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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 ù his punishment for bringing fire to mankind. Through the impulse of Goethe, his fortune went through radical ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	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 twentieth-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 US$89.50
	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 ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	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 ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	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 Hunter's translation of Johann Caspar Lavater's 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 ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	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 Wilde's 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 Pater's unpublished manuscripts, Giles Whiteley challenges this view of Pater as a closeted don who spent the remainder of his life ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	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 US$89.50
	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 US$89.50
	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 Avant garde, and Marxist Theory. As a sociological and aesthetic notion avant la letter, it did however already exist in the thought of eighteenth-century French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot. This original study of ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 15 Platonic Coleridge by James Vigus The ambivalent curiosity of the young poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) towards Plato - 'but I love Plato - his dear gorgeous nonsense!' - soon developed into a philosophical project, and the mature Coleridge proclaimed himself a reviver of Plato's unwritten or esoteric 'systems'. James Vigus's study traces Coleridge's discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the 'divine philosopher', ... Hardback. Price US$89.50

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