Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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