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	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 25 Prometheus in the Nineteenth Century: From Myth to Symbol by Caroline Corbeau-Parsons On Zeus' order, Prometheus was chained to Mount Caucasus where, every day, he was to endure his liver being devoured by a bird of prey his punishment for bringing fire to mankind. Through the impulse of Goethe, his fortune went through radical changes: ... Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 24 Borges and Joyce: An Infinite Conversation by Patricia Novillo-Corvalán Borges and Joyce stand as two of the most revolutionary writers of the 20th century. Both are renowned for their polyglot abilities, prodigious memories, cyclical conception of time, labyrinthine creations and for their shared condition as European ... Hardback. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 23 The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare by Catherine Brown Comparison underlies all reading. Readers compare words to words, and books to all the other books which they have read. Some books, however, demand a particular comparative effort - for example, novels which contain parallel plot lines. In this ambitious and important study Catherine Brown compares Daniel Deronda with Anna Karenina and Women in Love in order to answer the following questions: why does one protagonist in each novel fail whilst ... Hardback. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 22 Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte by Shun-Liang Chao How are we to define what is grotesque, in art or literature? Since the Renaissance the term has been used for anything from the fantastic to the monstrous, and been associated with many artistic genres, from the Gothic to the danse macabre. Shun-Liang Chao's new study adopts a rigorous approach by establishing contradictory physicality and the notion of metaphor as two keys to the construction of a clear identity of the grotesque. With this ... Hardback. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 21 Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy by Sibylle Erle William Blake never travelled to the continent, and yet his creation myth is far more European than has so far been acknowledged. His early illuminated books, of the 1790s, run alongside his professional work as a copy-engraver on Henry Hunters translation of Johann Caspar Lavaters Essays on Physiognomy (1789-98) - work in which Blake helped to make a likeness of a book about likenesses. For Blake, as for Lavater, Henry Fuseli, Joshua Reynolds ... Hardback. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 20 Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death: Walter Pater and Post- Hegelianism by Giles Whiteley Walter Pater, best known as the author of The Renaissance (1873) and as Oscar Wildes tutor and friend, was a leading figure in European aestheticism and British fin-de-siècle culture. Despite this, he has received only limited critical attention, and has tended to be read conservatively. Drawing on Paters unpublished manuscripts, Giles Whiteley challenges this view of Pater as a closeted don who spend the remainder of his life regretting the ... Hardback. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 19 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 ... Hardback. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 18 Turning into Sterne: Viktor Shklovskii and Literary Reception by Emily Finer Viktor Shklovskii (1893-1984) is best known as an inventor of Russian Formalism, the literary theorist responsible for ostranenie, defamiliarisation. Just after the 1917 Revolution, Shklovskii claimed Tristram Shandy to be 'the most typical novel in world literature'; he then proceeded to theorise Sterne's formal experiments with plot; to chronicle his own wartime exploits in an autobiographical 'Sentimental Journey'; and to promote Tristram ... Hardback. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 17 Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot after Brecht by Phoebe von Held Alienation (Vefremdung) as a dramaturgical device has come to be inextricably linked with the name of German twentieth-century playwright and theorist, Bertolt Brecht - with the context of Modernism, the Avantgarde, and Marxist Theory. As a sociological and aesthetic notion avant la lettre, it did however already exist in the thought of eighteenth-century French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot. This original study of scholar and theatre ... Hardback. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 16 Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj by Aaron Rosen What does Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics, and curators have gone searching for the essence of Jewish art in Biblical illustrations and portraits of rabbis, Rosen sets out to discover Jewishness in unlikely places. How, he asks, have modern Jewish painters explored their Jewish identity using an artistic past which is -- by and large -- non-Jewish? In this new book we encounter some of the great works of Western art history ... Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £45.00

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