This book examines Italo Svevo, Giorgio Pressburger and Giuliana Morandini, all make use of individual 'infected' or suppressed voices within their texts which unfold through illness, silence and identity to cast doubt on a more dominant narrative standpoint.
This volume presents the work of Barbara Hardy's essays encompassing 19th and 20th centuries British fiction, poetry, and Shakespeare. It also presents a short biography of her and an extensive bibliography of her work.
This book explores the place of enquiries into literality and fictiveness in early modern French thought, making a historically sensitive contribution to the study of early modern narrative and the relationship between logical clarity and persuasive pragmatics.
This book examines and interrogates the gendered process of nation-building through literature which led to the formation... Læs mere
This book, focusing on the nature of representation and exchange in the seventeenth century, shows how, within the disarticulated narrative of the Roman bourgeois, Antoine Furetiere was placed to explore a changing literary economy marked by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet.
English Responses to French Poetry 1880-1940
This book discusses the English translations of Cervantes's works, the literary genres which developed in his shadow, and the best-known authors who consciously emulated him. It explores the Cervantes's influence upon British literature.
This book explores the importance of Jacques Derrida in French philosophy and France's idea of what studying 'philosophy' might mean after the... Læs mere
In this book, Jennifer Yee examines the ways in which the imperialist enterprise is subverted in the French nineteenth-century exotic literature through detailed case studies of key works by Chateaubriand, Hugo, Flaubert and Segalen.
This book presents an interdisciplinary account of a success story in the history of the society and culture of the Netherlands. It includes... Læs mere
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