Language & Literature

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9781907975639
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 26
Does the way in which buildings are looked at, and made sense of, change over the course of time? How can we find out about this? By looking at a selection of travel writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch suggests that it... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975660
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 27
The discipline of Comparative Literature, with its application of a transnational perspective to literature as a multinational historical praxis, is gaining fresh interest in today’s globalizing, post-colonial world. It emer... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975752
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who died at the stake, is one of the best-known symbols of anti-establishment thought. The theme of this volume, which is offered as a collection of essays to honour the distinguished Bruno scholar Hilary Gatti, refl... .... Learn More

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