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Foreword i am delighted to introduce the new Legenda catalogue. with the continuing support of Maney Publishing and the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA), we have maintained an extensive, exciting and growing publishing programme, showcasing some of the very best research currently being undertaken across the humanities. we remain committed to expanding our activities without compromising on quality. 2012 saw the publication of the first volumes in our new Moving image series. in 2013 we will inaugurate the Germanic Literatures series, which will publish innovative studies of literature in German, Dutch and the scandinavian languages. Details of the first volumes can be found in the following pages. We are also making plans for a further new series, studies in Hispanic and Lusophone cultures. our aim, as ever, is to provide outlets for the best work by both first-time authors and established scholars. I hope you will agree that this catalogue reflects the vitality, range and depth of work in the humanities today. Professor Colin Davis Royal Holloway, university of London chairman of the editorial Board Contents GeRMANic LiteRAtuRes ...........................................................3 GeRMAN AND AustRiAN LiteRAtuRe ...............................3 eNGLisH LiteRAtuRe ..................................................................5 HistoRY oF iDeAs..........................................................................5 FReNcH LiteRAtuRe ...................................................................6 ReseARcH MoNoGRAPHs iN FReNcH stuDies .............8 HisPANic AND PoRtuGuese LiteRAtuRe .......................9 itALiAN LiteRAtuRe .................................................................10 itALiAN PeRsPectiVes .............................................................10 MoViNG iMAGe ..............................................................................12 RussiAN, ceNtRAL AND eAsteRN euRoPeAN LiteRAtuRe ...........................................................13 stuDies iN YiDDisH ....................................................................13 stuDies iN coMPARAtiVe LiteRAtuRe ..........................14 LeGendA edItorIAL BoArd CHAIrMAn Professor Colin Davis, royal Holloway, University of London MAnAGInG edItor Dr Graham Nelson, University of oxford, 41 wellington square, oxford oX1 2JF, UK. email: graham.nelson@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk MAIn serIes Professor Malcolm Cook, University of exeter (French) Professor Robin Fiddian, wadham College, oxford (spanish) Professor Anne Fuchs, University of warwick (German) Professor Paul Garner, University of Leeds (spanish) Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of sussex (english) Professor Marian Hobson Jeanneret, Queen Mary, University of London (French) Professor Catriona Kelly, new College, oxford (russian) Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, oxford (Italian) Professor Martin Maiden, trinity College, oxford (Linguistics) Professor Peter Matthews, st John’s College, Cambridge (Linguistics) Dr Stephen Parkinson, Linacre College, oxford (Portuguese) Professor Suzanne Raitt, william and Mary College, Virginia (english) Professor Ritchie Robertson, The Queen’s College, oxford (German) Professor David Shepherd, Keele University (russian) Professor Michael Sheringham, All souls College, oxford (French) Professor Alison Sinclair, Clare College, Cambridge (spanish) Professor David Treece, King’s College London (Portuguese) GerMAnIC LIterAtUres Professor Ritchie Robertson, University of oxford (Chairman) Dr Barbara Burns, Glasgow University Professor Jane Fenoulhet, University College London Professor Anne Fuchs, University of warwick Professor Susanne Kord, University College London Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, University College London Dr Almut Suerbaum, University of oxford Professor John Zilcosky, University of toronto ItALIAn PersPeCtIVes Professor Simon Gilson, University of warwick (General editor) Dr Francesca Billiani, University of Manchester Dr Manuele Gragnolati, somerville College, oxford Dr Catherine Keen, University College London Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, oxford MoVInG IMAGe edItorIAL CoMMIttee Professor Emma Wilson, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (General editor) Professor Robert Gordon, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Professor Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary, University of London Professor Jo Labanyi, new York University reseArCH MonoGrAPHs In FrenCH stUdIes Diana Knight, University of nottingham (General editor) Adrian Armstrong, Queen Mary, University of London Janice Carruthers, Queen’s University Belfast Nicholas Harrison, King’s College London Neil Kenny, All souls College, oxford Jennifer Yee, Christ Church, oxford reseArCH MonoGrAPHs In FrenCH stUdIes AdVIsorY BoArd Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Murray edwards College, Cambridge Celia Britton, University College London Ann Jefferson, new College, oxford Sarah Kay, new York University Michael Moriarty, University of Cambridge Keith Reader, University of Glasgow stUdIes In CoMPArAtIVe LIterAtUre Professor Stephen Bann, University of Bristol (Chairman) Professor Duncan Large, University of swansea Dr Elinor Shaffer, school of Advanced study, London stUdIes In YIddIsH Professor Gennady Estraikh, new York University Dr Kerstin Hoge, st Hilda’s College, oxford Professor Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2
