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East Germany: Continuity and Change by Paul Cooke 9789042005693
Booksplease Price: £25.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042005693Author Paul CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Kafka's Novels: An Interpretation by Patrick Bridgwater 9789042008953
Booksplease Price: £107.77Kafka's three novels, to be understood as an ever more intricate portrayal of the inner life of one central character (Henry James's 'centre of consciousness'), each reflecting the problems of their... -
Waking the Face That No One Is: A Study in the Musical Context of Symbolist Poetics by Louis W. Marvick 9789042009684
Booksplease Price: £50.03Poetry and music have seldom been more closely associated than at the end of the nineteenth century, and the texts in which Baudelaire and Wagner, Mallarme and Scriabin, Maeterlinck and Debussy... -
Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale by Patrick Bridgwater 9789042011946
Booksplease Price: £57.12Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale is an original comparative study of the novels and some of the related shorter punishment fantasies in terms of their relationship to the Gothic and fairytale conventions... -
The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London by Lawrence Phillips 9789042016637
Booksplease Price: £68.14Ranging from the turn of the nineteenth century to the last few years of the twentieth century, The Swarming Streets explores the representation of London in the last century through some of the... -
A Different Three Rs for Education: Reason, Relationality, Rhythm by George Allan 9789042016996
Booksplease Price: £57.12This book of twelve essays applies the holistic theories of process philosophy to the educational challenges that teachers face in today's complexly changing world. Topics range from staff... -
Amsterdamer Beitrage zur alteren Germanistik, Band 61 (2006) by Erika Langbroek 9789042018594
Booksplease Price: £114.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042018594Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
One Less Hope: Essays on Twentieth-Century Russian Poets by Constantin V. Ponomareff 9789042019799
Booksplease Price: £57.12This collection of essays, which should appeal both to Slavists and students of comparative literature, deals with twelve major twentieth-century Russian poets who, for varied reasons, became... -
Belle de Zuylen / Isabelle de Charriere: Education, Creation, Reception by Suzan van Dijk 9789042019980
Booksplease Price: £72.07Suisse romande depuis son mariage, mais ayant passe la premiere moitie de sa vie aux Pays-Bas ou le francais etait devenu tres tot sa langue " naturelle ", Belle de Zuylen / Isabelle de... -
Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace by David Boersema 9789042020610
Booksplease Price: £79.16This book is a collection of philosophical papers that explores theoretical and practical aspects and implications of nonviolence as a means of establishing peace. The papers range from spiritual and... -
Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry by Viorica Patea 9789042022638
Booksplease Price: £83.88Offering essays from some of the leading academic writers and younger scholars in the field of American studies from both the United States and Europe, this volume constitutes a rich and varied... -
Discovering Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry by Marcia Birken 9789042023703
Booksplease Price: £72.86You are invited to join a fascinating journey of discovery, as Marcia Birken and Anne C. Coon explore the intersecting patterns of mathematics and poetry — bringing the two fields together in a new... -
Seeking Environmental Justice by Sarah Wilks 9789042023789
Booksplease Price: £99.63The 5th Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship conference was held at Oxford, UK in 2006. This decidedly trans-disciplinary, international event attracted participants from traditionally... -
Veiled Encounters: Representing the Orient in 17th-Century French Travel Literature by Michael Harrigan 9789042024762
Booksplease Price: £99.63Travel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they... -
What the <i>God-seekers</i> found in Nietzsche: The Reception of Nietzsche's <i>UEbermensch</i> by the Philosophers of the Russian Religious Renaissance by Nel Grillaert 9789042024809
Booksplease Price: £99.63At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, a large and varied group of the Russian intelligentsia became fascinated by Friedrich Nietzsche, whose provocative ideas... -
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... -
Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky's <i>Crime and Punishment</i> by Janet G. Tucker 9789042024946
Booksplease Price: £98.05Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment presents for the first time an examination of this great novel as a work aimed at winning back "target readers",... -
Amsterdamer Beitrage zur alteren Germanistik, Band 65 (2009) by Erika Langbroek 9789042025752
Booksplease Price: £115.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042025752Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Art and the Human Adventure: Andre Malraux's Theory of Art by Derek Allan 9789042027497
Booksplease Price: £115.70Andre Malraux was a major figure in French intellectual life in the twentieth century. A key component of his thought is his theory of art which presents a series of fundamental challenges to... -
Denis Williams: A Life in Works: New and Collected Essays by Charlotte Williams 9789042027916
Booksplease Price: £87.82Denis Williams, painter, teacher, novelist, archaeologist, and cultural administrator, is one of the founding fathers of modern Guyana. His involvement in several of the country's key cultural... -
Love in Jeanette Winterson's Novels by Julie Ellam 9789042029453
