Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures

Literary and cultural studies, from the Spanish Golden Age to contemporary cinema

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  1. Cinema's Inter-Sensory Encounters

    Cinema's Inter-Sensory Encounters: Krzysztof Kieślowski and Claire Denis [Hardback]

    Georgina Evans (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 9781907975431
    Published by : Legenda
    Series: Moving Image
    Volume: 3
    Sound cinema realised long-standing dreams of a synaesthetic art form, uniting image and sound with a success never achieved by earlier experiments. At the same time, this union cemented cinema’s future as a primarily narrat... .... Learn More
  2. Yvan Goll

    Yvan Goll: The Thwarted Pursuit of the Whole [Hardback]

    Robert Vilain (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 9781907975561
    Published by : Legenda
    Series: Germanic Literatures
    Volume: 1
    The life of the bilingual writer Yvan Goll (1891-1950) was one of perpetual experimentation and self-renewal. In the first study to treat Goll’s whole literary career, Robert Vilain explores the full range of his poetry, nov... .... Learn More
  3. The Art of Ana Clavel

    The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires [Hardback]

    Jane Elizabeth Lavery (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 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
  4. Goethe's Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature

    Goethe's Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature: Gott und Welt 1798-1827 [Hardback]

    Regina Sachers (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 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
  5. Comparative Literature in Britain

    Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800-2000 [Hardback]

    Joep Leerssen (Author); Elinor Shaffer (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 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
  6. Architecture, Travellers and Writers

    Architecture, Travellers and Writers: Constructing Histories of Perception 1640-1950 [Hardback]

    Anne Hultzsch (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 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
  7. Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology

    Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology: Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti [Hardback]

    Martin McLaughlin (Editor); Elisabetta Tarantino (Editor)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 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
  8. Dada as Text, Thought and Theory

    Dada as Text, Thought and Theory [Hardback]

    Stephen Forcer (Author)

    £40.00

    ISBN: 9781907975837
    Published by : Legenda
    Series: Research Monographs in French Studies

    Volume: 39
    The Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century Europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda. Based on ext... .... Learn More
  9. Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women's Writing

    Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women's Writing [Hardback]

    Kate Averis (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 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
  10. Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship

    Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny [Hardback]

    Cécile Bishop (Author)

    £40.00

    ISBN: 9781909662018
    Published by : Legenda
    Series: Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies
    Volume: 41
    The figure of the dictator looms large in representations of postcolonial Africa. Since the late 1970s, writers, film-makers and theorists have sought to represent the realities of dictatorship without endorsing the colonialist cl... .... Learn More

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