Legenda

The Scandinavian countries regularly top ranking lists for happiness, and are, along with Germany, among the most desired destinations for immigration. But the journey towards them can be arduously...

Widely regarded as the greatest French poet of the eighteenth century, Andr? Ch?nier (1762-1794) wrote some of his most scintillating, original verse in the looming shadow of the guillotine. Neither...

The essays in this volume adopt various angles of approach to literature-theoretical, historical, critical-as circumstances and evolving interests have determined. Devoted primarily to French...

We live in 'reenactive times'. Recent decades have witnessed a marked proliferation of various forms of reenactment across numerous cultural contexts and domains to the point that it is today...

In this highly original study, Ewa Szypula reappraises the intriguing correspondence between the French novelist and his literary lover, the Polish countess Evelina Hanska. Whereas critics have used...

In this highly original study, Ewa Szypula reappraises the intriguing correspondence between the French novelist and his literary lover, the Polish countess Evelina Hanska. Whereas critics have used...

Crystal palaces and railway stations, greenhouses and arcades, church windows and shop frontages, wine glasses and lamp shades: glass became increasingly pervasive in nineteenth-century France. Yet...

Stephen Romer's essays range from the key figures of French and English Modernism to the contemporary practice of poetry, and its translation. At the heart of Chaos and the Clean Line is an enquiry...

Over the last forty years, contemporary French poetry has been living in a state of crisis. Pronounced dead - or worse, irrelevant - it has sought to reassert its value, define its current...

Galician literature has historically played an integral role in the consolidation of Galician identity. Yet female novelists writing in Galician have only managed to achieve visibility in the...

Crossings is a gathering of essays whose preoccupations converge in the idea that the workings of poetry and trans-lation are closely related. This is especially true in the work of Hölderlin, in...

Author: Olga G VoroninaPublisher: LegendaPublication Date: Aug 30, 2021Number of Pages: 148 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 178188546XISBN-13: 9781781885468

Working in different media, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Juan Rulfo (1917-1986), are identified as monuments to two distinct moments in Mexico's cultural history, yet their works have never been...

Joanna Neilly's study considers for the first time the breadth and nuance of Hoffmann's particular brand of orientalism, examining the significance of his oriental characters and themes for a new...

Film festivals, once seen as only a matter for journalism, are increasingly a subject of attention within scholarly film studies. They are, as Mar Diestro-D?pido argues, not only of cultural value in...

At the turn of the nineteenth century, as inquiries about degeneration shaped medical, sociological and anthropological discourses, masks flourished as portraits, ornaments, and disguises. This...

Author: Maria FloodPublisher: LegendaPublication Date: November 04, 2019Number of Pages: 162 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1781883874ISBN-13: 9781781883877

The French art novel, with its tales of artists, models and creative struggles, is often thought to be a specifically nineteenth-century phenomenon. This wide-ranging study argues that the art novel...

What does Pinocchio, the puppet who turns into a real boy, have in common with robots and cyborgs? This comparative study shows how Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) can shine a...

The three centuries since 1700 have seen a fertile dialogue between literature in German and the momentous historical, philosophical, and cultural shifts of the period. The processes of modernization...

Though notorious for his visceral, affective, and politically incendiary writing, Jean Genet also had a surprising penchant for the abstract language of geometry. Points, lines, obliques, grids and...

German literature from roughly 1750 to 1850 has a tradition of tragic drama unmatched by any other literature in that period. To an extent seldom recognized, this drama engages with political themes...

Set in Lithuania and South Africa, the Yiddish poetry of David Fram (1903-1988) memorialises an almost-obliterated Jewish culture in the old country and its surviving offshoots in the new. Frankel's...

Author: Kathryn RobsonPublisher: LegendaPublication Date: Aug 30, 2021Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1781886768ISBN-13: 9781781886762

Italo Calvino (1923-85) travelled to Japan in the autumn of 1976. Thereafter, his work shows an increasing fascination with Japanese literature and Zen Buddhism, even as he adds Japanese works to the...

Jean-Fran?ois Vilar (1947-2014) was a leading exponent of political crime fiction in France in the 1980s and 1990s. Paris, Prague, art and 'anti-art' from surrealism to Jacques Monory, 19th and 20th...

Louis-Ren? des For?ts (1916-2000) devoted the last twenty-five years of his writing life to an innovative practice of autobiography, spanning poetry and fragmentary prose, and culminating in the key...

At stake throughout the fictional writings of Marie NDiaye (1967-) is the issue of the stranger's welcome. Engaging with critical theory on hospitality across the disciplines, Shirley Jordan's...

Lauded by many as one of twentieth-century Spain's greatest poets, Jos? ?ngel Valente (1929-2000) remains one of the defining, if at times divisive, figures in Spanish poetry. O'Dwyer's new study...

Author: Caragh WellsPublisher: LegendaPublication Date: Aug 30, 2021Number of Pages: 134 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1781885265ISBN-13: 9781781885260