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Regarding Lost Time: Photography, Identity and Affect in Proust, Benjamin, and Barthes [Hardback]
Katja Haustein (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907747915
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
What is autobiography and how does it transform in the age of technological reproducibility? Katja Haustein discusses this question as it relates to photography and the role of emotion in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1909-22), Walt... .... Learn More -
Pessoa in an Intertextual Web: Influence and Innovation [Hardback]
David G. Frier (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907747939
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is Portugal's most celebrated poet of the twentieth century, who wrote under the guise of dozens of literary personalities, or heteronyms. As well as his poetry, however, his work is marked by a constantly inventive ... .... Learn More -
Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism [Hardback]
David Adams (Editor); Galin Tihanov (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907747946
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism brings together ten innovative contributions by outstanding scholars working across a wide array of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Interdisciplinary in its methodology and compass, with a strong... .... Learn More -
Textual Wanderings: The Theory and Practice of Narrative Digression [Hardback]
Rhian Atkin (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907747908
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Digression is a crucial motif in literary narratives. It features as a key characteristic of fictional works from Cervantes and Sterne, to Proust, Joyce and Calvino. Moving away from a linear narrative and following a path of associations refl... .... Learn More -
Mediterranean Travels: Writing Self and Other from the Ancient World to the Contemporary [Hardback]
Noreen Humble (Editor); Patrick Crowley (Editor); Silvia Ross (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975073
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Written by leading scholars in the field, this collection analyses the notion of travel writing as a genre, while tracing significant examples of Mediterranean travel writing that return us to Ancient Greece, to Medieval pilgrimages, to Venetia... .... Learn More -
German Women's Writing of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Future Directions in Feminist Criticism [Hardback]
Helen Fronius (Editor); Anna Richards (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540869
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
German women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been the subject of feminist literary critical and historical studies for around thirty years. This volume, with contributions from an international group of scholars, takes ... .... Learn More -
Gender, Nation and the Formation of the Twentieth-Century Mexican Literary Canon [Hardback]
Sarah E. L. Bowskill (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975059
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The post-revolutionary Mexican literary canon was formed by cultural and political elites who sought to identify and reward those novels which would best represent the new nation. Reviewers found what they were looking for in Gregorio López y F... .... Learn More -
Examining Whiteness: Reading Clarice Lispector through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison [Hardback]
Lucia Villares (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540470
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Critics consider Clarice Lispector the leading female writer in the Brazilian literary canon. Her connections with the nation, however, seem to magically disappear as her work is analysed. This paradox is the starting point for this analysis ... .... Learn More -
Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Liability of Liberty [Hardback]
Bradley Stephens (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 Sartre's often overlooked fascination with... .... Learn More -
The Truth of Realism: A Reassessment of the German Novel 1830-1900 [Hardback]
John Walker (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540906
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
In his new book, Walker offers a radical reassessment of the German realist novel in the nineteenth century. Especially in the English- speaking world, German narrative realism has persistently been interpreted as the literary expression of an ... .... Learn More