Language & Literature

ISBN: 9781906540852
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
John Ruskin's training as an interdisciplinary polymath started in childhood. He learned to memorise the Bible at his mother's knee and published his first poem aged ten. His lifelong fascination with geology found its earliest ex... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975431
Published by : Legenda
Series: Moving Image
Volume: 3
Sound cinema realised long-standing dreams of a synaesthetic art form, uniting image and sound with a success never achieved by earlier experiments. At the same time, this union cemented cinema’s future as a primarily narrat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975561
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 1
The life of the bilingual writer Yvan Goll (1891-1950) was one of perpetual experimentation and self-renewal. In the first study to treat Goll’s whole literary career, Robert Vilain explores the full range of his poetry, nov... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907747977
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, philosophy and theology come under increasing pressure owing to the emergence of the modern sciences. The collection Gott und Welt is Goethe’s poetic contribution to this conflict,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975660
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 27
The discipline of Comparative Literature, with its application of a transnational perspective to literature as a multinational historical praxis, is gaining fresh interest in today’s globalizing, post-colonial world. It emer... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975639
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 26
Does the way in which buildings are looked at, and made sense of, change over the course of time? How can we find out about this? By looking at a selection of travel writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch suggests that it... .... Learn More

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