Studies in English Literatures
Editor: Koray Melikoğlu
ISSN 1614-4651 (print)
ISSN 2940-5769 (online)
Studies in English Literatures (SEL), edited by Koray Melikoğlu, is a series of scholarly monographs and collected volumes devoted to both the traditional corpus studied in English and American Studies Departments and to widely-read Anglophone writers outside this corpus, such as Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head, and Wole Soyinka. The series, whose individual volumes have been received favourably as evidenced by the reviews quoted in these pages, is open to all theoretical approaches.
The General Editor:
The General Editor, Koray Melikoğlu, studied English and Linguistics at the Free University Berlin and University College Cardiff. He worked at Istanbul and Yeditepe universities and has published on Shakespeare, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Flann O’Brien, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Pablo Armellino
Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative. An Account of the Socio-topographic Construction of Space in Australian Literature
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Bianca DelVillano
Ghostly Alterities. Spectrality and Contemporary Literatures in English
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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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Melanie A Hanson
Decapitation and Disgorgement. The Female Body's Text in Early Modern English Drama and Poetry
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Shafquat Towheed
New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947
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Daniel M Shea
James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism
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