Romance
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Echo's Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude [Hardback]
Mary Noonan (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 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 -
Variation and Change in French Morphosyntax: The Case of Collective Nouns [Hardback]
Anna Tristram (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 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 -
Photobiography: Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Macé [Hardback]
Akane Kawakami (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975868
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured — as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects — in written texts.... .... Learn More -
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 -
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 -
The Tradition of the Actor-Author in Italian Theatre [Hardback]
Donatella Fischer (Editor)
$89.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781907975806
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 27
The central importance of the actor-author is a distinctive feature of Italian theatrical life, in all its eclectic range of regional cultures and artistic traditions. The fascination of the figure is that he or she stands on both... .... Learn More -
Taboo: Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-Century France [Hardback]
Hannah Thompson (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975554
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
French realist texts are driven by representations of the body and depend on corporeality to generate narrative intrigue. But anxieties around bodily representation undermine realist claims of objectivity and transparency. Aspects... .... Learn More -
Stendhal's Less-Loved Heroines: Fiction, Freedom, and the Female [Hardback]
Maria C. Scott (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781907975714
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 37
Stendhal's most independent heroines are usually disliked or marginalized by critics. However, when gender-neutral criteria are applied, Mina de Vanghel, Vanina Vanini, Mathilde de La Mole, and Lamiel can all be shown to enact ext... .... Learn More -
Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment [Hardback]
George Corbett (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975790
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 25
Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed Christian, depicted in the Commedia a vision of the afterlife and God’s divine justice. Epicurus, a pagan philosopher, taught that the soul is mortal and that all relig... .... Learn More -
Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde [Hardback]
John Picchione (Editor); Paolo Chirumbolo (Editor)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975783
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 26
Poet, novelist, theorist, playwright, translator, politician, and teacher, Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010) is one of the most original and influential Italian intellectuals of the second post-war period. An ardent and unremitting h... .... Learn More