Language & Literature

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

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