English Studies

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  1. Eyes Wide Shut: Re-Envisioning Christina Rossetti’s Poetry and Prose
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    240 Pages
    Christina 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...
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  2. Myths of Oppression: Revisited in Cherrie Moraga's and Liz Lochhead's Drama
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    162 Pages
    Inci 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...
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  3. Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing
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    210 Pages
    The ‘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...
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  4. Encounters avec l’Autre in Contemporary Montreal Literature

    Stefanie Rudig

    Encounters avec l’Autre in Contemporary Montreal Literature

    Aspects of Francophone-Anglophone Interactions at the Turn of the New Millennium
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    142 Pages
    A 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...
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  5. The Representation of the Ottoman Orient in Eighteenth Century English Literature

    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
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    220 Pages
    Noticing 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...
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  6. Alan Ayckbourn in Chekhov's Footsteps. A Study of Chekhovian Character Traits  in Ayckbourn Drama
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    104 Pages
    Mustafa 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...
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  7. Seeking a Felicitous Space on the Frontier. The Progression of the Modern American Woman in O. E. Rölvaag, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Willa Cather
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    124 Pages
    This 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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  8. Iris Murdoch and Her Work: Critical Essays

    Mustafa Kirca, Sule Okuroglu

    Iris Murdoch and Her Work: Critical Essays

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    246 Pages
    Iris 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...
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  9. Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative. An Account of the Socio-topographic Construction of Space in Australian Literature
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    290 Pages
    Ob-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...
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  10. Ghostly Alterities. Spectrality and Contemporary Literatures in English
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    190 Pages
    Ghostly 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...
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