Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures
Literary and cultural studies, from the Spanish Golden Age to contemporary cinema
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Communication and Exegesis: Linguistics as an aid to New Testament interpretation [Paperback]
Margaret G. Sim (Author)
$45.00ISBN: 9780227174425
Published by : James Clarke & Co
'Communication and Exegesis' helps to demystify communication theory in such a way as to encourage biblical scholars and students to open their minds to new ideas about how humans attempt to communicate with one another. It shows ... .... Learn More -
The Prodigal Son in English Literature [Paperback]
Alison M. Jack (Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9780718892517
Published by : Lutterworth Press
This new work is an exploration of the way the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) echoes through literature in English across the ages. As well as offering a survey of the intertextual instances, it explores in depth the ... .... Learn More -
Martin Amis [Paperback]
Nicholas Bentley (Author)
$19.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780746311783
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
Martin Amis is one of the most important and distinctive writers of the last thirty years and his work continues to provoke controversy and debate. From his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973) to his most recent The Pr... .... Learn More -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Maria Victoria Atencia: Legend of Myself [Hardback]
Roberta Ann Quance (Translator); Maria Victoria Atencia (Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781908343901
Published by : Aris & Phillips
In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and inner mysticism of work by one of Spain’s foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of... .... Learn More -
Maria Victoria Atencia: Legend of Myself [Paperback]
Roberta Ann Quance (Translator); Maria Victoria Atencia (Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9781908343918
Published by : Aris & Phillips
In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and inner mysticism of work by one of Spain’s foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of... .... Learn More