English Studies
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€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...
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Mustafa Kirca, Sule Okuroglu
Iris Murdoch and Her Work: Critical Essays
€29.90ibidem246 PagesIris Murdoch and Her Work assembles eighteen essays on the work of Iris Murdoch by scholars whose researches on Murdoch are already well-known. The book explores different aspects of Murdoch’s work including...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 -
Bianca DelVillano
Ghostly Alterities. Spectrality and Contemporary Literatures in English
€24.90ibidem190 PagesGhostly Alterities analyses the meaning of ghostliness in contemporary Anglophone novels – Patricia Grace’s Baby No-Eyes (1998), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), Vivienne...Available -
€24.90ibidem196 PagesVerbal violence, as a sophisticated means of persuasion and manipulation, is as effective on the stage as physical violence. Since the destructive effects of verbal violence are less recognized and long-term,...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 -
€24.90ibidem166 PagesDavid Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest is one of the most ambitious American novels of the last decade. Its huge scope, its immense array of characters, and Wallace's artful mastery of language make it a...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 -
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
The Poetics of Shadows: The Double in Literature and Philosophy
€24.90ibidem190 PagesThe essays in this collection attest to the richness of the double motif in literature and philosophy. Veering away from predominantly psychoanalytical readings of narratives which foreground the double...Available -
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
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