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Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, Band 72 (2014) by Guus Kroonen 9789042038592
Booksplease Price: £98.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042038592Author Guus KroonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint < -
Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures by Kristian Van Haesendonck 9789042038851
Booksplease Price: £109.65From wide-ranging overviews of the entire region to close readings of specific works, this volume opens a fascinating window on the literatures and cultures of the Caribbean, covering texts in the... -
Goethe, Chaos, and Complexity by Herbert Rowland 9789042015661
Booksplease Price: £59.48The present volume is the first to address the interrelationship between Goethe's scientific thought and work, his ideas on art and literary oeuvre, and chaos and complexity theories. The eleven... -
Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s by Prof Dr. Ralf Hertel 9789042018648
Booksplease Price: £72.07Fiction is fascinating. All it provides us with is black letters on white pages, yet while we read we do not have the impression that we are merely perceiving abstract characters. Instead, we see the... -
Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture by Jerald D. Gort 9789042028654
Booksplease Price: £85.76Christianity exists in relation to and interacts with its cultural environment in a number of ways. In this volume authors from a wide variety of backgrounds explore various facets of the... -
Regenerating England: Science, Medicine and Culture in Inter-War Britain by Christopher Lawrence 9789042009110
Booksplease Price: £98.35Prominent themes in the discourses on Britain's post-war regeneration include national character, citizenship, fitness, education, utopia, and community. The chapters in the present volume address... -
Anthologies of British Poetry: Critical Perspectives from Literary and Cultural Studies by Barbara Korte 9789042013018
Booksplease Price: £91.27From Tottel's Miscellany (1557) to the last twentieth-century Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), anthologies have been a prime institution for the preservation and mediation of poetry. The... -
Literary Memory, Consciousness, and the Group Oulipo by Peter Consenstein 9789042014381
Booksplease Price: £64.20The question of memory intrigues us more and more as industrialized societies move further and further away from the written word. In the past the role of memory was integral to literary history,... -
Richard Rorty: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Literature by Richard Rumana 9789042014404
Booksplease Price: £50.82Demonstrating Richard Rorty's breadth of scholarship and his influence on diverse issues across the social sciences and humanities, this comprehensive bibliography contains 1,165 citations. A unique... -
Tricksters and Pranksters: Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Alison Williams 9789042015128
Booksplease Price: £67.35This volume represents a contribution to comparative scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance studies in its investigation of the ingenious diversity of roguish practices found in Medieval and... -
Pragmatism and Values: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume One by John Ryder 9789042016217
Booksplease Price: £72.07The essays in this volume are from the First Conference of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, held in Slovakia in 2000. Written by prominent specialists in pragmatism and American philosophy from... -
Operation Barbarossa: Ideology and Ethics Against Human Dignity by Andre Mineau 9789042016330
Booksplease Price: £75.22This book purports that, given Operation Barbarossa's concept and scope, it would have been impossible without Nazi ideology, that we cannot understand it in the absence of its reference to the... -
Writing the Early Modern English Nation: The Transformation of National Identity in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England by Herbert Grabes 9789042015258
Booksplease Price: £53.97While there is overwhelming evidence that nationalism reached its peak in the later nineteenth century, views about when precisely national thinking and sentiment became strong enough to override all... -
Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices / Ecritures d'une nouvelle ere/aire by Kathleen Gyssels 9789042015388
Booksplease Price: £99.63How does one imagine plurality? How does one find new strategies for writing diversity and polyphony? How does one read the most challenging creative and critical works of the present time? This... -
The Expectations of Morality by Gregory F. Mellema 9789042017429
Booksplease Price: £43.73Moral expectation is a concept with which all of us are well acquainted. Already as children we learn that certain courses of action are expected of us. We are expected to perform certain actions,... -
Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Susanne Rupp 9789042018051
Booksplease Price: £64.20Communities have often shaped themselves around cultural spaces set apart and declared sacred. For this purpose, churches, priests or scholars no less than writers frequently participate in giving... -
Transcultural Graffiti: Diasporic Writing and the Teaching of Literary Studies by Russell West-Pavlov 9789042019355
Booksplease Price: £72.07Transcultural Graffiti reads a range of texts - prose, poetry, drama - in several European languages as exemplars of diasporic writing. The book scrutinizes contemporary transcultural literary... -
A Thomistic Tapestry: Essays in Memory of Etienne Gilson by Peter A. Redpath 9789042008755
