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Stressing the past: Papers on Baltic and Slavic accentology by Thomas Olander 9789042025554
Booksplease Price: $139.78From a synchronic point of view, the various accentuation systems found in the Baltic and Slavic languages differ considerably from each other. We find languages with free accent and languages with... -
The Slovene Dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria by Tijmen Pronk 9789042027749
Booksplease Price: $248.60Slovene is one of the most dialectally diverse languages of Europe, consisting of 37 dialects. This book gives a detailed description of one of the most archaic dialects of Slovene: the dialect... -
The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond by Dolores Herrero 9789042033887
Booksplease Price: $206.54These essays discuss trauma studies as refracted through literature, focusing on the many ways in which the terms 'cultural trauma' and 'personal trauma' intertwine in postcolonial fiction. In a... -
The Adventure of Education: Process Philosophers on Learning, Teaching, and Research by Adam C. Scarfe 9789042025882
Booksplease Price: $166.24This book on process-relational philosophy of education suggests that the notion of Adventure is foundational for the advancement of knowledge. Learning, teaching, and research are best conceived as... -
!["Raising Sexually Pure Kids": Sexual Abstinence, Conservative Christians and American Politics by Claire Gresle-Favier 9789042026780](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9598050/10631888/9789042026780__20110.1778824021.jpg?c=1 ""Raising Sexually Pure Kids": Sexual Abstinence, Conservative Christians and American Politics by Claire Gresle-Favier 9789042026780")
"Raising Sexually Pure Kids": Sexual Abstinence, Conservative Christians and American Politics by Claire Gresle-Favier 9789042026780
Booksplease Price: $209.85Raising Sexually Pure Kids: Sexual Abstinence, Conservative Christians and American Politics analyzes pro-abstinence discourses issued by the conservative Christian community and the G.W. Bush... -
Projections of Paradise: Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature by Helga Ramsey-Kurz 9789042033337
Booksplease Price: $209.85Paradise is commonly imagined as a place of departure or arrival, beginning and closure, permanent inhabitation of which, however much desired, is illusory. This makes it the dream of the traveller,... -
Memory and Myth: Postcolonial Religion in Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry by Fiona Darroch 9789042025769
Booksplease Price: $176.15This book investigates the problematical historical location of the term 'religion' and examines how this location has affected the analytical reading of postcolonial fiction and poetry. The adoption... -
Knowledge as Value: Illumination through Critical Prisms by Ian Morley 9789042024380
Booksplease Price: $172.85This book considers the place and value of knowledge in contemporary society. "Knowledge" is not a self-evident concept: both its denotations and connotations are historically situated... -
Stealing the Fire: Adaptation, Appropriation, Plagiarism, Hoax in French and Francophone Literature and Film by James Day 9789042031647
Booksplease Price: $172.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042031647Author James DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Modernization and the Crisis of Memory: John Donne to Don DeLillo by Philipp Wolf 9789042015289
Booksplease Price: $134.82Contemporary studies of memory focus either on the psychology of remembering, on its archives and media, or on the traditional ars memoriae. The general cultural framework with its social and... -
Sur quel pied danser?: Danse et litterature by Edward Nye 9789042016088
Booksplease Price: $197.63La danse a inspire la litterature, et la litterature a inspire la danse. Mais comment fonctionne exactement l'articulation entre les deux, et quelles sont les consequences de leur reciprocite ? Cet... -
Feminist Alliances by Lynda Burns 9789042017283
Booksplease Price: $119.95This book is about feminism, its critics, and its possible directions for change. The nine chapters raise questions about theories of sexual difference, power, justice and history. A central theme... -
Avant-Garde / Neo-Avant-Garde by Dietrich Scheunemann 9789042019256
Booksplease Price: $226.32This collection of critical essays explores new approaches to the study of avant-garde literature and art, film and architecture. It offers a theoretical framework that avoids narrowly defined... -
Deepening our Understanding of Wittgenstein by Michael Kober 9789042020108
Booksplease Price: $181.10This volume is of interest for anyone who aims at understanding the so-called 'later' or 'mature' Wittgenstein. Its contributions, written by leading German-speaking Wittgenstein-scholars like Hans... -
Montaging Pushkin: Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry by Alexandra Smith 9789042020122
Booksplease Price: $219.64Montaging Pushkin offers for the first time a coherent view of Pushkin's legacy to Russian twentieth-century poetry, giving many new insights. Pushkin is shown to be a Russian forerunner of... -
Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction by Fiona Tolan 9789042022232
Booksplease Price: $237.97Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction takes a new look at the complex relationship between Margaret Atwood’s fiction and feminist politics. Examining in detail the concerns and choices of an author... -
The Lost Girls: Demeter-Persephone and the Literary Imagination, 1850-1930 by Andrew Radford 9789042022355
Booksplease Price: $247.97The Lost Girls analyses a number of British writers between 1850 and 1930 for whom the myth of Demeter's loss and eventual recovery of her cherished daughter Kore-Persephone, swept off in violent and... -
Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature by Lene M. Johannessen 9789042023321
Booksplease Price: $139.78Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as new in-depth analyses of a selection of works that... -
Touching Surfaces: Photographic Aesthetics, Temporality, Aging by Anca Cristofovici 9789042025134
Booksplease Price: $164.58Who isn't seduced by the idea of an affinity between aging and aesthetics? Yet, when does aging truly begin? What attributes does the aesthetic embrace? Looking into startling photographic art of the... -
Cyberculture and New Media by Francisco J. Ricardo 9789042025189
Booksplease Price: $226.32In the extension of digital media from optional means to central site of activity, the domains of language, art, learning, play, film, and politics have been subject to radical reconfigurations as... -
