Language & Literature

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: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9781907975806
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 27
The central importance of the actor-author is a distinctive feature of Italian theatrical life, in all its eclectic range of regional cultures and artistic traditions. The fascination of the figure is that he or she stands on both... .... Learn More