English Studies

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  1. Mind Presentation in Ian McEwan's Fiction

    Karam Nayebpour

    Mind Presentation in Ian McEwan's Fiction

    Consciousness and the Presentation of Character in Amsterdam, Atonement, and On Chesil Beach
    €39.90
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    318 Pages
    This book explores the central fictional minds in three of Ian McEwan's most popular narratives. Mind presentation constitutes the main part of characterization in the second phase of McEwan's writing,...
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  2. Literature and the Cult of Personality

    Gregory Maertz

    Literature and the Cult of Personality

    Essays on Goethe and His Influence
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    254 Pages
    The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction...
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  3. Dynamics of Distancing in Nigerian Drama

    Nadia Anwar

    Dynamics of Distancing in Nigerian Drama

    A Functional Approach to Metatheatre
    €29.90
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    272 Pages
    Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using the conceptual parameters of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy which...
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  4. Beckett, Lacan and the Voice
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    470 Pages
    The voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very...
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  5. Too Far for Comfort

    Rana Tekcan

    Too Far for Comfort

    A Study on Biographical Distance. Second, Revised and Expanded Edition
    €29.90
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    194 Pages
    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...
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  6. Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction

    Taner Can

    Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction

    History, Nation, and Narration
    €29.90
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    262 Pages
    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...
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  7. Dealing with Evils. Essays on Writing from Africa
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    346 Pages
    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...
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  8. Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction
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    286 Pages
    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...
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  9. Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature
    €33.00
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    430 Pages
    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...
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  10. Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris
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    254 Pages
    Gianluca 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...
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