English Studies
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Melanie A Hanson
Eyes Wide Shut: Re-Envisioning Christina Rossetti’s Poetry and Prose
€29.90ibidem240 PagesChristina Rossetti’s poetry and prose, written in 19th-century England, deals with the human fixation on appearance. Her belief in the Tractarian precepts of the Oxford Movement, primarily expostulated...Available -
€29.90ibidem162 PagesInci Bilgin Tekin's study offers a comparative perspective on two very challenging contemporary female playwrights, Liz Lochhead and Cherrie Moraga, and their Scottish and Chicanese adaptations of myths...Available
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Zeynep Zeren Atayurt
Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing
€29.90ibidem210 PagesThe ‘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...Available -
Stefanie Rudig
Encounters avec l’Autre in Contemporary Montreal Literature
Aspects of Francophone-Anglophone Interactions at the Turn of the New Millennium
€24.90ibidem142 PagesA peculiar war is raging in Quebec’s largest city: one talks about ‘linguistic battles’ being fought daily in the streets of Montreal, where Anglophones are concentrated in the otherwise predominantly...Available -
Hasan Baktir, Mustafa Kirca
The Representation of the Ottoman Orient in Eighteenth Century English Literature
Ottoman Society and Culture in Pseudo-Oriental Letters, Oriental Tales and Travel Literature
€29.90ibidem220 PagesNoticing the importance of the fact that there is a growing interest in oriental countries and cultures, Hasan Baktir studies in his book the representation of the “Ottoman Orient” in 18th century...Available -
Mustafa Kirca
Alan Ayckbourn in Chekhov's Footsteps. A Study of Chekhovian Character Traits in Ayckbourn Drama
€22.00ibidem104 PagesMustafa Kirca explores the dark sides of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy by comparing the playwright’s characters with those of Chekhov’s drama and drawing a parallelism in the character portrayal of both...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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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