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English Ep Acta 4: Lincoln [Hardback]
David M. Smith (Author)
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Breeches and Metaphyics: Thackeray's German Discourse [Paperback]
S. S. Prawer (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755030
Published by : Maney - Legenda
Series: LEGENDA STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Volume: 1
The author traces the successive stages of Thackeray's contact with the German world and analyses the discourse he developed as a result. The `German Sketch Book' which is built up embraces the fiction and criticism of Thackeray's Paris Sketch... .... Learn More -
Goethe and Patriarchy: Faust and the Fates of Desire [Paperback]
James Simpson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755047
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Series: Legenda Main Series
This book traces the history of a complex sexual fantasy which features recurrently in Goethe's writings from his days as a student in Leipzig to his final years as Europe's most celebrated poet. Simpson shows how the young man's fantasy of inn... .... Learn More -
Heine und die Weltliteratur [Paperback]
T. J. Reed (Editor); Alexander Stillmark (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781900755160
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The 1997 London Heine Conference brought together leading scholars and critics from Austria, Britain and Germany. The essays collected in this volume offer a broad canvas of Heine's themes and techniques, his debts and his influence, the ancien... .... Learn More -
Anglo-German Interactions in the Literature of the 1890s [Paperback]
Patrick Bridgwater (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755245
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Series: Legenda Main Series
This is a study of what the main 'aesthetic' writers of late nineteenth-century Britain made of German literature, and of how Germany in turn reacted to them. The impact of Anglo-Scottish art nouveau in fin-de-siecle Austria and Germany made it... .... Learn More -
The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine [Paperback]
Hilary Nias (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755184
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Series: Legenda Main Series
This book reassess Taine as the very model of the European intellectual int he second half of the nineteenth century. The author draws on unpublished manuscripts and letters to reveal a self-disguised, tentative and ironic mentality very like t... .... Learn More -
Pinter and the Object of Desire: An Approach Through the Screenplays [Paperback]
Linda Renton (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755535
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Series: Legenda Main Series
Harold Pinter was fascinated by film long before the theatre, but the importance of his screenplays, based on the work of other writers, has been overlooked. Renton shows him working from manuscript to final text to engage the spectator in a r... .... Learn More -
Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 [Paperback]
Clive Scott (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755542
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Series: Legenda Main Series
How is gender embodied in poetic forms? What kinds of habitation can dramatic verse create for the performing voice? Where in verse are the inflections of the voice's self found? Can the line of verse be 'landscaped' to communicate the modalit... .... Learn More -
The Sentinel: An Incomplete Early Novel by Rebecca West [Paperback]
Kathryn Laing (Author);Rebecca West (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755511
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'And when the suffragette went out by the door the stones began to come through the window.' The descriptions of hunger striking and the force feeding of suffragettes in this, Rebecca West's first and hitherto unknown novel, are among the most ... .... Learn More -
Eugenio Montale: The Poetry of Later Years [Paperback]
Eanna O Ceallachain (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755450
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Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) is best known for the intense lyrical vision of his first three collections of poetry, written between the 1920s and early 1950s. With the publication of Satura in 1971, the profile of his work changes irrevocably a... .... Learn More