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Marxist Literary Criticism Today Barbara Foley 9780745338835
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.79*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019* *Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019* Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to... -
Marxist Literary Criticism Today by Barbara Foley 9780745338842
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019* *Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019* Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to... -
Boxing: A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.84Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to... -
Just Language: Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Exile, and the Critique of Linguistic Violence Dennis Johannßen 9780472078004
Booksplease Price: £81.25Just Language revisits the Weimar period and its representation in the postwar years to explore narratives of linguistic resistance in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt,... -
Staging Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Anglo-American Approaches to Political Theatre by Stefania Taviano 9780367887889
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This is the first extended treatment of the English translations, stagings, and reception of the political plays of Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Focusing on the United Kingdom and the United States,... -
Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism by Ehrhard Bahr 9780520257955
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht,... -
Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot After Brecht by Phoebevon Held
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot After BrechtAbout the AuthorPhoebe von HeldBook InformationISBN 9780367602147Author Phoebe von HeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint RoutledgePublisher... -
Just Language: Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Exile, and the Critique of Linguistic Violence Dennis Johannßen 9780472058006
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.76Just Language revisits the Weimar period and its representation in the postwar years to explore narratives of linguistic resistance in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt,... -
Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole by Joel Schechter 9780859899970
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding's forgery of an actor's biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were... -
Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism by Robert T. Tally
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.29Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly... -
Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole by Joel Schechter 9780859893350
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.95Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding's forgery of an actor's biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were... -
Georg Buchner's Woyzeck Karoline Gritzner 9781138962965
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79'Everyone's an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.' -- WoyzeckGeorg Buchner's Woyzeck was left unfinished at the time of its author's death in 1837, but the play is now widely recognised as the... -
Theater in a Post-Truth World: Texts, Politics, and Performance by William C. Boles 9781350215856
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £89.65This is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around post-truth have been explored in the world of theater and performance. It covers a wide spectrum of manifestations and... -
Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis by Avra Sidiropoulou
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global... -
Theater in a Post-Truth World: Texts, Politics, and Performance by William C. Boles 9781350215894
Booksplease Price: £31.86This is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around post-truth have been explored in the world of theater and performance. It covers a wide spectrum of manifestations and... -
Re-interpreting Brecht: His Influence on Contemporary Drama and Film by Pia Kleber 9780521429009
Booksplease Price: £32.12This volume offers a fresh appraisal of the importance of Bertolt Brecht's theory and practice through the documentation of his influence on other dramatists and directors, the examination of how his... -
Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School: Projects to Promote Authentic Learning by John Rainer 9780415572064
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School provides a rationale for the curricular centrality of drama together with rich and detailed examples of cross-phase thematic projects which are drama-led,... -
Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater by William Anthony Sheppard 9780520223028
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.95W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. "Revealing Masks" uncovers... -
Literature and Law Mark Fortier 9780815384687
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The fields of literature and law intersect in frequent, and often surprising ways. This clear and concise book offers an introduction to the area, covering the history, key thinkers and ideas as well... -
Gaia's Gift: Earth, Ourselves and God after Copernicus Anne Primavesi (Westar Institute and Lokahi Foundation, UK) 9780415288354
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Gaia's Gift, the second of Anne Primavesi's explorations of human relationships with the earth, asks that we complete the ideological revolution set in motion by Copernicus and Darwin concerning... -
Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin by Brandon Woolf
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle long-standing traditions of state-subsidized theater even as the city has... -
A Defense of Simulated Experience: New Noble Lies Mark Silcox 9781032094212
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book defends an account of the positive psychological, ethical, and political value of simulated human experience. Philosophers from Plato and Augustine to Heidegger, Nozick, and Baudrillard... -
Unsettled Scores: Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler by Sally Bick 9780252084645
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier producer of America's potent mass culture. Drawn by... -
Unsettled Scores: Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler by Sally Bick 9780252042812
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier producer of America's potent mass culture. Drawn by... -
Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy by Olga Kekis
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy investigates the adaptation of classical drama for the contemporary stage and explores its role as an active, polemical form of theatre... -
The Magic World of Orson Welles by James Naremore
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Prodigy. Iconoclast. Genius. Exile. Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in cinematic history. In the centenary year of Welles's birth, James Naremore presents a revised third... -
Schizogenesis: The Art of Rosemarie Trockel by Katherine Guinness 9781517905583
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity Popular and pioneering as a conceptual artist, Rosemarie Trockel has never... -
The Vital Lie: Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama by Anthony Abbott 9780817312022
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are... -
The Apologetics of Evil: The Case of Iago by Richard Raatzsch
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82This book is a concise philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare's Othello. What drives Iago to orchestrate... -
Statesmanship: The Best of the New Statesman, 1913-2019 by Various
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than the New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural life. If not quite at... -
Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah by Hans Jakob Cristophe von Grimmelshausen 9780691624822
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Grimmelshausen's enduring fame as Germany's greatest satirical novelist has rested mainly on The Adventerous Simplicissimus, the first of four novels comprising the Simplician cycle. Less well known,... -
Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy by Peter E. Gordon 9780691135106
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and... -
The Legend Of The Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72'One of the greatest European novelists of the century' Sunday Times Andreas is an alcoholic and a vagrant who lives under a bridge. Downtrodden, submerged at the bottom of society, he lives a... -
Fields of Play in Modern Drama by Thomas R. Whitaker 9780691607726
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's... -
Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image by Charles J. Maland
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73Charles Maland focuses on the cultural sources of the on-and-off, love-hate affair between Chaplin and the American public that was perhaps the stormiest in American stardom.Reviews"A fascinating,... -
The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa - Revised and Expanded Edition by Stephen Prince
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £35.75The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize... -
How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz 9780691148632
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.10Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed firsthand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism. In two concise, powerful essays, the... -
The German NOVELLE by Martin Swales 9780691656403
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Martin Swales explores the interrelation in the novelle of aesthetic theory and textual practice, suggesting that the characteristic mode of the novelle is a specific kind of narrative constellation... -
Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost by Margaret Litvin 9780691137803
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's "Hamlet": their times "out of joint", their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. "Hamlet's... -
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn 9780691167756
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.54A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the...