Shakespeare in catalan: translating imperialism

145,96€

Who was Xespir? Why are Catalan adaptations and performances of Shakespeare currently causing such a stir internationally? What happens to the Shakespeare we think we all know when he is translated in..

The novel, volume 2: formes and themes

127,57€

Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from ..

Le roman de de Jaufre et les Narty Kaddzytae: modalités du merveilleux et structures indo-européennes

110,00€

Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815

107,60€

Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815 explores the conflicted and conflicting interpretations of Don Quixote available to and deployed by disenchanted writers of America's new republic. It argues tha..

The poetics of empire in the Indies (Prophecy and imitation in 'La Araucana' and 'Os Lusíadas')

106,08€

Theatre in Madrid and Barcelona, 1892-1936: rivals or collaborators?

103,88€

El libro examina las prácticas teatrales en Madrid y Barcelona a principios de siglo XX, áy las relaciones entre ellas. Mediante el análisis de la prensa coetánea, el autor estudia la interpretaci..

Fairies in Nineteenth-century art and literature

100,63€

Although fairies are now banished to the realm of childhood, these diminutive figures were central to the work of many Victorian painters, novelists, poets and even scientists. It would be no exaggera..

Españoles en Europa: identidad y exilio desde la edad moderna hasta nuestros días

92,00€

Españoles en Europa: Identidad y Exilio desde la Edad Moderna a nuestros días focuses on exile as a great identifier of modern times. It constitutes a highly comprehensive view of Hispanic exile thr..

The art of detective fiction

90,03€

Against the event: the everyday and the evolution of modernist narrative

90,00€

This intriguing, persuasive book raises the critical stakes for thinking about the everyday, going beyond, for instance, Liesl Olson's Modernism and the Ordinary; it offers new insight into the develo..

The classical plot and the invention of western narrative

87,56€

Modernism, nationalism, and the novel

87,56€

Mimesis and empire (The New World, Islam, and european identities)

87,56€

In Mimesis and Empire Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and ea..

Culture and authority in the Baroque

83,49€

The cultural forms often referred to as 'baroque' are the most spectacular expressions of early modern Europe's effort to mediate between knowledge and power at a time when political authority was bei..

Menippean satire reconsidered (from Antiquity to the 18th Century)

79,59€

Despite the long history of Menippean satire, from antiquity through the early modern era in Europe and up to the present, the genre often has resisted precise definition and has evoked critical contr..

The epic hero

78,49€

Drawing on diverse disciplines including classics, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, this product of twenty years' scholarship provides a detailed topology of the hero in western myth: b..

De Baudelaire au surréalisme (Essais)

78,00€

Tales of seduction: the figure of Don Juan in spanish culture

75,30€

The lion and the eagle (Interdisciplinary essays on german-spanish relations over the centuries)

71,10€

The connections between German and Spanish culture over the centuries are as interesting and as myriad as they are often overlooked. The Lion and the Eagle is the first comprehensive collection of stu..

The Oxford companion to fairy tales (The western fairy tale tradition

68,93€

From its roots in the oral tradition to the sophisticated, postmodernist reworkings of the present day, the fairy tale has retained its powerful hold over the cultural imagination of Europe and North ..

The Bible and its rewritings

67,83€

La épica románica y la tradición árabe

64,91€

La obra del Prof. Galmés de Fuentes supone una revisión profunda y original de las relaciones entre la épica románica -fundamentalmente la épica francesa de raíz carolingia- y la tradición ára..

The spiritual history of ice: romanticism, science, and the imagination

60,52€

At the turn of the nineteenth century, crystallographers, glaciologists, and polar explorers for the first time demonstrated that frozen shapes are not dead but bearers of vital powers. Aware of this ..

Antonio de Guevara y Europa

60,00€

A Baedeker of Decadence: charting a literary fashion, 1884-1927

59,92€

A Baedeker of Decadence presents an international collection of thirty-two works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on the decadent novel, of..

Ariadne's thread: a guide to international tales found in classical literature

59,10€

From Cinderella to the Boy Who Cried Wolf to the Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In additi..

Tematología comparada de la concepción del amor en dos literaturas tradicionales: La Celestina e Historia del ala oeste

59,00€

The symbolist movement: a critical appraisal

57,00€

Fools are everywhere (The court jester around the world)

56,14€

"Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history - the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky ch..

The genius to improve an invention: literary transitions

55,26€

This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. Here, Piero Boitani adopts Dryden's notion as a fram..

Stealing Helen: the myth of abducted wife in comparative perspective

53,80€

It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the T..

Le mythe en littérature (Essais offerts à Pierre Brunel à l'occasion de son 60ème. aniversaire)

52,17€

The symbolist movement: a critical appraisal

52,00€

Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the fairy tale tradition

50,40€

"In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of the..

The modernist papers

50,28€

Il était une fois... les contes de fées (Catalogue de l'éxposition, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 2001)

49,76€

Dante and the greeks

49,75€

Homer in the Twentieth-century: between world literature and the western canon

49,50€

El mito de don Juan en la ópera Don Giovanni de Mozart (Música y literatura)

49,00€

En el marco de la literatura comparada (literatura y música), este estudio pretende dar cuenta de los mecanismos musicales y literarios que se articulan en la vertebración del mito de don Juan en la..

