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Fin de Siecle and Other Essays on America and Europe Walter Laqueur 9781138510067
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The essays collected in Fin de Siecle and Other Essays on America and Europe cover the political and cultural spectrum of our time, specifically the rise, fall, and reemergence of radical movements... -
Retreating the Political by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe 9780415151634
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94This collection of essays presents, for the first time in English, some of the key essays on the political by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Including several unpublished essays,... -
The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature by Joseph Sherman
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £61.79To what extent do Yiddish language and literature derive from the dominant values of mainstream European culture? How far did this culture shape the self-perception of Yiddish-speaking Jews of... -
Critical Theory and Frankfurt Theorists: Lectures-Correspondence-Conversations Leo Lowenthal 9781412857024
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The core of this volume is its presentation of Lowenthal's sixty-year-long intellectual career as a critical theorist and sociologist. The book includes some of his speeches on Theodor Adorno and... -
Before You Write Your Novel: Essential Skills for the First-time Novelist by James McCreet 9781138186729
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Previously available as "Before You Write a Word", Before You Write Your Novel sets out the essential techniques and approaches that lay the perfect foundation for writing your first novel. This... -
Before You Write Your Novel: Essential Skills for the First-time Novelist James McCreet 9781138186736
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.69Previously available as "Before You Write a Word", Before You Write Your Novel sets out the essential techniques and approaches that lay the perfect foundation for writing your first novel. This... -
Literature and the Image of Man: Volume 2, Communication in Society Leo Lowenthal 9781412857000
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This volume's predominant theme is bourgeois mentality and its historical development. The works of Lope de Vega, Calderon, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, among others, are analysed within the... -
Henry Miller and Religion by Thomas Nesbit
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80This study argues that this previously banned author devoted his entire life to articulating a religion of self-liberation in his autobiographical books, examining his life and work within the... -
Cafes and Bars: The Architecture of Public Display by Christoph Grafe 9780415363280
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.38The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years,... -
My Life in Art Constantin Stanislavski 9780878305506
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.68Written with the same warmth, liveliness and ability to re-create reality that made Stanislavski a great actor, his autobiography tells of his childhood in the world of Moscow's wealthy merchants,... -
Hunger Raymond Tallis 9781844651559
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While they seem the most obvious things about us, our hungers are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique... -
Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900 by Kenneth D. Rose
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar 'Grand Tour' of... -
Betrayals And Treason: Violations Of Trust And Loyalty Nachman Ben-yehuda 9780813397764
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80In Betrayals and Treason Nachman Ben-Yehuda identifies the universal structure of betrayals as the violation of trust and loyalty and charts the different manifestations and constructions of these... -
Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavsky to Peter Brook by James Roose-Evans 9781138174566
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £123.25`It is a pleasure to read. Well-written, free of cant, impressively wide-ranging. The book is really an introduction to the avant-garde.' - John LahrAbout the AuthorAuthored by Roose-Evans,... -
Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavsky to Peter Brook by James Roose-Evans
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66`It is a pleasure to read. Well-written, free of cant, impressively wide-ranging. The book is really an introduction to the avant-garde.' - John LahrAbout the AuthorAuthored by Roose-Evans,... -
A Bloomsbury Ingénue: The Lives and Loves of Euphemia Lamb Andrea Obholzer 9781916846715
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.64Euphemia Lamb was painted and sculpted by many renowned artists during the period before the First World War, such as Augustus John, Henry Lamb, Ambrose McEvoy, Jacob Epstein and James Dickson Innes... -
On the Trail to Wittgenstein's Hut: The Historical Background of the Tractatus Logico-philosphicus Ivar Oxaal 9781138512764
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29One of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the roots of his monumental Tractatus are explored in this imaginative work. Oxaal picks up on themes... -
Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular culture and environmental discourse by Elena dell'Agnese
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94What is the role of popular culture in shaping our discourse about the multifaceted system of material things, subjects and causal agents that we call "environment"? Ecocritical Geopolitics offers a... -
Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism: Continuities, Revisions, Speculations Benedicte Coste 9780367877057
