English Studies

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  1. Writing Home. Black Writing in Britain Since the War
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    240 Pages
    When 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...
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  2. Life Writing. Contemporary Autobiography, Biography, and Travel Writing

    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
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    360 Pages
    These 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,...
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  3. Stereotypes and Slang

    Christian Peer

    Stereotypes and Slang

    A Survey of National Stereotyping in English Slang
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    108 Pages
    The 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...
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  4. James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism
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    206 Pages
    James 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...
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  5. Escaping from the Prison-House of Language and Digging for Meanings in Texts among Texts: Metafiction and Intertextuality in Margaret Atwood’s Novels Lady Oracle and The Blind Assassin
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    152 Pages
    Margaret 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...
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  6. The Past Coming to Roost in the Present

    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
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    116 Pages
    Since 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...
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  7. Ideology and Aesthetics in American Literature and Arts
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    204 Pages
    This 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,...
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  8. Power and Victimization - The Rhetoric of Sociopolitical Power and Representations of Victimhood in Contemporary Literature

    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
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    288 Pages
    These 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...
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  9. Tradition, Solidarity and Empowerment: The Native Discourse in Canada

    Steffi Retzlaff

    Tradition, Solidarity and Empowerment: The Native Discourse in Canada

    An Analysis of Native News Representations
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    344 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...
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  10. American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction
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    218 Pages
    Jaroslav 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...
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