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The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Traditions, Texts and Performance [Hardback]
T. F. Earle (Editor); Catarina Fouto (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975769
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre. In the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, Germany and England, writers and actors experimented with new dramatic techniques and found new publics. The... .... Learn More -
Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine? [Hardback]
Sura Qadiri (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975813
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred context, sometimes engaging directly with Islamist rhetoric. Novelists like Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Assia Djebar (Algeria) and Am... .... Learn More -
Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology: Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti [Hardback]
Martin McLaughlin (Editor); Elisabetta Tarantino (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975752
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who died at the stake, is one of the best-known symbols of anti-establishment thought. The theme of this volume, which is offered as a collection of essays to honour the distinguished Bruno scholar Hilary Gatti, reflect... .... Learn More -
The History of Portuguese Literature in English Translation: The Medieval Galician Portuguese Lyric and the Theatre of Gil Vicente [Hardback]
Patricia Odber De Baubeta (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781905981328
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Portugal is England’s oldest ally (by the Treaty of Windsor, 1386) but only three Portuguese authors are widely known in the English-speaking world: Luís de Camões, Eça de Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa. Or... .... Learn More -
Goethe's Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature: Gott und Welt 1798-1827 [Hardback]
Regina Sachers (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907747977
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, philosophy and theology come under increasing pressure owing to the emergence of the modern sciences. The collection Gott und Welt is Goethe’s poetic contribution to this conflict,... .... Learn More -
The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires [Hardback]
Jane Elizabeth Lavery (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975653
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Ana Clavel is a remarkable contemporary Mexican writer whose literary and multimedia oeuvre is marked by its queerness. The queer is evinced in the manner in which she disturbs conceptions of the normal not only by representing outlaw sexualiti... .... Learn More -
Jorge Semprún: Writing the European Other [Hardback]
Ursula Tidd (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907747007
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprún (1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics of remembering the Franco era, Communism and the Holocaust in Fren... .... Learn More -
John Ruskin's Continental Tour, 1835: The Written Records and Drawings [Hardback]
Keith Hanley (Editor); Caroline S. Hull (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540852
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
John Ruskin's training as an interdisciplinary polymath started in childhood. He learned to memorise the Bible at his mother's knee and published his first poem aged ten. His lifelong fascination with geology found its earliest ex... .... Learn More -
A Sight for Sore Eyes: The Surrealist Visuality of José María Hinojosa [Hardback]
Jacqueline Rattray (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975738
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
José María Hinojosa (1904-1936) has been credited with being a pioneer of Surrealism in Spain. He moved in the same circles as Buñuel and Dalí and was one of the key figures behind an attempt to form an... .... Learn More -
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