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Stealing the Fire: Adaptation, Appropriation, Plagiarism, Hoax in French and Francophone Literature and Film by James Day 9789042031647
Booksplease Price: £82.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042031647Author James DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Modernization and the Crisis of Memory: John Donne to Don DeLillo by Philipp Wolf 9789042015289
Booksplease Price: £64.20Contemporary studies of memory focus either on the psychology of remembering, on its archives and media, or on the traditional ars memoriae. The general cultural framework with its social and... -
Sur quel pied danser?: Danse et litterature by Edward Nye 9789042016088
Booksplease Price: £94.11La danse a inspire la litterature, et la litterature a inspire la danse. Mais comment fonctionne exactement l'articulation entre les deux, et quelles sont les consequences de leur reciprocite ? Cet... -
Feminist Alliances by Lynda Burns 9789042017283
Booksplease Price: £57.12This book is about feminism, its critics, and its possible directions for change. The nine chapters raise questions about theories of sexual difference, power, justice and history. A central theme... -
Avant-Garde / Neo-Avant-Garde by Dietrich Scheunemann 9789042019256
Booksplease Price: £107.77This collection of critical essays explores new approaches to the study of avant-garde literature and art, film and architecture. It offers a theoretical framework that avoids narrowly defined... -
Deepening our Understanding of Wittgenstein by Michael Kober 9789042020108
Booksplease Price: £86.24This volume is of interest for anyone who aims at understanding the so-called 'later' or 'mature' Wittgenstein. Its contributions, written by leading German-speaking Wittgenstein-scholars like Hans... -
Montaging Pushkin: Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry by Alexandra Smith 9789042020122
Booksplease Price: £104.59Montaging Pushkin offers for the first time a coherent view of Pushkin's legacy to Russian twentieth-century poetry, giving many new insights. Pushkin is shown to be a Russian forerunner of... -
Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction by Fiona Tolan 9789042022232
Booksplease Price: £113.32Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction takes a new look at the complex relationship between Margaret Atwood’s fiction and feminist politics. Examining in detail the concerns and choices of an author... -
The Lost Girls: Demeter-Persephone and the Literary Imagination, 1850-1930 by Andrew Radford 9789042022355
Booksplease Price: £118.08The Lost Girls analyses a number of British writers between 1850 and 1930 for whom the myth of Demeter's loss and eventual recovery of her cherished daughter Kore-Persephone, swept off in violent and... -
Threshold Time: Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature by Lene M. Johannessen 9789042023321
Booksplease Price: £66.56Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as new in-depth analyses of a selection of works that... -
Touching Surfaces: Photographic Aesthetics, Temporality, Aging by Anca Cristofovici 9789042025134
Booksplease Price: £78.37Who isn't seduced by the idea of an affinity between aging and aesthetics? Yet, when does aging truly begin? What attributes does the aesthetic embrace? Looking into startling photographic art of the... -
Cyberculture and New Media by Francisco J. Ricardo 9789042025189
Booksplease Price: £107.77In the extension of digital media from optional means to central site of activity, the domains of language, art, learning, play, film, and politics have been subject to radical reconfigurations as... -
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A New Kind of Containment: "The War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality by Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo 9789042025233
Booksplease Price: £73.65This book addresses "containment" as it relates to interlocking discourses around the "War on Terror" as a global effort and its link to race and sexuality within the United... -
Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics by Evgenia Cherkasova 9789042026100
Booksplease Price: £48.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042026100Author Evgenia CherkasovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V... -
A Lab of My Own by Neena B. Schwartz 9789042027374
Booksplease Price: £42.16What was it like to be a woman scientist battling the "old boy's" network during the 1960s and 1970s? Neena Schwartz, a prominent neuroendocrinologist at Northwestern University, tells all. She... -
Fear Itself: Reasoning the Unreasonable by Stephen Hessel 9789042028067
Booksplease Price: £64.99What are fear, horror, and terror? This question, central to our endeavour, cannot be answered by one unified voice. It always cracks, falters, and fades before it can fully enunciate its... -
Textual Scholarship and the Material Book by Wim van Mierlo 9789042028173
Booksplease Price: £111.74In the last decades, the emphasis in textual scholarship has moved onto creation, production, process, collaboration; onto the material manifestations of a work; onto multiple rather than single... -
Selected Papers by Vasily Sesemann 9789042028258
Booksplease Price: £41.37The Baltic philosopher Vasily Sesemann (1884-1963), rooted in the Classics and influenced but not dominated by Kant, Herder, Bergson, Husserl, and Lossky, was a first-rate scholar in the fields of... -
The New Order of War by Bob Brecher 9789042029415
Booksplease Price: £90.18Far from heralding a time of unprecedented peace, the end of "actually existing communism" served to usher in new conflicts, new wars and new reasons for war. That much goes without saying... -
Apollinaire on the Edge: Modern Art, Popular Culture, and the Avant-Garde by Willard Bohn 9789042031081
Booksplease Price: £50.03The title of the present study refers to the fact that Apollinaire consistently worked at the cutting edge of modern aesthetics. The volume seeks to rehabilitate four experimental genres in... -
Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture by Laurie Ruth Johnson 9789042031135
