Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures

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

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. The Very Late Goethe

    The Very Late Goethe: Self-Consciousness and the Art of Ageing [Hardback]

    Charlotte Lee (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 9781909662124
    Published by : Legenda
    Series: Legenda Germanic Literatures
    Volume: 5
    Goethe's career was an unusually long and productive one: he became a literary celebrity in the 1770s and remained so until his death in 1832. The distinguishing feature of his last works is their self-consciousness, their preoccu... .... Learn More
  6. Galdos: Meow

    Galdos: Meow [Paperback]

    Ruth Crispin (Translator); Benito Perez Galdos (Author)

    £15.00

    ISBN: 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
  7. The Inquisitor's Handbook (Copilacion Instructiones Sancta Inquisicion)

    The Inquisitor's Handbook (Copilacion Instructiones Sancta Inquisicion) [Hardback]

    Tyler Fisher (Author); Greg Fisher (Editor)

    £35.00

    ISBN: 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
  8. Africa's Lost Classics

    Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema [Hardback]

    Lizelle Bisschoff (Editor); David Murphy (Editor)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 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
  9. Echo's Voice

    Echo's Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude [Hardback]

    Mary Noonan (Author)

    £40.00

    ISBN: 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
  10. A Sight for Sore Eyes

    A Sight for Sore Eyes: The Surrealist Visuality of José María Hinojosa [Hardback]

    Jacqueline Rattray (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 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

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