Wei H. Kao received his doctorate from the University of Kent, England, and teaches at National Taiwan University. His articles on Irish dramatists and women novelists have appeared, among others, in Moving World: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Journal of Beckett Studies, and Celtic Tiger, Paper Tiger: Irish Writing from Wilde to Weird (2007). His comparative study of Irish and world literatures is forthcoming.
12 Ebooks von Melikoglu Koray Melikoglu
Wei H Kao: The Formation of an Irish Literary Canon in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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 educat …
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Paola Baseotto: “Disdeining life, desiring leaue to die”. Spenser and the Psychology of Despair
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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Paul Fox: Decadences – Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature
This collection seeks to examine the intersections of aesthetics and morality, of what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. The inclination toward either the a …
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€22.99
Paul Fox & Koray Melikoglu: Formal Investigations
The essays in this volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and …
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Melanie A Hanson: Decapitation and Disgorgement. The Female Body’s Text in Early Modern English Drama and Poetry
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 fro …
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Bianca DelVillano: Ghostly Alterities. Spectrality and Contemporary Literatures in English
Ghostly Alterities analyses the meaning of ghostliness in contemporary Anglophone novels – Patricia Grace’s Baby No-Eyes (1998), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), Vivienne C …
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Koray Melikoglu & Koray Melikoglu: Life Writing. Contemporary Autobiography, Biography, and Travel Writing
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, inc …
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Annie Gagiano: Dealing with Evils. Essays on Writing from Africa
This essay collection addresses African writing ranging from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi/San) folktales to some of the classic texts of the African English canon as well as more recent writin …
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Pablo Armellino & Pablo Armellino: Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative. An Account of the Socio-topographic Construction of Space in Australian Literature
Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative is an exhaustive survey of Australian literature proposing itself as a journey through time and space. With a careful selection of texts which recount Australi …
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Gianluca Delfino: 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 valuable contribution t …
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Paul Fox & Koray Melikoglu: Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction
The essays in this revised and expanded volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in t …
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€29.90
Paul Fox: Decadences – Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature
This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. As time passes, the d …
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€22.99
