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Ar i s & Ph i l l i p s Hi s pa n i c Classics Cervantes The Complete Exemplary Novels Translated with Introduction and Notes by B. W. Ife and J. Thacker Cervantes: The Complete Exemplary Novels B. W. Ife (editor); Jonathan Thacker (editor) Originally published in four separate volumes, this publication sees all 12 Novelas Ejemplares as a single volume for the first time in English. Each story has an individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation and notes. Barry Ife’s re-written authoritative general introduction explores specific issues raised by the Exemplary Novels as a collection, Cervantes’s interest in the mixing of genre and in the virtuoso aspects of storytelling. Ife calls the Exemplary Novels “one of the most original, entertaining, and provocative collections of short novels in any language.” 9780856687747, £30.00, June 2013 HB, 9780856687693, £50.00, June 2013, 960p, 149 x 210mm, Hispanic Classics, Aris & Phillips Language & Literature - Hispanic Classics Valle-Inclán: The Dead Man’s Finery and The Captain’s Daughter Laura Lonsdale (Translator) Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man’s Finery (1926) and La hija del capitán/ The Captain’s Daughter (1927) are two of four tragic farces written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán for the theatre. Translated here for the first time into English, Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man’s Finery is a short dramatic incursion into the life of Juanito Ventolera/Johnny Bluster, a decommissioned veteran of the Spanish- American War who steals a dead man’s clothes in order to woo a prostitute. La hija del capitán/ The Captain’s Daughter is the most historically and politically oriented of Valle-Inclán’s works for the theatre. A man is killed and the accident of his death sets off a chain of events in which exploitation and self-interest are the orchestrating forces, concluding in a military coup that topples the government. The plays are accompanied by a critical introduction and notes, both fine examples of Valle-Inclán’s expressionistic and experimental theatre. 9780856683701, £18.00, February 2013 HB, 9780856683695, £50.00, February 2013, 240p, 149 x 210 mm, Hispanic Classics, Aris & Phillips Tirso de Molina: Marta the Divine Juan Valera: Pepita Jiménez Dear Diego Harley Erdman R. M. Fedorchek, introduction by J. Whiston E. Poniatowska & N. Gardner 9781908343017, £15, 2012 9780856688867 , £18.00, PB, 2012 9780856688812, £15, 2012 38 PB, 112p, Aris & Phillips, Hispanic Classics 297p, Aris & Phillips, Hispanic Classics PB, 96p,Aris & Phillips, Hispanic Classics
Rigmaroles and Ragamuffins Unpicking Words we Derive from Textiles Elinor Kapp (Author) The English language has developed over many centuries from many diverse languages and cultures, some now lost. If we want to bring to life something of its impressive history, we might use the metaphor of a great river into which streams and rivulets constantly flow. Alternatively we could liken it to a mighty tree that has grown organically from buried roots, spreading out into a living canopy of innumerable and constantly renewed twigs and leaves. Elinor Kapp prefers to think of English as a wonderful piece of embroidery, stitched with a multitude of varied threads onto a base of primitive communication. The upper surface dazzles us with its range of colours, tones and textures. But to understand its construction, we need to take a look at the underside of the work. Here we can see the untidiness – the awkward seams, peculiar knots and frayed ends. In places, time has worn away our words to leave threadbare gaps; in others, swathes have been cutaway by changing tastes and trends, allowing flamboyant new threads to be spliced in. When we unpick the English language, it is quite startling to find how many of our common words, sayings, figures of speech, folklore, myths, nursery rhymes and stories come from thread and all the fascinating processes it had to go through to create textiles. The author is fascinated by the way English weaves the threads of our past into today’s figures of speech, bringing richly layered meaning to our lives. Language & Literature 9780957475908, £9.99, 31 January 2013 PB, 160p, 155 x 235 mm, illus, Elinor Kapp Form and Feeling in Modern Literature Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy William Baker (Editor); Isobel Armstrong (Editor) After Reception Theory Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain, 1869–1935 Lucia Aiello (Author) Essays, short stories and poems by eminent creative writers, critics and scholars from three continents celebrate the literary achievements of Barbara Hardy, the foremost exponent of close critical reading in the latter half of the twentieth century and today. Her work, as the essays in the volume bear witness, encompasses 19th and 20th century British fiction, poetry, and Shakespeare. In addition to an introduction outlining and assessing Hardy’s career and writing, ere is an extensive bibliography of her work. This study deals with the reception of Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain from a double perspective. The detailed analysis of primary sources such as reviews, essays and monographs on Dostoevskii is associated here with a critical investigation of the dynamics of the reception process. On the one hand, the available sources are examined with the intention of exposing their underlying ideological tensions and impact on British literary circles. On the other hand, Fedor Dostoevskii’s novels are shown to function as a prism, through which significant aspects of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British intellectual life are refracted. 9781907975370, £45.00, January 2013 HB, 226p, Legenda Main Series, Legenda 9781907975448, £45.00, January 2013 HB, Legenda Main Series, Legenda 39
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Page 6 and 7: The Death of Archaeological Theory?
Page 9 and 10: From Primitives to Primates A Histo
Page 11 and 12: Longbridge Deverill Cow Down An Ear
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