{"title":"Legenda","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781781886502","title":"The Living Death of Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiving-dead characters appear surprisingly often in the realist works of Balzac and Zola, and in the modern poetry of Baudelaire. In this era of industrialization and modernization, images of the living dead disrupt this state of the new and make visible the impossibility of erasing the past. A skeleton that communicates with a character during a shopping trip, a body taken over by a past ancestor, a ghost that haunts through the floorboards, or a more symbolic dead heart - living death takes many shapes. In readings of these authors, Dorothy Kelly, who has written extensively on the literature of this period, charts the various ways that this image permeates certain works of these three authors and the meanings that it generates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303391768949,"sku":"9781781886502","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781886502_17ebfd87-7f3e-4c20-8faa-7a5dca82e062.jpg?v=1786025979"},{"product_id":"9781781885246","title":"Naturalism Against Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘On one such occasion, he stopped in front of the mirror and looked at himself very carefully, trying to discover on his discoloured face anything, any sign that would denounce the black race. He observed himself well, separating his hair at the the roots, stretching the skin on his cheeks, examining his nostrils and teeth; finally he flung the mirror onto the dresser, consumed by an immense and fathomless dissatisfaction.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn age of freak shows, sexual pathologies and scientific racism, the late-nineteenth century saw doom-laden predictions made about the future of Europe’s cultural and economic periphery, supposedly beset by endemic licentiousness and darker skin. Querying the widespread view that Naturalist literatures reinforced such prejudices, David J. Bailey charts their playful travels around the Lusophone world, where a perceived breakdown of family, nation and empire both confirmed and threatened the authority of European ‘science’. Drawing on queer and postcolonial theory, contemporaneous thought, and encompassing a range of extraordinary and often humorous texts, from scandalised tales of pederasty to the biting social critiques of Eça de Queirós, Bailey uncovers a dynamic, transatlantic network of Portuguese and Brazilian writers who, in compelling and remarkably similar ways, resisted the devastating implications of ‘scientific’ approaches to life and love at the \u003cem\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Bailey is a Lecturer in Portuguese Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303543976309,"sku":"9781781885246","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781885246_45c93ec5-78e4-4318-90fe-af595ef4359b.jpg?v=1786025978"},{"product_id":"9781781887295","title":"The Law of Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe place of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) in European literature is assured, and his significance for the development of German philosophy widely acknowledged. Here the focus is more specifically upon his poetics: a body of reflections on the nature of poetry and the meaning of the poet’s vocation. These are found in poems and letters, in difficult (and often fragmentary) theoretical writings, and — in the case of the ’Pindar Fragments’ — texts in which the distinction between poetry and theoretical reflection seems to be overcome. Although Hölderlin’s poetics is considered from various points of view, the themes that emerge most frequently are Hölderlin’s notion of a ’poetic law’ or ’poetic logic’, and his conception of tragedy and of what might be called the ’anti-tragic’. Also included is a new translation of Hölderlin’s ’Notes’ on Sophocles, which are here provided with a commentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Lewis received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge University. He has taught at Princeton University, and held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Free University, Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304073441653,"sku":"9781781887295","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781887295_e6f5c315-3bec-4cb6-b68c-6728541ea0a0.jpg?v=1786025982"},{"product_id":"9781781884850","title":"Futurism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers a unique and fresh perspective on Italian Futurism by approaching it, for the first time, through the lens of \u003cem\u003emicrostoria\u003c\/em\u003e. In this ‘history from below’ of what is one of Europe’s most famous and important avant-garde movements, large-scale questions on the history of Futurism are explored by focusing on objects, practices and situations as diverse as The Church, Puppets, The Letterhead or Gymnastics. With contributions from fifteen renowned international scholars, the book offers an exciting, kaleidoscopic view of Futurism and its multiple artistic, political and societal connections. The final chapter of the book is an interview with Günter Berghaus, one of Futurism’s most dedicated and prolific scholars today, to whom the book is dedicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSascha Bru is Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Leuven; Luca Somigli is Professor of Italian at the University of Toronto; Bart Van den Bossche is professor of Italian Literature at the University of Leuven.