Romance

ISBN: 9781906540746
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 21
The Unification of Italy in 1870 heralded a period of unprecedented change. While successive Liberal governments pursued imperial ventures and took Italy into World War One on the Allied side, on the domestic front technological a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540661
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 30
It is widely held that the large-scale translation of international news from English will lead to changes in French syntax. For the first time this assumption is put to the test using extensive fieldwork carried out in an interna... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540609
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 20
The history of the literary relations between Italy and England has its most celebrated early modern representative in Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827). Foscolo’s translation of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through F... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907747014
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The arch-Romantic Victor Hugo (1802-85) and the Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) are widely perceived to have little in common beyond their canonical status. However, responding to Sartres often overlooked fascination with ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782600013895
Published by : Librairie Droz S.A.
Series: Textes Littéraires Français
Volume: 601
The publication of the Triumphe de Temperance brings to an end the edition of the Triumphe des Vertuz, the monumental work on the cardinal virtues written by the 'rhétoriqueur' Jean Thenaud between 1508 and 1518 (see for the firs... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782600027748
Published by : Librairie Droz S.A.
Series: Textes Littéraires Français
Volume: 420
Le journal de Pierre de l'Estoile constitue, de l'avis général, le document le plus important et le plus curieux pour la connaissance historique et littéraire de la fin du XVIe siècle français. L'Estoile fournit un témoignage au jour le jour su... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782735507092
Published by : Librairie Droz S.A.
Cette chronique n'est pas un récit naïf mais une construction élaborée par une personnalité d'exception : Michel Pintoin, chantre de l'abbaye. Mieux connaître son oeuvre, c'est mieux saisir les idées, les convictions et les croyances qui parco... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782600014212
Published by : Librairie Droz S.A.
Series: HISTOIRE DES IDéES ET CRITIQUE LITTéRAIRE
Volume: 462
Music influenced the entire corpus of Romain Rolland's literary works. He wrote that music had guided him in the first steps of his life, was his first, and probably last love. As founder of French musicology, Romain Rolland helped rediscover ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782600013253
Published by : Librairie Droz S.A.
Series: HISTOIRE DES IDéES ET CRITIQUE LITTéRAIRE
Volume: 461
Alexandre Dumas maintained the place of wonder in the modern novel through themes from contemporary myths, such as unlimited scientific progress, all-powerful money, or distance lands. Wonder served not only to capture readers' attention, but ... .... Learn More