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Samuel Beckett and Pain by Mariko Hori Tanaka 9789042035232
Booksplease Price: €99.82Samuel Beckett and Pain is a collection of ten essays which explores the theme of pain in Beckett's works. Experiencing both physical and psychological pain in the course of his life, Beckett found... -
Marking Time: Derrida Blanchot Beckett des Forêts Klossowski Laporte by Ian Maclachlan 9789042036093
Booksplease Price: €93.26Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined... -
Placing Poetry by Ian Davidson 9789042036147
Booksplease Price: €140.52The essays in this volume present a thorough re-evaluation of the idea of place for the twenty-first century, linking across theoretical interests in space and spatialisation and in motion and... -
Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women's Fiction of the Diaspora by Sissy Helff 9789042036284
Booksplease Price: €99.82While many people see 'home' as the domestic sphere and place of belonging, it is hard to grasp its manifold implications, and even harder to provide a tidy definition of what it is. Over the past... -
Reading Coetzee by Elizabeth MacFarlane 9789042037014
Booksplease Price: €79.21Just as J. M. Coetzee’s post-2003 books present essays and narrative alongside one another, this book engages with its ideas through both critical and creative writing. Reading Coetzee interleaves... -
Perspectives on Mobility by Ingo Berensmeyer 9789042037083
Booksplease Price: €99.82Literature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of... -
Wandering into <i>Brave New World</i> by David Leon Higdon 9789042037168
Booksplease Price: €109.18Wandering into Brave New World explores the historical contexts and contemporary sources of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel which, seventy years after its initial publication remains the best known and... -
Genomics and Democracy: Towards a ‘Lingua Democratica’ for the Public Debate on Genomics by Peter Derkx 9789042037199
Booksplease Price: €148.43This book addresses the ethical and political questions flowing from the vastly increased possibilities to manipulate the genetic properties of organisms, including human beings. Due to the great... -
Looking Beneath the Surface: Medical Ethics from Islamic and Western Perspectives by Hendrik M. Vroom 9789042037304
Booksplease Price: €92.32Looking Beneath the Surface explores Arab-Islamic and Western perspectives on medical ethical issues: genetic research and treatment, abortion, organ donation, and palliative sedation and euthanasia... -
The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic by Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff 9789042037328
Booksplease Price: €140.87This book is a comprehensive study of the Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic. It includes an investigation of all Germanic words that were borrowed into Proto-Slavic until its disintegration in the... -
Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language by John M. Kirk 9789042037397
Booksplease Price: €129.19The skillful use of the Scots language has long been a distinguishing feature of the literatures of Scotland. The essays in this volume make a major contribution to our understanding of the Scots... -
Trajectories of Religion in Africa: Essays in Honour of John S. Pobee by Cephas N. Omenyo 9789042038103
Booksplease Price: €143.36The book, in the main, discusses issues relating to mission, ecumenism, and theological education and is presented in four sections. The first segment discusses works on ecumenical and theological... -
Paul Bowles - The New Generation: Do You Bowles?: Essays and Criticism by Anabela Duarte 9789042039087
Booksplease Price: €147.49This volume includes twenty-five interdisciplinary essays on Paul Bowles's literary and musical work. The legendary author - a North-American expatriate writer and composer, and a cult figure who,... -
Transculturation and Aesthetics: Ambivalence, Power, and Literature by Joel Kuortti 9789042039155
Booksplease Price: €96.07This collection is a timely reflection on the momentous concept of transculturalism. With its historical roots in globalization, transculturation, oriented to (new) aesthetics, seeks new cultural... -
Lautréamont, Subject to Interpretation by Andrea S. Thomas 9789042039254
Booksplease Price: €96.07Since the 1874 publication in Belgium of the first posthumous edition of Les Chants de Maldoror, the enigmatic work has served as an inspiration for the poetic and creative liberation of countless... -
The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship by Wim van Mierlo 9789042039308
Booksplease Price: €103.57This is the 11th volume of Variants: the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. Founded in 2002, Variants provides an international, interdisciplinary and comparative forum for the... -
New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Dummett by Johannes L. Brandl 9789042004665
Booksplease Price: €134.85Ever since the publication of 'Truth' in 1959 Sir Michael Dummett has been acknowledged as one of the most profoundly creative and influential of contemporary philosophers. His contributions to the... -
The United Stories of America: Studies in the Short Story Composite by Rolf Lundén 9789042006928
Booksplease Price: €63.28This book discusses the American short story composite, or short story cycle, a neglected form of writing consisting of autonomous stories interlocking into a whole. The critical work done on this... -
Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese Literature by Meng Hua 9789042007505
Booksplease Price: €70.78The present volume is the product of a joint effort made by scholars from across China (including Hong Kong), Japan and Europe. The book gathers sixteen papers devoted to literary and cultural... -
African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds: Consciousness and Imagination by Geneviève Fabre 9789042008700
Booksplease Price: €63.28In the humanities, the term ‘diaspora’ recently emerged as a promising and powerful heuristic concept. It challenged traditional ways of thinking and invited reconsiderations of theoretical... -
Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies by Sylviane Granger 9789042010468
Booksplease Price: €76.40Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies presents readers with up-to-date research in corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies, showing the high... -
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Harriet Wilson's <i>Our Nig</i>: A Cultural Biography of a "Two-Story" African American Novel by R. J. Ellis 9789042011571
Booksplease Price: €81.09Addressed to all readers of Our Nig, from professional scholars of African American writing through to a more general readership, this book explores both Our Nig's key cultural contexts and its... -
Orientations: Space / Time / Image / Word by Claus Cluver 9789042019669
Booksplease Price: €131.08Based on papers presented at the Fifth Triennial Conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AERTI) held in 2002 in Hamburg, the twenty-two essays in this volume... -
Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment. Festschrift for John A. McCarthy by Richard E. Schade 9789042021464
Booksplease Price: €97.95Practicing Progress focuses on the German Enlightenment in its dual manifestation as a cultural era and as a mode of discourse. The volume's unifying theme is the promise and limitations of the... -
Myths of Europe by Richard Littlejohns 9789042021471
Booksplease Price: €118.56Myths of Europe focuses on the identity of Europe, seeking to re-assess its cultural, literary and political traditions in the context of the 21st century. Over 20 authors - historians, political... -
Essays on Frege’s Conception of Truth by Dirk Greimann 9789042021563
Booksplease Price: €99.82In his writings on the foundations of logic, Gottlob Frege, the father of modern logic, sketched a conception of truth that focuses on the following questions: What is the sense of the word “true”?... -
Affaires de famille: The Family in Contemporary French Culture and Theory by Marie-Claire Barnet 9789042021709
Booksplease Price: €140.52'Famille, je vous ai (encore et toujours a l'esprit?), je vous aime un peu, beaucoup, ou je vous hais enormement?' What are families like in contemporary France? And what begins to emerge when we... -
Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction: 1846-1903 by Joe Andrew 9789042021860
Booksplease Price: €79.21The present volume has as its primary aim readings, from a feminist perspective, of a number of works from Russian literature published over the period in which the 'woman question' rose to the fore... -
Seeds of Conflict in a Haven of Peace: From Religious Studies to Interreligious Studies in Africa by Frans Wijsen 9789042021884
Booksplease Price: €118.56On 7 August 1998 the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were bombed and 200 people lost their lives. These bombings shattered the image of Africa's tradition of peaceful religious... -
Zimbabwean Transitions: Essays on Zimbabwean Literature in English, Ndebele and Shona by Z. Malaba Mbongeni 9789042023765
Booksplease Price: €99.82This collection of essays on Zimbabwean literature brings together studies of both Rhodesian and Zimbabwean literature, spanning different languages and genres. It charts the at times painful process... -
Movement as Meaning in Experimental Film by Daniel Barnett 9789042023857
Booksplease Price: €97.95This book offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the... -
Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism by Gerrit-Jan Berendse 9789042023918
Booksplease Price: €140.52This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of this violent... -
Parceling the Globe: Philosophical Explorations in Globalization, Global Behavior, and Peace by Danielle Poe 9789042024472
Booksplease Price: €106.37Parceling the Globe is a study in the processes of global democracy. It offers an early answer to the question regarding our responsibility to others. Through its organization, it presents a partial... -
Arthur Miller's <i>Death of a Salesman</i> by Eric J. Sterling 9789042024502
Booksplease Price: €79.21Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the third volume in the Dialogue series, covers six major and controversial topics dealing with Miller's classic play. The topics include feminism and the role of... -
Writing and Filming the Painting: Ekphrasis in Literature and Film by Laura M. Sager Eidt 9789042024571
Booksplease Price: €98.88This innovative interdisciplinary study compares the uses of painting in literary texts and films. In developing a framework of four types of ekphrasis, the author argues for the expansion of the... -
Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English by Dirk Wiemann 9789042024939
Booksplease Price: €139.58Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the... -
Learned Ignorance in the Medicine Bow Mountains: A Reflection on Intellectual Prejudice by Craig Clifford 9789042024984
Booksplease Price: €41.73This book is an apologia for the rooted intellectual against the disdainful condescension of the cosmopolitan intellectual-an apology in the Socratic sense of the word. It reflects the author's... -
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness by Colette Balmain 9789042025509
Booksplease Price: €87.64The papers collected in this volume are expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in March 2005. The chapters here represent the diversity... -
Translation of Cultures by Petra Rudiger 9789042025967
Booksplease Price: €128.60Perhaps more than in any other period in modern history, our globalized present is characterized by a constant interaction of, and exposure to, different peoples, regions, ways of life, traditions,... -
Values and Powers: Re-reading the Philosophical Tradition of American Pragmatism by Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski 9789042027459
Booksplease Price: €87.64This book shows how much and in what sense values are related to powers and powers are related to values in American pragmatism. The proposed re-reading of American pragmatism will facilitate a novel...