Studies in English Literatures
Herausgeber: Koray Melikoğlu
ISSN 1614-4651
Die von Koray Melikoğlu herausgegebene literaturwissenschaftliche Reihe Studies in English Literatures (SEL) befasst sich sowohl mit der von jeher in der Anglistik und Amerikanistik untersuchten Literatur als auch mit anderen international beachteten englischsprachigen Autorinnen und Autoren wie Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head oder Wole Soyinka.Die Reihe, die von der Kritik bislang schon mit viel Lob und Anerkennung bedacht wurde – siehe auch die untenstehenden Beispiele von Rezensionen über Bände in der Reihe – steht allen theoretischen Ansätzen sowie Monographien wie Sammelbänden gleichermaßen offen.
Der Herausgeber:
Koray Melikoğlu studierte Anglistik und Linguistik an der Freien Universität Berlin sowie am University College Cardiff und war an den Universitäten Yeditepe und Istanbul tätig. In seinen Publikationen beschäftigte er sich mit Shakespeare, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Flann O’Brien und Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Naghmeh Varghaiyan
The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction
34,90 €ibidem234 SeitenIn 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...
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34,90 €ibidem196 SeitenThis 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...verfügbar -
Rana Tekcan
Too Far for Comfort
A Study on Biographical Distance. Second, Revised and Expanded Edition
29,90 €ibidem194 SeitenThe 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...verfügbar -
29,90 €ibidem262 SeitenThis 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...verfügbar -
Annie Gagiano
Dealing with Evils. Essays on Writing from Africa
29,90 €ibidem346 SeitenThis 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...verfügbar -
Paul Fox, Koray Melikoglu
Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction
29,90 €ibidem286 SeitenThe 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...verfügbar -
33,00 €ibidem430 SeitenThis 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...verfügbar -
Gianluca Delfino
Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris
34,90 €ibidem254 SeitenGianluca Delfino’s study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris’s works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author’s complex imagination. As a valuable contribution...verfügbar -
Zeynep Zeren Atayurt
Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing
29,90 €ibidem210 SeitenThe ‘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...verfügbar -
29,90 €ibidem220 SeitenPaola 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...verfügbar
