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Dangerous Writing: The Autobiographies of Willa Muir, Margaret Laurence and Janet Frame by Carmen Luz Fuentes-Vasquez 9789042036499
Booksplease Price: £108.56This book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the first time: the Scottish Willa Muir... -
Trust: Analytic and Applied Perspectives by Pekka Mäkelä 9789042036802
Booksplease Price: £58.69“Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives” writes Sissela Bok. Although trust is ubiquitous, understanding trust is a non-trivial challenge. Trust: Analytic and... -
Transgressing Boundaries: Gender, Identity, Culture, and the 'Other' in Postcolonial Women's Narratives in East Africa by Elizabeth F. Oldfield 9789042036970
Booksplease Price: £105.69Fictions written between 1939 and 2005 by indigenous and white (post)colonial women writers emerging from an African-European cultural experience form the focus of this study. Their voyages into the... -
Beckett in the Cultural Field / Beckett dans le champ culturel by Jürgen Siess 9789042037762
Booksplease Price: £99.63The thematic part of this volume of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui is devoted mainly to Beckett’s texts of the forties and later, and particularly to those he composed after his adoption of the... -
Paris and the Fetish: Primal Crime Scenes by Alistair Charles Rolls 9789042037779
Booksplease Price: £53.97Freud’s 1927 essay on the acquisition of a screen memory, or fetish, allows the subject to come to terms with the traumatic truth that, for him, dominates the present moment (in Freud’s scenario, the... -
Fluxus: The Practice of Non-Duality by Natasha Lushetich 9789042038516
Booksplease Price: £87.03Focusing on the most definition-resistant art movement in history and departing from its two chief characteristics: intermediality and interactivity, this book develops an original theory of... -
L’Humain et l’Animal dans la France médiévale (XIIe-XVe s.): Human and Animal in Medieval France (12th-15th c.) by Irène Fabry-Tehranchi 9789042038653
Booksplease Price: £68.92Ce recueil explore les relations mouvantes entre hommes et animaux, aussi bien réels que fantastiques, dans la France médiévale, dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. This is the first volume that... -
Women's Movement: Escape as Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction by Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson 9789042013629
Booksplease Price: £56.33Women's Movement critically explores the transgressive potential of feminist escape narratives and argues that they are, almost by definition, radically different from paradigmatic male escape... -
Biographies of Remedies: Drugs, Medicines and Contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American Healing Cultures by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra 9789042015876
Booksplease Price: £99.63At a time when genetics and informatics are seen to transform therapeutic thinking once again, it is pertinent to look back to earlier therapeutic regimes. The long twentieth century has witnessed a... -
Avant Garde No. 0: Presentation: Revue interdisciplinaire et internationale. Arts et litteratures au XXe siecle. Interdisciplinary and Intern. Review. Literature and Arts of the 20th Century by Fernand Drijkoningen 9789062038404
Booksplease Price: £28.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789062038404Author Fernand DrijkoningenFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
Theme Parks, Rainforests and Sprouting Wastelands: European essays on theory and performance in contemporary British fiction by Richard Todd 9789042005020
Booksplease Price: £53.97This lively and fascinating new collection of European essays on contemporary Anglophone fiction has arisen out of the ESSE/3 Conference, which was held in Glasgow in September 1995. The contributors... -
Translatio studii: Essays by His Students in Honor of Karl D. Uitti on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski 9789042005136
Booksplease Price: £79.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042005136Author Renate Blumenfeld-KosinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint Editions Rodopi B... -
Being and Authenticity by Xunwu Chen 9789042008281
Booksplease Price: £57.12This book presents a creative approach to the problem of individual authenticity. What is authenticity? What are its necessary conditions? How is an authentic self possible in society? What are the... -
Malthus, Medicine, & Morality: ‘Malthusianism’ after 1798 by Brain Dolan 9789042008410
Booksplease Price: £28.78Thomas Robert Malthus's reputation has lately been rehabilitated in the fields of social biology, demography, environmentalism, and economics. In the midst of this current interest and with the... -
Dimensions of Health and Health Promotion by Lennart Nordenfelt 9789042009240
Booksplease Price: £64.20This book contains scholarly contributions to several current debates in the philosophy of medicine and health care regarding the nature of health and health promotion, concepts and measurements of... -
Singularity and Other Possibilities: Panenmentalist Novelties by Amihud Gilead 9789042009349
Booksplease Price: £72.07This book elaborates the author's original metaphysics, panenmentalism, focusing on novel aspects of the singularity of any person. Among these aspects, integrated in a systematic view, are: love and... -
Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies presented to Jane Roberts by Christian J. Kay 9789042010017
Booksplease Price: £82.31These papers reflect the long and distinguished career of Professor Jane Roberts in the field of medieval English studies, and especially her pioneering work on A Thesaurus of Old English, which... -
Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War by Martin Hurcombe 9789042010086
Booksplease Price: £85.46This volume represents the first in-depth English-language study of the French combat novel of the Great War, an immensely popular genre at the time which includes influential texts such as Henri... -
Andre Malraux by Geoffrey T. Harris 9789042010116
