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Peace, Value, and Wisdom: The Educational Philosophy of Daisaku Ikeda by George David Miller 9789042013599
Booksplease Price: $77.61This book introduces readers to the Buddhist-based philosophy of education of Daisaku Ikeda. Ikeda's philosophy of education offers human revolution, value creation, and dialogue as counterweights to... -
Time, Narrative & the Fixed Image / Temps, narration & image fixe by Mireille Ribière 9789042013667
Booksplease Price: $160.50This volume focuses on the relationship between time, narrative and the fixed image. As such, it highlights renewed interest in the temporality of the fixed image, probably one of the most important... -
Paul Morand: The Politics and Practice of Writing in Postwar France by Kimberly Philpot van Noort 9789042013766
Booksplease Price: $105.24Darling of the Jazz Age, the globe-trotting diplomat and acclaimed writer Paul Morand and his literary and political careers underwent a radical shift following his collaboration with the Vichy... -
Jews in German Literature since 1945: German-Jewish Literature? by 9789042014534
Booksplease Price: $178.95This volume contains some 46 essays on various aspects of contemporary German-Jewish literature. The approaches are diverse, reflecting the international origins of the contributors, who are based in... -
A Garland For Gissing by Bouwe Postmus 9789042014770
Booksplease Price: $166.65The crown upon the continuing vitality and popularity of Gissing studies in the final decade of the twentieth century was the publication of The Collected Letters of George Gissing (1990-97). The... -
Conversations with Pragmatism: A Multi-Disciplinary Study by Paul Custodio Bube 9789042015609
Booksplease Price: $77.61This book represents the reflections of scholars coming from varied disciplinary backgrounds who have found a conversation partner in pragmatism. The “conversations” recorded here demonstrate... -
Negotiating Positions: Literature, Identity and Social Critique in the Works of Wolfgang Koeppen by Simon Ward 9789042015760
Booksplease Price: $76.07This study offers new perspectives on Wolfgang Koeppen, a writer too often consigned to the margins of post-1945 literary history. Examining the interaction of the personal and the social in... -
The Fantastic Anatomist: A Psychoanalytic Study of Henry James by Ronnie Bailie 9789042015814
Booksplease Price: $68.39In this compact but highly concentrated study, the author unites clinical and literary critical skills in an attempt to go beyond familiar psychological commentary on Henry James and conduct a... -
Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance by Anthony Mortimer 9789042016767
Booksplease Price: $123.65Seven centuries after the birth of Petrarch (1304-74) the nature and extent of his influence loom ever larger in the study of renaissance literature. In this revised and expanded edition of... -
Pragmatic Moral Realism: A Transcendental Defense by Sami Pihlstrom 9789042017474
Booksplease Price: $111.38This book examines the issue of moral realism from a pragmatist point of view, drawing attention to our human practices of ethical evaluation and deliberation. It defends the essentially ungrounded... -
Searching for Presence: Yves Bonnefoy's Writings on Art by Robert W. Greene 9789042017924
Booksplease Price: $117.53Yves Bonnefoy's writings have won him praise not only from readers and critics of French poetry, but also, thanks to translations into many other languages, from readers and critics of poetry far... -
The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures by Philip E. Bennett 9789042018518
Booksplease Price: $137.48The Singer and the Scribe brings together studies of the European ballad from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century by major authorities in the field and is of interest to students of European... -
Multimodality in Canadian Black Feminist Writing: Orality and the Body in the Work of Harris, Philip, Allen, and Brand by Maria Caridad Casas 9789042026865
Booksplease Price: $163.57This book develops a theory of multimodality - the participation of a text in more than one mode - centred on the poetry/poetics of Lillian Allen, Claire Harris, Dionne Brand, and Marlene Nourbese... -
The Politics of Adaptation: Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy by Astrid van Weyenberg 9789042037007
Booksplease Price: $185.06This book explores contemporary African adaptations of classical Greek tragedies. Six South African and Nigerian dramatic texts - by Yael Farber, Mark Fleishman, Athol Fugard, Femi Osofisan, and Wole... -
Klein in the Trenches: Working with Disturbed Patients by Robert Waska 9789042035744
Booksplease Price: $145.14This book explores the theoretical and technical aspects of Modern Kleinian Therapy with borderline, narcissistic, and psychotic patients who are in great psychological conflict and who struggle to... -
The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la litterature africaine by Bernard de Meyer 9789042025806
Booksplease Price: $160.50The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture - a synopsis of current trends in African literature - and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several... -
Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic Culture by Rodney Farnsworth 9789042014275
Booksplease Price: $179.50This literature-centered study offers an interdisciplinary approach to Romantic culture. If is pioneering in that it employs the complexity method of anthropology. Recent literary studies employ the... -
Cultural Functions of Intermedial Exploration by Erik Hedling 9789042014305
Booksplease Price: $154.36This collection of 19 essays is the first one devoted to function-oriented analyses of intermedial interrelationships in literature, art, music, and film. The contributors - among others, Werner... -
Dogs' Tales: Representations of Ancient Cynicism in French Renaissance Texts by Hugh Roberts 9789042020047
Booksplease Price: $177.39Sleeping rough, having sex in public and insulting the most powerful men in the world earned the ancient Cynic or ‘dog’ philosophers fame and infamy in antiquity and beyond. This book reveals that... -