GerMAnIC LIterAtUres SERIES ISSN: 2052-1456 Germanic Literatures includes monographs and essay collections on literature originally written not only in German, but also in Dutch and the scandinavian languages. Within the German-speaking area, it seeks also to publish studies of other national literatures such as those of Austria and switzerland. the chronological scope of the series extends from the early Middle Ages to the present day. we warmly encourage colleagues to approach us with proposals (www.legendabooks.com/proposals.html). Yvan Goll The Thwarted Pursuit of the Whole By Robert Vilain Germanic Literatures 1 the life of the bilingual writer Yvan Goll (1891–1950) was one of perpetual experimentation and selfrenewal. In the first study to treat Goll’s whole literary career, Robert Vilain explores the full range of his poetry, novels, dramas, libretti, essays, translations and editions — from Expressionism in pre-war Berlin and fisticuffs with André Breton over Surrealism in post-war Paris, to the dream of a new poetry for the atomic age. Goll’s journey took in satirical Überdramen, extravagantly ironic novels and collaborations with Kurt weill in the 1920s, lyrical love poetry for his wife and a lover, and the experiences of his magnificent alter ego Jean sans Terre in the 1930s, and poetry inspired by alchemy, geology and the Kabbalah in the 1940s. ISBN: 978 1 907975 56 1 November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 Sebald’s Bachelors Queer Resistance and the Unconforming Life By Helen Finch Germanic Literatures 2 why do queer bachelors and homosexual desire haunt the works of the German writer w. G. sebald (1944–2001)? in a series of readings of sebald’s major texts, from After Nature to Austerlitz, Helen Finch’s pioneering study shows that alternative masculinities subvert catastrophe in sebald’s works. From the schizophrenic poet ernst Herbeck to the alluring shade of Kafka in Venice, the figure of the bachelor offers a form of resistance to the destructive course of history throughout sebald’s critical and literary writing. sebald’s poetics of homosexual desire trace a ‘line of flight’ away from the patriarchal and repressive order of German society, which, in sebald’s view, led to the disasters of Nazism. ISBN: 978 1 907975 90 5 June 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 Goethe’s Visual World By Pamela currie Germanic Literatures 3 Goethe's ideas on colour and imagery crossed many borderlines: those of artistic processes and philosophical aesthetics, art history and colour theory, together with the science of perception. this investigation into his writings ranges across art from Antiquity, the Renaissance and the eighteenth century, as well as exploring the centrality of these issues to Goethe’s literary work. Questions find answers, but also raise new questions. this systematic sequence of essays, originally written between 1999 and 2011, appeals to readers in all these separate areas, while drawing together their essential coherence. ISBN: 978 1 907975 89 9 April 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 German Narratives of Belonging Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-First Century By Linda shortt Germanic Literatures 4 Since unification, German culture has experienced a boom in discourses on generation, family and place. Linda shortt reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest for belonging that mobilises attachment to counter the effects of postmodern deterritorialisation and globalisation. Investigating twenty-first century narratives of belonging by Reinhard Jirgl, christoph Hein, Angelika overath, Florian illies, Juli Zeh, stephan wackwitz, uwe timm and Peter schneider, shortt examines how the desire to belong is repeatedly unsettled by disturbances of lineage and tradition. in this way, she combines an analysis of supermodernity with an enquiry into German memory contests on the National socialist era, 1968 and 1989, that continue to shape identity in the Berlin Republic. exploring a spectrum of narratives that range from agitated disavowals of place to romances of belonging, this study illuminates the topography of belonging in contemporary Germany. ISBN: 978 1 907975 88 2 2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 Visit the Germanic Literatures series page at www.legendabooks.com/series/gl 3 NEW SERIES GeRMAN AND AustRiAN LiteRAtuRe Goethe’s Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature Gott und Welt 1798–1827 Regina sachers At the beginning of the nineteenth century, philosophy and theology come under increasing pressure owing to the emergence of the modern sciences. the collection Gott und Welt is Goethe's poetic contribution to this conflict, in which an alternative to orthodox christianity was being sought. Following the collection's various stages of composition and publication, this study offers new readings of some of Goethe's best-known poems: 'Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen', 'Dauer im Wechsel', 'Urworte. Orphisch' and 'Wiederfinden'. Sachers shows that Gott und Welt is the long poem on nature which Goethe attempted to write for the last third of his life. As such it represents Goethe's unique answers to the intellectual challenges posed by the dawning age of science. ISBN: 978 1 907747 97 7 2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 The Present Word Culture, Society and the Site of Literature Essays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle edited by John walker this book addresses three key areas of intellectual enquiry: literary criticism, cultural critique, and philosophical theology. once closely related, especially in the catholic tradition, they often appear to be separate and unconnected domains in the modern university. the work of Nicholas Boyle is one of the most significant recent attempts to reconnect them. Responding to that initiative, The Present Word challenges this fragmentation of knowledge. Several of the essays reflect a major change of emphasis in literary studies over the last two decades: the reconnection of an idea of literary criticism closely related to the experience of reading, and the wider societal and political concerns addressed by cultural studies. contributors also debate, from both perspectives, whether theological concepts can illuminate the secular culture in which literature is written and read. ISBN: 978 1 907975 61 5 June 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50
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