English Studies

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  1. Words as Swords: Verbal Violence as a Construction of Authority in Renaissance and Contemporary English Drama
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    196 Pages
    Verbal 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,...
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  2. James Joyce - Developing Irish Identity

    Thomas Halloran

    James Joyce - Developing Irish Identity

    A Study of the Development of Postcolonial Irish Identity in the Novels of James Joyce
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    164 Pages
    James 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,”...
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  3. The Iron Bars of Freedom. David Foster Wallace and the Postmodern Self
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    166 Pages
    David 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...
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  4. “Disdeining life, desiring leaue to die”. Spenser and the Psychology of Despair
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    194 Pages
    Paola 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,”...
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  5. The Poetics of Shadows: The Double in Literature and Philosophy
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    190 Pages
    The 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...
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  6. Decapitation and Disgorgement. The Female Body's Text in Early Modern English Drama and Poetry
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    180 Pages
    This 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...
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  7. Tickling the Ivories. Power, Violence, Sex and Identity in Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher
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    96 Pages
    Erika Kohut is in her late thirties. By day, she confronts her unrealised ambition as a concert pianist teaching at the Vienna Conservatory, while at night she skulks through porn shows and spies on couples...
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  8. New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947
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    340 Pages
    The 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...
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  9. Anamorphosic Texts and Reconfigured Visions

    Maryna Romanets

    Anamorphosic Texts and Reconfigured Visions

    Improvised Traditions in Contemporary Ukrainian and Irish Literature
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    238 Pages
    In Anamorphosic Texts, Maryna Romanets turns a discriminating lens on a still “liminal” Ukrainian cultural space and, through its relation to the experiences of one of the earliest decolonized nations,...
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  10. The Formation of an Irish Literary Canon in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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    276 Pages
    This 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...
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