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New Essays on Tolstoy by Malcolm Jones 9780521169219
RRP: $77.68$65.75This collection of essays was first published in 1978. They commemorate the 150th anniversary of Tolstoy's birth in 1828. The range in subject matter is great and includes a reconsideration of the problems of translating Tolstoy into English, fresh... -
The Art of Narration in Wolfram's Parzival and Albrecht's Jungerer Titurel by Linda B. Parshall 9780521169202
RRP: $65.08$55.50This 1981 text is a study of the narrative techniques in two important thirteenth-century German romances: one by Wolfram von Eschenbach, considered by many as the greatest poet of medieval Germany; the other by a lesser-known but highly skilled follower... -
Rimbaud: A Critical Introduction by Cecil Arthur Hackett 9780521297561
RRP: $50.38$42.78Originally published in 1981, this critical survey of Rimbaud's work was intended mainly for the student and the general reader, but the specialist will also find in it fresh and illuminating comments. While taking into account the 'two Rimbauds', the... -
Reading Heinrich Heine by Anthony Phelan 9780521142212
RRP: $79.78$67.79This book is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine. Anthony Phelan examines the complete range of Heine's work, from the early poetry and 'Pictures of Travel' to the last poems, including personal polemic and... -
Classical Influences on European Culture A.D. 500-1500 by R. R. Bolgar 9780521118132
RRP: $88.18$76.00This volume consists of original papers first read at Kings College, Cambridge, in 1969 at the International Conference on Classical Influences. The contributors are distinguished in a wide range of academic disciplines but all are concerned in one way... -
Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference by Ann Jefferson 9780521027267
RRP: $69.28$59.60Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99) is regarded as one of the major French novelists of the twentieth century. Initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, she has come to be regarded as an important author in her own right with her... -
Fictions of Identity in Medieval France by Donald Maddox 9780521026383
RRP: $77.68$65.75In this study of vernacular French narrative from the twelfth century through the later Middle Ages, first published in 2000, Donald Maddox considers the construction of identity in a wide range of fictions. He focuses on crucial encounters, widespread... -
The Evolution of Arthurian Romance: The Verse Tradition from Chretien to Froissart by Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann 9780521025652
RRP: $62.98$54.47This 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chretien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place... -
Spanish Romantic Literary Theory and Criticism by Derek Flitter 9780521025614
RRP: $65.08$59.39This study provides a fresh assessment of Spanish Romanticism through a sympathetic appraisal of its literary theory and criticism. It identifies the origins of Spanish Romantic thought in the theories of German Romantic thinkers, in particular Herder's... -
Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition by Judith Ryan 9780521025119
RRP: $88.18$76.00If the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between the burden of tradition and a desire to break free of it, then Rilke's poetic development is a key example of this tension at work. Taking a sceptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a... -
Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850 by Thomas O. Beebee 9780521025089
RRP: $77.68$65.75Thomas O. Beebee examines epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon in Europe from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. His study is the first to consider epistolary fiction as a pan-European form of importance to all major European languages... -
The Poetry of Francois Villon: Text and Context by Jane H. M. Taylor 9780521024242
RRP: $69.28$59.60This book casts new light on the life and work of Francois Villon, one of the most famous but least understood poets of the later Middle Ages. Traditionally Villon has been viewed by scholars as an alienated outsider in his own time, whose work was in... -
Freud's Literary Culture by Graham Frankland 9780521024211
RRP: $73.48$63.69This original study investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud's creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland analyses the whole range of Freud's own texts from a literary-critical perspective, providing a comprehensive... -
Theatre and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Juan De Grimaldi as Impresario and Government Agent by David Thatcher Gies 9780521021012
RRP: $69.28$59.60The Frenchman Juan de Grimaldi was instrumental in the development of the Spanish theatre in the 1820s and 30s, at a time when censorship, repression, and economic chaos had left it in a state of stagnation. As impresario and stage director, he trained... -
Dante and the Medieval Other World by Alison Morgan 9780521039277
RRP: $79.78$67.79A major study of the Divine Comedy, this book offers an interesting perspective on Dante's representation of the afterlife. Alison Morgan departs from the conventional critical emphasis on Dante's place in relation to learned traditions by undertaking a... -
Metaphysical Wit by A. J. Smith 9780521035293
RRP: $79.78$65.75English metaphysical poetry, from Donne to Marvell, is notoriously witty. In this 1992 book, A. J. Smith seeks the reason for the central importance of wit in the thinking of the metaphysical poets and argues that metaphysical wit is essentially... -
Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy by Richard Andrews 9780521034159
RRP: $83.98$69.85The Italian Renaissance produced a new type of stage comedy, experimental and even revolutionary in its time, by copying and updating the dramatic formats of Plautus and Terence from ancient Rome. These scripted comedies, first written and performed for... -
Genealogies of the Text: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France by Jeffrey Mehlman 9780521032353
RRP: $65.08$59.39In this 1995 book, which includes a substantial introduction, Jeffrey Mehlman confronts the politically devastating resonances in the work of several leading French writers. The essays focus on the series of enigmas surrounding the 'Blanchot affair' - a... -
Medieval Dutch Literature in its European Context by Erik Kooper 9780521032346
RRP: $88.18$76.00This 1994 book offers insights into the rich and varied Dutch literature of the Middle Ages. Sixteen essays written by top scholars consider this literature in the context of the social, historical and cultural developments of the period in which it took... -
Sade and the Narrative of Transgression by David B. Allison 9780521032315
RRP: $71.38$61.64This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade, first published in 1995, encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his uvre, including some of the most celebrated texts in Sade scholarship. It focuses on several distinctly contemporary... -