![A New Kind of Containment: "The War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality by Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo 9789042025233](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9211814/10246008/9789042025233__74748.1755843059.jpg?c=1 "A New Kind of Containment: "The War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality by Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo 9789042025233")
A New Kind of Containment: "The War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality by Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo 9789042025233
Booksplease Price: $154.67This book addresses "containment" as it relates to interlocking discourses around the "War on Terror" as a global effort and its link to race and sexuality within the United... -
Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics by Evgenia Cherkasova 9789042026100
Booksplease Price: $101.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042026100Author Evgenia CherkasovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
A Lab of My Own by Neena B. Schwartz 9789042027374
Booksplease Price: $88.54What was it like to be a woman scientist battling the "old boy's" network during the 1960s and 1970s? Neena Schwartz, a prominent neuroendocrinologist at Northwestern University, tells all. She... -
Fear Itself: Reasoning the Unreasonable by Stephen Hessel 9789042028067
Booksplease Price: $136.48What are fear, horror, and terror? This question, central to our endeavour, cannot be answered by one unified voice. It always cracks, falters, and fades before it can fully enunciate its... -
Textual Scholarship and the Material Book by Wim van Mierlo 9789042028173
Booksplease Price: $234.65In the last decades, the emphasis in textual scholarship has moved onto creation, production, process, collaboration; onto the material manifestations of a work; onto multiple rather than single... -
Selected Papers by Vasily Sesemann 9789042028258
Booksplease Price: $86.88The Baltic philosopher Vasily Sesemann (1884-1963), rooted in the Classics and influenced but not dominated by Kant, Herder, Bergson, Husserl, and Lossky, was a first-rate scholar in the fields of... -
The New Order of War by Bob Brecher 9789042029415
Booksplease Price: $189.38Far from heralding a time of unprecedented peace, the end of "actually existing communism" served to usher in new conflicts, new wars and new reasons for war. That much goes without saying... -
Apollinaire on the Edge: Modern Art, Popular Culture, and the Avant-Garde by Willard Bohn 9789042031081
Booksplease Price: $105.06The title of the present study refers to the fact that Apollinaire consistently worked at the cutting edge of modern aesthetics. The volume seeks to rehabilitate four experimental genres in... -
Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture by Laurie Ruth Johnson 9789042031135
Booksplease Price: $187.72Aesthetic Anxiety analyzes uncanny repetition in psychology, literature, philosophy, and film, and produces a new narrative about the centrality of aesthetics in modern subjectivity. The often... -
The Progressive in Modern English: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization and Related Changes by Svenja Kranich 9789042031432
Booksplease Price: $201.58This book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment of the English progressive from Old English to Present-day English, focusing on the crucial phase of its grammaticalization between... -
Traversing Transnationalism: The Horizons of Literary and Cultural Studies by Pier Paolo Frassinelli 9789042033078
Booksplease Price: $200.95The recent dramatic expansion of the field of transnational studies has reshaped discourses across the humanities and social sciences and created the opportunity for extensive multi-regional... -
Amsterdamer Beitrage zur alteren Germanistik, Band 68 (2011) by Erika Langbroek 9789042034136
Booksplease Price: $226.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042034136Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Refiguring Oscar Wilde’s Salome by Michael Y. Bennett 9789042034327
Booksplease Price: $209.22While Oscar Wilde's delightfully-witty comedies of manners receive the most fanfare from the general public and much of academia, Wilde's most "serious" play-Salome-rightfully deserves an equal... -
The Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art by Denis Lejeune 9789042034396
Booksplease Price: $192.68To many, chance and art are antagonistic terms. But a number of 20th century artists have turned this notion on its head by attempting to create artworks based on randomness. Among those, three in... -
Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists in Britain by Eddie Chambers 9789042034433
Booksplease Price: $248.601980s Britain witnessed the brassy, multifaceted emergence of a new generation of young, Black-British artists. Practitioners such as Sonia Boyce and Keith Piper were exhibited in galleries up and... -
Small City on a Big Couch: A Psychoanalysis of a Provincial Mexican City by Karen Rodriguez 9789042035072
Booksplease Price: $136.48This book psychoanalyzes a small Mexican city to figure out how the city makes sense of both herself and her many Others in the face of constant change. It puts the city on the couch and works... -
Wagner and the Novel: Wagner's Operas and the European Realist Novel: An exploration of genre by Hugh Ridley 9789042035218
Booksplease Price: $176.15This study bridges literature and music at an exciting and controversial point, offering the lover of music and literature and the specialist reader an insight into the relationship between Wagner's... -
Justice for Older People by Harry Lesser 9789042034907
Booksplease Price: $164.58The authors of these papers vary in age, nationality and professional background. They share a belief that all too often older people are not treated justly or fairly, and also a belief that this is... -
Transnationalism and Resistance: Experience and Experiment in Women's Writing by Adele Parker 9789042036192
Booksplease Price: $227.98This study presents a unique collection of essays which focus on the relationships among form, aesthetics, and transnational women's writing produced in recent years. The essays in this volume treat... -
Jesus Incognito: The Hidden Christ in Western Art since 1960 by Martien E. Brinkman 9789042036239
Booksplease Price: $136.48In this book Martien Brinkman explores the Jesus incognito as found in Western film, literature, and the visual arts since 1960. His interest here is focused primarily on indirect references to the...