Legenda

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...

There is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century was employed, primarily, as a tool for teaching Latin; it was also judged to be a canny means of...

Much literature and scholarship has been devoted to the works by Federico Garc?a Lorca (1898-1936), one of the greatest Spanish poets and playwrights of the twentieth century. In addition to the...

Quim Monz? (born Barcelona, 1952) is considered Catalonia's most influential contemporary author, his work studied as a catalyst for the modernization of Catalan culture after General Franco's death...

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...

Does metafiction - the literary technique that forces readers to acknowledge that they are reading a work of fiction - have a hidden past? Margarita Vaysman's insightful study challenges the view of...

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...

In discussions about plot, causality and chronology are sometimes held out as the only possible organising principles. And yet readers often transmute fragmented writings, parallel storylines, or...

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...

Author: Terence O'Reilly, Colin Thompson, Lesley TwomeyPublisher: LegendaPublication Date: Sep 28, 2020Number of Pages: 274 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1781885028ISBN-13:...

This book delves into the fascinating journey of American drama in Catalonia, exploring how the theatrical output of a world superpower has impacted (and transformed) the stages of an allegedly minor...

Author: Nicola McLelland, Richard SmithPublisher: LegendaPublication Date: Sep 28, 2020Number of Pages: 330 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1781883726ISBN-13: 9781781883723

Author: Nicola McLelland, Richard SmithPublisher: LegendaPublication Date: Sep 28, 2020Number of Pages: 298 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1781883750ISBN-13: 9781781883754

On what grounds do we speak of 'the avant-garde' in inter-war European culture? Why do we understand the conflicts and quarrels among these diverse movements as expressing a shared attitude - the...

The Italian Renaissance marks the beginning of the modern era in Western Europe. New energies are liberated, transforming the fabric of society, intellectual life, and indeed the whole vision of the...

While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social anxieties with which it was associated, including...

Living-dead characters appear surprisingly often in the realist works of Balzac and Zola, and in the modern poetry of Baudelaire. In this era of industrialization and modernization, images of the...

Ovid's gruesome tale of rape, mutilation, and revenge, transformed into Philomena and retold in French octosyllables, found its way into the fourteenth century Ovide moralis? with a signature at its...

Author: CLAIRE. WHITEHEADPublisher: LegendaPublication Date: Sep 28, 2020Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1781886881ISBN-13: 9781781886885

The poet C?line Arnauld (1885-1952) was at the heart of Paris Dada. Her experimental texts appeared in the most prominent avant-garde journals and she published almost a dozen books. Yet Arnauld...

Filmmakers often mine novels and plays for stories and characters, but what happens when poetry appears on screen? In this edited volume, contributors explore the rich corpus of Latin American films...

On 23 March 1981, Jordi Pujol, President of the Catalan regional government, gave a speech about an art exhibition, Catalunya Avui. Embracing the artistic wealth of Catalonia, Pujol reminded the...

Since the second half of the twentieth century, trauma, ethics, and hermeneutics have flourished as conceptual and critical tools for literary, cultural, and philosophical analysis. Authors,...