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304487727477,"sku":"9781781884850","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781884850_036e09a2-2018-4f00-b8f2-c799311022bc.jpg?v=1786025974"},{"product_id":"9781781884645","title":"Horizontalism and Historicity in Argentina","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the final months of 2001 the state of Argentina came close to collapse, as government, banking and social order all broke down. The Argentinazo - civil unrest to some, a democratic uprising to others - had a seismic impact on how the country saw itself, its history and its future. The sense that boundaries had been broken enabled new approaches, not only in making sense of current events but also in forging an alternative way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the post-Crisis period, a revitalized sense of historicity became a crucial mobilizing impetus, along with a new model for society: horizontalism, a non-vertical model of social and political organising grounded in mutual respect and co-operation. This sea-change in attitudes was reflected in the cultural life of the decade which followed, as artists and activists explored multiple new subjectivities of citizenship. In this rich and broad-ranging study, Brigid Lynch traces the cultural legacy of the 2001 Argentine Crisis through representations of historicity and horizontalism in literary fiction, journalism, films and television drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrigid Lynch is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304487924085,"sku":"9781781884645","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781884645_e0d47830-bce8-4489-a7b3-63648a2b690d.jpg?v=1786025971"},{"product_id":"9781781887998","title":"Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis monograph offers the first full-length account of the political intervention of the nineteenth-century journalist, novelist and translator Francisca de Assis Martins Wood (1802-1900). Her unusual profile included several decades spent in England, which shaped her perception of Portugal. Why then was her intriguing life-story not examined earlier? And why did mid-nineteenth century female authorship remain neglected for so long in Portuguese cultural memory? After revisiting such matters with fresh eyes, the focus turns to the pioneer weekly periodical that Wood headed for two years, \u003cem\u003eA Voz Feminina\u003c\/em\u003e, later rebranded \u003cem\u003eO Progresso\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrucially, during an age when the transnational circulation of ideas became amplified through the press, the cosmopolitan Wood cultivated strategic connections with early suffragists across Europe. In a string of remarkable editorials, she tackled Church hegemony and pushed for women’s rights. Her daring anticlerical thinking in the late 1860s, which anticipated an agenda more readily associated to this day with the work of Eça de Queirós, stands out for the sheer modernity of its gender analysis. One hundred and fifty years on, this study uncovers the backlash against Wood’s progressive views, led by another Lisbon-based periodical, \u003cem\u003eBem Público\u003c\/em\u003e [The Public Good], and reclaims this salient public intellectual as a worthy precursor of Portuguese first-wave feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCláudia Pazos Alonso is Professor of Portuguese and Gender Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304488710517,"sku":"9781781887998","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781887998_0d3beb09-b066-42c5-81b5-210152885869.jpg?v=1786025985"},{"product_id":"9781781885000","title":"The Foreign Connection","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe word ‘foreign’ has gathered hostile associations but its Latin root – \u003cem\u003eforis\u003c\/em\u003e: a door – is close to the spirit of these writings which explore openings and connections across and within artforms, eras, cultures and languages. McKendrick traces a series of dynamic, often unexpected refigurations of idea, image and structure from Gaius Valerius Catullus to Valerio Magrelli, from the French early Renaissance miniaturist Jean Bourdichon to the contemporary Belgian painter Luc Tuymans. Various kinds of translation and traversal are central to these essays which consider art and poetry from Italy, France, Germany, Russia as well as Ireland, Britain and the U.S. Other topics include Titian’s debt to Ovid and Catullus, Dante seen through translation and through Botticelli’s illustrations, Michelangelo as poet, Blake as painter, the use of Plutarch by Shakespeare and Cavafy, the strange convergences between Whitman and Baudelaire, and Elizabeth Bishop, as both poet and painter, as well as her Baudelairean correspondences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie McKendrick is distinguished both as a poet and translator, and is a Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana. 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