Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures
Literary and cultural studies, from the Spanish Golden Age to contemporary cinema
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Galdos: Meow [Paperback]
Ruth Crispin (Translator); Benito Perez Galdos (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781908343734
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Benito Pérez Galdós’ finely-crafted novel, Meow, is a tragi-comedy. It is the story of a middle-aged, middle class middle-manager who does not know how to pull the strings that could get him reinstated to his ... .... Learn More -
The Inquisitor's Handbook (Copilacion Instructiones Sancta Inquisicion) [Hardback]
Tyler Fisher (Author); Greg Fisher (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780856688904
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
The Inquisitor's Handbook , a translation of a 1537 compilation of rules for inquisitorial personnel, introduces today's reader to the Spanish Inquisition in the same way a sixteenth-century inquisitor would have been introduced to his duties. ... .... Learn More -
Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema [Hardback]
Lizelle Bisschoff (Editor); David Murphy (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975516
Published by : Legenda
Series: Moving Image
Volume: 5
Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various cons... .... Learn More -
Echo's Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude [Hardback]
Mary Noonan (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781907975509
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 36
Hélène Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect. The t... .... 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 -
Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister [Hardback]
Gennady Estraikh (Editor); Kerstin Hoge (Editor); Mikhail Krutikov (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975844
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 12
Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) is widely regarded as the most enigmatic author in modern Yiddish literature. His pseudonym, which translates as ‘The Hidden One’, is as puzzling as his diverse body of... .... Learn More -
Variation and Change in French Morphosyntax: The Case of Collective Nouns [Hardback]
Anna Tristram (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781907975950
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 40
Collective nouns such as majorité or foule have long been of interest to linguists for thei... .... Learn More -
Unamuno: Aunt Tula [Hardback]
Julia Biggane (Translator)
£40.00ISBN: 9781908343239
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wil... .... Learn More -
Unamuno: Aunt Tula [Paperback]
Julia Biggane (Translator)
£15.00ISBN: 9781908343222
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wil... .... Learn More -
Language and Social Structure in Urban France [Hardback]
Mari C. Jones (Editor); David Hornsby (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975417
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The coming together of linguistics and sociology in the 1960’s, most notably via the work of William Labov, marked a revolution in the study of language and provided a paradigm for the understanding of variation and change. ... .... Learn More