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Theatre and Laughter by Eric Weitz 9781137356086
Booksplease Price: £10.29This stimulating introduction to laughter in theatre and performance examines laughter among actors, among audience, and the interaction between the two. Exploring the many uses and effects of... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy by Eric Weitz
Booksplease Price: £26.61'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'. But how do we identify something which is meant to... -
The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre by Eric Weitz 9781904505051
RRP: £19.90Booksplease Price: £18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904505051Author Eric WeitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish performance by Eric Weitz 9781788748117
RRP: £25.40Booksplease Price: £23.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788748117Author Eric WeitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint -
At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter by Erica Weitzman 9780810143166
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter examines the fear of materiality in German-language realist and postrealist literature. The book argues that with German... -
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor by Salvatore Attardo
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the... -
Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh by Eamonn Jordan 9783030304522
Booksplease Price: £53.90This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven... -
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States by Eric D. Weitz 9780691205144
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent... -
Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context by David Rainbow 9780773558984
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Is the concept of "race" applicable to Russia and the Soviet Union? Citing the idea of Russian exceptionalism, many would argue that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while nationalities... -
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition by Eric D. Weitz
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.96The definitive history of Weimar politics, culture, and societyA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA Financial Times Best Book of the YearThoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and... -
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States by Eric D. Weitz
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.01A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200... -
Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany by Frank Biess
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63This book focuses on one of the most visible and important consequences of total defeat in postwar Germany: the return to East and West Germany of the two million German soldiers and POWs who spent... -
A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation - Updated Edition by Eric D. Weitz 9780691165875
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share... -
Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands by Omer Bartov
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending... -
Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950 by Volker R. Berghahn
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02How and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the twentieth century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east, create successful civilian societies?...