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€29.90ibidem276 PagesThis scholarly study of the formation of the Irish literary canon in the first half of the twentieth century provides fascinating and often surprising insights into the ways in which different educational...Available
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Melanie A Hanson
Decapitation and Disgorgement. The Female Body's Text in Early Modern English Drama and Poetry
€24.90ibidem180 PagesThis book brings the ideas of French feminist Hélène Cixous to bear on a number of Early Modern English texts. The female characters of Mariam from Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, Lavinia from...Available -
Shafquat Towheed
New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947
€39.90ibidem340 PagesThe 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...Available -
€24.90ibidem194 PagesPaola Baseotto’s important study stresses death’s ubiquity as a concept in Spenser’s works, always present in intimate relation to life, whether in the recurring, disturbing, figures of “deathwishers,”...Available
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Annie Gagiano
Dealing with Evils. Essays on Writing from Africa
€29.90ibidem346 PagesThis 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...Available -
Thomas Halloran
James Joyce - Developing Irish Identity
A Study of the Development of Postcolonial Irish Identity in the Novels of James Joyce
€24.90ibidem164 PagesJames 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,”...Available -
Pablo Armellino
Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative. An Account of the Socio-topographic Construction of Space in Australian Literature
€34.90ibidem290 PagesOb-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative is an exhaustive survey of Australian literature proposing itself as a journey through time and space. With a careful selection of texts which recount Australian...Available -
€24.90ibidem124 PagesThis 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 Little House on the Prairie, and Willa Cather’s My...Available
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Rana Tekcan
Too Far for Comfort
A Study on Biographical Distance. Second, Revised and Expanded Edition
€29.90ibidem194 PagesThe 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...Available -
€29.90ibidem220 PagesPaola 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...Available