Booksplease Price: £87.82This volume is of interest for lovers and students of Jeanette Winterson's writing and introduces for the first time a book-length examination of the love stories she has created. Each main novel,... -
Forgiveness in Perspective by Christopher R. Allers 9789042029958
Booksplease Price: £74.43Amidst the cacophony of claims made about forgiveness, this book serves to aid in an effort to put "forgiveness in perspective." Marieke Smit and Christopher R. Allers have collected here ten essays... -
Representation and Contestation: Cultural Politics in a Political Century by Ching-Yung Lin 9789042031494
Booksplease Price: £89.39Questions of cultural representation and contestation, central to political and ethical thinking after the so-called 'cultural turn' of recent decades, have if anything intensified in a twenty-first... -
Performative Body Spaces: Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts by Markus Hallensleben 9789042031937
Booksplease Price: £83.88The human body as cultural object always has and is a performing subject, which binds the political with the theatrical, shows the construction of ethnicity and technology, unveils private and public... -
Wim Wenders and Peter Handke: Collaboration, Adaptation, Recomposition by Martin Brady 9789042032477
Booksplease Price: £106.97This is the first volume in English to examine in detail one of the most remarkable collaborations between a writer and filmmaker in European cinema. Focusing on the four films Wim Wenders and Peter... -
Remembrance and Reconciliation by Rob Gildert 9789042032651
Booksplease Price: £50.82Remembrance and reconciliation envision intentional pathways out of conflict and toward peace. Remembrance retraces the junctures in the past that determined what a nation has become. Probing... -
Contemplating Violence: Critical Studies in Modern German Culture by Stefani Engelstein 9789042032941
Booksplease Price: £99.14This volume illuminates the vexed treatment of violence in the German cultural tradition between two crucial, and radically different, violent outbreaks: the French Revolution, and the Holocaust and... -
Reburial of Nonexistents: Reconsidering the Meinong-Russell Debate by Carolyn Swanson 9789042033641
Booksplease Price: £48.46Alexius Meinong claimed to uncover a brave new world of nonexistent objects. He contended that unreal objects, such as the golden mountain and the round square, genuinely had properties (such as... -
Towering Figures: Reading the 9/11 Archive by Sven Cvek 9789042033788
Booksplease Price: £91.75This volume offers a critical analysis of a segment of American literary production surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. While focusing on the writing of Jonathan Safran... -
The Privacy of the Psychical by Amihud Gilead 9789042033917
Booksplease Price: £50.82This book argues that the irreducible singularity of each person as a psychical subject implies the privacy of the psychical and that of experience, and yet the private accessibility of each person... -
Material Difference: Modernism and the Allegories of Discourse by William D. Melaney 9789042034488
Booksplease Price: £89.39Material Difference: Modernism and the Allegories of Discourse argues that deconstruction can be employed in conjunction with the historically-oriented approach to cultural experience that is favored... -
Mapping Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture by Susan Harrow 9789042034587
Booksplease Price: £111.74Memory and memory studies have shaped a major site of humanities research over the last twenty years. Examined by ethnographers, archaeologists, social scientists, historians, economists, archivists,... -
Spectacle, Rhetoric and Power: The Triumphal Entry of Prince Philip of Spain into Antwerp by Stijn Bussels 9789042034716
Booksplease Price: £95.69In 1549, Prince Philip of Spain made his entry into Antwerp together with his father, Emperor Charles V. For this occasion the rich city of commerce was transformed into a large theatrical space with... -
Reaching for the Sky: Religious Education from Christian and Islamic Perspectives by Stella El Bouayadi-Van De Wetering 9789042034792
Booksplease Price: £72.86Young people have to make their own way in the world; they have to give meaning to and find meaning in their lives. This is the field of religious education, which is provided by parents, religious... -
Psychoanalysis in French and Francophone Literature and Film by James Day 9789042034808
Booksplease Price: £83.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042034808Author James DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Giordano Bruno: An Introduction by Paul Richard Blum 9789042035553
Booksplease Price: £50.82Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a philosopher in his own right. However, he was famous through the centuries due to his execution as a heretic. His pronouncements against teachings of the Catholic... -
Ford Madox Ford and America by Sara Haslam 9789042035669
Booksplease Price: £98.05The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies... -
Modern Austrian Literature through the Lens of Adaptation by Catriona Firth 9789042035737
Booksplease Price: £83.88For decades postwar Austrian literature has been measured against and moulded into a series of generic categories and grand cultural narratives, from nostalgic 'restoration' literature of the 1950s... -
Frontiers of Cyberspace by Daniel Riha 9789042035836
Booksplease Price: £118.08The content of this volume reflects theoretical and practical discussions on cultural issues influenced by increased adoption of information and communication technologies. The penetration of new... -
A Spectacular Failure: Robinson Crusoe I, II, III by Virginia Grand 9789042035881
Booksplease Price: £89.39This study examines Defoe's three-volume Robinson Crusoe series in the light of the 'banter' style he developed as a pamphleteer. That heavily ironic style had brought him renown but also put him in...