Booksplease Price: £90.97Andre Malraux's output, spanning some 55 years, ranges from novels to philosophical essays, studies on the plastic arts and memorialist essays. The present volume is significantly innovative in that... -
Writing against Boundaries: Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-speaking Context by Barbara Kosta 9789042010260
Booksplease Price: £70.50Writing against Boundaries. Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-speaking Context presents a series of essays by prominent scholars who critically explore the intersection of nation and... -
Theodor Fontane and the European Context: Literature, Culture and Society in Prussia and Europe by Patricia Howe 9789042012363
Booksplease Price: £72.37On the centenary of Fontane's death and at the turn of the century these essays take a new look at this supreme chronicler of Prussia and of the Germany that emerges after 1871. Written by scholars... -
Suffering, Death, and Identity by Robert N. Fisher 9789042011731
Booksplease Price: £57.12This book explores many of the issues that arise when we consider persons who are in pain, who are suffering, and who are nearing the end of life. Suffering provokes us into a journey toward... -
Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust by Dan Stone 9789042015050
Booksplease Price: £67.35This book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and... -
Bioethics: Latin American Perspectives by Arleen L. F. Salles 9789042015173
Booksplease Price: £55.54This book presents a unique view of the current state of development of bioethics in Latin America. Twelve Latin American thinkers who share a primary interest in bioethics address a vast range of... -
Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography by Hans Bak 9789042016118
Booksplease Price: £106.48Uneasy Alliance illuminates the recent search in literary studies for a new interface between textual and contextual readings. Written in tribute to G.A.M. Janssens, the twenty-one essays in the... -
Life, Death, and Subjectivity: Moral Sources in Bioethics by Stan van Hooft 9789042019126
Booksplease Price: £72.07This book presents an exploration of concepts central to health care practice. In exploring such concepts as Subjectivity, Life, Personhood, and Death in deep philosophical terms, the book aims to... -
Explorations of Value by Thomas Magnell 9789042003934
Booksplease Price: £38.22The essays in Explorations of Value are drawn from work first presented at the 20th Conference of Value Inquiry. They are not mere records of conference presentations. The authors have reflected on... -
Matter, Mind, and Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method by Jacques Kriel 9789042007994
Booksplease Price: £38.46This book critically assesses the implications of modern medicine's claim to be a natural science. Medicine models its scientific and clinical self-understanding on an obsolete positivist conception... -
Mauriac: The Poetry of a Novelist by Paul Cooke 9789042008489
Booksplease Price: £82.31Although internationally renowned as a novelist, journalist, and essayist, Nobel Prize-winning author Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) never established a reputation as a poet. Yet it was Maurice... -
Echoes and Reflections: Memory and Memorials in Ovid and Marie de France by SunHee Kim Gertz 9789042010635
Booksplease Price: £57.12This study examines tales from The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-18 AD) and from The Lais by the French poet Marie de France (fl. mid-to late twelfth century) to explore a paradox: how... -
War and the Cultural Construction of Identities in Britain by Barbara Korte 9789042012592
Booksplease Price: £91.75The British have been involved in numerous wars since the Middle Ages. Many, if not all, of these wars have been re-constructed in historical accounts, in the media and in the arts, and have thus... -
French 'Classical' Theatre Today: Teaching, Research, Performance by Philip Tomlinson 9789042013551
Booksplease Price: £79.46Arising from the activities of the Centre for Seventeenth-Century French Theatre, this volume proposes a selection of eighteen essays by internationally renowned scholars aimed at all those who value... -
Origin of the Human Species by Dennis Bonnette 9789042013742
Booksplease Price: £56.33This book evaluates the claims of scientific creationism versus materialistic evolution, while examining other scenarios. Consistently philosophical in methodology and perspective, the book is... -
Heroism and Passion in Literature: Studies in Honour of Moya Longstaffe by Graham Gargett 9789042016927
Booksplease Price: £91.27This volume, prompted by the publication in 1999 of Moya Longstaffe's remarkable study, Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French Literature: Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel, further... -
The Harp in the Middle Ages: The Symbolism of a Musical Instrument. 2nd Revised Edition by Martin van Schaik 9789051833676
Booksplease Price: £64.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789051833676Author Martin van SchaikFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
Forging in the Smithy: National Identity and Representation in Anglo-Irish Literary History by Joep Leerssen 9789051837513
Booksplease Price: £38.22The interest of Anglo-Irish literature is not only that its canon includes a high proportion of literary giants - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett - but also that it exemplifies the problematics of literature... -
Baltic Eugenics: Bio-Politics, Race and Nation in Interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1918-1940 by Björn M. Felder 9789042037229
Booksplease Price: £118.38The history of eugenics in the Baltic States is largely unknown. The book compares for the first time the eugenic projects of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and the related disciplines of racial... -
Stressing the past: Papers on Baltic and Slavic accentology by Thomas Olander 9789042025554
Booksplease Price: £66.56From 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: £118.38Slovene 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: £98.35These 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...