Romance
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Maryse Condé and the Space of Literature [Hardback]
Eva Sansavior (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781906540944
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 32
The Guadeloupean writer and critic Maryse Condé has for the last twenty-five years divided her time between her native Guadeloupe and the United States. If the author’s work has attracted much critical attention in th... .... Learn More -
Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini [Hardback]
Emma Bond (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975387
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 24
If Madame Bovary’s death in Flaubert’s 1857 novel marked the definitive end of the Romantic vision of literary disease, then the advent of psychoanalysis less than half a century later heralded an entirely new set of i... .... Learn More -
Proust, the One, and the Many: Identity and Difference in A la recherche du temps perdu [Hardback]
Erika Fulop (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975325
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
One of the many aspects that make Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu such a complex and subtle work is its engagement with metaphysical questions. The disparate nature of the narrator's experiences, hypotheses, and statements ... .... Learn More -
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda [Hardback]
Deborah Amberson (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975264
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 22
Writing in 1926, Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) acknowledges his peculiarity within the Italian literary field by describing himself as a giraffe or a kangaroo in Italy’s beautiful garden of literature. Gadda’s self-ch... .... Learn More -
Remembering Aldo Moro: The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping and Murder [Hardback]
Ruth Glynn (Editor); Giancarlo Lombardi (Editor)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975271
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 23
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian Democrat politician, Aldo Moro, marked the watershed of Italy’s experience of political violence in the period known as the ‘years of lead’ (1969-c.1983). This uniquely... .... Learn More -
The Subversive Poetics of Alfred Jarry: Ubusing Culture in the Almanachs du Père Ubu [Hardback]
Marieke Dubbelboer (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781907747984
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 35
Paradox and provocation were essential features of all of the work of Alfred Jarry (1873-1907). His non-conformist attitude, whether employed to subvert literary or artistic conventions or to scrutinize social and political issues... .... Learn More -
Firenze giorno per giorno: Da Capodanno a San Silvestro, a ogni sfogliar di pagina, un evento, un personaggio, un ricordo. Uno straordinario almanacco, un ritratto inedito della città e dei fiorentini [Hardback]
Eugenio Giani (Author)
$48.00ISBN: 9788856300703
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
English summary: This almanac offers 367 flashes of Florentine history, from the city's earliest days, its medieval and Renaissance glory, to the present day. The author, a public figure in Florentine politics for over twenty years, present... .... Learn More -
Gli antichi e i moderni: Studi in onore di Roberto Cardini [Hardback]
Lucia Bertolini (Editor); Donatella Coppini (Editor)
$200.00ISBN: 9788859608981
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
English description: This volume celebrates the great scholar of early modern Humanism and Neoclassicism, Roberto Cardini, with contribution from first-class international scholars. Articles address subjects close to Cardini's heart, b... .... Learn More -
Tra poesia e pensiero: L'eretico Ferdinando Tartaglia. Atti del Convegno. Firenze, 29 ottobre 2009 [Paperback]
$11.00ISBN: 9788859609193
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
English description: Ferdinando Tartaglia, poet, philosopher, and heretical theologian, was one of the protagonists in the history of religious thought in the twentieth century. Though his work was long neglected, studies in recent yea... .... Learn More -
Fiabe Toscane di Maghi, Fate, Animali, Diavoli e Giganti: Volume 2 [Paperback]
Carlo Lapucci (Author)
$19.50ISBN: 9788856300673
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
English Description Carlo Lapucci presents an annotated collection of Italian fables drawn from his childhood and the Tuscan tradition to which his father Enrico introduced him. Two volumes, divided into five thematic sections: Animals, ... .... Learn More