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Edoardo
Sanguineti
Literature, Ideology
and the Avant-Garde
John Picchione (Editor);
Paolo Chirumbolo (Editor)
Furetière’s
Roman
bourgeois and
the Problem of
Exchange
Titular Economies
Craig Moyes (Author)
Poet, novelist, theorist, playwright, translator,
politician, and teacher, Edoardo Sanguineti (1930–
2010) is one of the most original and influential Italian
intellectuals of the second post-war period. With their
variety of topics and critical perspectives, the essays
assembled in this volume explore both the relevance
of his theoretical postures and the ideological
and formal fabric of his literary production. They
highlight his subversive objectives, the complexity
of the language, the astonishing linguistic ingenuity,
metaliterary significance, whimsical disposition, and
provocative social critique.
9781907975783, £45.00, April 2013
HB, 244p, Italian Perspectives 26, Legenda
Dada as Text,
Thought and
Theory
Stephen Forcer (Author)
‘One cannot even say in its favour that it bears witness to
a period and a moment in our literary history.’ So writes
Antoine Adam in his magisterial history of 17th-century
French literature. But can we really say that the Roman
bourgeois bears no witness to its period? Craig Moyes
shows how, within the disarticulated narrative of the
Roman bourgeois, Furetière - the titular abbot, the sitting
academician, the secret lexicographer, the experimental
novelist - was uniquely placed to explore a changing literary
economy marked by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the decline
of aristocratic largesse, and the subsequent centralization of
artistic patronage around the personal reign of Louis XIV and
the new administration of Colbert.
9781907747991, £40.00, January 2013
HB, 168p, Research Monographs in French Studies 34,
Legenda
Likenesses
Translation, Illustration,
Interpretation
Matthew Reynolds
(Author)
Language & Literature
42
The Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form
of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century
Europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which
cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda.
Based on extensive close analysis of French-language Dada
work in its original form this major reappraisal looks at a
broad range of media and topics — including poetry, film,
philosophy, and quantum physics — in order to get beyond
Dada’s typecasting as avant-garde anti-hero and present Dada
in a radically new set of guises: poetic and textually subtle;
intellectually and philosophically meaningful; peaceable
and quasi-Buddhist; and, perhaps most uncomfortably of
all, conformist and reactionary.
9781907975837, £40.00, May 2013
HB, Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies
39, Legenda
Translation, illustration and interpretation have at least
two things in common. They all begin when sense is
made in the act of reading: that is where illustrative
images and explanatory words begin to form. And they
all ask to be understood in relation to the works from
which they have arisen: reading them is a matter of
reading readings. Likenesses explores this palimpsestic
realm, with examples from Dante to the contemporary
sculptor Rachel Whiteread. The complexities that
emerge are different from Empsonian ambiguity or
de Man’s unknowable infinity of signification: here,
meaning dawns and fades as the hologrammic text is
filled out and flattened by successive encounters.
9781907975820, £45.00, June 2013
HB, Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 30
Legenda