Language & Literature
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John Ruskin's Continental Tour, 1835: The Written Records and Drawings [Hardback]
Keith Hanley (Editor); Caroline S. Hull (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Cinema's Inter-Sensory Encounters: Krzysztof Kieślowski and Claire Denis [Hardback]
Georgina Evans (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Yvan Goll: The Thwarted Pursuit of the Whole [Hardback]
Robert Vilain (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Goethe's Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature: Gott und Welt 1798-1827 [Hardback]
Regina Sachers (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800-2000 [Hardback]
Joep Leerssen (Author); Elinor Shaffer (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Architecture, Travellers and Writers: Constructing Histories of Perception 1640-1950 [Hardback]
Anne Hultzsch (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology: Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti [Hardback]
Martin McLaughlin (Editor); Elisabetta Tarantino (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Dada as Text, Thought and Theory [Hardback]
Stephen Forcer (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 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 -
Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women's Writing [Hardback]
Kate Averis (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
The Very Late Goethe: Self-Consciousness and the Art of Ageing [Hardback]
Charlotte Lee (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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

