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Writing Within / Without / About Sri Lanka: Discourses of Cartography, History and Translation in Selected Works by Michael Ondaatje and Carl Muller
Häftad, 2010
743 kr
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Paola Brusasco’s study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issues at the basis of the country’s ethnic conflict. By focussing on two distinctive and representative writers, both Burghers, yet with different personal …
Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction
History, Nation, and Narration
Häftad, 2015
374 kr
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This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of four magical realist novels: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight`s Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor`s The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri`s The …
History and Race in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood
Av Maria Festa
Häftad, 2020
500 kr
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This monograph examines Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throughout history with particular focus on Jewish and African diasporas and the storytelling of its migrant characters. Particular attention is given to the …
Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction
Häftad, 2021
500 kr
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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 others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and …
Staged Encounter: Contemporary Feminism and Women's Drama
Häftad, 2004
296 kr
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This study presents analyses of a wide range of contemporary plays written by women dramatists from a feminist theoretical perspective. It offers creative insights into the exchange between women's dramatic writing and feminist theories of subjectivity and representation in the last three decades …
“Disdeining life, desiring leaue to die”. Spenser and the Psychology of Despair
Av Paola Baseotto, Koray Melikoglu
Häftad, 2008
503 kr
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James Joyce - Developing Irish Identity
A Study of the Development of Postcolonial Irish Identity in the Novels of James Joyce
Häftad, 2009
619 kr
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James Joyce: Developing Irish Identity follows the increasing focus on Irish identity in Joyce’s major works of prose. This study traces the development of the idea of Ireland, the concept of “Irishness,” the formation of a national identity and the need to deconstruct a nationalistic …
Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature
Av Paul Fox
Häftad, 2014
824 kr
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This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. As time passes, the definition of what it takes to be D/decadent changes. The decline from a higher standard, social …
Writing Home. Black Writing in Britain Since the War
Av David Ellis
Häftad, 2007
743 kr
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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 migrations to Britain that would form part of modern, multicultural Britain. A significant role in this social transformation would be played by the …
Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction
Häftad, 2014
748 kr
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The essays in this revised and expanded volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the artists in the genre are as varied as …
Decapitation and Disgorgement. The Female Body's Text in Early Modern English Drama and Poetry
Av Melanie A Hanson, Koray Melikoglu
Häftad, 2007
503 kr
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New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947
Av Shafquat Towheed, Shafquat Towheed
Häftad, 2007
942 kr
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The twelve contributors to this book amply demonstrate the richness, vitality and complexity of the colonial transactions between Britain and India over the last two centuries, and they do so by approaching the topic from a specific perspective: by interpreting the rubric “new readings” as broadly, …
Ghostly Alterities. Spectrality and Contemporary Literatures in English
Av Bianca DelVillano, Koray Melikoglu
Häftad, 2009
487 kr
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Dealing with Evils.
Essays on Writing from Africa
Av Annie Gagiano, Koray Melikoglu
Häftad, 2014
764 kr
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This essay collection addresses African writing ranging from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi/San) folktales to some of the classic texts of the African English canon as well as more recent writing about urgent contemporary social and gender issues. As the title indicates, Annie Gagiano is …
Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing
Häftad, 2011
743 kr
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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 created a repressive discourse, where ‘excess’ has increasingly come to be studied as a ‘physical abnormality’ or a signifier of a ‘personality …
Too Far for Comfort
A Study on Biographical Distance. Second, Revised and Expanded Edition
Av Rana Tekcan
Häftad, 2015
743 kr
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The dynamic between the biographer and the subject is, perhaps, one of the most fascinating aspects of biography as a genre. How does the biographer stage the illusion that is the narrative life, the illusion that the subject assumes a living form through words? In contrast to purely fictional …
