Romance Languages & Cultures
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Selfless Cinema?: Ethics and French Documentary [Hardback]
Sarah Cooper (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781904713128
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 -
Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture [Hardback]
Michael Caesar (Editor); Marina Spunta (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781904350736
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 14
In our highly literate culture, orality is all-pervasive. Different kinds of media and performance — theatre, film, television, story-telling, structured play — make us ask what is the relation between improvisation an... .... Learn More -
Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen: The Transformation of Organized Crime in Post-war Naples [Paperback]
Felia Allum (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9781904350057
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 11
This work presents a detailed study of the political role of a criminal organization, the Neapolitan Camorra, in its historical context, that of Naples over the last fifty years. In Campania, until 1991, the population tacitly acc... .... Learn More -
Dictionary for Financial Services: English-Maltese, Maltese-English [Paperback]
Carlo Farrugia (Editor)
£13.50ISBN: 9789993271222
Published by : Midsea Books
The dictionary is a useful tool for translators of financial services documents and a source of information for anyone interested in financial terminology.
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Concise Maltese-English-Maltese Dictionary [Hardback]
Joseph Aquilina (Author)
£34.00ISBN: 9789993270706
Published by : Midsea Books
Prof. Joseph Aquilinas Maltese-English-Maltese Dictionary in six volumes was published between 1987 and 2000. Since then, a number of the published are no longer used in the spoken language. Moreover, a number of new words have been introduced and... .... Learn More -
Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France [Hardback]
Emily Butterworth (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781904350781
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 21
Slander and satire were contentious practices in early seventeenth-century France. Seeking to wound, ridicule, destroy or reform, they occupied either side of a dangerous border zone between legitimate and illegitimate criticism. ... .... Learn More -
From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante [Hardback]
Claire E. Honess (Author)
£48.00ISBN: 9781904350712
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 13
Dante's political thought has long constituted a major area of interest for Dante studies, yet the poet's political views have traditionally been considered a self-contained area of study and viewed in isolation from the poet's other concerns. Con... .... Learn More -
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Oral Narration in Modern French: A Linguistic Analysis of Temporal Patterns [Hardback]
Janice Carruthers (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £14.99
ISBN: 9781904713111
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 19
Storytelling is a universal human activity and oral narration — particularly modern ‘conversational’ narration such as anecdotes or personal stories — has long been fertile ground for linguists working on t... .... Learn More -
Contesting the Monument: The Anti-illusionist Italian Historical Novel [Paperback]
Ruth Glynn (Editor)
£36.00ISBN: 9781904350040
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 10
In the second half of the twentieth century, the Italian historical novel provided an unrivalled number of best sellers and publishing 'phenomena'. The success of the genre is closely related to a more general interest in revisiti... .... Learn More