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Cultures of Neurasthenia: From Beard to the First World War by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra 9789042009219
Booksplease Price: $70.01Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was 'invented' in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern... -
Provisionality and the Poem: Transitions in the Work of du Bouchet, Jaccottet and Noel by Emma Wagstaff 9789042019393
Booksplease Price: $90.95Much poetic writing in France in the post-1945 period is set in an elemental landscape and expressed through an impersonal poetic voice. It is therefore often seen as primarily spatial and cut off... -
Touching Surfaces: Photographic Aesthetics, Temporality, Aging by Anca Cristofovici 9789042025134
Booksplease Price: $101.10Who 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... -
The Progressive in Modern English: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization and Related Changes by Svenja Kranich 9789042031432
Booksplease Price: $123.83This 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... -
The Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art by Denis Lejeune 9789042034396
Booksplease Price: $118.36To 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... -
Facets of Self-Consciousness by Katja Crone 9789042035157
Booksplease Price: $118.36This special issue of Grazer Philosophische Studien brings together a number of carefully selected and timely articles that explore the discussion of different facets of self-consciousness from... -
Provocation and Negotiation: Essays in Comparative Criticism by Gesche Ipsen 9789042037052
Booksplease Price: $137.99This 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 a difficult economic... -
Arthur Miller's <i>Death of a Salesman</i> by Eric J. Sterling 9789042024502
Booksplease Price: $85.86Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the third volume in the Dialogue series, covers six major and controversial topics dealing with Miller's classic play. The topics include feminism and the role of... -
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness by Colette Balmain 9789042025509
Booksplease Price: $95.01The papers collected in this volume are expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in March 2005. The chapters here represent the diversity... -
![On Dissidents and Madness: From The Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the "Soviet Union" of Vladimir Putin by Robert van Voren 9789042025844](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9213328/10247522/9789042025844__04231.1755844987.jpg?c=1 "On Dissidents and Madness: From The Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the "Soviet Union" of Vladimir Putin by Robert van Voren 9789042025844")
On Dissidents and Madness: From The Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the "Soviet Union" of Vladimir Putin by Robert van Voren 9789042025844
Booksplease Price: $136.34The book contains the memoirs of Robert van Voren covering the period 1977-2008 and provides unique insights into the dissident movement in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, both inside the country and... -
Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing by Jason Harding 9789042030558
Booksplease Price: $123.44The 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... -
Mapping Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture by Susan Harrow 9789042034587
Booksplease Price: $144.14Memory 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,... -
Giordano Bruno: An Introduction by Paul Richard Blum 9789042035553
Booksplease Price: $65.56Giordano 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... -
Frontiers of Cyberspace by Daniel Riha 9789042035836
Booksplease Price: $152.32The 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... -
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... -
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, Band 72 (2014) by Guus Kroonen 9789042038592
Booksplease Price: $126.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042038592Author Guus KroonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint < -
Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures by Kristian Van Haesendonck 9789042038851
Booksplease Price: $141.45From wide-ranging overviews of the entire region to close readings of specific works, this volume opens a fascinating window on the literatures and cultures of the Caribbean, covering texts in the... -
Theodor Fontane and the European Context: Literature, Culture and Society in Prussia and Europe by Patricia Howe 9789042012363
Booksplease Price: $93.36On 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... -
The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond by Dolores Herrero 9789042033887
Booksplease Price: $126.87These 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... -
"So There It Is": An Exploration of Cultural Hybridity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry by Brigitte Wallinger-Schorn 9789042034143
Booksplease Price: $139.41In interpreting contemporary Asian American poetry, it is important to understand the cultural hybridity of Asian America identity, located at the interstices of the fixed identifications ‘American’,... -
Odun: Discourses, Strategies, and Power in the Yoruba Play of Transformation by Cristina Boscolo 9789042026803
Booksplease Price: $149.64A poetic 'voice' scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odun; then the voice falls silent. What is then raised is the dust of a forgotten academic debate on the nature... -
In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy by Zenon Luis-Martinez 9789042008441
Booksplease Price: $102.12Departing from earlier studies which regarded incest as a literary topos or dramatic metaphor foregrounding political, social, or legal issues, Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English... -
Cyberculture and New Media by Francisco J. Ricardo 9789042025189
Booksplease Price: $139.02In 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... -
Placing Poetry by Ian Davidson 9789042036147
Booksplease Price: $152.32The essays in this volume present a thorough re-evaluation of the idea of place for the twenty-first century, linking across theoretical interests in space and spatialisation and in motion and... -
The Romantic Stage: A Many-Sided Mirror by Lilla Maria Crisafulli 9789042039186
Booksplease Price: $138.38The 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... -
Sites of Discourse - Public and Private Spheres - Legal Culture: Papers from a Conference Held at the Technical University of Dresden, December 2001 by Uwe Boker 9789042015500
Booksplease Price: $92.97The present collection of essays grew out of a conference, held in Dresden in December 2001, exploring the relationship between the public sphere and legal culture. The conference was held in... -
Art and the Human Adventure: Andre Malraux's Theory of Art by Derek Allan 9789042027497
Booksplease Price: $149.25Andre 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... -
Cultural Transfer through Translation: The Circulation of Enlightened Thought in Europe by Means of Translation by Stefanie Stockhorst 9789042029507
Booksplease Price: $151.30Given that the dissemination of enlightened thought in Europe was mostly effected through translations, the present collection of essays focuses on how its cultural adaptation took place in various... -
Remembrance and Reconciliation by Rob Gildert 9789042032651
Booksplease Price: $65.56Remembrance 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: $127.89This 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... -
Public Apology between Ritual and Regret: Symbolic Excuses on False Pretenses or True Reconciliation out of Sincere Regret? by Daniël Cuypers 9789042036956
Booksplease Price: $122.42Since the 1990s we witness a rise in public apologies. Are we living in the ‘Age of Apology’? Interesting research questions can be raised about the opportunity, the form, the meaning, the... -
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... -
Being and Authenticity by Xunwu Chen 9789042008281
Booksplease Price: $73.68This 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... -
Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies presented to Jane Roberts by Christian J. Kay 9789042010017
Booksplease Price: $106.18These 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... -
Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography by Hans Bak 9789042016118
Booksplease Price: $137.36Uneasy 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... -
Matter, Mind, and Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method by Jacques Kriel 9789042007994
Booksplease Price: $49.61This 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... -
<i>Saint Genet</i> decanonized: The Ludic body in <i>Querelle</i> by Loren Ringer 9789042015869
Booksplease Price: $69.622002 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Saint Genet. Ever since that date, Jean Genet's work has largely been read and interpreted through Sartre's analysis of the author. In this... -
Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville by Sue Kossew 9789042032859
Booksplease Price: $123.83This is the first published collection of critical essays on the work of Kate Grenville, one of Australia's most important contemporary writers. Grenville has been acclaimed for her novels, winning... -
Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization by Messay Kebede 9789042008106
Booksplease Price: $97.03This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the...