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Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women's Writing [Hardback]
Kate Averis (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975943
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 31
Women in exile disrupt assumptions about exile, belonging, home and identity. For many women exiles, home represents less a place of belonging and more a point of departure, and exile becomes a creative site of becoming, rather th... .... Learn More -
Architecture, Travellers and Writers: Constructing Histories of Perception 1640-1950 [Hardback]
Anne Hultzsch (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975639
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 26
Does the way in which buildings are looked at, and made sense of, change over the course of time? How can we find out about this? By looking at a selection of travel writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch suggests that it... .... Learn More -
Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800-2000 [Hardback]
Joep Leerssen (Author); Elinor Shaffer (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975660
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 27
The discipline of Comparative Literature, with its application of a transnational perspective to literature as a multinational historical praxis, is gaining fresh interest in today’s globalizing, post-colonial world. It emer... .... Learn More -
Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation [Hardback]
Matthew Reynolds (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975820
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 30
Translation, illustration and interpretation have at least two things in common. They all begin when sense is made in the act of reading: that is where illustrative images and explanatory words begin to form. And they all ask to b... .... Learn More -
Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti: Intellectual Allies [Hardback]
Elaine Morley (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975745
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 29
Since the revelation of Iris Murdoch's (1919-1999) affair with Elias Canetti (1905-1994), scholarship on their relationship has been largely biographical, focusing in particular on Canetti's alleged role as the real-life model for... .... Learn More -
Prometheus in the Nineteenth Century: From Myth to Symbol [Hardback]
Caroline Corbeau-Parsons (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975523
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 25
On Zeus’ order, Prometheus was chained to Mount Caucasus where, every day, he was to endure his liver being devoured by a bird of prey — his punishment for bringing fire to mankind. Through the impulse of Goethe, his f... .... Learn More -
The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination [Hardback]
Sotirios Paraschas (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975707
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 28
The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as ‘copies’ of reality. He was a celebrity w... .... Learn More -
Borges and Joyce: An Infinite Conversation [Hardback]
Patricia Novillo-Corvalán (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907625053
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 24
Borges and Joyce stand as two of the most revolutionary writers of the twentieth-century. Both are renowned for their polyglot abilities, prodigious memories, cyclical conception of time, labyrinthine creations, and for their shar... .... Learn More -
The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare [Hardback]
Catherine Brown (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540814
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 23
Comparison underlies all reading. Readers compare words to words, and books to all the other books which they have read. Some books, however, demand a particular comparative effort — for example, novels which contain paralle... .... Learn More -
Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot after Brecht [Hardback]
Phoebe Von Held (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540128
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 17
Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht — with modernism, the avant-garde... .... Learn More