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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “koray melikoglu”
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  • History and Race in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood

    by Maria Festa, Koray Melikoglu ...
    Series Book 20 - Studies in English Literatures
    This monograph examines Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throughout history with particular focus on Jewish and African diasporas and the storytelling of its migrant characters. Particular attention is given to the analysis of characters revealing different facets of the Jewish question. Maria Festa also provides a ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction: History, Nation, and Narration

    by Taner Can, Koray Melikoglu ...
    Series Book 19 - Studies in English Literatures
    This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of four magical realist novels: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight`s Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor`s The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri`s The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker`s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990). The main ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris

    by Gianluca Delfino, Koray Melikoglu ...
    Series Book 18 - Studies in English Literatures
    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 to Caribbean Literature and Philosophy, Harris’s imaginative approach to reality is discussed in relation to the categories of history and time with reference to several novels, from Palace of The ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Dealing with Evils.

    Essays on Writing from Africa

    by Annie Gagiano, Koray Melikoglu ...
    Series Book 11 - Studies in English Literatures
    In a collection of sixteen essays, Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods. The works discussed here range from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi/San) folktales to some of the classic texts of the African English literary canon and include recent writing about urgent contemporary social and gender issues. As the title indicates, Annie Gagiano's focus is ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Too Far for Comfort

    A Study on Biographical Distance. Second, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Rana Tekcan, Koray Melikoglu ...
    Series Book 15 - Studies in English Literatures
    The dynamic between the biographer and the subject is, perhaps, one of the most fascinating aspects of biography as a genre. How does the biographer stage the illusion that is the narrative life, the illusion that the subject assumes a living form through words? In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in this creative act. Ideally, a ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction

    by Naghmeh Varghaiyan, Koray Melikoglu, Orna Raz ...
    Series Book 21 - Studies in English Literatures
    In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Orhan Pamuk: Critical Essays on a Novelist between Worlds

    A Collection of Essays on Orhan Pamuk

    by Chand Basha M, Hande Gurses, Emrah Efe Khayyat, Beyza Lorenz, Gönül Eda Özgül, Mürüvvet Mira Pinar, Inci Sariz-Bilge, Sevinç Türkkan, Hulya Yagcioglu, Adam McConnel, Zafer Dogan ...
    This collection of new essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who—despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him—remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey itself in relation to the cultural divide between East and West has been the subject of a debate going back to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • I Saw the Dog

    How Language Works

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    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

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    Series Book 22 - The Language Library
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  • Structural Anthropology

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