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Phrase and Subject: Studies in Music and Literature [Hardback]
Delia de Sousa Correa (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781904713074
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The confluence between music and literature, long hymned as sister arts, is a newly burgeoning field of critical inquiry. This innovative collection of interdisciplinary essays provides a valuable introduction to the field, mapping the contours... .... Learn More -
Baudelaire: Individualism, Dandyism and the Philosophy of History [Paperback]
Bernard Howells (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755016
Published by : Maney - Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Bernard Howells explores the problematics surrounding individualism and history in a number of prose texts, and situates Baudelaire within the broader contexts of nineteenth century historical, cultural and artistic speculation, represented by... .... Learn More -
Classical Rhetoric and the German Poet: 1620 to the Present [Paperback]
Anna Carrdus (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755023
Published by : Maney - Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
This study relates theory to the details of poetic practice. It presents Opitz, Buerger and Eichendorff as representatives of their times and demonstrates how they adapt the classical art to thier particular talents and beliefs. All three poets... .... Learn More -
The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso: Theory and Practice [Paperback]
Maggie Gunsberg (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755054
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The author examines the (poetica) and (poesia) of Torquatto Tasso (1544-95) in the context of the historical and cultural climate in which he lived. His epic theory is explored from the point of view of the three rhetorical faculities curren... .... Learn More -
Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust [Paperback]
Marion Schmid (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755061
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
This book examines the genetic processes that shaped two of the great literary masterpieces of modernity: Flaubert's (L'education sentimentale ) and Proust's (A la recherche du temps perdu.) A detailed investigation of Flaubert's notebooks a... .... Learn More -
Goethe and Patriarchy: Faust and the Fates of Desire [Paperback]
James Simpson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755047
Published by : Maney - Legenda
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 -
Assuming the Light: The Parisian Apprenticeship of Miguel Angel Asturias [Paperback]
Stephen Henighan (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755191
Published by : Maney - Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974), the first Spanish-American prose writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, is both a pivotal and a representative figure in the development of the twentieth-century Spanish-American novel. His liter... .... Learn More -
Anglo-German Interactions in the Literature of the 1890s [Paperback]
Patrick Bridgwater (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755245
Published by : Legenda
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
Published by : Maney - Legenda
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 -
Italy in Crisis: 1494 [Paperback]
J. Everson (Editor); D. Zancani (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781900755139
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
This collection of essays was orginially presented at a conference organized at the Institute of Romance Studies in London. They cover the most important aspects of the history, literature, astrology and thought of the 1490s, when major figure... .... Learn More