Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures
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Selected Essay of Malcolm Bowie I: Dreams of Knowledge [Hardback]
Malcolm Bowie (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Selected Essay of Malcolm Bowie II: Song Man [Hardback]
Malcolm Bowie (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Photobiography: Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Macé [Hardback]
Akane Kawakami (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Leopardi's Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny [Hardback]
Fabio A. Camilletti (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Pessoa's Geometry of the Abyss: Modernity and The Book of Disquiet [Hardback]
Paulo de Madeiros (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781909662070
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures
Volume: 1
"Fernando Pessoa wrote prolifically in many genres until his untimely death in 1935, and he has long been widely recognized as Portugal's most influential twentieth century writer. The publication of the Book of Disquiet in 1... .... Learn More -
Unamuno: Mist [Hardback]
John Macklin (Translator)
£50.00ISBN: 9781908343215
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Mist (Niebla), published in 1914, is one of Miguel de Unamuno's key works; a truly Modernist work of Europe-wide significance which aims to shatter the conventions of fiction, using the n... .... Learn More -
Unamuno: Mist [Paperback]
John Macklin (Translator)
£19.95ISBN: 9781908343208
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Mist (Niebla), published in 1914, is one of Miguel de Unamuno's key works; a truly Modernist work of Europe-wide significance which aims to shatter the conventions of fiction, using the n... .... Learn More -
Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium [Hardback]
Axel Bangert (Editor); Robert S. C. Gordon (Editor); Libby Saxton (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975028
Published by : Legenda
Series: Moving Image
Volume: 4
Recent representations of the Holocaust have increasingly required us to think beyond rigid demarcations of nation and history, medium and genre. Holocaust Intersections sets out to investigate the many points of conjunction betwe... .... Learn More -
After Reception Theory: Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain, 1869-1935 [Hardback]
Lucia Aiello (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975448
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
More often than not, monographs on the reception of an author are either detailed, chronologically organised accounts of the reputation of that author, or studies in literary influence. This study adopts neither of those approache... .... Learn More -
Joseph Opatoshu: A Yiddish Writer between Europe and America [Hardback]
Sabine Koller (Editor); Gennady Estraikh (Editor); Mikhail Krutikov (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975608
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 11
At the turn of the twentieth century East European Jews underwent a radical cultural transformation, which turned a traditional religious community into a modern nation, struggling to find its place in the world. An important figu... .... Learn More

