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Fire, Blood and the Alphabet
One hundred years of Lorca
Häftad, 2009
427 kr
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Provides students with a clear narrative overview of the period which will enable them to form critical opinions. Introduces students to the historical controversies of the period and communicates the results of recent specialist studies to a student readership in an easily understood manner. An …
Aura
By Carlos Fuentes
Häftad, 2009
345 kr
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Since its publication in 1962, Carlos Fuentes' novel, Aura, remains not merely an object of academic interest but a continuous source of controversy in Mexico. It was the explosive combination of sex and religion that incensed the Ministro de Hacienda, Salvador Abascal, and linked Aura to the …
Pyostryye skazki
By V. F. Odoyevsky
Häftad, 2009
389 kr
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Odoyevsky’s cycle of short stories, Pyostryye skazki (1833), is a transitional work between his writings of the 1820s (in particular his contributions to Mnemozina, 1824–5) and his mature period which culminated in Russkiye nochi (1844). Pyostryye skazki thus represents a romantic amalgam of …
Confabulationes Tironum Litterariorum (Cologne, 1525)
Hermannus Schottennius Hessus
Häftad, 2009
591 kr
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The humanist Hermann Schotten, or Hermannus Schottennius Hessus (c. 1503–1546), student, schoolmaster, and university lecturer in Cologne, was the author of a number of works on humanist pedagogy. His Confabulationes tironum litterariorum of 1525, a collection of Latin dialogues designed to help …
Confabulations: Cologne Life and Humanism in Hermann Schotten’s Confabulationes Tironum Litterariorum (Cologne, 1525)
Häftad, 2009
394 kr
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This study, a companion to Peter Macardle’s edition of the Confabulationes, examines the ways in which the colloquies relate to their Cologne background, to the major contemporary colloquy collections (particularly Erasmus’s Colloquia and Mosellanus’s Paedologia), and to the humanist renewal of …
flâneur and his city
Patterns of daily life in Paris 1815–1851
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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The book provides a ‘flâneur’s eye view’ of Parisian life in the first half of the nineteenth century: dress, cafés and restaurants, but also shops and passages, the omnibus, bals publics and carnival. The author provides general conclusions about the private and public spheres in ‘le vieux Paris’. …
Malherbe, Théophile de Viau and Saint-Amant
A selection
Häftad, 2009
389 kr
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This volume offers a representative yet concise selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. It also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help make their poetry as accessible as possible to a …
Intertextuality in modern Arabic literature since 1967
Av Luc Deheuvels, Barbara Michalak-Pikulska m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
418 kr
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This volume of essays is the first to be dedicated to the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, it brings together essays on a range of writers from all parts of the Arab world, including, among others, Edwar …
Candide en Dannemarc, ou l’optimisme des honnêtes gens
Voltaire
Häftad, 2009
389 kr
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Published in Rouen in 1767 and reprinted two years later, Voltaire’s Candide en Dannemarc, ou l’optimisme des honnêtes gens wraps up the adventures of Candide. Turning his back on both Voltairean satire and scepticism, the novelist proposes a moralistic fable – the focal point of which is a …
limits of performance in the French Romantic theatre
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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This volume analyses major French plays of the 1830s, focusing on their theatricality, and on the ways in which they expose the workings of the theatre rather than conceal them. Through an examination of performance within these plays, the study posits that the stage is a privileged site of …
Essays in Later Medieval French Literature
The Legacy of Jane H. M. Taylor
Inbunden, 2010
1337 kr
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Over the course of a career spanning five decades, Jane Taylor has shown a commitment to the rehabilitation of the more neglected aspects of later medieval French literature. This volume brings together original contributions from scholars who have worked alongside Taylor and directly or indirectly …
La Mothe le Vayer
Lettre sur la comedie de L'Imposteur
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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The Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur is the only work of any length which does full justice to comedy in the 17th century as a serious dramatic form. It is an important document in its own right and because it is inseparable from the historical context of Molière's Le Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur …
Saramago's Labyrinths
A Journey Through Form and Content in Blindness and All the Names
Av Rhian Atkin
Inbunden, 2012
1411 kr
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Saramago’s labyrinths is the first book-length study to focus on the relationship between form and the content in Saramago’s writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) and Todos os Nomes (All the Names). Atkin provides a close textual analysis of Blindness and All …
Framing Narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France, 1939–2009
New Readings
Av Margaret Atack, Christopher Lloyd
Inbunden, 2012
1366 kr
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The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes controversial titles published every year – Irène Némirovsky’s Suite française and Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes, both rapidly translated into English, offer just …
Eccentricities: Writing in the Margins of Modernism
St. Petersburg to Rio De Janeiro
Inbunden, 2013
1291 kr
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An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of modernism critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites, concentrating Russian and Luso-Brazilian cultural …
Théâtre des Variétés in 1852
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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This book gives a picture of a year's activities at the Théâtre des Variétés. It includes an account of the financial side of the Theatre and impressions of the principal actors and actresses, as well as a month-by-month overview of what was actually performed.
Degeneration, Decadence and Disease in the Russian Fin De SièCle
Neurasthenia in the Life and Work of Leonid Andreev
Inbunden, 2014
1411 kr
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Early in the twentieth century, Russia was experiencing a decadent period of cultural degeneration just as science was developing ways to identify medical conditions which supposedly reflected the health of the entire nation. Leonid Andreev, the leading literary figure of his time, stepped into the …
Framing Narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France, 1939–2009
New Readings
Av Margaret Atack, Christopher Lloyd
Häftad, 2015
427 kr
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The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes controversial titles published every year - Irène Némirovsky's Suite française and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, both rapidly translated into English, offer just …
Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters
Essays in Honour of Richard G. Maber
Av Paul Scott
Inbunden, 2010
1291 kr
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The Republic of Letters emerged during the seventeenth century as a concept to describe the interaction between scholars across Europe and beyond. While the concept was an imaginary one, it was firmly grounded in a reality of close circles of interaction between intellectuals, which had always …
