Language & Literature

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

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: 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

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