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From Shadow to Presence: Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature by Jelena Sesnic 9789042022171
Booksplease Price: £95.69This volume departs from a more static concept of identity politics to engage the varied and entangled processes of ethnic/racial, national, and gender identifications in a range of contemporary US... -
The Intrinsic Value of Nature by Leena Vilkka 9789042003255
Booksplease Price: £49.24What is intrinsic value? What is the origin of value? Are people always superior to nature? This book is a philosophical analysis of the human relationship to the non-human world. It is a pioneering... -
Encounters with the Other: A Journey to the Limits of Language through Works by Rousseau, Defoe, Prevost and Graffigny by Martin Calder 9789042008250
Booksplease Price: £85.46Encounters with the Other brings together a range of eighteenth-century texts in which the exploration of lingua incognita figures as a prominent topos . Drawing mostly on a corpus of French texts,... -
Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature by Conny Steenman-Marcusse 9789042013056
Booksplease Price: £62.63This study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women’s fiction by Carol Shields (Small... -
Mozart's Piano Concertos by Marius Flothuis 9789042014145
Booksplease Price: £35.07Mozart's Piano Concertos, especially those composed during the years 1784-'91, are still held in high esteem, two centuries later, by both amateur music-lovers and professional musicians. Strangely... -
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Existence: The Voyage of the Self by Avi Sagi 9789042014121
Booksplease Price: £56.33This book is an original philosophic exploration of the meaning of Kierkegaard’s life, his thought, and his works. It makes a bold case for Kierkegaard’s recognition of the concrete existence of the... -
De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade by Patrick Bridgwater 9789042018136
Booksplease Price: £53.97De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade is what has long been needed, a study of Thomas De Quincey's Gothic and Gothic-related texts by a Germanist working on Gothic and specializing in Anglo-German literary... -
Bioethics and Social Reality by Matti Hayry 9789042016552
Booksplease Price: £57.12This book explores the many connections that bioethical thinking has with social reality. Bioethics, if it is to be effective, must engage with and address the actualities of modern life: policies,... -
Alchemy and Amalgam: Translation in the Works of Charles Baudelaire by Emily Salines 9789042019317
Booksplease Price: £85.46Alchemy and Amalgamexplores a relatively un-researched area of the Baudelairean corpus (his translations from English) and relates them to the rest of his works. It seeks to establish a link between... -
Neue Sachlichkeit 1918-33: Unity and Diversity of an Art Movement by Steve Plumb 9789042020191
Booksplease Price: £50.82Neue Sachlichkeit is thought by many to have too many diverse elements to be a unified movement. Originally divided by G.F. Hartlaub into two 'wings', Neue Sachlichkeit has since been broken down by... -
Philosophical Perspectives on Power and Domination: Theories and Practices by Laura Duhan Kaplan 9789042002616
Booksplease Price: £42.46The essays in this volume explore in detail many of the ways power structures our daily personal, political and intellectual lives, and evaluate the workings of power using a variety of theoretical... -
The Metaphysics of Cooperation: A Case Study of F.D. Maurice by Steven Schroeder 9789042007765
Booksplease Price: £43.73This book takes up the philosophical task described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and F.D. Maurice as digging toward the common humanity that is the ground of value. The book is an essay in philosophy... -
Coercion: A Nonevaluative Approach by Michael R. Rhodes 9789042007895
Booksplease Price: £47.67In this book, Rhodes provides a nonevaluative account of coercion. He begins with a thorough discussion of the charge that coercion is an essentially contested concept. He argues that effective... -
Medieval German Voices in the 21st Century: The Paradigmatic Function of Medieval German Studies for German Studies by Albrecht Classen 9789042009813
Booksplease Price: £67.35As witnessed by a tremendous upsurge in medieval research, academic meetings, innovative interpretive approaches, enrolment numbers, and public interest, Medieval Studies are proving once again to be... -
The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History by Harriet Deacon 9789042010642
Booksplease Price: £50.82The Cape Doctor is a social history of medicine, which places formal Western medicine within its political, social and economic context. The work shows the way in which the Cape medical profession... -
Peirce's Pragmatism: The Design for Thinking by Phyllis Chiasson 9789042012752
Booksplease Price: £72.07This book cuts through the complex writing style of the seminal philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce. It disentangles his ideas, explains them one by one, and then puts the pieces back together for... -
