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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
Uncovering the Hidden The Works and Life of Der Nister Gennady Estraikh (Editor); Mikhail Krutikov (Editor); Kerstin Hoge (Editor) Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) is widely regarded as the most enigmatic author in modern Yiddish literature. His pseudonym, which translates as ‘The Hidden One’, is as puzzling as his diverse body of works, which range from mystical symbolist poetry and dark expressionist tales to realist historical epic. Although part of the Kiev Group of Yiddish writers, which also included David Bergelson and Peretz Markish, Der Nister remained at the margins of the Yiddish literary world throughout his life, mainstream success eluding him both in- and outside the Soviet Union. Yet, to judge from the quantity of recent research and translation work, der Nister is today one of the best remembered Yiddish modernists. The present collection of twelve original articles by international scholars re-examines Der Nister’s cultural and literary legacy, bringing to light new aspects of his life and creative output. 9781907975844, £45.00, June 2013 HB, Legenda Studies in Yiddish 12, Legenda Language & Literature John Ruskin’s Continental Tour 1833 Edited by K. Hanley & Caroline S. Hull 9781906540852, £45, September 2012 HB, 250p, Legenda Main Series, Maney Publishing Childhood as Memory, Myth & Metaphor Catherine Crimp 9781907975394, £45, September 2012 HB, Legenda Main Series Maney Publishing Shandean Humour in English & German Literature & Philosophy , K. Vieweg, J. Vigus & K. M. Wheeler 9781907975318, £45, September 2012 HB, Legenda Main Series, Maney Publishing Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution, K. Astbury 9781907975424, £45, September 2012 HB, Legenda Main Series, Maney Publishing Symbol and Intuition Edited by H. Hhn & J. Vigus 9781907625046, £45, September 2012 HB, 200p, Legenda Main Series, Maney Publishing Dream Cities Urban Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth Century France, Greg Kerr 9781907975530, £45, November 2012 HB, Legenda Main Series Maney Publishing 43
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