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Stressing the past: Papers on Baltic and Slavic accentology by Thomas Olander 9789042025554
Booksplease Price: €79.21From 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: €140.87Slovene 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: €117.04These 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: €94.20This 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... -
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"Raising Sexually Pure Kids": Sexual Abstinence, Conservative Christians and American Politics by Claire Gresle-Favier 9789042026780
Booksplease Price: €118.92Raising 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: €118.92Paradise 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: €99.82This 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: €97.95This 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... -
From Earth to Art: The Many Aspects of the Plant-World in Anglo-Saxon England. Proceedings of the First ASPNS Symposium, University of Glasgow, 5-7 April 2000 by C. P. Biggam 9789042008076
Booksplease Price: €118.56From Earth to Art presents papers from the 'Early Medieval Plant Studies' symposium, a meeting designed to explore the various disciplines which could help to elucidate the plant-names of Anglo-Saxon... -
Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare by Professor Jeremy Tambling 9789042010185
Booksplease Price: €85.76Written using critical theory, especially by Walter Benjamin, Blanchot and Derrida, Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare reads medieval and early modern texts,... -
For Fear of Pain: British Surgery, 1790-1850 by Peter Stanley 9789042010246
Booksplease Price: €64.22For Fear of Pain offers a social history of the operating room in Britain during the final decades of painful surgery. It asks profound questions: how could surgeons operate upon conscious patients?... -
Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction by Lynn Wells 9789042011144
Booksplease Price: €66.09Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction has as its founding premise Ross Chambers’s notion that “one of the important powers of fiction is its power to... -
Schiller: National Poet - Poet of Nations: A Birmingham Symposium by Nicholas Martin 9789042020030
Booksplease Price: €117.62To mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller's death, leading scholars from Germany, Canada, the UK and the USA have contributed to this volume of commemorative essays. These were first presented at a... -
Francois Mauriac: The Making of an Intellectual by Edward Welch 9789042021129
Booksplease Price: €67.97While Francois Mauriac's reputation as a novelist is well established, it is often forgotten that fiction forms only part of his output, and that in the post-war years especially, it was principally... -
The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics. In Honour of Christian J. Kay by Graham D. Caie 9789042021211
Booksplease Price: €85.76This volume comprises essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics by leading international experts in these fields. The contributions cover Old, Middle and Present-Day English and Scots, and... -
Lithuania 1940: Revolution from Above by Alfred Erich Senn 9789042022256
Booksplease Price: €118.56In June 1940, as Nazi troops marched into Paris, the Soviet Red Army marched into Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia; seven weeks later, the USSR Supreme Soviet ratified the Soviet takeover of these... -
The Nothing Machine: The Fiction of Octave Mirbeau by Robert Ziegler 9789042022379
Booksplease Price: €99.82In an era when reality was aestheticized as collectibles, Octave Mirbeau unleashed his fiction like a destructive machine, setting fire to stale material and discredited ideologies, burning them as... -
Stories and Portraits of the Self by Helena Carvalhão Buescu 9789042023284
Booksplease Price: €134.85In contemporary societies privatization has long ceased to be just an economic concept; rather, it must increasingly be made to refer to the ongoing shrinking of the public space under the impact of... -
Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities by Paul Allatson 9789042024069
Booksplease Price: €128.60Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities takes a transnational and transcultural approach to exile and its capacities to alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world. The... -
Grazer Philosophische Studien: Internationale Zeitschrift fur Analytische Philosophie by Johannes L. Brandl 9789042024205
Booksplease Price: €118.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042024205Author Johannes L. BrandlFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
Rousseau and <i>l'Infame</i>: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment by Ourida Mostefai 9789042025059
Booksplease Price: €125.41Ecrasez l'infame! Voltaire's rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition,... -
Sebastien Japrisot: The Art of Crime by Martin Hurcombe 9789042025349
Booksplease Price: €77.34Influential author of highly unconventional crime fiction, screenwriter, and occasional film director, Sebastien Japrisot was one of those rare contemporary writers in France able to establish an... -
Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation by Sarah Sackel 9789042027145
