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Granta 33: What Went Wrong? 9780140138597
Booksplease Price: £16.53This edition of Granta includes stories by Victoria Tokareva, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Christa Wolf, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Isabel Allende, Martin Amis and Romsesh Gunesekera.Book InformationISBN... -
Gramsci and Contemporary Politics: Beyond Pessimism of the Intellect Anne Showstack Sassoon 9780415757126
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Can politics now be both radical and realistic? Gramsci and Contemporary Politics is a collection of Anne Showstack Sassoon's writing which spans the major transitions from Thatcher and Reagan to... -
A History of German Literature: From the Beginnings to the Present Day Wolfgang Beutin 9780415755665
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.88Since the appearance of its first edition in Germany in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work used by students and anyone interested in German literature. The... -
Women, Activism and Social Change: Stretching Boundaries by Maja Mikula
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Throughout history, women have participated in and sometimes initiated rebellions to defend the welfare of their family, community, class, race or ethnic group.This volume presents original research... -
Habermas and Literary Rationality by David L. Colclasure 9780415994712
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Literary scholarship has paid little serious attention to Habermas' philosophy, and, on the other hand, the reception of Habermas has given little attention to the role that literary practice can... -
Habermas and Literary Rationality by David L. Colclasure
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.52Literary scholarship has paid little serious attention to Habermas' philosophy, and, on the other hand, the reception of Habermas has given little attention to the role that literary practice can... -
Working Out: New Directions For Women's Studies by Hilary Hinds
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Addresses issues of concern in the area of women's studies, aiming to offer fresh perspectives on sexuality, paid work, the development process, equal opportunities legislation, lesbian history and... -
Feminist Experiences (RLE Feminist Theory): The Women's Movement in Four Cultures Susan Bassnett 9781138008007
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44The Women's Movement is usually referred to as if it were a constant, global phenomenon. There are women's movements in Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Japan and... -
Honecker's Germany: Moscow's German Ally by David Childs
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Picking up many of themes of David Childs' earlier book, The GDR: Moscow's German Ally, this book discusses the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1971 until the mid 1980s. Written at a time when... -
Honecker's Germany: Moscow's German Ally by David Childs 9781138846104
Booksplease Price: £98.15Picking up many of themes of David Childs' earlier book, The GDR: Moscow's German Ally, this book discusses the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1971 until the mid 1980s. Written at a time when... -
A Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Originally published in 1990. Many post-World War I autobiographies focus on episodes of crisis. In a century torn by global strife and breakdown of cultural institutions, autobiography provides a... -
Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century by Konrad H. Jarausch 9780691196480
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.58The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition-but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account... -
Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century by Konrad H. Jarausch 9780691174587
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition-but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account... -
Women's Vision in Western Literature: The Empathic Community by Laurence M. Porter 9780313318306
Booksplease Price: £75.81From ancient Greece through the present day, women writers have confronted the male urge to make war by imagining communities in which intuitive bonding among individuals questions and replaces... -
Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography by Linda Rugg
Booksplease Price: £28.55Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple... -
Georg Buchner: The Major Works: A Norton Critical Edition by Georg Büchner 9780393933512
Booksplease Price: £23.99The Georg Buchner Prize is the highest literary honor for German language writers, and the full extent of Buchner's influence-from Gerhart Hauptmann to Christa Wolf, Max Reinhardt to Robert Wilson,... -
Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe: Literature, History and Memory by Dr Anna Barcz 9781350200647
Booksplease Price: £33.84For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule. What is the legacy of this period for cultural attitudes to the environment and the contemporary battle to confront... -
Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe: Literature, History and Memory by Dr Anna Barcz 9781350098350
Booksplease Price: £102.21For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule. What is the legacy of this period for cultural attitudes to the environment and the contemporary battle to confront... -
Shifting Perspectives - East German Autobiographical Narratives before and after the End of the GDR by Dennis Tate 9781571133724
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08First treatment of a conspicuously East German feature in today's German literature, that of autobiographical writing -- and rewriting. A striking feature of today's German literature is the... -
Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century by Stuart Taberner 9783319844091
Booksplease Price: £73.78This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat... -
Writing against Boundaries: Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-speaking Context by Barbara Kosta 9789042010260
Booksplease Price: £70.50Writing against Boundaries. Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-speaking Context presents a series of essays by prominent scholars who critically explore the intersection of nation and... -
Family Secrets and the Contemporary German Novel - Literary Explorations in the Aftermath of the Third Reich by Elizabeth Snyder Hook
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A analysis of recent German novelistic treatments of the effect of the Nazi past on the relationships between parents and children. This book focuses on representations of familial conflict in... -
Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature - Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity by Katherine Stone 9781571139948
Booksplease Price: £96.11In recent years, historians have revealed the many ways in which German women supported National Socialism-as teachers, frontline auxiliaries, and nurses, as well as in political organizations. In... -
Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel by Vassiliki Kolocotroni 9789042024816
Booksplease Price: £87.82Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled... -
Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic: What is Lost by John David Pizer 9783110724080
Booksplease Price: £91.56This study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolf's now-canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification... -
SIREN (Some Poetics) by Quinn Latimer 9781954947054
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.63Poetics as artistic practice and world-making: practitioners from Bernadette Mayer and Sky Hopinka to Liliane Lijn and Shanzhai Lyric explore the wilder, parapoetic shores of language Through work by... -
Aging and Old-Age Style in Gunter Grass, Ruth Kl - The Mannerism of a Late Period by Stuart Taberner
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely... -
Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century by Stuart Taberner 9783319504834
Booksplease Price: £102.50This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat... -
Cultures of Forgery: Making Nations, Making Selves by Judith Ryan
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.26In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other... -
Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic by Stuart Taberner 9780521174046
Booksplease Price: £32.12The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the... -
Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography by Andrew J. Webber 9780521188746
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Berlin has been the focal scene of some of the most dramatic and formative events of the twentieth century. Through periods of decadence, fascism, war, partition and reunification, it has seen both... -
The Secret in Their Eyes Eduardo Sacheri 9781473632400
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A startling psychological mystery' Michael GreenbergBenjamin Chaparro is a man haunted by his past. A retired detective, he remains obsessed with the decades-old case of the rape and murder of a... -
Contemporary Women's Writing in German: Changing the Subject by Brigid Haines 9780198159674
Booksplease Price: £67.88Six key texts by contemporary women writers are read afresh by leading critics, using insights from poststructuralist and new materialist feminist theory. Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, and... -
Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography by Andrew J. Webber 9780521895729
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.56Berlin has been the focal scene of some of the most dramatic and formative events of the twentieth century. Through periods of decadence, fascism, war, partition and reunification, it has seen both... -
Catastrophe and Catharsis - Perspectives on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond by Katharina Gerstenberger
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters, be they natural, man-made, or a combination, threaten large populations, even entire nations and societies. They also disrupt the existing... -
Coming Out Swiss: In Search of Heidi, Chocolate, and My Other Life by Anne Herrmann
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Anne Herrmann, a dual citizen born in New York to Swiss parents, offers in Coming Out Swiss a witty, profound, and ultimately universal exploration of identity and community. "Swissness"-even on its... -
Inscription and Rebellion - Illness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature by Sonja E. Klocke 9781640140554
Booksplease Price: £27.60The healthcare system of the German Democratic Republic, based on Soviet models, reflected the importance the socialist state assigned the health both of its citizens and of the metaphorical national... -
Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Paul Sullivan 9780755654222
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.67"Berlin is a city forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so it lives more powerfully in the imagination." Rory Maclean, 'Berlin - Imagine a City'. Located at the epicentre of some of... -
Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic by Stuart Taberner 9780521860789
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £53.38The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the... -
Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender by Susan Groag Bell 9780791404362
Booksplease Price: £26.07In this book gender is the lens through which autobiography and biography are scrutinized. The authors show what is revealed when they magnify the gendered aspects of both men's and women's writing...