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Maney - Legenda

The Legenda series was founded in 1995 by Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) with the aim of forming a new scholarly press in the humanities: one that would be governed by academics, would be open to interdisciplinary work, and would make available the results of advanced research by both new and established scholars. In 2004 the MHRA and Maney Publishing, assumed joint responsibility for the series.

In addition to the main series of volumes, Legenda also comprises the subseries of Research Monographs in French Studies; Studies in Comparative Literature; Italian Perspectives; Studies in Linguistics; Studies in Yiddish and the Special Lecture Series.

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Women in Russian Literature after Glasnost
by Carol Adlam
The Russian literary world was shaken by the wide-reaching reforms of the late Soviet period (1985-91) and the Soviet Union's subsequent collapse. During this time the phenomenon of 'alternative' literature emerged, characterized by an emphasis on thematic, structural, and linguistic transgression of both Soviet-era values and the enduring Russian tradition of civic engagement and moral edification through literature. Through close textual ...
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After Reception Theory: Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain, 1869-1935
by Lucia Aiello
More often than not, monographs on the reception of an author are either detailed, chronologically organized accounts of the reputation of that author, or studies in literary influence. This study adopts neither of those approaches and deals with the ...
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Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda
by Deborah Amberson
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 Italys beautiful garden of literature. Gaddas self-characterization as exotic and even ungainly animal applies in equal measure to Italo Svevo (1861-1928) and Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920), authors who, like Gadda, thwarted efforts at critical classification. Yet the ostensible strangeness ...
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Paul Valéry and the Voice of Desire
by Kirsteen Anderson
The concept of voice was of central importance to Valéry. It was representative of the most intimate aspects of the self, the means by which we achieve consciousness and affirm meaning - the knowledge of a lost unity and the desire to recapture it. Interweaving analysis of Valéry's poetry and prose with wider critical concerns, Kirsteen Anderson shows that voice is central not only to the study of Valéry's writing but also to a ...
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The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes in Britain
edited by J.A.G. Ardila
Many critics regard Cervantes's Don Quixote as the most influential literary book on British literature. Indeed the impact on British authors was immense, as can be seen from 17th-century plays by Fletcher, Massinger and Beaumont, through the great 18th-century novels of Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Lennox, and on into more modern and contemporary novelists. 20th-century critics, fascinated by Cervantes, were moved to write what we now ...
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Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy
edited by William Baker and Isobel Armstrong
Essays, short stories and poems by eminent creative writers, critics and scholars from three continents celebrate the literary achievements of Barbara Hardy, the foremost exponent of close critical reading in the latter half of the twentieth century and ...
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Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution
by Katherine Astbury
During the French Revolution, traditional literary forms such as the sentimental novel and the moral tale dominate literary production. At first glance, it might seem that these texts are unaffected by the upheavals in France; in fact they reveal not only a surprising engagement with politics but also an internalised emotional response to the turbulence of the period. In this innovative and wide-ranging study, Katherine Astbury uses trauma theory ...
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Textual Wanderings: The Theory and Practice of Narrative Digression
edited by Rhian Atkin
Digression is a crucial motif in literary narratives. It features as a key characteristic of fictional works from Cervantes and Sterne, to Proust, Joyce and Calvino. Moving away from a linear narrative and following a path of associations reflects how we think and speak. Yet an author's inability to stick to the point has often been seen to detract from a work of literature, somehow weakening it. This wide-ranging and timely volume seeks to ...
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Proust: La Traduction du Sensible
by Nathalie Aubert
The relationship between Marcel Proust and John Ruskin has always attracted interest. However, the influence of the English art critic was seen essentially in terms of cultural inputs. At the same time, as a translator, Proust was not taken seriously: 'Au fond vous ne savez pas l'anglais et cela doit être plein de contresens' said to him the Prince de Brancovan. Proust's irate response was that perhaps he didn't know the English language, ...
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Negotiating Sainthood: Distinction, Cursileria and Saintliness in Spanish Novels
by Kathy Bacon
This study demonstrates the previously unrecognised significance of discourses of saintliness for constructions of gender and national identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Spanish culture.á Kathy Bacons innovative approach to sainthood leads to fresh readings of texts by Spains three principal realist novelists: La familia de León Roch and Nazarín (Benito Pérez Galdós, 1878 and 1895), La Regenta ...
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