Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures
Literary and cultural studies, from the Spanish Golden Age to contemporary cinema
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Calderón: Jealousy the Greatest Monster [Hardback]
Ann L. Mackenzie (Editor); José María Ruano de la Haza (Editor); Kenneth Muir (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9780856683695
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
As the title indicates, Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Jealousy tragically dramatizes the same key themes and emotions that preoccupied Shakespeare in Othello. His portrayal of the mind and passion of King Herod, a ruler traditional... .... Learn More -
Calderón: Jealousy the Greatest Monster [Paperback]
Ann L. Mackenzie (Editor); José María Ruano de la Haza (Editor); Kenneth Muir (Editor)
£18.00ISBN: 9780856683701
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
As the title indicates, Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Jealousy tragically dramatizes the same key themes and emotions that preoccupied Shakespeare in Othello. His portrayal of the mind and passion of King Herod, a ruler traditional... .... 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 -
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 -
Cinema's Inter-Sensory Encounters: Krzysztof Kieślowski and Claire Denis [Hardback]
Georgina Evans (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Yvan Goll: The Thwarted Pursuit of the Whole [Hardback]
Robert Vilain (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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