Legenda

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

In this first critical study in English, L?a Vuong offers a comprehensive survey of Quignard's still growing oeuvre by examining his specific attempts to produce disappearance through -- and for --...

In these essays, three of which have not previously been published, Celia Britton discusses a variety of texts from the point of view of their engagement with the cultural and political issues that...

Pietro Bembo was both witness and participant at the centre of the Italian Renaissance. Faini's new biography aims to recapture, for a general readership, Bembo's unique experience during the most...

The essays gathered here reflect changes in German literary studies over more than half a century of political and cultural transformation. Wieland and Goethe, Kafka and Thomas Mann exemplify a still...

Author: Julia HartleyPublisher: LegendaPublication Date: Aug 30, 2021Number of Pages: 154 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1781888442ISBN-13: 9781781888445

In this important new volume we see the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb at the height of his powers. Though his major novels have enjoyed great popularity in English in recent years, this is the...

Often regarded as a small and homogeneous country, modern Portugal has frequently displayed clear regional tensions, on several 'axes': between its capital, Lisbon, and more neglected cities and...

From rubbery martyrs to wraith-like ascetics, and from pestilential dragons to troublesome giants, the bodies that fascinated the Middle Ages increasingly inform theoretical debates concerning...

Darwin's theory of evolution was received with great interest all across Europe. The theory of evolution generated numerous debate among scientists, philosophers and the general public. Questions...

Through an examination of linguistic transfer, in a situation of bilingualism, and of levelling and diffusion during dialect contact, this study examines the hypothesis that regional French...

State and corporate violence has always been waged on material space. However, with the escalation of late-capitalist and neocolonial modes of extraction, incarceration, and bordering, these...