Booksplease Price: £75.22This book, written by well-known students of Etienne Gilson and especially dedicated to Armand A. Maurer, helps inaugurate a long-overdue special series in philosophy honoring Gilson's legendary... -
French Prose in 2000 by Michael Bishop 9789042010536
Booksplease Price: £79.16French Prose in 2000 stems in some important measure from work presented in September 1998 at the International Colloquium on French and Francophone Literature in the 1990’s held at Dalhousie... -
'Diese merkwurdige Kleinigkeit einer Vision': Christoph Hein's Social Critique in Transition by David Clarke 9789042011533
Booksplease Price: £98.05Christoph Hein is one of the best-known authors of the former GDR, and his works of fiction have been widely interpreted as responses to and critiques of socialist society. In this study, David... -
The Future of Value Inquiry by Matti Hayry 9789042013773
Booksplease Price: £53.97This book explores the nature of values, and the status of value studies, at the turn of the millennium. The contributors, nineteen philosophers from fourteen countries, introduce and defend an... -
Heroes and Heroism in German Culture: Essays in Honor of Jost Hermand April 2000 by Stephen Brockmann 9789042014565
Booksplease Price: £72.07As Brecht’s Galileo observed, a country which needs heroes is unfortunate indeed – words which suggest that a society’s need for heroes is always a function of its shortcomings. By examining the role... -
<i>Saint Genet</i> decanonized: The Ludic body in <i>Querelle</i> by Loren Ringer 9789042015869
Booksplease Price: £53.972002 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Saint Genet. Ever since that date, Jean Genet's work has largely been read and interpreted through Sartre's analysis of the author. In this... -
The Plot Machine: The French Novel and the Bachelor Machines in the Electric Years (1880-1914) by Kai Mikkonen 9789042015968
Booksplease Price: £67.35This book presents a new and exciting theory of the modern French novel by developing the notion of the narrative as a "textual machine". Many turn-of-the-century French novels thematically... -
Lies that Tell the Truth: Magic Realism Seen through Contemporary Fiction from Britain by Anne C. Hegerfeldt 9789042019744
Booksplease Price: £113.32Magic realism has long been treated as a phenomenon restricted to postcolonial literature. Drawing on works from Britain, Lies that Tell the Truth compellingly shows how magic realist fiction can be... -
Diegetic Music in Opera and Film: A Similarity between two Genres of Drama analysed in Works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) by Robbert van der Lek 9789051832617
Booksplease Price: £110.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789051832617Author Robbert van der LekFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Impr -
Within and Without Eternity: The Dynamics of Interaction in William Blake's Myth and Poetry by Jules van Lieshout 9789051836813
Booksplease Price: £53.18William Blake's literary works are characterized by a ceaseless dynamics constituted in the fierce interactions of the language, thought, and narrative of his myth. Highlighting the critical problems... -
Ritual Remembering: History, Myth and Politics in Anglo-Irish Drama by C. C. Barfoot 9789051837612
Booksplease Price: £34.29Most of the essays in Ritual Remembering: History, Myth and Politics in Anglo-Irish Drama, in part or in whole, frequently allude or directly concern themselves with the dramatic representation of... -
Tumult of Images: Essays on W.B. Yeats and Politics by Peter Liebregts 9789051837711
Booksplease Price: £38.22By showing that the meaning of the word politics can be interpreted in various ways, the scope of the articles in Tumult of Images: Essays on W.B. Yeats and Politics is extensive. Rather than... -
Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing by Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo 9789042029354
Booksplease Price: £108.07This volume brings a variety of new approaches and contexts to modern and contemporary women's writing. Contributors include both new and well-established scholars from Europe, Australia, the USA,... -
Narrating Indigenous Modernities: Transcultural Dimensions in Contemporary Maori Literature by Michaela Moura-Kocoglu 9789042034105
Booksplease Price: £112.04The Maori of New Zealand, a nation that quietly prides itself on its pioneering egalitarianism, have had to assert their indigenous rights against the demographic, institutional, and cultural... -
Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville by Sue Kossew 9789042032859
Booksplease Price: £95.99This is the first published collection of critical essays on the work of Kate Grenville, one of Australia's most important contemporary writers. Grenville has been acclaimed for her novels, winning... -
Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative? by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9789042021099
Booksplease Price: £105.39Is virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? Our civilization is determined by a shift from an "original event" to a virtual "narrative". This concerns not only virtual... -
The Ethics of Homelessness: Philosophical Perspectives by G. John M. Abbarno 9789042007772
Booksplease Price: £38.22This book extends the study of homelessness beyond the need of shelter. Philosophical exploration exposes the fragility of human fulfillment in contemporary society. The authors weave the moral... -
European Contexts for English Republicanism by Dirk Wiemann
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44European Contexts for English Republicanism offers new perspectives on early modern English republicanism through its focus on the Continental reception of and engagement with seventeenth-century...