Romance
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Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda [Hardback]
Deborah Amberson (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975264
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 22
Writing in 1926, Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) acknowledges his peculiarity within the Italian literary field by describing himself as a giraffe or a kangaroo in Italy’s beautiful garden of literature. Gadda’s self-ch... .... Learn More -
Remembering Aldo Moro: The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping and Murder [Hardback]
Ruth Glynn (Editor); Giancarlo Lombardi (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975271
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 23
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian Democrat politician, Aldo Moro, marked the watershed of Italy’s experience of political violence in the period known as the ‘years of lead’ (1969-c.1983). This uniquely... .... Learn More -
The Subversive Poetics of Alfred Jarry: Ubusing Culture in the Almanachs du Père Ubu [Hardback]
Marieke Dubbelboer (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781907747984
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 35
Paradox and provocation were essential features of all of the work of Alfred Jarry (1873-1907). His non-conformist attitude, whether employed to subvert literary or artistic conventions or to scrutinize social and political issues... .... Learn More -
Printed Media in Fin-de-siècle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers [Hardback]
Ann Hallimore Caesar (Editor); Gabriella Romani (Editor); Jennifer Burns (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540746
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 21
The Unification of Italy in 1870 heralded a period of unprecedented change. While successive Liberal governments pursued imperial ventures and took Italy into World War One on the Allied side, on the domestic front technological a... .... Learn More -
Syntactic Borrowing in Contemporary French: A Linguistic Analysis of News Translation [Hardback]
Mairi McLaughlin (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781906540661
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 30
It is widely held that the large-scale translation of international news from English will lead to changes in French syntax. For the first time this assumption is put to the test using extensive fieldwork carried out in an interna... .... Learn More -
Ugo Foscolo and English Culture [Hardback]
Sandra Parmegiani (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540609
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 20
The history of the literary relations between Italy and England has its most celebrated early modern representative in Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827). Foscolo’s translation of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through F... .... Learn More -
Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Liability of Liberty [Hardback]
Bradley Stephens (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907747014
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The arch-Romantic Victor Hugo (1802-85) and the Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) are widely perceived to have little in common beyond their canonical status. However, responding to Sartre's often overlooked fascination with... .... Learn More -
Dreams of Lovers and Lies of Poets: Poetry, Knowledge, and Desire in the Roman de la Rose [Hardback]
Sylvia Huot (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781906540807
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 31
The Roman de la Rose explicitly offers an 'art of love', while also repeatedly asserting that the experience of love is impossible to put into words. An examination of the intertextual density of the Rose , with its citations and adaptations of... .... Learn More -
Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism [Hardback]
Anna Kemp (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781906540265
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 29
In recent years, the figure of the Muslim Woman has loomed large over mainstream feminist debate in France. Cast alternately as a Frenchwoman-in-the-making or a veiled threat, the Muslim Woman has become emblematic of France&rsquo... .... Learn More -
The Choreography of Modernism in France: La Danseuse, 1830-1930 [Hardback]
Julie Townsend (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781906540258
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 28
Whether in the pages of a trashy novel, in the glow of gaslights, in a dance hall, or on the walls of art galleries, the figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took o... .... Learn More