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The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Traditions, Texts and Performance [Hardback]
T. F. Earle (Editor); Catarina Fouto (Editor)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975769
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre. In the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, Germany and England, writers and actors experimented with new dramatic techniques and found new publics. The... .... Learn More -
Richardson and the Philosophes [Hardback]
James Fowler (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781909662117
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, a taste for sentiment accompanied the 'rise of the novel', and the success of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) played a vital role in this. James Fowler's new study is the first to compare the respon... .... Learn More -
Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being [Hardback]
Paul Fung (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781909662087
Published by : Legenda
For Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), who lived with epileptic seizures for more than thirty years, illness is an ineradicable part of existence. Epilepsy in his writings denotes both a set of physical symptoms and a state of survival ... .... Learn More -
Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine? [Hardback]
Sura Qadiri (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975813
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred context, sometimes engaging directly with Islamist rhetoric. Novelists like Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Assia Djebar (Algeria) and Am... .... Learn More -
Marie NDiaye: Inhospitable Fictions [Hardback]
Shirley Jordan (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781907975851
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 38
At stake throughout the fictional writings of Marie NDiaye (1967–) is the issue of the stranger’s welcome. NDiaye’s fascination with a spectrum of outsider figures and with the multiple, often subtle practices wh... .... Learn More -
Gadda, Beckett and Fractured Self-Narrative [Hardback]
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975998
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 29
While the writing of Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is renowned for its linguistic and narrative proliferation, the best-known works of Samuel Beckett (1906-89) are minimalist, with a clear fondness for subtraction and abstraction... .... Learn More -
German Narratives of Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-First Century [Hardback]
Linda Shortt (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975882
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 4
Since unification, German culture has experienced a boom in discourses on generation, family and place. Linda Shortt reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest for belonging that mobilises attachment to counter the effects of post... .... Learn More -
Caravaggio in Film and Literature: Popular Culture's Appropriation of a Baroque Genius [Hardback]
Laura Rorato (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781909662001
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 30
Although fictional responses to Caravaggio date back to the painter’s lifetime (1571-1610), it was during the second half of the twentieth century that interest in him took off outside the world of art history. In this new m... .... Learn More -
The Very Late Goethe: Self-Consciousness and the Art of Ageing [Hardback]
Charlotte Lee (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781909662124
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Germanic Literatures
Volume: 5
Goethe's career was an unusually long and productive one: he became a literary celebrity in the 1770s and remained so until his death in 1832. The distinguishing feature of his last works is their self-consciousness, their preoccu... .... Learn More -
Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny [Hardback]
Cécile Bishop (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781909662018
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 41
The figure of the dictator looms large in representations of postcolonial Africa. Since the late 1970s, writers, film-makers and theorists have sought to represent the realities of dictatorship without endorsing the colonialist cl... .... Learn More