Language & Literature
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Taboo: Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-Century France [Hardback]
Hannah Thompson (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975554
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
French realist texts are driven by representations of the body and depend on corporeality to generate narrative intrigue. But anxieties around bodily representation undermine realist claims of objectivity and transparency. Aspects... .... Learn More -
Goethe's Visual World [Hardback]
Pamela Currie (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975899
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 3
Goethe's ideas on colour and imagery crossed many borderlines: those of artistic processes and philosophical aesthetics, art history and colour theory, together with the science of perception. This investigation into his writings ... .... Learn More -
The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination [Hardback]
Sotirios Paraschas (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975707
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 28
The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as ‘copies’ of reality. He was a celebrity w... .... Learn More -
Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment [Hardback]
George Corbett (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975790
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 25
Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed Christian, depicted in the Commedia a vision of the afterlife and God’s divine justice. Epicurus, a pagan philosopher, taught that the soul is mortal and that all relig... .... Learn More -
Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde [Hardback]
John Picchione (Editor); Paolo Chirumbolo (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975783
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 26
Poet, novelist, theorist, playwright, translator, politician, and teacher, Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010) is one of the most original and influential Italian intellectuals of the second post-war period. An ardent and unremitting h... .... Learn More -
Stendhal's Less-Loved Heroines: Fiction, Freedom, and the Female [Hardback]
Maria C. Scott (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781907975714
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 37
Stendhal's most independent heroines are usually disliked or marginalized by critics. However, when gender-neutral criteria are applied, Mina de Vanghel, Vanina Vanini, Mathilde de La Mole, and Lamiel can all be shown to enact ext... .... Learn More -
Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr [Hardback]
Dora Osborne (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975400
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Both W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in t... .... Learn More -
Chicago of the Balkans: Budapest in Hungarian Literature 1900-1939 [Hardback]
Gwen Jones (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975578
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
At the point of its creation in 1873, Budapest was intended to be a pleasant rallying point of orderliness, high culture and elevated social principles: the jewel in the national crown. From the turn of the century to World War II... .... Learn More -
Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy [Hardback]
Klaus Vieweg (Editor); James Vigus (Editor); Kathleen M. Wheeler (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975318
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate ho... .... Learn More -
Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood [Hardback]
Ingo Gildenhard (Editor); Andrew Zissos (Editor)
£65.00ISBN: 9781907975011
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and ec... .... Learn More

