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Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr [Hardback]
Dora Osborne (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975400
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Both W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in t... .... Learn More -
Chicago of the Balkans: Budapest in Hungarian Literature 1900-1939 [Hardback]
Gwen Jones (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975578
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
At the point of its creation in 1873, Budapest was intended to be a pleasant rallying point of orderliness, high culture and elevated social principles: the jewel in the national crown. From the turn of the century to World War II... .... Learn More -
Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood [Hardback]
Ingo Gildenhard (Editor); Andrew Zissos (Editor)
£65.00ISBN: 9781907975011
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and ec... .... Learn More -
Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy [Hardback]
Klaus Vieweg (Editor); James Vigus (Editor); Kathleen M. Wheeler (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975318
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate ho... .... Learn More -
Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile [Hardback]
Carmen Bugan (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975646
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Poetry born of historical upheaval bears witness both to actual historical events and considerations of poetics. Under the duress of history the poet, who is torn between lamentation and celebration, seeks to achieve distance from... .... Learn More -
French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War [Hardback]
Nicholas White (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975479
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
One of the primary social changes ushered in by the French Revolution was the legalization of divorce in 1792. Diluted by the Civil Code and suppressed by the Restoration, divorce was only fully established in France by the Loi Na... .... Learn More -
Dissonance in the Republic of Letters: The Querelle des Gluckistes et des Piccinnistes [Hardback]
Mark Darlow (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975547
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Eighteenth-century French cultural life was often characterised by quarrels, and the arrival of Viennese composer Christoph Willibald Gluck in Paris in 1774 was no exception, sparking a five-year pamphlet and press controversy whi... .... Learn More -
Childhood as Memory, Myth and Metaphor: Proust, Beckett, and Bourgeois [Hardback]
Catherine Crimp (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975394
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
A fascination with childhood unites the artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and the writers Samuel Beckett (1906-89) and Marcel Proust (1871-1922). But while many commentators have traced their childhood images back to memories of... .... Learn More -
Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics [Hardback]
Helmut Huhn (Editor); James Vigus (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907625046
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
That a symbolic object or work of art participates in what it signifies, as a part within a whole, was a controversial claim discussed with particular intensity in the wake of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment. It informe... .... Learn More -
Renaissance Keywords [Hardback]
Ita Mac Carthy (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975295
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Certain words played a crucial role in the making of the European Renaissance, and still recur today in our shifting understanding of it. Discretion and grace, to take two examples studied here, express how individuals thought abo... .... Learn More