Booksplease Price: £89.39Aesthetic Anxiety analyzes uncanny repetition in psychology, literature, philosophy, and film, and produces a new narrative about the centrality of aesthetics in modern subjectivity. The often... -
The Progressive in Modern English: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization and Related Changes by Svenja Kranich 9789042031432
Booksplease Price: £95.99This book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment of the English progressive from Old English to Present-day English, focusing on the crucial phase of its grammaticalization between... -
Traversing Transnationalism: The Horizons of Literary and Cultural Studies by Pier Paolo Frassinelli 9789042033078
Booksplease Price: £95.69The recent dramatic expansion of the field of transnational studies has reshaped discourses across the humanities and social sciences and created the opportunity for extensive multi-regional... -
Amsterdamer Beitrage zur alteren Germanistik, Band 68 (2011) by Erika Langbroek 9789042034136
Booksplease Price: £107.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042034136Author Erika LangbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher... -
Refiguring Oscar Wilde’s Salome by Michael Y. Bennett 9789042034327
Booksplease Price: £99.63While Oscar Wilde's delightfully-witty comedies of manners receive the most fanfare from the general public and much of academia, Wilde's most "serious" play-Salome-rightfully deserves an equal... -
The Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art by Denis Lejeune 9789042034396
Booksplease Price: £91.75To many, chance and art are antagonistic terms. But a number of 20th century artists have turned this notion on its head by attempting to create artworks based on randomness. Among those, three in... -
Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists in Britain by Eddie Chambers 9789042034433
Booksplease Price: £118.381980s Britain witnessed the brassy, multifaceted emergence of a new generation of young, Black-British artists. Practitioners such as Sonia Boyce and Keith Piper were exhibited in galleries up and... -
Small City on a Big Couch: A Psychoanalysis of a Provincial Mexican City by Karen Rodriguez 9789042035072
Booksplease Price: £64.99This book psychoanalyzes a small Mexican city to figure out how the city makes sense of both herself and her many Others in the face of constant change. It puts the city on the couch and works... -
Wagner and the Novel: Wagner's Operas and the European Realist Novel: An exploration of genre by Hugh Ridley 9789042035218
Booksplease Price: £83.88This study bridges literature and music at an exciting and controversial point, offering the lover of music and literature and the specialist reader an insight into the relationship between Wagner's... -
Justice for Older People by Harry Lesser 9789042034907
Booksplease Price: £78.37The authors of these papers vary in age, nationality and professional background. They share a belief that all too often older people are not treated justly or fairly, and also a belief that this is... -
Transnationalism and Resistance: Experience and Experiment in Women's Writing by Adele Parker 9789042036192
Booksplease Price: £108.56This study presents a unique collection of essays which focus on the relationships among form, aesthetics, and transnational women's writing produced in recent years. The essays in this volume treat... -
Jesus Incognito: The Hidden Christ in Western Art since 1960 by Martien E. Brinkman 9789042036239
Booksplease Price: £64.99In this book Martien Brinkman explores the Jesus incognito as found in Western film, literature, and the visual arts since 1960. His interest here is focused primarily on indirect references to the... -
Thinking about Provincialism in Thinking by Krzysztof Brzechczyn 9789042036307
Booksplease Price: £108.07The volume addresses a problem rarely discussed by philosophers - the question of provincialism in science (in the broadest sense of the term). There are only a few great centers of science, which... -
Art and Identity: Essays on the Aesthetic Creation of Mind by Tone Roald 9789042036345
Booksplease Price: £82.31Art has the capacity to shape and alter our identities. It can influence who and what we are. Those who have had aesthetic experiences know this intimately, and yet the study of art’s impact on the... -
Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions by Kirsten Sandrock 9789042036352
Booksplease Price: £83.88Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions is part of a series of books that examines cross-cultural processes between Britain and Italy. The volume explores for the first time... -
Provocation and Negotiation: Essays in Comparative Criticism by Gesche Ipsen 9789042037052
Booksplease Price: £106.97This collection of essays takes on two of the most pressing questions that face the discipline of Comparative Literature today: "Why compare?" and "Where do we go from here?". At... -
Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival by Jessica Gildersleeve 9789042037991
Booksplease Price: £73.65Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma analyses the treatment of memory and the past in Bowen’s writing through the lens of trauma theory. It draws on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Hélène... -
Jewish Thought, Utopia, and Revolution by Elena Namli 9789042038332
Booksplease Price: £65.78In response to the grim realities of the present world Jewish thought has not tended to retreat into eschatological fantasy, but rather to project utopian visions precisely on to the present moment,... -
The Romantic Stage: A Many-Sided Mirror by Lilla Maria Crisafulli 9789042039186
Booksplease Price: £107.27The Romantic Stage: A Many-Sided Mirror examines late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British theatre and drama with the conviction that they made an essential contribution to the aesthetic... -
The Poetics of Transcendence by Elisa Heinämäki 9789042039285
Booksplease Price: £64.99The present “turn to religion” has also meant a rekindled interest in transcendence, a concept once deemed a relic of a metaphysical past. This volume approaches transcendence from a particular...