Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures

ISBN: 9781906540852
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
John Ruskin's training as an interdisciplinary polymath started in childhood. He learned to memorise the Bible at his mother's knee and published his first poem aged ten. His lifelong fascination with geology found its earliest ex... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907747007
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprún (1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics of remembering the Franco era, Communism and the Holocaust in Fren... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975431
Published by : Legenda
Series: Moving Image
Volume: 3
Sound cinema realised long-standing dreams of a synaesthetic art form, uniting image and sound with a success never achieved by earlier experiments. At the same time, this union cemented cinema’s future as a primarily narrat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975561
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 1
The life of the bilingual writer Yvan Goll (1891-1950) was one of perpetual experimentation and self-renewal. In the first study to treat Goll’s whole literary career, Robert Vilain explores the full range of his poetry, nov... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975653
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Ana Clavel is a remarkable contemporary Mexican writer whose literary and multimedia oeuvre is marked by its queerness. The queer is evinced in the manner in which she disturbs conceptions of the normal not only by representing outlaw sexualiti... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975837
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies

Volume: 39
The Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century Europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda. Based on ext... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975943
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 31
Women in exile disrupt assumptions about exile, belonging, home and identity. For many women exiles, home represents less a place of belonging and more a point of departure, and exile becomes a creative site of becoming, rather th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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