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Jokes Every Man Should Know
Quirk Books 2010; US$ 9.95The Only Joke Book You?ll Ever Need Featuring: ? Nine Jokes about Heaven and Hell ? Eight Jokes Just for Kids ? Nineteen Jokes Definitely Not for Kids ? Six Jokes about Lightbulbs ? Seven Jokes about Bars ? The World?s Only Funny Knock-Knock Joke Plus alternate versions, roasts and toasts, historical... more...
The Gorgon's Gaze
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 23.00The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. more...
Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 36.00An international cast of philosophers and literary theorists addresses questions of ethics and literary criticism. more...
The Medieval Chronicle VII
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 83.00There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly,... more...
Literatura y errabundia
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 59.00En años relativamente recientes, el género de la novela ha ido experimentando cambios notables, abanderados por la realidad y su invasión del territorio de la ficción. En el presente estudio exhaustivo de tres obras españolas (de Javier Marías, Antonio Muñoz Molina y Rosa Montero), situadas en un amplio contexto literario... more...
Poetry Translating as Expert Action
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 135.00Poetry is a highly valued form of human expression, and poems are challenging texts to translate. For both reasons, people willingly work long and hard to translate them, for little pay but potentially high personal satisfaction. This book shows how experienced poetry translators translate poems and bring them to readers, and how they not only shape... more...
Theory/Theatre: An Introduction
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 30.95Theory/Theatre: An Introduction provides a unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Mark Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory. Drawing upon examples from Shakespeare and Aphra... more...
A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 47.95A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides essential primary sources which document one of the key movements in modern theatre. Christopher Innes has selected three writers to exemplify the movement, and six plays in particular: * Henrik Ibsen - A Dolls House and Hedda Gabler * Anton Chekhov - The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard * George... more...
A Sourcebook on African-American Performance
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 49.95A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s. As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance series, the Sourcebook consists of classic texts as well as newly commissioned pieces by notable... more...
Fifty Key Theatre Directors
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 27.95Fifty Key Theatre Directors covers the work of practitioners who have shaped and pushed back the boundaries of theatre and performance. The authors provide clear and insightful overviews of the approaches and impact of fifty of the most influential directors of the twentieth and twenty-first century from around the world. They include: Anne... more...









