Romance

ISBN: 9780905205311
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
In 1985, a conference entitled "Comment n'aimerais-je pas l'Angleterre! " Victor Hugo et la Grande-Bretagne was organised in Manchester to celebrate the Victor Hugo centenary, as the second in a series of Vinaver Colloquia. The papers presented... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780905205298
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Diderot is widely praised as a master of lively, dramatic and original dialogue. This book studies the developing role of dialogue in his early writings (1745 to 1754). Diderot's earlier experiments with the dialogue form, meticulously charted ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780905205779
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
The 1987 The Vinaver Colloquium on Racine, held in Manchester in 1987, brought together an international gathering of scholars, whose contributions ranged over a variety of topics, including lexis, prosody and musicality, theatrical technique a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780952590125
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Society for Italian Studies Occasional Papers
Volume: 2
Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio ; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile , Dante's 'second love'; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of the third and fourth treatises of the Conviv... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780901286970
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 1
Giacomo Leopardi, Italy's great poet of the Romantic age, is the author of some of the most beautiful and best-loved poems in the Italian language and some of the most remarkable letters in European literature. The interest of the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900755078
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 2
This collection of Stéphane Mallarmé’s letters is an indispensable companion to the ‘complete’ correspondence published by Gallimard in eleven volumes (1959-85). The collection comprises 143 letters... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900755146
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 4
In this book Amy Wygant reads Racine’s Phèdre (1677) through an analysis of its seventeenth-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequent reception history. She explores the construction of Racinian ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781902653006
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 2
G. B. Piranesi is one of the most inventive artists of the eighteenth century. The Carceri, or Prisons, are a set of etchings believed by many to be Piranesi's most original work. The extraordinary evocative power of the Carceri h... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900755108
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 3
This study traces Virgil’s journey through twentieth-century France by examining his profile in the works of Gide, Aragon, Valéry, Pagnol, Klossowski, Butor, Simon and Pinget, and by looking at how their Virgilian app... .... Learn More