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Neither a Borrower: Forging Traditions in French, Chinese and Arabic Poetry
by Richard Serrano
In his studies of borrowing from distant poetic traditions, Serrano uncovers the heterogenity of influences and intentions in the most canonical of texts: Mallarme (1842-98), Segalen (1878-1919), Wang Wei (701-61), the Classic of Poetry (8th century BCE), ...
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David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism
by Joseph Sherman and Gennady Estraikh
Among the finest prose stylists in Yiddish literature, David Bergelson (1884-1952) was caught up in many of the twentieth centurys most defining events. In 1909 he emerged as a pioneer of modernist prose, observing the slow decay of the Tsarist empire. In 1917 he welcomed the Revolution, but the bloodshed of the ensuing Civil War and the dogmatism of the Bolsheviks drove him to emigration. For more than a decade (1921-1934), he lived in Weimar ...
Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £48.00

The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature
by Joseph Sherman
To what extent do Yiddish language and literature derive from the dominant values of mainstream European culture? How far did this culture shape the self-perception of Yiddish-speaking Jews of Central and Eastern Europe? How far did the ambivalent, ...
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The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction
edited by Richie Robertson and Joseph Sherman
Early in the twentieth century, Yiddish, previously stigmatized as a corrupt jargon, came to be recognized as a language in its own right which was already the vehicle for a rich literature. Many writers in other languages gradually became aware of the status of Yiddish, sometimes by encountering Yiddish-speaking communities in Eastern Europe, and responded to Yiddish language and culture in their own works, while Yiddish writers adopted, and ...
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Yeats and Pessoa: Paralell Poetic Styles
by Patricia Silva-McNeill
W. B. Yeats and Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) regarded style as a tool for metaphysical inquiry and, consequently, they adopted distinct poetic styles to convey different attitudes towards experience. Silva-McNeill's study examines how the poets' stylistic diversification was a means of rehearsing different existential and aesthetic stances. It identifies parallels between their styles from a comparative case studies approach. Their stylistic masks ...
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Secrets and Puzzles: Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing
by Nicoletta Simborowski
Four significant Italian writers - Cesare Pavese, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg and Francesca Sanvitale - who were brought up under the shadow of fascism and war and whose work spans the second half of the twentieth century, are the focus of this study of ...
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Unbinding Medea
edited by Heike Bartel and Anne Simon
Medea - simply to mention her name conjures up echoes and cross-connections from Antiquity to the present. The vengeful wife, the murderess of her own children, the frail, suicidal heroine, the archetypal Bad Mother, the smitten maiden, the barbarian, the sorceress, the abused victim, the case study for a pathology. For more than two thousand years, she has arrested the eye in paintings, reverberated in opera, called to us from the stage. She ...
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Goethe and Patriarchy: Faust and the Fates of Desire
by James Simpson
This book traces the history of a complex sexual fantasy which features recurrently in Goethe's writings from his days as a student in Leipzig to his final years as Europe's most celebrated poet. Simpson shows how the young man's fantasy of innocent ...
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Metaphor and Materiality: German Literature and the World-View of Science
by Peter D Smith
Metaphor and Materiality explores the relationship between literature and science from the end of the eighteenth century the Cold War period. This wide-ranging study reveals how major works of German and Austrian literature interrogate contemporary ...
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Spanish Practices: Literature, Cinema, Television
by Paul Julian Smith
This book is the first to explore the interaction of three media in contemporary Spain. Focusing on some of the best known and most important books, feature films, and television series in the country (including novelist Antonio Muñoz Molina, ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £45.00