Language & Literature

ISBN: 9781907975738
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
José María Hinojosa (1904-1936) has been credited with being a pioneer of Surrealism in Spain. He moved in the same circles as Buñuel and Dalí and was one of the key figures behind an attempt to form an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975516
Published by : Legenda
Series: Moving Image
Volume: 5
Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various cons... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975509
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 36
Hélène Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect. The t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780746312148
Published by : Northcote House Publishers
Series: Writers and their Work
George Meredith was a lyrical yet searingly honest poet, and an influential novelist whose fiction distilled, contributed to and animated the major debates of the Victorian age. He became at once an arbiter of taste in his own times, and a trai... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975844
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 12
Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) is widely regarded as the most enigmatic author in modern Yiddish literature. His pseudonym, which translates as ‘The Hidden One’, is as puzzling as his diverse body of... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975950
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 40
Collective nouns such as majorité or foule have long been of interest to linguists for thei... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856402568
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Italianistica nel mondo
The volume gathers various essays on the Italian-American writer Joseph Tusiani. During the last decades, Tusiani has received an increasing attention in Europe and America, both from readers and academics, as testified by the num... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975486
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as ‘one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975493
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as ‘one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (... .... Learn More