English Studies
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€29.90ibidem240 PagesWhen the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war migrations to Britain that would form part of modern, multicultural...Available
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Koray Melikoglu
Life Writing. Contemporary Autobiography, Biography, and Travel Writing
Proceedings of a Symposium Held by the Department of American Culture and Literature Halic University, Istanbul, 19-21 April 2006
€24.90ibidem360 PagesThese proceedings of the international 2006 symposium ‘The Theory and Practice of Life Writing: Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/modern Literature’ at Haliç University, Istanbul,...Available -
€19.90ibidem108 PagesThe theoretical basis of this book is the assumption that stereotyping is a phenomenon which manifests itself primarily through language. It is further based on the observation that slang provides a large...Available
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Daniel M Shea
James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism
€24.90ibidem206 PagesJames Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism examines anew how myth exists in Joyce’s fiction. Using Joyce’s idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism, this study explores how the rejected...Available -
€24.90ibidem152 PagesMargaret Atwood's novels are photographs of her characters' lives: while words only ever describe her protagonists’ blurred visions of their pasts, their 'true' stories are told in subtexts which run...Available
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Adrian Knapp
The Past Coming to Roost in the Present
- Historicising History in Four Post-Apartheid South African Novels: André P. Brink’s Imaginings of Sand, Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying, J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to our Hillbrow
€19.90ibidem116 PagesSince the final demise of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has undergone dramatic changes in the political, social, and economic sphere. It is not surprising that these changes have also resulted in contentious...Available -
Jaroslav Kušnír
Ideology and Aesthetics in American Literature and Arts
€24.90ibidem204 PagesThis book includes contributions by African, East and West European, Asian and North American scholars which deal with and compare ideological and non-ideological approaches to the analysis of literary,...Available -
Oya Berk, Sırma Soran Gumpert
Power and Victimization - The Rhetoric of Sociopolitical Power and Representations of Victimhood in Contemporary Literature
Proceedings of a Symposium Held by the Department of American Culture and Literature Haliç University, Istanbul, 13-15 April 2005
€24.90ibidem288 PagesThese proceedings of the symposium ‘The Rhetoric of Sociopolitical Power and Representations of Victim-hood in Contemporary Literature,’ conducted by the Department of American Culture and Literature...Available -
Steffi Retzlaff
Tradition, Solidarity and Empowerment: The Native Discourse in Canada
An Analysis of Native News Representations
€29.90ibidem344 Pages“This study represents a significant step towards understanding an important social phenomenon in Canada at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century. Throughout much of the...Available -
€24.90ibidem218 PagesJaroslav Kušnír’s book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction is a sequel to his previous study on American postmodern fiction entitled Poetika americkej postmodernej...Available