Language & Literature

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9781907975547
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Eighteenth-century French cultural life was often characterised by quarrels, and the arrival of Viennese composer Christoph Willibald Gluck in Paris in 1774 was no exception, sparking a five-year pamphlet and press controversy whi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975479
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
One of the primary social changes ushered in by the French Revolution was the legalization of divorce in 1792. Diluted by the Civil Code and suppressed by the Restoration, divorce was only fully established in France by the Loi Na... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975646
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Poetry born of historical upheaval bears witness both to actual historical events and considerations of poetics. Under the duress of history the poet, who is torn between lamentation and celebration, seeks to achieve distance from... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780957475908
Published by : Elinor Kapp
The English language has developed over many centuries from many diverse languages and cultures, some now lost. If we want to bring to life something of its impressive history, we might use the metaphor of a great river into which... .... Learn More