Book Gallery

The Book Gallery lists some of the books published by Faculty members since 2007, with the most recently published books appearing first.

Use the form below to search the list to find books on particular themes, or by particular Faculty members and/or publishers.

Publisher

Elévations: L'écriture du voyage aérien - la Renaissance

Elevations: Writing the Aerial Voyage in the Renaissance

Series:

Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance

Volume:

489

Author:

Thibaut Maus de Rolley

Publisher:

Droz

(2011)

Travellers lifted by dreams or ecstatic trances; explorers of moons and celestial paradises; inquisitive minds borne on the wings of curiosity; witches and roving demons; knights surveying the world…

Histoires et Savoirs. Anecdotes scientifiques et sérendipité aux XVIème et XVIIème siècles.

Editor:

Fréderique Aít-Touati Anne Duprat

Publisher:

Peter Lang

(2011)

Les anecdota de la science classique — ce que, littéralement, on ne publie pas -, donnent á lire la part secrète d’une histoire faite d’erreurs et de trouvailles fortuites…

Politics of the Gift

Exchanges in Poststructuralism

Series:

Crosscurrents

Author:

Gerald Moore

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press

(2011)

Through readings of figures including Marcel Mauss and Claude Levi-Strauss, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Politics of the Gift argues that what we…

Practising German Grammar

Third Edition

Author:

Katrin Kohl Martin Durrell Gudrun Loftus

Publisher:

Hodder Education

(2011)

This workbook is aimed mainly at university students, and it is designed to support work with Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage, 5th edition, by Martin Durrell…

Resistance and Emancipation

Cultural and Poetic Practices

Series:

(Hispanic Studies, Culture and Ideas)

Editor:

Benjamin Bollig Arturo Casas

Publisher:

Peter Lang

(2011)

This book, which contains contributions in English and in Spanish, is a collection of essays developed from the meetings of the ‘Poetics of Resistance’ network in Leeds (2008) and Santiago de…

The Conte du Graal Cycle

Chrétien de Troyes's 'Perceval', the Continuations, and French Arthurian Romance

Series:

Gallica

Volume:

Author:

Thomas Hinton

Publisher:

D. S. Brewer

(2011)

Chrétien de Troyes’s late twelfth-century Conte du Graal has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day…

Traduire et illustrer le roman au XVIIIe siècle

Editor:

Natalie Ferrand

Publisher:

Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century

(2011)

Мы: Текст и материалы к творческой истории романа

Author:

Evgeny Zamiatin

Editor:

Julie Curtis Marina Iur'evna Liubimova

Publisher:

Mir (St Petersburg)

(2011)

Zamiatin’s anti-utopian novel “We” (1920) was acknowledged by George Orwell as one of the inspirations for his own “1984”, and was banned in the USSR until 1988…

Los colores de la espera: Antología de Nueva Poesía Saharaui

Anthology of New Western Saharan Poetry

Series:

El Extremo Sur

Editor:

Benjamin Bollig Pablo San Martin

Publisher:

Espacio Hudson

(2010)

Anthology of new poetry in Spanish by Western Saharan authors, with an introduction by the editors.

Dante in Oxford

The Paget Toynbee Lectures

Editor:

Martin McLaughlin

Publisher:

Legenda

(2010)

Oxford University’s Paget Toynbee Fund has sponsored a number of significant initiatives on Dante in recent years, first a series of Lectures starting in the mid-1990s, and more recently a number of…

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