Victorian Literary Mesmerism by Martin Willis 9789042020085
Booksplease Price: $158.96Victorian Literary Mesmerism examines the engagement between literature and mesmerism in Victorian writing. Drawing on recent trends in interdisciplinary literary scholarship the essays collected... -
Oppa Swanzsko oc Oppa Dansko: Studien zum Altostnordischen by Harry Perridon 9789042021167
Booksplease Price: $205.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042021167Author Harry PerridonFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word: Corpus Research from Phrase to Discourse by Eileen Fitzpatrick 9789042021358
Booksplease Price: $191.20This volume will be of particular interest to readers interested in expanding the applications of corpus linguistics techniques through new tools and approaches. The text includes selected papers... -
Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari by Garin Dowd 9789042022065
Booksplease Price: $210.15What can philosophy bring to the reading of Beckett? Combining intertextual analysis with a 'schizoanalytic genealogy' derived from the authors of L'Anti-OEdipe, Garin Dowd's Abstract Machines:... -
Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging by Nick Rumens 9789042022393
Booksplease Price: $194.28Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging provides theoretical and empirical insights into the linkages between sexualities and forms of... -
Stylistics: Prospect & Retrospect by David L. Hoover 9789042023307
Booksplease Price: $154.36Stylistics: Prospect & Retrospect looks backward toward classic and foundational approaches and texts that helped to establish the field of stylistics. It also looks forward by examining recent... -
Cognition in Emotion: An Investigation through Experiences with Art by Tone Roald 9789042023338
Booksplease Price: $89.90Emotions are essential for human existence, both lighting the way toward the brightest of achievements and setting the course into the darkness of suffering. Not surprisingly, then, emotion research... -
Refugee Archives: Theory and Practice by Andrea Hammel 9789042024076
Booksplease Price: $135.93This volume gives an extensive overview of current developments in the field of archival collections relating to German-speaking refugees located in Germany, Austria, the USA, Ireland and the UK. The... -
Contemporary French Art 1: Eleven Studies by Michael Bishop 9789042024182
Booksplease Price: $126.73Ben Vautier, Niki De Saint Phalle, Francois Morellet, Louise Bourgeois, Alexandre Hollan, Claude Viallat, Sophie Calle, Bernard Pages, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Annette Messager, Gerard Titus-Carmel:... -
Pleasure and Pain in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture by David Evans 9789042025028
Booksplease Price: $186.60From Sade at one end of the nineteenth century to Freud at the other, via many French novelists and poets, pleasure and pain become ever more closely entwined. Whereas the inseparability of these... -
The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease by Vera Kalitzkus 9789042025158
Booksplease Price: $129.79Human suffering and illness as well as health and healing are topics of ongoing actuality. In a world of growing complexity and interrelatedness a broader perspective on these topics is needed. The... -
Perspectives on the 'Other America': Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture by Michael Niblett 9789042027046
Booksplease Price: $175.85Uniting critical writing on novels, poetry, painting, and ritual, this volume takes a regional approach to the cultures of the Caribbean Basin. Ranging across the linguistic spectrum of the area, it... -
Andre Gide and Curiosity by Victoria Reid 9789042027268
Booksplease Price: $210.15This comprehensive exploration of curiosity in the fiction and life-writing of Andre Gide (1869-1951) is an important modernist contribution to the field of curiosity in literature and cultural... -
Promoting and Producing Evil: Second Edition by Nancy Billias 9789042029392
Booksplease Price: $217.89The essays in this volume provide rich fodder for reflection on topics that are of urgent interest to all thinking people. Each one suggests new ways to contemplate our own role(s) in the production... -
The Resilience of Hope by Janette McDonald 9789042030220
Booksplease Price: $129.79Hope: What is it? How do we get it? Is it part of being human? Is it something that carries us through hard times? Is it something illusory? This book, which stems from the 4th Inter-Disciplinary.net... -
Enduring Resistance / La Resistance persevere: Cultural Theory after Derrida / La theorie de la culture (d')apres Derrida by Sjef Houppermans 9789042030305
Booksplease Price: $230.26Addressing both the humanities and the social sciences, this volume aims to explore the enduring significance of the work of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) in the field of cultural theory. It assembles... -
Chaos and Madness: The Politics of Fiction in Stephen Marlowe's Historical Narratives by Monica Calvo-Pascual 9789042033016
Booksplease Price: $143.62In the 1950s prolific U.S. fiction writer Stephen Marlowe became a cult author for lovers of noir fiction mainly for his Drumbeat series, which present his best-known character: private eye Chester... -
Narratives of Trauma: Discourses of German Wartime Suffering in National and International Perspective by Helmut Schmitz 9789042033191
Booksplease Price: $152.82Scholars from Cultural Studies, History and Sociology address the national and international significance of discourses of 'German wartime suffering' in post-war and contemporary Germany. The focus... -
Communities of Peace: Confronting Injustice and Creating Justice by Danielle Poe 9789042033351
Booksplease Price: $80.67This volume examines the many ways in which violence, domination, and oppression manifest themselves. This examination opens the way to creative suggestions for overcoming injustice. The authors in... -
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...