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Business Rhetoric in German Novels - From Buddenbrooks to the Global Corporation by Ernest Schonfield
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.90Argues on the evidence of nine major German novels that literature and business have in common a reliance on language, understood in a creative, performative, and rhetorical sense. Throughout... -
Marieluise by Kerstin Specht
Booksplease Price: $20.33"Marieluise Fleisser (1901-1974) is the author of Purgatory in Ingolstadt and Pioneers in Ingolstadt. Both plays were directed in Berlin in the 1920s by Bertolt Brecht. After a brief moment of glory,... -
Beyond Catastrophe: German Intellectuals and Cultural Renewal After World War II, 1945D1955 by Mark W. Clark 9780739115060
Booksplease Price: $90.99Beyond Catastrophe examines the post-World War II leadership efforts of four major German intellectuals: Karl Jaspers, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Meinecke, and Bertolt Brecht. Clark focuses on the... -
Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography by Andrew J. Webber 9780521895729
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $179.68Berlin has been the focal scene of some of the most dramatic and formative events of the twentieth century. Through periods of decadence, fascism, war, partition and reunification, it has seen both... -
Need/Emergency: Political Theater in Exigent Times by Benjamin Lewis Robinson 9781503646018
RRP: $226.80Booksplease Price: $174.09Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's... -
Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco by Toby Cole 9780815411413
Booksplease Price: $32.70For anyone interested in drama, Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco offers revealing and astute insights on modern theater and the creation of plays. The book gathers the opinions and... -
An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences by John Lutterbie 9781474256810
Booksplease Price: $179.87This is the first textbook designed for students, practitioners and scholars of the performing arts who are curious about the power of the cognitive sciences to throw light on the processes of... -
The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture by Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen 9780520302617
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.68An extensive study of the origins and culture of the mysterious Huns and the civilizations affected by their invasions. The first part of the book deals with the political history of the Huns,... -
Brecht Plays 8: The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress by Tom Kuhn 9780413773524
Booksplease Price: $55.86The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht's collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years... -
Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology by Robert Knopf 9780300103366
Booksplease Price: $94.06This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other's... -
The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music by William Farina 9780786468638
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $71.36The stylistic remnants of cabaret music from Weimar-era Germany are all around us. During the 20th century, its most prominent American exponents were the Germans Marlene Dietrich and Lotte Lenya,... -
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley 9780141989778
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.20'Dazzling ... The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers' Guardian Britain. Made in Europe.In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central... -
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory Raman Selden 9781138917460
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory is a classic introduction to the complex yet crucial area of literary theory. This book is known for its clear, accessible style and its thorough,... -
The concept of nature in Marx by Alfred Schmidt
Booksplease Price: $38.87In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part ... -
Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present by Daniel Fischlin
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $89.33Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of... -
On Karl Marx by Ernst Bloch
Booksplease Price: $37.97This study of Marx serves not only as an excellent introduction to that most influential of "worldly philosophers" but is also a significant resume of the central issues of Bloch's own profound and... -
Tocqueville by Khaled Mattawa
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $21.53"When I first read Khaled Mattawa's Tocqueville some years ago, it rewired my brain and pummeled my heart. A daring meditation on what it means to be a poet and a citizen at the center of American... -
Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment. Festschrift for John A. McCarthy by Richard E. Schade 9789042021464
Booksplease Price: $172.85Practicing Progress focuses on the German Enlightenment in its dual manifestation as a cultural era and as a mode of discourse. The volume's unifying theme is the promise and limitations of the... -
The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture by Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen 9780520357204
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $163.34An extensive study of the origins and culture of the mysterious Huns and the civilizations affected by their invasions. The first part of the book deals with the political history of the Huns,... -
Three Plays: Philoctetes, the Horatian, Mauser Heiner Muller 9780857427083
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.43Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Muller (1929-95) still remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This... -
Selected Poems by Michael Hofmann 9780571237746
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.74Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically... -
Zombies, Werewolves, Robots, and Extraterrestrials: Actor Training and the Performance of Non-Human Characters Gerald Large 9781041071952
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Zombies, Werewolves, Robots, and Extraterrestrials provides a broad survey of acting theory and training technique through the lens of the performance of non-human characters found in horror and... -
Brecht in Practice: Theatre, Theory and Performance by David Barnett 9781408185032
Booksplease Price: $62.06David Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this clear and accessible study of Brecht's theories and practices. The... -
Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality by Olga Taxidou 9781399511094
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $44.58This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances /... -
Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 by Patrick Lonergan 9781474262644
Booksplease Price: $179.87Drawing on major new archival discoveries and recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an innovative, highly readable and informative account of Irish drama and theatre since 1950. The book focuses... -
Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History by David K. Dunaway 9780761990659
Booksplease Price: $90.99Best-selling author Aldous Huxley's American years have been a period literary historians discounted. His reputation suffered after his exile to California, which he undertook partly for the sake of... -
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s by Kevin Starr 9780195100792
Booksplease Price: $102.71What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California - in pursuits such as film,... -
German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile 1933-1950: Biographies and Bibliographies by Zlata Fuss Phillips 9783598115691
RRP: $341.25Booksplease Price: $222.56"German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile 1933-1950," contains biographies of 101 authors and illustrators of children's and youth literature as well as bibliographies of the books... -
Edinburgh German Yearbook 5 - Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity by Laura Bradley
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $171.68The avant-garde writer and director Bertolt Brecht left the West for good in 1949, returning to East Berlin and founding the Berliner Ensemble. While he quickly became identified internationally as... -
Changing Cultural Tastes: Writers and the Popular in Modern Germany by Anthony Waine 9781571815224
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $178.84"This is a very good book ...well, clearly, and forcefully written, in an attractive style with a touch of personal directness though with no sacrifice of academic rigour. The author's enjoyment... -
War Primer Alexander Kluge 9781803093956
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.23A profound exploration of the enduring impact of war in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. "War is back again." So begins Alexander Kluge's latest book, prompted by a war of aggression... -
Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile by Ronald Speirs 9780521154437
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $71.17Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile is the first comprehensive study devoted... -
Hanns Eisler: A Rebel in Music: Selected Writings by Hanns Eisler 9781871082715
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $32.59This is a reprint of the collection of Eisler's writings in English, first published in 1978. For Eisler the written word was very important and people paid tribute to his mind, quickness of thought,... -
Alberto Giacometti by Timothy Mathews 9781780767871
Booksplease Price: $63.48Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century. Jean-Paul Sartre and Andre Breton are just two of the great thinkers... -
Satire by Joel Schechter 9781350140080
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $38.58Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatrical form took the stage in ancient Athens. From... -
Performing Unification: History and Nation in German Theater after 1989 by Matt Cornish
Booksplease Price: $149.63Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is written, while... -
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 41 by Theodore F. Rippey 9780985195649
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $132.80Now published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Bertolt Brecht's life and work and of topics of particular... -
Origin and Significance of the Frankfurt School (RLE Social Theory): A Marxist Perspective Phil Slater 9781138977778
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82The term 'Frankfurt School' is used widely, but sometimes loosely, to describe both a group of intellectuals and a specific social theory. Focusing on the formative and most radical years of the... -
Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies by Amanda Stuart Fisher 9781526174475
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.23Providing one of the first critically sustained engagements with the new forms of verbatim and testimonial theatre that emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this book examines what... -
North by Louis-Ferdinand Celine 9781564781420
Booksplease Price: $34.04In this novel, Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan) offers us a vivid chronicle of a desperate man's frantic flight from France in the final months...