Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9781907975486
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as ‘one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975493
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as ‘one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975868
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured — as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects — in written texts.... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975912
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Persepectives
Volume: 28
How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age? For Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) this was the modern subject’s most insolvable deadlock, after the Enlightenment’s pitiless unveiling of truth. Still, in the poems written... .... Learn More