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Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol. 83 - 2011: International Journal for Analytic Philosophy by Johannes L. Brandl 9789042033733
Booksplease Price: $128.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042033733Author Johannes L. BrandlFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
Efficacite / Efficacy: How To Do Things With Words and Images? by Veronique Plesch 9789042033740
Booksplease Price: $139.02This book aims at offering a broad survey of the encounter between word and image studies and anthropology and to demonstrate the mutual benefits of this dialogue for both disciplines in the three... -
Institutions and Power in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture by David Evans 9789042033849
Booksplease Price: $139.02The French Revolution of 1789 altered the face of power and the institutions it inhabited in France, and the aftershocks of this seismic change rippled throughout the nineteenth century. With power... -
Villains and Villainy: Embodiments of Evil in Literature, Popular Culture and Media by Anna Fahraeus 9789042033931
Booksplease Price: $96.01This collection of essays explores the representations, incarnations and manifestations of evil when it is embodied in a particular villain or in an evil presence. All the essays contribute to... -
Social Justice, Poverty and Race: Normative and Empirical Points of View by Paul Kriese 9789042033948
Booksplease Price: $106.18A clear understanding of social justice requires complex rather than simple answers. It requires comfort with ambiguity rather than absolute answers. This is counter to viewing right versus wrong,... -
Responses to the Enlightenment: An Exchange on Foundations, Faith, and Community by Professor William Sweet 9789042034471
Booksplease Price: $128.52Since the time of the Enlightenment in Western Europe, discussions of faith and reason have often pitted the believer against the skeptic, the theist against the atheist, and the person of one faith... -
Paris-Bucharest, Bucharest-Paris: Francophone writers from Romania by Anne Quinney 9789042034518
Booksplease Price: $128.52This collection of essays presents new research on the work of Romanian writers who chose French as a literary language. Romanian is itself, of course, a Romance language, and there is a long history... -
Thinking the Divine in Interreligious Encounter by Norbert Hintersteiner 9789042034785
Booksplease Price: $93.99Thinking the Divine in Interreligious Encounter seeks to take seriously our questions of cross-cultural and inter-religious dialogue on God or the Divine: How can the Divine be named and thought as... -
Literature and Terrorism: Comparative Perspectives by Michael C. Frank 9789042034983
Booksplease Price: $127.50The years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift... -
Visibility beyond the Visible: The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism by Albena Bakratcheva 9789042035560
Booksplease Price: $127.50Visibility beyond the Visible. The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism is the first study to entirely deal with the poetics of American Transcendentalism. The author takes it for granted... -
Cybercultures: Mediations of Community, Culture, Politics by Harris Breslow 9789042035782
Booksplease Price: $96.01Cybercultures: Mediations of Community, Culture, Politics, is a collection of essays that critically examine the role that digital media and online cultures play in the rearticulation of contemporary... -
Writing the Holocaust Today: Critical Perspectives on Jonathan Littell's <i>The Kindly Ones</i> by Aurelie Barjonet 9789042035867
Booksplease Price: $118.36Originally written in French, The Kindly Ones (2006) is the first major work of the Jewish-American author Jonathan Littell. Its extraordinary critical and commercial success, spawning a series of... -
Jesus or Nietzsche: How Should We Live Our Lives? by Raymond Angelo Belliotti 9789042036598
Booksplease Price: $54.39This book reconstructs the cornerstones of Jesus's moral teachings about how to lead a good, even exemplary, human life. It does so in a way that is compatible with the most prominent, competing... -
Transitions: Emerging Women Writers in German-language Literature by Valerie Heffernan 9789042036895
Booksplease Price: $108.21This volume introduces ten emerging voices in German-language literature by women. Their texts speak to the diverse modalities of transition that characterise society and culture in the twenty-first... -
Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies by Randy Laist 9789042037489
Booksplease Price: $123.44Myth, art, literature, film, and other discourses are replete with depictions of evil plants, salvific plants, and human-plant hybrids. In various ways, these representations intersect with... -
Christology and Evil in Ghana: Towards a Pentecostal Public Theology by Joseph Quayesi-Amakye 9789042037533
Booksplease Price: $110.24Pentecostalism has traditionally always been other-worldly in the sense that Pentecostals tend to believe that people’s lives are controlled by unseen powers that are responsible for both good and... -
Rhetoric in financial discourse: A linguistic analysis of ICT-mediated disclosure genres by Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli 9789042037595
Booksplease Price: $101.10Financial disclosure has become a crucial component of corporate communication. Through this process, companies aim to provide information and project an image of trustworthiness in response to... -
A Literary Occupation: Responses of German writers in service in occupied Europe by William J. O'Keeffe 9789042037700
Booksplease Price: $108.21Pax in Bello, peace in the midst of war, was the motto one writer chose to signify the private dilemma: how could the humanist, clad in the uniform of the occupier, write of liberal values, see with... -
Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Political Legacies by Jeffrey L. High 9789042037816
Booksplease Price: $135.95In an authorial class with dramatists and authors of literary prose such as Goethe, Schiller, Thomas Mann, Brecht, and Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) remains prominent in international... -
Language Learner Narrative: An Exploration of Mündigkeit in Intercultural Literature by Helen O'Sullivan 9789042037854
RRP: $75.47Booksplease Price: $48.30Increasing numbers of people have contact with other cultures and languages Language Learner Narrative examines representations of this phenomenon in literary texts using an applied linguistic... -
Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia by Beate Neumeier 9789042037946
Booksplease Price: $126.48How does one read across cultural boundaries? The multitude of creative texts, performance practices, and artworks produced by Indigenous writers and artists in contemporary Australia calls upon... -
Prelude to Baltic Linguistics: Earliest Theories about Baltic Languages (16th century) by Pietro U. Dini 9789042037984
Booksplease Price: $69.62This book is a study of the relatively unknown field of Baltic linguistic historiography associated with the 16th century. This has been the saeculum mirabile of Baltic philology, not only on account... -
Mosaic of Juxtaposition: William S. Burroughs’ Narrative Revolution by Micheal Sean Bolton 9789042038486
Booksplease Price: $78.75William S. Burroughs’ experimental narratives, from the 1959 publication of Naked Lunch through the late trilogy of the 1980s, have provided readers with intriguing challenges and, for some,... -
Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity: Pratchett, Pullman, Miéville and Stories of the Eye by Andrew Rayment 9789042038585
Booksplease Price: $108.21“The books are true while reality is lying…” Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique... -
Outsider Biographies: Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud and Genet: Base Crime and High Art in Biography and Bio-Fiction, 1744-2000 by Ian H. Magedera 9789042038752
Booksplease Price: $140.04Concerning itself with biography and bio-fiction written in English and in French and also taking in American and Australian subjects, Outsider Biographies focuses on writers who have a criminal... -
A Politic Theatre: The Drama of David Hare by Scott Fraser 9789051835694
Booksplease Price: $72.67This analysis of twenty published texts by David Hare employs definitions from contemporary semiotic literary theory as a means of describing typologies of political drama. By tracing the... -
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, Band 58 (2003) by Erika Langbroek 9789042008380
Booksplease Price: $137.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042008380Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Victims and Victimization in French and Francophone Literature by Buford Norman 9789042016156
Booksplease Price: $73.68From the contents: Anne E. DUGGAN: Good and bad bread: sacrificing the sacred and abject other in Jean-Pierre Camus. - Christian BERG: Theodicees victimales au dix-neuvieme siecle en France (de... -
Philosophy and Art in Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub: A Modern Sufi Odyssey by Anna T. Challenger 9789042014893
Booksplease Price: $51.34This book demonstrates that the most forceful contribution to George Gurdjieff's world-view is Sufism, understood as the tradition of seeking truth wherever it can be found, especially at the meeting... -
Music, Popular Culture, Identities by Richard A. Young 9789042012493
Booksplease Price: $154.37Music, Popular Culture, Identities is a collection of sixteen essays that will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in popular culture and music, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology... -
Talking to the Dead: A Study of Irish Funerary Traditions by Nina Witoszek 9789042005310
Booksplease Price: $68.60Talking to the Dead is an essay on death and its tenacious hold on Irish culture. There are few traditions in which funerary motifs have been so ubiquitous in literature, popular rituals, folk... -
A Pepper-Pot of Cultures: Aspects of Creolization in the Caribbean by Gordon Collier 9789042009189
Booksplease Price: $117.36The terms 'creole' and 'creolization' have witnessed a number of significant semantic changes in the course of their history. Originating in the vocabulary associated with colonial expansion in the... -
Understanding Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach by Margaret Sönser Breen 9789042009356
Booksplease Price: $82.82Written across the disciplines of law, literature, philosophy, and theology, Understanding Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach represents wide-ranging approaches to and understandings of “evil” and... -
Grazer Philosophische Studien: Internationale Zeitschrift für analytische Philosophie. Gegründet von Rudolf Haller by Johannes L. Brandl 9789042010307
Booksplease Price: $116.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042010307Author Johannes L. BrandlFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
In the Mind's Eye: The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin by Alexandra K. Wettlaufer 9789042010352
Booksplease Price: $110.24This comparative, interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between literature and the visual arts in France and Britain from 1750-1900. Through a close examination of the prose writings... -
Radical Axiology: A First Philosophy of Values by Hugh P. McDonald 9789042010406
Booksplease Price: $149.25This book treats values as the basis for all of philosophy, an approach distinct from critiquing theories of value and far rarer. "First Philosophy," the effort to justify the foundations for a... -
Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words: Approaches to her Fiction, Poetry and Essays by Heike Bartel 9789042011243
Booksplease Price: $43.22Anne Duden's reputation as one of the most innovative writers of her generation, established in 1982 with the experimental stories in UEbergang, was confirmed in 1985 by Das Judasschaf, a novel... -
The Poet's Role: Lyric Responses to German Unification by Poets from the GDR. by Ruth J. Owen 9789042012073
Booksplease Price: $126.87This study of contemporary German poetry represents the first attempt to examine comprehensively and at some length the lyric response to the unification period. It sets out to investigate, by means... -
Between Freedom and Necessity: An Essay on the Place of Value by Steven Schroeder 9789042013025
Booksplease Price: $47.28This extended essay joins an old conversation at the intersection of freedom and necessity. Though it takes place at the beginning of the twenty-first century by the "Christian" reckoning... -
African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum: Sights/Sites of Creativity and Conflict by Tobias Döring 9789042013100
Booksplease Price: $59.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042013100Author Tobias DöringFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher...