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Women Write Back: Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805 by Stephanie M. Hilger 9789042025783
Booksplease Price: £58.69Women 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... -
Dying, Assisted Death and Mourning by Asa Kasher 9789042025899
Booksplease Price: £61.84Dying and death are topics of deep humane concern for many people in a variety of circumstances and contexts. However, they are not discussed to any great extent or with sufficient focus in order to... -
Entering an online support group on eating disorders: A discourse analysis by Stommel Wyke 9789042026605
Booksplease Price: £95.69Online support groups are considered highly valuable in addition to traditional health care services, but we know very little about how people actually join such a group. This book offers a... -
Metacide: In the Pursuit of Excellence by James R. Watson 9789042028531
Booksplease Price: £108.56If philosophy addresses concrete ethical challenges, then what shifts in basic concepts must be made to the discipline in the darkness of our genocidal world? What anti-genocidal strains are in... -
Indigenous Apostles: Maya Catholic Catechists Working the Word in Highland Chiapas by Ruth J. Chojnacki 9789042028722
Booksplease Price: £66.56Indigenous Apostles tells the story of conversion to Catholicism and birth of new ecclesial community with the arrival of Vatican II mission in Santa Maria Magdalenas, a Tzotzil-speaking village in... -
The Female Crusoe: Hybridity, Trade and the Eighteenth-Century Individual by C. M. Owen 9789042029644
Booksplease Price: £105.39What does the story of Robinson Crusoe have to do with understanding past and present women's lives? The Female Crusoe: Hybridity, Trade and the Eighteenth-Century Individual investigates the... -
Positive Peace: Reflections on Peace Education, Nonviolence, and Social Change by Andrew L. Fitz-Gibbon 9789042029910
Booksplease Price: £68.92Positive Peace is a scholarly and creative compilation of articles on peace education, nonviolence and social change. Arun Gandhi (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) sets the scene in his introduction with... -
Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill: Farce in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Narratives by Edward A. Hagan 9789042029934
Booksplease Price: £115.70Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill is a reading of one or two books recently written by the following major authors: Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibin, John McGahern, William Trevor, Seamus Deane, Nuala O'Faolain,... -
Rewriting History: Peter Carey's Fictional Biography of Australia by Andreas Gaile 9789042030701
Booksplease Price: £116.50Peter Carey is one of the most richly awarded and critically acclaimed novelists of the present day. Most of his fictions relate to questions of Australian history and identity. Rewriting History... -
Essays in the Philosophy and History of Logic and Mathematics by Roman Murawski 9789042030909
Booksplease Price: £117.59The book is a collection of the author’s selected works in the philosophy and history of logic and mathematics. Papers in Part I include both general surveys of contemporary philosophy of mathematics... -
The Perverse Art of Reading: On the phantasmatic semiology in Roland Barthes' <i>Cours au College de France</i> by Kris Pint 9789042030923
Booksplease Price: £98.84'I sincerely believe that at the origin of teaching such as this we must always locate a fantasy'. This provoking remark was the starting point of the four lecture courses Roland Barthes taught as... -
Frontiers in Higher Education by Tom Claes 9789042030961
Booksplease Price: £83.88This latest edited book in the Idea of Education series, entitled 'Frontiers in Higher Education', began its journey as working papers from an Inter-Disciplinary.Net conference held in Budapest,... -
The Popular Avant-Garde by Renee M. Silverman 9789042031609
Booksplease Price: £108.86The avant-garde has been popular for some time, but its popularity has tended to fly under the radar. This "popular avant-garde," conceived as the meeting ground of the avant-garde and popular,... -
New Insights into Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility: Media for All 2 by Jorge Diaz-Cintas 9789042031807
Booksplease Price: £105.39This volume aims to take the pulse of the changes taking place in the thriving field of Audiovisual Translation and to offer new insights into both theoretical and practical issues. Academics and... -
The Secular Visionaries: Aestheticism and New Zealand Short Fiction in the Twentieth Century by Joel Gwynne 9789042031845
Booksplease Price: £98.05This retrospective study examines short fiction in the context of stylistic tradition in New Zealand's literary history. By exploring the extent to which the major exponents of twentieth-century... -
A Recipe for Discourse: Perspectives on <i>Like Water for Chocolate</i> by Eric Skipper 9789042031913
Booksplease Price: £74.43Slender and yet panoramic in scope, historical and yet relevant to current-day concerns, Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate has provoked from the outset a divergent range of critical opinions... -
Post-Communist Democratisation in Lithuania: Elites, parties, and youth political organisations. 1988-2001 by Diana Janusauskiene 9789042032491
Booksplease Price: £64.99Post-Communist Democratisation in Lithuania: Elites, Parties, and Youth Political Organisations. 1988 - 2001 explains post-communist changes in Lithuania. The transformation of political party... -
Niccolò Machiavelli: History, Power, and Virtue by Leonidas Donskis 9789042032774
Booksplease Price: £42.16This volume is an attempt to rethink Niccolò Machiavelli, one of the most challenging political thinkers in the history of European political thought. In 2013, we will mark 500 years since... -
Selves in Dialogue: A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing by Begona Simal 9789042033986
Booksplease Price: £83.88Selves in Dialogue: A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing constitutes an explicit answer to the urgent call for a comparative study of American autobiography. This collection of essays... -
Land & Identity: Theory, Memory, and Practice by Christine Berberich 9789042034600
