Romance Languages & Cultures

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9781906540043
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
This book presents the proceedings of the fifth meeting of the International Dante Seminar. As with previous volumes, the proceedings also include a carefully edited account of the extensive discussions which followed the presentations. The pa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

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: 9780199567782
Published by : Oxford University Press
This concise volume introduces the origins of writing; the routes via which writing spread and developed into hundreds of scripts for some of the worlds thousands of spoken languages; the ways in which different writing systems convey meaning t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789077922620
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: eJIM Supplements
Volume: 2
English summary: English summary: Between 900 and 1500 C.E., the knowlegde of Indian alchemy was codified in a group of Sanskrit texts that deal with the ideas and the methods of this scientific tradition. The dictionary explains abo... .... 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