Translating Kali's Feast: The Goddess in Indo-Caribbean Ritual and Fiction by Stephanos Stephanides 9789042013810
Booksplease Price: £84.67Translating Kali's Feast is an interdisciplinary study of the Goddess Kali bringing together ethnography and literature within the theoretical framework of translation studies. The idea for the book... -
The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin by Anne L. Birberick 9789042014497
Booksplease Price: £81.82In The Shape of Change, Anne L. Birberick and Russell Ganim bring together essays by fourteen established scholars who dedicate their studies to David Rubin as they explore the ways in which artistic... -
Strategies Under Surveillance: Reading Irmtraud Morgner as a GDR Writer by Geoffrey Westgate 9789042014589
Booksplease Price: £72.07In this study, Geoffrey Westgate offers a new understanding of Irmtraud Morgner by reading her as a specifically East German writer. Through close analysis of her works - the early journalism and... -
No Condition is Permanent: Nigerian Writing and the Struggle for Democracy by Holger G. Ehling 9789042014862
Booksplease Price: £50.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042014862Author Holger G. EhlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
Adverbial Modification: Selected papers from the Fifth Colloquium on Romance Linguistics, Groningen, 10-12 September 1998 by Reineke Bok-Bennema 9789042015647
Booksplease Price: £56.33This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Cinquieme Colloque de Linguistique Romane/Fifth Colloquium on Romance Linguistics, which was held at Groningen University in September 1998... -
Max Scheler's Acting Persons: New Perspectives by Stephen Schneck 9789042015906
Booksplease Price: £50.82This book gathers six trenchant new analyses of the idea of the person as raised by the German philosopher and social theorist Max Scheler (1874-1928). The issues raised in the volume are both timely... -
Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Two by John Ryder 9789042016811
Booksplease Price: £77.58The essays in this volume are from the Second Conference of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, held in Krakow, Poland in 2002. Written by prominent specialists in pragmatism and American... -
Justifying Blame: Why Free Will Matters and Why it Does Not by Maureen Sie 9789042017443
Booksplease Price: £38.46This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary,... -
Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting by Graham Mooney 9789042025998
Booksplease Price: £118.38Visiting relatives and friends in medical institutions is a common practice in all corners of the world. People probably go into hospitals as a visitor more frequently than they do as a patient... -
Migration and Religion: Christian Transatlantic Missions, Islamic Migration to Germany by Barbara Becker-Cantarino 9789042035362
Booksplease Price: £87.82This volume looks at how religious identity and symbolic ethnicity influence migration. Religion - Christianity - was an important factor in European transatlantic migrations; religion - Islam - is a... -
Common Places: The Poetics of African Atlantic Postromantics by Seanna Sumalee Oakley 9789042034082
Booksplease Price: £108.86While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of... -
The Rose and the Lotus: Partnership Studies in the Works of Raja Rao by Stefano Mercanti 9789042028333
Booksplease Price: £95.20Raja Rao, one of the founding figures of Indian English literature, is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers a fresh critical investigation into both his short stories... -
Environmental Ethics: Intercultural Perspectives by King-Tak Ip 9789042025950
Booksplease Price: £64.99This book shows that environmental protection is a global concern that must enlist all of humanity's cultural, religious, and moral resources. The nine essays in this volume explore the foundations... -
Language Contact in Times of Globalization by Cornelius Hasselblatt 9789042033436
Booksplease Price: £95.99Language contact phenomena have been researched throughout the history of the discipline, but the intensity of the research has undoubtedly risen during the last decades due to growing globalization... -
Cold War in Psychiatry: Human Factors, Secret Actors by Robert van Voren 9789042030480
Booksplease Price: £66.86For 20 years Soviet psychiatric abuse dominated the agenda of the World Psychiatric Association. It ended only after the Soviet Foreign Ministry intervened. Cold War in Psychiatry tells the full... -
Coterminous Worlds: Magical realism and contemporary post-colonial literature in English by Elsa Linguanti 9789042004382
Booksplease Price: £43.73The present collection of essays endeavours to furnish informed responses to central questions posed by the editors: Is the fact that the marvellous coexists with the factual and never resolves... -
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,...