Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures
Literary and cultural studies, from the Spanish Golden Age to contemporary cinema
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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)
$19.95ISBN: 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Doris Lessing [Paperback]
Elizabeth Maslen (Author)
$19.95ISBN: 9780746307052
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
This study covers a wide range of Doris Lessing's works, including all of the novels (from The Grass is Singing through The Golden Notebook to The Good Terrorist and The Fifth Child) and a representative selection of her non-fictional prose and sh... .... 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 -
Goethe's Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature: Gott und Welt 1798-1827 [Hardback]
Regina Sachers (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907747977
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, philosophy and theology come under increasing pressure owing to the emergence of the modern sciences. The collection Gott und Welt is Goethe’s poetic contribution to this conflict,... .... Learn More