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Photobiography: Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Macé [Hardback]
Akane Kawakami (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Selected Essay of Malcolm Bowie II: Song Man [Hardback]
Malcolm Bowie (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975493
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as ‘one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (... .... Learn More -
Selected Essay of Malcolm Bowie I: Dreams of Knowledge [Hardback]
Malcolm Bowie (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975486
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as ‘one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (... .... Learn More -
Language and Social Structure in Urban France [Hardback]
Mari C. Jones (Editor); David Hornsby (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975417
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The coming together of linguistics and sociology in the 1960’s, most notably via the work of William Labov, marked a revolution in the study of language and provided a paradigm for the understanding of variation and change. ... .... Learn More -
The Present Word. Culture, Society and the Site of Literature: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle [Hardback]
John Walker (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975615
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
This book addresses three key areas of intellectual enquiry: literary criticism, cultural critique, and philosophical theology. Once closely related, especially in the Catholic tradition, they often appear to be separate and uncon... .... Learn More -
Reading Literature in Portuguese [Hardback]
Claudia Pazos Alonso (Editor); Stephen Parkinson (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975622
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
This collection brings together textual commentaries on thirty representative works of literature in Portuguese — either complete poems or extracts from longer works — ranging from the medieval lyric of the 13th centur... .... Learn More -
After Reception Theory: Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain, 1869-1935 [Hardback]
Lucia Aiello (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975448
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
More often than not, monographs on the reception of an author are either detailed, chronologically organised accounts of the reputation of that author, or studies in literary influence. This study adopts neither of those approache... .... Learn More -
Medea in Performance 1500-2000 [Paperback]
Edith Hall (Editor); Fiona Macintosh (Editor); Oliver Taplin (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781900755351
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The extensive performance history of Euripides' Medea since the Renaissance underscores its lasting social and political relevance. Here, papers drawn from an interdisciplinary colloquium hosted at Somerville College by the University of Oxfo... .... Learn More -
Taboo: Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-Century France [Hardback]
Hannah Thompson (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Method and Variation: Narrative in Early Modern French Thought [Hardback]
Emma Gilby (Editor); Paul White (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975363
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
French philosophical and scientific writers of the early modern period made various use of forms of narrative — language that aims to tell a story — in their texts. Equally, authors of fiction often sought to appropria... .... Learn More