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the 'new', it... -
A History of Norwegian Literature by Harald S. Naess 9780803233171
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.20Long under the cultural domination of Denmark and the political hegemony of Sweden, Norway first defined itself through its literature and continues to do so to our day. A History of Norwegian... -
Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman by Arnold Weinstein 9780691148243
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.23Northern Arts is a magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us... -
Jean Sibelius and His World by Daniel M. Grimley 9780691152813
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon... -
Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway by Dean Krouk 9780295742298
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £28.83Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun and... -
The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust: Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque Michel Delville 9780367890261
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body's heterogeneity... -
Literary Places: Volume 2 Sarah Baxter 9781781318102
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.78Inspired Traveller's Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature's best and brightest authors, movements and moments - brought to life through... -
Authorship, Literary Production and Censorship in the Late-Nineteenth Century: Gissing-Hamsun-Halit Ziya by Zeynep Harputlu Shah 9783631838006
RRP: £26.15Booksplease Price: £24.53Has censorship always been a threat to authorship and artistic production? How did the mass market, the reading public, political or economic concerns influence authors' creativity and literary... -
Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience Angeliki Sioli 9781138224278
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes to the of study buildings and urban environments?... -
Cultural Blending in Korean Death Rites: New Interpretive Approaches by Chang-Won Park 9781441134264
Booksplease Price: £40.79Modernist troublemaker in the 1890s, Nobel Prize winner in 1920, and indefensible Nazi sympathiser in the 1930s and 40s, Knut Hamsun continues to provoke condemnation, apologia and critical confusion... -
Lament in the Night Nagahara Shoson 9781885030481
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £13.44Lament in the Night collects two remarkable novellas by the author Shosun Nagahara, translated from the Japanese for the first time. The title novella, originally published in 1925, follows itinerant... -
Journeys from Scandinavia: Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840-2000 by Elisabeth Oxfeldt 9780816656356
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24For all of the scholarship done on postcolonial literatures, little has been applied to Scandinavian writing. Yet, beginning with the onset of tourism beyond Scandinavia in the 1840s, a compelling... -
Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature: Negotiating Place and Identity by Ellen Rees 9781611476484
Booksplease Price: £86.43This book examines the significance of cabins and other temporary seasonal dwellings as important symbols in modern Norwegian cultural and literary history. The author uses Michel Foucault's notion... -
Vargamae: Volume 1 of the Truth and Justice Pentalogy by A. H. Tammsaare 9781908251909
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.72Andres, an Estonian peasant, purchases a smallholding in a marshy part of the country, which the novel is named after. He takes his young wife, and an incident with their cow sets the tone for a life... -
I Loved a German by A. H. Tammsaare 9781908251831
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £11.82The newly independent Estonia may be moving forward from its dark past, but not quickly enough for young lovers Oskar, an Estonian university student, and Erika, a Baltic German descended from a now... -
Guy Maddin: Interviews by D. K. Holm 9781604735635
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36One of Canada's premier cinematic exports, Guy Maddin (b. 1956) is an award-winning filmmaker with a rising reputation. Known for his autobiographical tales---hidden deeply within comical, absurd,... -
Modern Character: 1888-1905 by Julian Murphet 9780192863126
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £77.22How was modern character made or remade at the turn of the twentieth century? Modern Character: 1888-1905 considers a range of literary and dramatic texts, showcasing the extraordinary efforts of... -
The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings by Robert Ferguson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain... -
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove... -
Political Trials: Gordian Knots in the Law by Ron Christenson 9780765804730
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Political trials take issues of responsibility, conscience, representation, and legitimacy, which are tied in tight political and legal knots, and force us to face questions about our public... -
Norway's War: A People’s Struggle Against Nazi Tyranny, 1940–45 Robert Ferguson 9781801104821
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98In the early morning of 9 April 1940 a fleet of German ships entered the Oslofjord. The Norwegian artillery delayed the German advance long enough for King Haakon VII and his cabinet to escape to... -
The Cabin in the Mountains: A Norwegian Odyssey by Robert Ferguson 9781789544671
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The wooden holiday cabin, or hytte, is a staple of Norwegian life. Robert Ferguson, author of Scandinavians, explores the significance of a national icon in this charming, affectionate history. ...