Romance Languages & Cultures
-
Selfless Cinema?: Ethics and French Documentary [Paperback]
Sarah Cooper (Author)
£26.25ISBN: 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 -
Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction [Hardback]
Jennifer Yee (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 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 -
Object: Nederlandse literatuur in het buitenland. Methode [Hardback]
Marianne Vogel (Editor);Petra Broomans (Editor);Stella Linn (Editor);Sandra van Voorst (Editor)
£23.00ISBN: 9789077922217
Published by : Barkhuis
Dutch description: Een literaire vertaling is voor veel lezers de enige manier om iets te weten te komen over een andere nationale literatuur. Andere vormen van kunst als schilderkunst en muziek beschikken over een universele 'taal'. Maar d... .... Learn More -
Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in La Comédie Humaine [Hardback]
Diana Knight (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 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 -
Biography in Early Modern France, 1540-1630: Forms and Functions [Hardback]
Katherine MacDonald (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 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 -
Il Teatro di Eduardo de Filippo: La crisi della famiglia patriarcale [Hardback]
Donatella Fischer (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
France/China: Intercultural Imaginings [Hardback]
Alex Hughes (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781904350934
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 22
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their année de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movement... .... Learn More -
La Langue des Perles: De Taal van de Parels [Paperback]
Dieuw Schepel (Author)
£17.00ISBN: 9789077922125
Published by : Barkhuis
Dutch description: De Nederlandse Dieuw Schepel werd in 1910 geboren in het Friese Oosternijkerk als dochter van een gereformeerde predikant. Als oudste dochter in een gezin met acht kinderen was het vanzelfsprekend dat ze haar moeder in de... .... Learn More -
Van Quatsch en Kwaliteit: Nederlandse en Duitse media en hun cultuurverschillen [Hardback]
Marianne Vogel (Editor)
£18.00ISBN: 9789077922194
Published by : Barkhuis
Dutch description: Wat zijn cultuurverschillen? Wat is cultuur? En zijn er inderdaad cultuurverschillen tussen Nederland en Duitsland wat de media betreft? Over de eerste twee vragen zijn al bibliotheken volgeschreven, maar de laatste vraag... .... Learn More -
Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy [Hardback]
Vivienne Suvini-Hand (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781904350606
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 16
Italian music of the 1960s is one of the most unjustly neglected areas in the arena of twentieth-century classical music. This volume pays tribute to the astounding complexity of the music and libretti of five vocal compositions b... .... Learn More

