Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative

Pablo Armellino

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 13
• Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative is an exhaustive survey of Australian literature proposing itself as a journey through time and space. With a ... Lees meer

Writing Within/Without/About Sri Lanka

Paola Brusasco

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 16
• Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issues ... Lees meer

Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature

• Paperback | Duits | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 2
• This collection seeks to examine the intersections of aesthetics and morality, of what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in Britis... Lees meer

Seeking a Felicitous Space on the Frontier. The Progression of the Modern American Woman in O. E. Rölvaag, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Willa Cather

Lance Weldy

• Paperback | Duits | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 14
• This monograph seeks to reconstruct the culture of the pioneer woman as presented in O. E. Rölvaag's Giants in the Earth, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Littl... Lees meer

Writing Home

David Ellis

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 5
• When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war migrat... Lees meer

The Rhetoric of Women's Humour in Barbara Pym's Fiction

Naghmeh Varghaiyan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures
• In this study of three of Barbara Pym's novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women's humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and ... Lees meer

James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism

Daniel M Shea

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 3
• "James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism" examines anew how myth exists in Joyce's fiction. Using Joyce's idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths ... Lees meer

Disdeining life, desiring leaue to die. Spenser and the Psychology of Despair.

Paola Baseotto

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 10
• Paola Baseotto's important study stresses death's ubiquity as a concept in Spenser's works, always present in intimate relation to life, whether in th... Lees meer

New Readings in the Literature of British India, C. 1780-1947

Shafquat Towheed

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 9
• The contributions to this book amply demonstrate the richness, vitality, and complexity of the colonial transactions between Britain and India over th... Lees meer

James Joyce: Developing Irish Identity

Thomas Halloran

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 12
• "James Joyce: Developing Irish Identity" follows the increasing focus on Irish identity in Joyce's major works of prose. This book traces the developm... Lees meer

Dealing with Evils

Annie Gagiano

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 11
• This essay collection addresses African writing ranging from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi/San) folktales to some of the classic texts of the Af... Lees meer

History and Race in Caryl Phillips's the Nature of Blood

Maria Festa

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures
• This monograph examines Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throughou... Lees meer

Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing

Zeynep Atayurt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 17
• The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this process of 'othering', or viewing as different, has... Lees meer

Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 4
• The essays in this volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles and methodologies of dete... Lees meer

The Biographer and the Subject

Rana Tekcan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 15
• A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates--on paper--a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fictional... Lees meer

Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction

Taner Can

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 19
• This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed an... Lees meer

Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris

Gianluca Delfino

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 18
• Gianluca Delfino's study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris' works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author's c... Lees meer

Ghostly Alterities. Spectrality and Contemporary Literatures in English.

Bianca Delvillano

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 7
• Ghostly Alterities analyses the meaning of ghostliness in contemporary Anglophone novels - Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes (1998), Toni Morrison's Belov... Lees meer

The Formation of an Irish Literary Canon in the Mid-Twentieth Century.

Wei H Kao

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Literatures | nr. 6
• This scholarly study of the formation of the Irish literary canon in the first half of the twentieth century provides fascinating and often surprising... Lees meer