Romance

ISBN: 9781906540135
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 27
Five months before her death of tuberculosis in 1884, Marie Bashkirtseff, an aspiring artist and a would-be mondaine, composed a preface to her personal diary. In it, she brazenly declared that in the event of her early death her ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540241
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 26
This study reveals reading to be one of the main activities to occupy the inhabitants of the world of Marcel Prousts novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Characters do not just read books but have access to the journals and newspapers of a rapi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540487
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 18
No other European country experienced the disruption of political and everyday life suffered by Italy in the so-called ‘years of lead’ (1969-c.1983), when there were more than 12,000 incidents of terrorist violence. Th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540302
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 20
In Selfless Cinema Sarah Cooper maps out the power relations of making, and viewing, documentaries in ethical terms. The ethics of filmmaking are often examined on largely legalistic terms, dominated by issues of consent, responsibility, and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905981519
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 25
In the course of the nineteenth century France built up a colonial empire second only to Britain’s. The literary tradition in which it dealt with its colonial ‘Other’ is frequently understood in terms of Edward S... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905981069
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 24
Texts about paintings, painters and sculptors are obvious test cases for issues of representation. A significant corpus of artist stories is scattered through Honoré de Balzac’sLearn More

ISBN: 9781905981113
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 23
When the famous Royal Professor of Philosophy and Eloquence Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) gave a lecture, one of his most promising pupils stood by, ready to tug on his coat if he made a mistake. That pupil was Ramus’s future bio... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905981342
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 17
Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984) è uno dei maggiori drammaturghi del novecento. Nel suo teatro, la famiglia rappresenta il punto nevralgico della società. Attraverso quest’unità archetipica, le opere qui c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780952590170
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Society for Italian Studies Occasional Papers
Volume: 7
Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a 'comedy' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one fo... .... Learn More