Romance Languages & Cultures
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The Livres-Souvenirs of Colette: Genre and the Telling of Time [Hardback]
Anne Freadman (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781906540937
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 33
Throughout her career, Colette experimented with genre for the purposes of telling stories of her life. The books that resulted, known collectively as her ‘livres-souvenirs’, are far from being autobiographies in the c... .... Learn More -
Maryse Condé and the Space of Literature [Hardback]
Eva Sansavior (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781906540944
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 32
The Guadeloupean writer and critic Maryse Condé has for the last twenty-five years divided her time between her native Guadeloupe and the United States. If the author’s work has attracted much critical attention in th... .... Learn More -
Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini [Hardback]
Emma Bond (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975387
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 24
If Madame Bovary’s death in Flaubert’s 1857 novel marked the definitive end of the Romantic vision of literary disease, then the advent of psychoanalysis less than half a century later heralded an entirely new set of i... .... Learn More -
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 -
Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures [Hardback]
Tristan Kay (Author); Martin McLaughlin (Editor); Michelangelo Zaccarello (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781900755993
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The Paget Toynbee lectures on Dante have taken place in Oxford since the mid-1990s. Named after the great medieval scholar of the first half of the twentieth century, they have been delivered by the major Dante experts of our time. This volume ... .... Learn More