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The Empty Church: Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope by Shannon Craigo-Snell 9780190630096
Booksplease Price: €57.04Why go to church? What happens in church and why does it matter? The Empty Church presents fresh answers to these questions by creating an interdisciplinary conversation between theater directors and... -
In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story Andrea Weiss 9780226836799
Booksplease Price: €23.80A biography of Thomas Mann's two eldest children that provides intriguing insight into both their lives and the political and cultural shifts at the same time. Thomas Mann's two eldest children,... -
Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales From a Year in Literature Jon Sutherland 9781848311640
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.47Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this... -
Mahabharata by Miriam Fernandes 9781552454756
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.98A contemporary dramatic take on a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic that is foundational to Indian culture. Why Not Theatre's large-scale, once-in-a-generation retelling of Mahabharata brings together a... -
The Empty Church: Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope by Shannon Craigo-Snell 9780199827923
Booksplease Price: €127.68Why go to church? What happens in church and why does it matter? The Empty Church presents fresh answers to these questions by creating an interdisciplinary conversation between theater directors and... -
Belongings David J. Constantine 9781780375205
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. The title of his eleventh collection, Belongings,... -
February 1933: The Winter of Literature by Wittstock
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.67It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise... -
The Fate of King David: The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon by Tod Linafelt 9780567434654
Booksplease Price: €48.54Celebrating the five hundredth volume, this Festschrift honors David M. Gunn, one of the founders of the Journal of Old Testament Studies, later the Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies,... -
Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment by Minou Arjomand
RRP: €139.23Booksplease Price: €108.84Theater requires artifice, justice demands truth. Are these demands as irreconcilable as the pejorative term "show trials" suggests? After the Second World War, canonical directors and playwrights... -
Disability Theatre and Modern Drama: Recasting Modernism by Professor Kirsty Johnston 9781408184783
Booksplease Price: €35.16Bertolt Brecht's silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and... -
Destiny Express by Howard A Rodman 9781644285534
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €15.40Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "daringly imagined and darkly romantic-a moral thriller," Destiny Express captures both the glamour and the terror of an era, dramatizing the perilous moment when art,... -
What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-33 by Joseph Roth
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political writings that... -
Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment by Minou Arjomand 9780231187794
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.97Theater requires artifice, justice demands truth. Are these demands as irreconcilable as the pejorative term "show trials" suggests? After the Second World War, canonical directors and playwrights... -
A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature: The Birth of Oppa by Kyounghoon Lee
Booksplease Price: €113.99A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature: The Birth of Oppa examines the cultural and social impact of Japanese colonialism and modernity on the wider aspects of everyday life in Korea... -
Searching for the Anthropocene: A Journey into the Environmental Humanities by Christopher Schaberg 9781501351822
Booksplease Price: €30.49Debated, denied, unheard of, encompassing: The Anthropocene is a vexed topic, and requires interdisciplinary imagination. Starting at the author's home in rural northern Michigan and zooming out... -
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II: A Novel by Peter Weiss 9781478006145
RRP: €102.34Booksplease Price: €83.17A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature... -
Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World by Howard Pollack 9780190280239
Booksplease Price: €46.24A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 3: 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin 9780674019812
RRP: €34.45Booksplease Price: €29.89Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third... -
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940 by Peter Brooker 9780198778431
Booksplease Price: €102.63The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection contains fifty-six original essays on the role of 'little... -
Writing for Dark Times: A Literary History of Human Rights Hadji Bakara 9780226847825
Booksplease Price: €31.75A history of human rights that places writers and their ideas at its center.At Amnesty International's headquarters in London hangs a large copy of Seamus Heaney's "From the Republic of Conscience,"... -
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II: A Novel by Peter Weiss
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.35A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature... -
Angina Days: Selected Poems by Gunter Eich 9780691144979
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €23.56This is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Gunter Eich, one of the greatest postwar German poets. The author of the POW poem "Inventory," among one of the most famous lyrics in... -
Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama by Martin Puchner
Booksplease Price: €34.59Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner's Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde... -
Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the <I>Evergreen Review</I>, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde by Loren Glass 9780804784160
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.89Responsible for such landmark publications as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, Naked Lunch, Waiting for Godot,The Wretched of the Earth , and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Grove Press was... -
Angels in America (new edition) by Tony Kushner
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Originally premiered in... -
The Theater of Tony Kushner: Living Past Hope James Fisher 9780367026745
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €44.20The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the forty-year long career of dramatist Tony Kushner as playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and public intellectual and political activist... -
A Complex Sentence by Marjorie Welish
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02In A Complex Sentence, Marjorie Welish builds immersive intertextual environments as she questions the canon of modernist poetry and the ways we talk about poetics. In her sixth collection with... -
Aleister Crowley: the Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic by Tobias Churton
Booksplease Price: €26.48Gnostic poet, painter, writer, and magician Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin on April 18, 1930. As prophet of his syncretic religion "Thelema," he wanted to be among the leaders of art and thought,... -
Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty by Modris Eksteins
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €31.48In Modris Eksteins's hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through...