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 | Poetry in a Provisional State: The Austrian Lyric 1945-1955 (ISBN 0708320805)
This book comprises of a detailed and original study of the wealth of poetry produced in Austria between the demise of the Third Reich and Austria's re-attainment of sovereignty in 1955.
It offers a distinctive contribution to the topic of literature and war, showing how, in the case of Austria, rejection of war-guilt after WWII produced a marked reluctance to treat the theme of war in literature. The author also demonstrates the theoretical problems for modern poetry in the handling of historical events.
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Price: £75.00
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Johann Nikolas Böhl von Faber (1770-1836) (ISBN 0708320015)
Johann Nikolas Böhl von Faber (1770-1836), a merchant and man of letters from Hamburg, was a Hispanist and Germanist at a time when the balance of ideological dominance was shifting from Enlightenment thought towards the new Romantic aesthetic. This book outlines and evaluates his considerable contribution to the development of European Romanticism, particularly in relation to his central role in the transnational transfer of German Romantic theory to Spain.
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Price: £85.00
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 | Baudelaire, Sartre and Camus: Lectures and Commentaries (ISBN 0-7083-0601-2)
Intended particularly for sixth-form pupils and undergraduates, this book presents a brief introduction to each writer, centring on a particular work and imediately followed by a commentary on an extract. Professor Rees ends by presenting some pointers on the nature of twentieth century French literature in general, as a guide to the student beginner.
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Price: £6.99
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Catalogue Des Ouvrages Du Fonds Francais 1601 - 1850 (ISBN 0-7083-1320-5)
Conserves Dans La 'Founders Library' De L'universite Du Payes De Galles, Lampeter
A catalogue of French works, 1601-1850, in the Founders Library, University of Wales, Lampeter. In total these number approximately 1500 titles or 2000 volumes. The catalogue is preceeded by an introduction outlining the history of the library and providing an overview of the collection of French books.
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Price: £60.00
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| | Corneille's Tragedies: The Role of the Unexpected (ISBN 0-7083-1100-8)
In this book Professor Knight reviews all twenty of Corneille's heroic and tragic plays and in the process challenges some received interpretations.
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Price: £19.95
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De Mot en Mot: Aspects of Medieval Linguistics (ISBN 0708313965)
"Print on demand". This volume presents the work of leading specialists on the particular variety of French found in medieval Britain (Anglo-Norman), and also French in France itself. Other essays deal with the vernacular language of southern France, Occitan. This volume will do much to stimulate further research and debate on the whole area of medieval linguistic history.
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Price: £55.00
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 | The Debated Lands: British and American Representations of the Balkans (ISBN 0708319653)
An up-to-date and wide-ranging analysis of Balkanism from an Anglo-American perspective, examining representations of the region through travel writing, fiction, poetry and journalism in over 400 British and American texts.
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Price: £60.00
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French Literature and the Philosophy of Consciousness: Phenomenological Essays by Ian W. Alexander (ISBN 0-7083-0862-7)
'There is probably nobody else with Ian Alexander's knowledge of the two areas of French literature and European (including British) philosophy of recent centuries, or with his ability to write clearly and elegantly about them in English and in French . . . These essays sum up the thought, evolved over many years, of a fine scholar and a perceptive philosopher.' (Modern Language Review)
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Price: £15.95
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| | The Italian Lyric Tradition: Essays in honour of F. J. Jones (ISBN 0-7083-1174-1)
Few literatures can boast a lyric tradition as rich and varied as the Italian, and this tradition has played a vital part in the development of the Italian cultural identity. Every Italianist will rediscover the power and enduring charm of lyric tradition through this collection of studies.
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Price: £35.00
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The Life of Zabolotsky (ISBN 708312624)
The first biography of the poet Nikolay Zabolotsky, written by his son, copiously illustrated with examples of his work, and telling in detail the extraordinary story of his arrest during Stalin's terror, eight years of prison and exile, and stubborn survival: a notable human document. This is its first publication in any language.
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Price: £45.00
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| | Love & Marriage In Chretien De Troyes (ISBN 070830835X)
This book is concerned with the Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes. It examines Chrétien's attitude to love, suggesting that the textual evidence indicates Chrétien's preference for married love and his awareness of the duties and responsibilities of both partners in marriage. His originality lies in his ability to express this view with humour at a time when unmarried love was viewed more favourably.
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Modern Italian Lyric (ISBN 0-7083-0902-X)
This is the first broadly-based survey in English of twentieth-century Italian poetry. The book is divided into two parts: the first part deals with aesthetics and major schools of poetry between 1900-1960, together with background material from the French Decadent and Symbolist schools; the second with ten of the major poets of the period, including two Nobel prizewinners, Quasimodo and Montale.
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Price: £50.00
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| | The Narrative Voice in Modern French Fiction: Studies in Honour of Valerie Minogue (ISBN 0-7083-1394-9)
The narrative voices in French fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which are the focus of this volume are multiple and changing voices whose study involves us with issues of gender, genre and politics and above all with the complexity of human personality.
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Price: £35.00
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Now Shoon the Romano Gillie: Traditional Verse in the High and Low Speech of the Gypsies of Britain (ISBN 0-7083-1498-8)
Tim Coughlan has gathered together the largest published collection of extant traditional verse in Welsh Romani and Romani English. It will be an invaluable resource for students of the Gypsy language and traditional song, as well as all those with interests in Traveller communities and cultures.
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Price: £60.00
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 | The Politics of Literature: Poland 1945-89 (ISBN 0-7083-1524-0)
In this pioneering and stimulating study of post-war Polish intellectual history, Carl Tighe analyses the complex interface between politics and literature under communism.
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Price: £50.00
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Romance Reading on the Book: Essays on Medieval Narrative (ISBN 0-7083-1241-1)
"Print on demand". This collection of essays affirms the importance and appeal of the romances of medieval Britain and also the vitality of contemporary scholarship on the romance genre.
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Price: £39.99
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 | Supernatural Proust: Myth and Metaphor in A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (ISBN 0708318665)
Examining a spectrum of supernatural sources which range from fairytale to artistic legends to metaphysical rituals and beliefs, Supernatural Proust charts the mythical and metaphorical quest undertaken by the narrator of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu and argues that these sources provide both (counter-) models for the narrator/protagonist's development and aesthetic influences for the narrator/writer's carnivalesque fusion of high and low art, populaire and savant, music and text.
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Price: £60.00
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Studies in the Commedia Dell'arte (ISBN 0-7083-1201-2)
The original commedia dell'arte was performed by travelling players in late sixteenth-century Italy, who improvised their plays around a basic plot or scenario. The best known commedia characters were the comic servants like Harlequin and Pierrot who have become almost household names. The commedia dell'arte players soon moved to other European countries, and the genre was transformed in the process, particularly in France. Over the centuries the commedia has been adapted to suit the needs of successive cultural movements, and has become a symbolic theme not only in drama, but also in other branches of literature, as well as in art and music.
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Price: £45.00
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 | The Uses of this World: Thinking Space in the Drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Cary and Jonson (ISBN 0708318886)
The Uses of this World brings together a number of studies of early Modern drama ranging from Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta at the beginning of the 1590s to Jonson’s most celebrated comedies at the end of the first decade of the seventeenth century.
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Price: £45.00
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