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Futurism

• Hardcover | Engels | Italian Perspectives | nr. 36
• This volume offers a unique and fresh perspective on Italian Futurism by approaching it, for the first time, through the lens of microstoria . In this... Lees meer

Last Scene of All

• Hardcover | Engels
• Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any ... Lees meer

Cultural Reception, Translation and Transformation from Medieval to Modern Italy

• Paperback | Engels
• Throughout the centuries, the Italian peninsula has played an important role as a crossroads where different cultures met, transformed and continued t... Lees meer

Agnès Varda Unlimited

• Hardcover | Engels | Moving Image | nr. 6
• In her ever-evolving career, the legendary filmmaker Agnès Varda has gone from being a photographer at the Avignon festival in the late 1940s, through... Lees meer

Performing Medieval Text

Henry Hope, Ardis Butterfield, Pauline Soleau

• Hardcover | Engels | Legenda
• Texts of different kinds grant insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages: epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and music; liturgical rites an... Lees meer

Frantz Fanon

Jane Hiddleston

• Hardcover | Engels | Research Monographs in French Studies | nr. 66
• Frantz Fanon remains one of the greatest and most influential postcolonial thinkers. If he has been analysed by turns as a political thinker, a philos... Lees meer

Louis-René des Forêts and Inner Autobiography

Ian MacLachlan

• Hardcover | Engels | Research Monographs in French Studies | nr. 60
• Louis-René des Forêts (1916-2000) devoted the last twenty-five years of his writing life to an innovative practice of autobiography, spanning poetry a... Lees meer

Pepetela and the MPLA

Phillip Rothwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 36
• Angola's most acclaimed author, Pepetela (b. 1941), has been publishing fiction for over half a century. His work bears witness to the birth and monum... Lees meer

Karoline von Günderrode

Joanna Raisbeck

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 26
• Karoline von Günderrode's biography - and in particular her early death - have long overshadowed an appreciation of her literary works. Closer attenti... Lees meer

Metamorphosis in Modern German Literature

Tara Beaney

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 9
• Radical bodily transformation can be shocking, terrifying and wonderful. But what makes it such compelling literary subject matter, and what place doe... Lees meer

The Modern Spanish Canon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 28
• In recent years, interdisciplinary and comparative outlooks, greatly facilitated by the advent of new technologies, have transformed the discipline of... Lees meer

Comedy and Trauma in Germany and Austria After 1945

Stephanie Bird

• Paperback | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 10
• Comedy is often held to be incompatible with trauma and suffering; it triggers anxiety and moral disquiet around the pleasure we take in reading or wa... Lees meer

The Poetics of Early Russian Crime Fiction 1860-1917

Claire Whitehead

• Paperback | Engels | Legenda
• Crime fiction enjoys almost unparalleled success in post-Soviet Russia; but what do we know about its origins and development in the nineteenth centur... Lees meer

Structures of Subjugation in Dutch Literature

Judit Gera

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 12
• This book examines both classic and less-known works of Dutch literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Its starting-point is that ... Lees meer

Reading Dante and Proust by Analogy

Julia Hartley

• Paperback | Engels | Transcript | nr. 12
• What can Dante tell us about Proust, and what can Proust tell us about Dante? In this book, Hartley follows a process of analogy, reading Dante's Divi... Lees meer

From Doubt to Unbelief

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 42
• This volume delves into the question of how, in an Iberian world apparently far removed from the battlegrounds of modernity and secularisation, doubt ... Lees meer

Gómez Manrique, Statesman and Poet

Gisèle Earle

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 31
• Gómez Manrique (c.1412-c.1490) had a long and active life, engaging in military activity as a typical medieval knight before becoming a diplomat and s... Lees meer

Bodies of Disorder

Katharine Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 26
• Discourses of degeneration (social, political, medical) peaked in the 1890s across Europe, and posited the moral and biological decline, even sterilit... Lees meer

The Poetics of Early Russian Crime Fiction 1860-1917

Claire Whitehead

• Hardcover | Engels | Legenda
• Crime fiction enjoys almost unparalleled success in post-Soviet Russia; but what do we know about its origins and development in the nineteenth centur... Lees meer

Alfred Döblin

Robert Craig

• Hardcover | Engels | Germanic Literatures | nr. 20
• 'If you're satisfied with yourself, beware of Döblin.' It was with this temptation for brave souls that Günter Grass closed his tribute on the tenth a... Lees meer

The Art of Cervantes in Don Quixote

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 27
• Four centuries after his death in 1616, Cervantes's great novel ( the first novel), Don Quixote (1605; 1615), continues to fascinate readers and gener... Lees meer

Autobiographical Reenactment in French and Belgian Film

Tom Cuthbertson

• Hardcover | Engels | Moving Image | nr. 12
• We live in 'reenactive times'. Recent decades have witnessed a marked proliferation of various forms of reenactment across numerous cultural contexts ... Lees meer

Laforgue, Philosophy, and Ideas of Otherness

Sam Bootle

• Hardcover | Engels | Research Monographs in French Studies | nr. 54
• In late nineteenth-century France, the pessimist philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann was often portrayed as a disease-like force... Lees meer

Intimacy and Distance

Philippa Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Legenda
• What do we mean when we talk about intimacy? And when did we begin to talk about intimacy? Rather than approach the concept as an age-old aspect of lo... Lees meer