The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing by Tom Conley 9780521032223
RRP: $88.18$76.00This 1992 book studies the importance of typographic shapes in French Renaissance literature in the context of psychoanalysis and of the history of printed writing. Focusing on the poetry of Clement Marot, Rabelais's Gargantua, Ronsard's sonnets and the... -
The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France: Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing by Daniel Brewer 9780521032216
RRP: $69.28$59.60This study explores the problems faced by writers of the Enlightenment, who attempted to demystify all previous forms of knowledge by applying rationalist critiques that can in turn be applied to examine their own critical work. It focuses on the works... -
Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Socio-Poetics of Modernism by Eugene W. Holland 9780521031349
RRP: $73.48$63.69This study of Baudelaire's writings applies the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies. By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context, this framework provides an illuminating approach to the... -
The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction by Graham Roberts 9780521028349
RRP: $100.78$86.25This is a comprehensive study of a group of avant-garde Soviet writers active in Leningrad in the 1920s and 1930s who styled themselves OBERIU, 'The Association for Real Art'. Graham Roberts re-examines commonly held assumptions about OBERIU, its... -
A History of Russian Symbolism by Avril Pyman 9780521024303
RRP: $104.98$91.18This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, from its initial hostile reception as a symptom of European decadence to its absorption into the mainstream of Russian literature, and eventual disintegration. It focuses on the... -
A Question of Syllables: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French Verse by Clive Scott 9780521021326
RRP: $69.28$59.60Dr Scott argues that only by attending to the precise locations of words in line or stanza, and to the specific value of syllables, or by understanding the often conflicting demands of rhythm and metre, can the reader of poetry acquire a real grasp of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Rilke by Karen Leeder 9780521879439
RRP: $157.50$129.30Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on... -
Women Readers in the Middle Ages by D. H. Green 9780521879422
RRP: $188.98$162.73Throughout the Middle Ages, the number of female readers was far greater than is commonly assumed. D. H. Green shows that, after clerics and monks, religious women were the main bearers of written culture and its expansion. Moreover, laywomen played a... -
Modernism's History: A Study in Twentieth-Century Art and Ideas by Bernard Smith 9780300181920
$69.09The history of twentieth-century visual arts can no longer be written as a succession of avant-garde movements, contends eminent art historian Bernard Smith in this stimulating book. He argues that a return to the concept of period style is inevitable... -
Three Romances of Eastern Conquest by Ladan Niayesh 9780719078576
RRP: $178.50$156.47This volume brings together three little-known works by key playwrights from the late sixteenth-century golden age of English drama. All three convey the public theatre's fascination with travel and adventure through the popular genre of heroic romance,... -
Frankenstein's Island: England and the English in the Writings of Heinrich Heine by S. S. Prawer 9780521110624
RRP: $77.68$43.97Professor Prawer's new book documents Heinrich Heine's lifelong involvement with England and the English. It shows him to have been a witty and intelligent observer of English men and women, institutions and politics, and books and journals of his own... -
Sublime Coleridge: The Opus Maximum by M. Evans 9780230341395
RRP: $94.48$94.44Sublime Coleridge focuses on the role of the Opus Maximum in explaining Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ideas about religion, psychology, and the sublime. This book is an introduction, a reader's guide, and an interpretation of this central text in British... -
Spanish and English Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Studies in Discretion, Illusion and Mutability by Edward M. Wilson 9780521135672
RRP: $65.08$49.98Edward M. Wilson's reputation as a scholar of Calderon, and of classical Spanish literature in general, is almost unrivalled. He was also an expert in English works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in the popular literature of both... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust by Adam A. Watt 9780521516433
RRP: $157.50$119.05Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of... -
The Knowledge of Ignorance: From Genesis to Jules Verne by Andrew Martin 9780521112482
RRP: $65.08$43.97This highly original study is concerned with the theory of knowledge. It approaches the subject in a new way by exploring the recurrent paradox which equates pure ignorance with perfect knowledge, twin ideals free from the impurities and imperfections of... -
Irony and Ideology in Rabelais: Structures of Subversion by Jerome Schwartz 9780521112505
RRP: $65.08$43.97Over the past two decades since the appearance in the West of Mikhail Bakhtin's study of Rabelais and popular culture, Rabelais's work has been a focus of debate in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The subjects under discussion include... -
Excerptiones de Prisciano - The Source for AElfric`s Latin-Old English Grammar by David W. Porter 9780859916356
RRP: $231.00$212.84When the famous Anglo-Saxon scholar AElfric wrote the first grammar in a European vernacular, he used as his direct source the Excerptiones de Prisciano excerpts from major curriculum authors of the medieval schools, including Donatus, Isidore and... -
Audrey Bely: A Critical Study of the Novels by J.D. Elsworth 9780521124553
RRP: $65.08$43.97Audrey Bely was one of the most innovative prose writers in Russian in the twentieth century. This book traces the development of his technique as a novelist from the early experimental Symphonies (1902-8) to the last novel, Masks, published in 1932. In... -
A History of Russian Symbolism by Avril Pyman 9780521241984
RRP: $252.00$185.45This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, from its initial hostile reception as a symptom of European decadence to its absorption into the mainstream of Russian literature, and eventual disintegration. It focuses on the... -
Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing by Jennifer H. Oliver 9780198831709
RRP: $205.80$163.19In the sixteenth century, a period of proliferating transatlantic travel and exploration, and, latterly, religious civil wars in France, the ship is freighted with political and religious, as well as poetic, significance; symbolism that reaches its...