Booksplease Price: €109.18Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation aims at opening up scholarly debates on the contemporary challenges of intertextuality in its various intersections with postcolonial and visual... -
Textual Intersections: Literature, History and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Rachael Langford 9789042027312
Booksplease Price: €93.26This volume examines the multifaceted ways in which textual material in nineteenth-century European cultures intersected with non-literary cultural artefacts and concepts. The essays consider the... -
Cutting Through the Surface: Philosophical Approaches to Bioethics by Tuija Takala 9789042027398
Booksplease Price: €107.31This book examines the role of philosophy and philosophers in bioethics. Academics often see bioethical studies as too practical while decision makers tend to see them as too theoretical. The purpose... -
Amsterdamer Beitrage zur alteren Germanistik, Band 66 (2010) by Erika Langbroek 9789042029330
Booksplease Price: €132.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042029330Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 321Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Illness in Context by Knut Stene-Johansen 9789042029439
Booksplease Price: €99.82This book is a contribution to humanistic studies of illness. Medical humanities are by nature cross-disciplinary, and in recent years studies in this field have been recognized as a platform for... -
Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews by Ewald Mengel 9789042031029
Booksplease Price: €107.67Twenty years after the fall of apartheid, South Africa is still struggling with its traumatic past. In this interdisciplinary collection of interviews, prominent South African novelists,... -
Chrono-topologies: Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities by Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh 9789042031418
Booksplease Price: €97.95The twentieth century saw many revolutions. Various transformations in the political, economic, social, technological and artistic domains not only inaugurated new eras, or at least discourses about... -
The Continuing Relevance of John Dewey: Reflections on Aesthetics, Morality, Science, and Society by Larry A. Hickman 9789042032323
Booksplease Price: €132.97The present volume encapsulates the contemporary scholarship on John Dewey and shows the place of Dewey's thought on the philosophical arena. The authors are among the leading specialists in the... -
Textual Scholarship and the Canon by Hans Walter Gabler 9789042032354
Booksplease Price: €94.20Textual scholarship has always been closely linked to questions of canonicity, both in terms of what texts are edited and how they are edited. As attitudes towards the canon have altered over the... -
Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture by Elaine Kelly 9789042033412
Booksplease Price: €116.68This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic... -
Live Poetry: An Integrated Approach to Poetry in Performance by Julia Novak 9789042034051
Booksplease Price: €54.86Given the increasing popularity of literary festivals, open mics, and poetry slams, one could justifiably claim that the English-speaking world is currently experiencing a 'Live Poetry' boom. Yet,... -
Islanded Identities: Constructions of Postcolonial Cultural Insularity by Maeve McCusker 9789042034068
Booksplease Price: €107.67The island, because of its supposed isolation, and its apparent small scale, has historically been a privileged site of colonial aggression and acquisitiveness. Yet the island has also been imagined... -
Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication by Philomena Essed 9789042034167
Booksplease Price: €99.82Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication explores cloning and related phenomena that inform each other, like twins, fakes, replica, or homogeneities, through a cultural prism. What could... -
Audiovisual Translation through a Gender Lens by Marcella De Marco 9789042035133
Booksplease Price: €99.82The past decades have witnessed considerable developments in Translation Studies and, particularly, a growing interest in the cultural and ideological differences engendered by the act of translating... -
Material Figures: Political Economy, Commercial Culture, and the Aesthetic Sensibility of Charles Baudelaire by Margueritte S. Murphy 9789042035263
Booksplease Price: €109.18Ideological debates about economics and aesthetics raged hotly in nineteenth-century France. French political economy was taking shape as a discipline that would support free-market liberalism, while... -
Love as a Guide to Morals by Andrew L. Fitz-Gibbon 9789042035300
Booksplease Price: €36.12Love as a Guide to Morals is an entry-level introduction to the ethical importance of love. Written in conversational format this book looks uniquely at the complexity of love in human relationships... -
Ways of Being Free: Authenticity and Community in Selected Works of Rushdie, Ondaatje, and Okri by Adnan Mahmutovic 9789042035348
Booksplease Price: €104.51Iconic migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential "nervous conditions," caused by violent... -
Yet Another Europe after 1984: Rethinking Milan Kundera and the Idea of Central Europe by Leonidas Donskis 9789042035430
Booksplease Price: €99.82Much of the debates in this book revolves around Milan Kundera and his 1984 essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe.” Kundera wrote his polemical text when the world was pregnant with imminent social...