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Scratching the Surface of Bioethics by Matti Hayry 9789042010062
Booksplease Price: £50.82Is bioethics only about medicine and health care? Law? Philosophy? Social issues? No, on all accounts. It embraces all these and more. In this book, fifteen notable scholars from the North West of... -
<i>Mythos</i> and <i>Logos</i>: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom by Albert A. Anderson 9789042010208
Booksplease Price: £83.88This book contains fifteen essays all seeking to regain the original meaning of philosophy as the love of wisdom. Mythos and Logos are two essential aspects of a quest that began with the ancient... -
Paradigms Found: Feminist, Gay, and New Historicist Readings of Shakespeare by Pilar Hidalgo 9789042012356
Booksplease Price: £47.67Paradigms Found is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, and for anyone interested in the diverse ways in which his plays are read and taught at the start of the... -
Speaking the Taboo: A study of the work of Wolfgang Hilbig by Paul Cooke 9789042015425
Booksplease Price: £67.35Wolfgang Hilbig is a writer who is widely acknowledged as one of the most important to have emerged from the former GDR. In this study, the first in English, Paul Cooke explores the interplay of... -
Democracy and the Post-Totalitarian Experience by Leszek Koczanowicz 9789042016354
Booksplease Price: £70.50This book presents the work of Polish and American philosophers about Poland's transition from Communist domination to democracy. Among their topics are nationalism, liberalism, law and justice,... -
Revolution and Women's Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century France by Kathleen Hart 9789042017016
Booksplease Price: £57.12Here for the first time is a book devoted exclusively to the topic of women's autobiography in nineteenth-century France. Tracing the rise of autobiography in relation to women's domestic... -
On Verbal / Visual Representation: Word & Image Interactions IV by Martin Heusser 9789042018372
Booksplease Price: £75.22The twenty-one essays collected in this volume offer a broad range of critical views on the intricate interdependence between verbal and visual representation. Drawing on recent research, scholars... -
Negotiating Toward Truth: The Extinction of Teachers and Students by George David Miller 9789042002586
Booksplease Price: £27.20For far too many people for far too many years, schooling has been a debilitating, demoralizing, and ultimately dehumanizing experience. Make-shift, half-hearted, and watered-down reform measures... -
Dwelling Poetically: Educational Challenges in Heidegger’s Thinking of Poetry by Haim Gordon 9789042005907
Booksplease Price: £36.65This book philosophically discusses the educational challenges of dwelling poetically, which, according to Martin Heidegger, means learning from great poems how to live a worthy life and relate... -
Genes and Morality: New Essays by Veikko Launis 9789042006966
Booksplease Price: £56.33Most public discussion has focused on those effects of genetic research that are considered in some way unwanted or unpleasant. For example, there has been much debate concerning the risks and the... -
Fractured Biographies by Ian Wallace 9789042009561
Booksplease Price: £43.73A physical chemist (Fritz Haber), a photographer (Josef Breitenbach), a cabaret artist (Georg Kreisler), two writers (Otto Alscher and Albin Stuebs), a pioneering scholar in Irish-German studies... -
Joseph Conrad: The Short Fiction by 9789042009608
Booksplease Price: £46.88Joseph Conrad: The Short Fiction offers a wide range of perspectives on Conrad's short stories. Nine essays, by established and emerging scholars, deal with early and classic stories as well as the... -
The Circle & the Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Māori Literature by Eva Rask Knudsen 9789042010482
Booksplease Price: £57.12In Aboriginal and Māori literature, the circle and the spiral are the symbolic metaphors for a never-ending journey of discovery and rediscovery. The journey itself, with its indigenous perspectives... -
'This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song': Resistance in Women's Literature of World War II by L. Leigh Westerfield 9789042011489
Booksplease Price: £79.16The romanticized image of the heroic male resistance fighter in World War II belies a truth that is both darker and more personal. This literary history explores, for the first time, the reality of... -
Earth's Abominations: Philosophical Studies of Evil by Daniel M. Haybron 9789042012783
Booksplease Price: £43.73This book philosophically explores a wide range of subjects relating to evil and human wickedness, including the nature of evil, explaining evil, evil and moral responsibility, and responding to evil... -
Peace, Value, and Wisdom: The Educational Philosophy of Daisaku Ikeda by George David Miller 9789042013599
Booksplease Price: £39.80This 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: £82.31This 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: £53.97Darling 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: £91.77This 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: £85.46The 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: £39.80This 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: £39.01This 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: £35.07In 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: £63.41Seven 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: £57.12This 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: £60.27Yves 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: £70.50The 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: £83.88This 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: £94.90This 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: £74.43This 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: £82.31The 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... -
Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France: Essays in Honour of Keith Cameron by David Cowling 9789042020061
Booksplease Price: £57.12This collection of essays by ten leading British and French Renaissance specialists explores, for the first time, differing conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France. Four essays concentrate on... -
Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization by Messay Kebede 9789042008106
Booksplease Price: £75.22This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the... -
The Medieval Chronicle II: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle. Driebergen/Utrecht 16-21 July 1999 by Erik Kooper 9789042008342
Booksplease Price: £79.16After the success of the first international conference on the medieval chronicle, it was decided that another would be in place. It was held in the summer of 1999, and again drew some 150... -
Cultures of Neurasthenia: From Beard to the First World War by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra 9789042009219
Booksplease Price: £54.27Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was 'invented' in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern... -
Dimensions of Apeiron: A Topological Phenomenology of Space, Time, and Individuation by Steven M. Rosen 9789042011991
Booksplease Price: £64.20This book explores the evolution of space and time from the apeiron -the spaceless, timeless chaos of primordial nature. Rosen examines Western culture's effort to deny apeiron, and the critical need... -
Intermediality in Theatre and Performance by Freda Chapple 9789042016293
Booksplease Price: £77.58Intermediality: the incorporation of digital technology into theatre practice, and the presence of film, television and digital media in contemporary theatre is a significant feature of... -
Baroque Fictions: Revisioning the Classical in Marguerite Yourcenar by Margaret Elizabeth Colvin 9789042018389
Booksplease Price: £53.18This volume is the first in-depth study of the French novelist Marguerite Yourcenar's fiction to contend that the author's texts exhibit in unexpected ways numerous characteristics of the neobaroque... -
Sartre's <i>Nausea</i>: Text, Context, Intertext by Alistair Charles Rolls 9789042019287
Booksplease Price: £63.41Twenty-five years after his death, critics and academics, film-makers and journalists continue to argue over Sartre's legacy. But certain interpretations have congealed around his iconic text Nausea,... -
Rhythm, Illusion and the Poetic Idea: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé by David Evans 9789042019430
Booksplease Price: £99.63Rhythm, Illusion and the Poetic Idea explores the concept of rhythm and its central yet problematic role in defining modern French poetry. Forging innovative lines of inquiry linking the detailed...