultural, art historical,... -
Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire by Peter James Turberfield 9789042023635
Booksplease Price: $174.31Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire offers an original analysis of patterns of unconscious desire observable in the life and work of the French orientalist writer Pierre Loti. It aims to... -
In the Flesh of the Text: The Poetry of Marie-Claire Bancquart by Peter Broome 9789042023666
Booksplease Price: $175.85This closely focused study of the inner movements, dynamic tensions and tactile richness of an intensely sensual but deeply searching poetry, is the first full-length monograph devoted to one of... -
The Body as Medium and Metaphor by Hannah Westley 9789042023987
Booksplease Price: $135.93Reconsidering the relationship between autobiography and self-portraiture, The Body as Medium and Metaphor explores the intertextuality of self-representation in twentieth-century French art... -
The Cultural Construction of London's East End: Urban Iconography, Modernity and the Spatialisation of Englishness by Dr. Paul Newland 9789042024540
Booksplease Price: $211.69Paul Newland's illuminating study explores the ways in which London's East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts - films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals... -
Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance by Marie-Luise Kohlke 9789042024915
Booksplease Price: $163.57Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance affords new theoretical approaches and insights into the complexity of sexual discourse pervading contemporary cultures, exploring sexuality's role... -
Women Write Back: Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805 by Stephanie M. Hilger 9789042025783
Booksplease Price: $114.45Women Write Back explores the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's responses to texts written by well-known Enlightment figures. Hilger investigates the authorial strategies employed...