Language & Literature
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Leopardi's Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny [Hardback]
Fabio A. Camilletti (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975912
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Persepectives
Volume: 28
How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age? For Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) this was the modern subject’s most insolvable deadlock, after the Enlightenment’s pitiless unveiling of truth. Still, in the poems written... .... Learn More -
How Did Long John Silver Lose his Leg?: and Twenty-Six Other Mysteries of Children's Literature [Paperback]
Dennis Butts (Author); Peter Hunt (Author)
$36.00ISBN: 9780718893101
Published by : Lutterworth Press
Perhaps it is just something that comes with age or perhaps with reading the same stories over and over and over again to younger ears, but one starts to notice little things that grow to bother you. Be it unresolved subplots, ine... .... Learn More -
Martin Amis [Hardback]
Nicholas Bentley (Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780746311738
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 Present Word. Culture, Society and the Site of Literature: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle [Hardback]
John Walker (Editor)
$89.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781907975615
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
This book addresses three key areas of intellectual enquiry: literary criticism, cultural critique, and philosophical theology. Once closely related, especially in the Catholic tradition, they often appear to be separate and uncon... .... Learn More -
Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti: Intellectual Allies [Hardback]
Elaine Morley (Author)
$89.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781907975745
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 29
Since the revelation of Iris Murdoch's (1919-1999) affair with Elias Canetti (1905-1994), scholarship on their relationship has been largely biographical, focusing in particular on Canetti's alleged role as the real-life model for... .... Learn More -
Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium [Hardback]
Axel Bangert (Editor); Robert S. C. Gordon (Editor); Libby Saxton (Editor)
$89.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781907975028
Published by : Legenda
Series: Moving Image
Volume: 4
Recent representations of the Holocaust have increasingly required us to think beyond rigid demarcations of nation and history, medium and genre. Holocaust Intersections sets out to investigate the many points of conjunction betwe... .... Learn More -
After Reception Theory: Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain, 1869-1935 [Hardback]
Lucia Aiello (Author)
$89.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781907975448
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
More often than not, monographs on the reception of an author are either detailed, chronologically organised accounts of the reputation of that author, or studies in literary influence. This study adopts neither of those approache... .... Learn More -
Joseph Opatoshu: A Yiddish Writer between Europe and America [Hardback]
Sabine Koller (Editor); Gennady Estraikh (Editor); Mikhail Krutikov (Editor)
$89.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781907975608
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 11
At the turn of the twentieth century East European Jews underwent a radical cultural transformation, which turned a traditional religious community into a modern nation, struggling to find its place in the world. An important figu... .... Learn More -
Reading Literature in Portuguese [Hardback]
Claudia Pazos Alonso (Editor); Stephen Parkinson (Editor)
$89.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781907975622
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
This collection brings together textual commentaries on thirty representative works of literature in Portuguese — either complete poems or extracts from longer works — ranging from the medieval lyric of the 13th centur... .... Learn More -
Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation [Hardback]
Matthew Reynolds (Author)
$89.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781907975820
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 30
Translation, illustration and interpretation have at least two things in common. They all begin when sense is made in the act of reading: that is where illustrative images and explanatory words begin to form. And they all ask to b... .... Learn More