Stefan Zweig: ¿cavernícola o imperialista? (Análisis del proyecto comparatista de Zweig a partir de los postulados de la Crítica de la razón literaria)

49,00€

A partir de la Crítica de la razón literaria de Jesús G. Maestro, este libro analiza el proyecto comparatista de Stefan Zweig titulado Los constructores del Mundo. La tesis de Ramón de Rubinat es ..

La llegada de los bárbaros: la recepción de la literatura hispanomaericana en España, 1960-1981

49,00€

Este amplio estudio se divide en dos partes bien diferenciadas. La primera se compone de varios estudios sobre los aspectos más relevantes y la evolución de lo que hoy conocemos como el boom de la n..

The sea! The sea! (The shout of the Ten Thousand in modern imagination)

48,98€

The story of "Thalatta! Thalatta!" (The sea! The sea!), the shout first uttered on a mountain in eastern Turkey by the famous Ten Thousand, the army of Greek mercenaries whose adventures in what are n..

A history of the english Bible as literature

47,04€

Ovid and the moderns

43,31€

Theodore Ziolkowski approaches Ovid's Latin poetry as a comparatist, not as a classicist, and maintains that the contextualization of individual works helps place them in a larger tradition. Covering ..

The historical novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe: representations of reality in history and fiction

43,00€

Even at the height of its popularity in the early nineteenth century the historical novel faced criticism at many levels. After its predominance in the 1810s and 1820s writers and historians shunned i..

La Historia de España en la Literatura Francesa : una fascinación...

42,00€

La originalidad de este estudio no consiste sólo en su extraordinaria amplitud, gracias a la colaboración de más de cuarenta especialistas de ámbitos diversos y procedentes de muchas universidades..

Sin fronteras: ensayos de literatura comparada en homenaje a Claudio Guillén

41,50€

Unexpected affinities: reading across cultures

40,72€

Jewish exegesis and homeric scholarship in Alexandria

40,50€

'Niehoff's work clearly and carefully situates the work of Philo in its broader Alexandrian context. Her consistent use of sources largely unavailable to many scholars, particularly for those concerne..

A companion to the fairy tale

40,25€

This work contains Introduction by Derek Brewer. This book discusses the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpre..

La literatura en la literatura: Actas del XIV Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada

40,00€

Cuando Europa hablaba francés: extranjeros francófilos en el Siglo de las Luces

40,00€

Tras la muerte de Luis XIV París se convirtió en un hervidero de nuevas ideas, salones, cenáculos y debates. La vida intelectual y mundana era apasionante en la capital francesa, referente de la Eu..

Adulterous alliances (Home, state, and history in early modern european drama and painting)

38,74€

Buried alive

37,93€

Beyond greek: the beginnings of latin literature

37,60€

By putting Roman literature into a global context, Denis Feeney shows that the Romans, far from being cultural imitators, were actually the innovators of a new form of cultural transmission. This is t..

The classical moment (Views fron seven literatures)

37,60€

La literatura española del siglo XIX y las literaturas europeas (V Coloquio)

37,00€

The Alchemist in Literature: From Dante to the Present

37,00€

Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from..

Time, history, and literature: selected essays

36,60€

Romantic geographies (Discourses of travel, 1775-1844)

36,57€

Fait et fiction : Pour une frontière (Poétique)

36,30€

L'idée selon laquelle les frontières séparant la fiction de la réalité seraient définitivement brouillées est largement répandue. Ce livre est consacré à l'examen de cette situation et à la..

Historia de las literaturas de vanguardia

36,00€

Breviario de saberes inútiles: ensayos sobre sabiduría en China y literatura occidental

36,00€

Cuenta Simon Leys que cuando era un joven estudiante tuvo la suerte de acudir a una peculiar escuela en Hong Kong. Uno de sus condiscípulos, calígrafo y grabador, la bautizó como «Escuela de la in..

Bridge-Zubia: imágenes de la relación cultural entre el País Vasco y Estados Unidos

36,00€

Este libro reflexiona sobre las representaciones y tensiones en las relaciones culturales entre los Estados Unidos y el País Vasco. En la primera parte se ofrece una interpretación de las imágenes ..

The european avant-garde, 1900-1940

35,53€

This book offers an informative cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major Europe..

El cànon occidental

35,45€

De Cataluña y España: relaciones culturales y literarias (1868-1960)

35,00€

La realidad histórica de España desde el siglo XIX hasta nuestros días sólo se puede comprender desde la polifonía, desde la mismidad de las diferencias. Cataluña representa la cara más notoria..

La tela de Ariosto: el "Furioso" en España, traducción y recepción

35,00€

Con accordato canto: studi sulla poesia tra Italia e Spagna nei secoli XV-XVII

35,00€

Ci fu un'epoca in cui «Italia e Spagna costituirono uno spazio culturale unico». Partendo da questo presupposto, il volume intende proporre al lettore un percorso che lo accompagni nell'immenso terr..

Masterpieces of metonymy: from ancient greek times to now

34,50€

Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamilar for something familiar, metonymy connects something familiar with som..

1492 (The poetics of diaspora)

34,02€

"This book takes as a premise the 'lost world' of a shared Indian, Arab, and Jewish culture which was destroyed in the early modern period by the expansion of Europe. For Ducker, as for Salman Rushdie..

A companion to tragedy

33,35€

Prosa II (Obra completa, III)

33,06€

El tercer tomo de la Obra completa de Luis Cernuda reúne la extensa obra dispersa e inédita que abarca la narración, el teatro, la crítica y algunos textos misceláneos más personales. Esta varie..

Shakespeare y Cervantes

33,00€