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James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism
"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 …
The Rhetoric of Women's Humour in Barbara Pym's Fiction
In this study of three of Barbara Pyms novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of womens humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous …
The Biographer and the Subject – A Study on Biographical Distance
A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates - on paper - a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing …
James Joyce: Developing Irish Identity – A Study of the Development of Postcolonial Irish Identity in the Novels of James Joyce
This book follows the increasing focus on Irish identity in Joyces major works of prose. This study traces the development of the idea of Ireland, the concept of Irishness, the …
Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction
This study delineates the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children …
Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women`s Writing
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, …
Formal Investigations
These essays explore the taxonomies and relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles, and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian …
Writing Home – Black Writing in Britain Since the War
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 …
Writing Within/Without/About Sri Lanka – Discourses of Cartography, History and Translation in Selected Works by Michael Ondaatje
Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issues at the basis of the country's …
History and Race in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood
This monograph examines Caryl Phillipss The Nature of Blood (1997),a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throughout history with particular focus …
New Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780-1947
The contributions 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 …
Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris
Gianluca Delfino's study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris's works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author's complex imagination. As a …