Booksplease Price: £107.77This collection of essays aims to investigate the complex issues surrounding contemporary cultural discourses on land and identity - their production, construction, and reconstruction across a range... -
Politics Otherwise: Shakespeare as Social and Political Critique by Leonidas Donskis 9789042034648
Booksplease Price: £65.78The book is comprised of essays that utilize Shakespeare as a productive window into topics of contemporary social and political relevance. Its interdisciplinary qualities make the book relevant for... -
Private: do (not) enter: Personal Writings and Textual Scholarship by Joao Dionisio 9789042034754
Booksplease Price: £82.31Until recently, writings of a private nature have been neglected in literary and textual studies. There are two main reasons for this: the scarcity of pre-modern witnesses of this type of textual... -
Speculative Evaluations: Essays on a Pluralistic Universe by Hugh P. McDonald 9789042034846
Booksplease Price: £118.08This book evaluates competing theories on speculative topics, such as nature, technology, space, time, and the relation of mind and matter. The general thesis is the actuality of principles in the... -
Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Theory and Description by Joybrato Mukherjee 9789042034952
Booksplease Price: £91.75The present volume includes a selection of 20 papers from the 31st Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), held in Giessen (Germany) in May... -
Scapeland: Writing the Landscape from Diderot's <i>Salons</i> to the Postmodern Museum by Gillian B. Pierce 9789042035942
Booksplease Price: £87.82Scapeland: Writing the Landscape from Diderot's Salons to the Postmodern Museum is a comparative, interdisciplinary study tracing theories of the sublime and a history of spectatorship from Diderot's... -
Marginalized: Indian Poetry in English by Smita Agarwal 9789042037847
Booksplease Price: £88.12This book illustrates and debates the well-grounded and confident tradition of Indian Poetry in English. It contains individual essays on poets before and since the Indian Independence focus on the... -
Decentring the Avant-Garde by Per Bäckström 9789042037885
Booksplease Price: £99.93Decentring the Avant-Garde presents a collection of articles dealing with the topography of the avant-garde. The focus is on different responses to avant-garde aesthetics in regions traditionally... -
Quote, Double Quote: Aesthetics between High and Popular Culture by Paul Ferstl 9789042037960
Booksplease Price: £73.65The boundary between 'high' culture and 'popular' culture is neither hermetic nor stable. A wide-spread mechanism of a reception strongly influenced by structuralism and post-modernism has led to the... -
Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism by Liesbeth Minnaard 9789042038561
Booksplease Price: £60.27Despite the fact that transnational movement and intercultural encounter are the signs of our present time, questions of belonging and legitimation of citizenship in most West-European countries... -
Beauty, Responsibility, and Power: Ethical and Political Consequences of Pragmatist Aesthetics by Leszek Koczanowicz 9789042038790
Booksplease Price: £63.41This book addresses the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the framework of pragmatist aesthetics, offering a comprehensive panorama of the ways and fields in which pragmatist... -
Revisiting <i>Molloy, Malone meurt / Malone Dies</i> and <i>L'Innommable / The Unnamable</i> by David Tucker 9789042038806
Booksplease Price: £99.14Collection of essays by different authors on three of Beckett's works. some essays in French.Book InformationISBN 9789042038806Author David TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Editions Rodopi... -
The Anti-Landscape by David E. Nye 9789042038868
Booksplease Price: £68.14There have always been some uninhabitable places, but in the last century human beings have produced many more of them. These anti-landscapes have proliferated to include the sandy wastes of what was... -
English Corpora under Japanese Eyes by Junsaku Nakamura 9789042018822
Booksplease Price: £79.16English Corpora under Japanese Eyes is a fine collection of papers written in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Japan Association of English Corpus Studies (JAECS). Beginning with the... -
Values, Violence, and Our Future by Gary J. Acquaviva 9789042005594
Booksplease Price: £43.73This book identifies the character of human predators who violate others or themselves. The contagion of violence infects values that affect behavior. But we may call upon the intrinsic values of... -
The Child in French and Francophone Literature by Buford Norman 9789042011595
Booksplease Price: £72.07From the contents: Sandra BECKETT: Babes in the woods: today's riding hoods go to granny's. - Lewis SEIFERT: Madame Le Prince de Beaumont and the infantilization of the fairy tale. - Michael O'RILEY:... -
Bidding for the Mainstream?: Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s by Barbara Korte 9789042010383
Booksplease Price: £91.75This book looks at a sector of black and Asian British film and television as it presented itself in the 1990s and early 2000s. For this period, a ‘mainstreaming’ of black and Asian British film has... -
Tradition and the Poetics of Self in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry by Barbara Garlick 9789042013001
Booksplease Price: £57.12Tradition and how far writers fit into or diverge from the demands of tradition is one of the most debated issues in literary discussion. Gender, however, is not often part of discussions which... -
"I am just a Sukuma": Globalization and Identity Construction in Northwest Tanzania by Frans Wijsen 9789042015883
Booksplease Price: £72.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042015883Author Frans WijsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Oriental Panorama: British Travellers in 19th Century Turkey by Reinhold Schiffer 9789042007963
Booksplease Price: £59.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042007963Author Reinhold SchifferFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
Silenced Facts: Media Montages in Contemporary Austrian Literature by Bianca Theisen 9789042008052
Booksplease Price: £57.12In response to the silence that continues to shroud Austria's historical past, Austrian literature after 1950 wants to retrace an untold history that left its marks in mental schemata and cultural...