Literature – Page 14 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Compassion, the Core Value in Person-centred Care

By: Margreet van der Cingel

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Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this 'soft' value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.

Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this ‘soft’ value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.

Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe

Edited By: Filomena Viana Guarda, Adriana Martins, Helena Gonçalves da Silva

£44.99

This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.

Conrad and the Being of the World

A Reading in Speculative Metaphysics

By: Nicholas Gayle

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Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.

Conrad’s Destructive Element

The Metaphysical World-View Unifying Lord Jim

By: Kenneth B. Newell

£34.99

This new interpretation of Lord Jim uses Conrad's manuscript to reveal the novel as a unified whole. It refutes critics by showing how one metaphysical question gives the story a fixed pattern of meaning from beginning to end, just as Conrad claimed.

This new interpretation of Lord Jim uses Conrad’s manuscript to reveal the novel as a unified whole. It refutes critics by showing how one metaphysical question gives the story a fixed pattern of meaning from beginning to end, just as Conrad claimed.

Constructing a New Canon of Post-1980s Indian English Fiction

By: Sahdev Luhar, Madhurita Choudhary

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In the sphere of Indian English literature, Indian English fiction after the end of the 1980s has emerged as a new “canon”. This monograph highlights the process of literary canon formation in Indian universities, and examines such fiction as an alternative literary canon.

Constructing a System of Irregularities

The Poetry of Bei Dao, Yang Lian, and Duoduo

By: Chee Lay Tan

£47.99

Chee Lay Tan investigates the poetics of three renowned contemporary Chinese poets—Bei Dao, Yang Lian and Duoduo—exiled from China after the 1989 Tiananmen student movement. The author constructs a hermeneutical system that examines the irregularities and polysemy of these poets.

Constructing Identities

The Interaction of National, Gender and Racial Borders

Edited By: Antonio Medina-Rivera, Lee Wilberschied

£44.99

Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.

Constructing the Literary Self

Race and Gender in Twentieth-Century Literature

Edited By: Patsy J. Daniels

£44.99

This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.

Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Writing Back to History and Oppression

By: Charlotte Beyer

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This book explores how contemporary children’s and young adult novels write back to history and oppression. Analyzing works from across the globe, it investigates how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power, language, and social justice.

Contemporary Crime Fiction

Crossing Boundaries, Merging Genres

Edited By: Charlotte Beyer

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This book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing fresh perspectives to the vibrant genre. Topics range from domestic noir and historical crime to race and ethnicity, examining authors like Gillian Flynn, Ian Rankin, and Tana French.

Contemporary Debates in Human Rights and Literature

The Idea of Humanity

Edited By: Elvan Karaman Mez, Ferma Lekesizalin

£64.99

This book offers fresh perspectives on human rights in literature, providing cutting-edge readings of specific works. It engages with current debates about how rights are portrayed across identity, culture, and politics, highlighting human rights as a universal concern.

Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama

Changing Canons and Responses

Edited By: Sajalkumar Bhattacharya, Himadri Lahiri, Arnab Kumar Sinha

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This anthology of essays maps contemporary Indian English poetry and drama, exploring new themes and techniques in the post-globalization era. It considers whether the canon has widened to include innovative forms and generate novel perspectives.

Contemporary Perspectives on Language, Culture and Identity in Anglo-American Contexts

Edited By: Éva Antal, Csaba Czeglédi, Eszter Krakkó

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This collection of essays highlights the variety in contemporary English and American studies and linguistics. It examines travelling and recollection in literature, male and female voices in narratives, representations of history, and the theoretical questions of language.

Contested Histories in Contemporary Travel Writing on India

By: Antara Datta

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This book questions the relevance of travel writing in a flagrantly unequal world. It examines how acclaimed writers like V.S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh engage with the socio-political realities of post-independence India, revealing the interplay of travel, politics, and history.

Contested Identities

Literary Negotiations in Time and Place

Edited By: Roger Nicholson, Gertrud Szamosi, Claudia Marquis

£52.99

These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.

Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels

Reading for Space

By: Şemsettin Tabur

£61.99

Tabur discusses the ways in which the work of Toni Morrison, Dionne Brand, Jhumpa Lahiri and Carolyn See engage with the physical, ideological, and socially constructed “real-and-imagined” spaces of colonialism, justice, diaspora, and risk.

Contesting Categories, Remapping Boundaries

Literary Interventions by Tamil Dalits

By: Krishnamurthy Alamelu Geetha

£41.99

This book traces the evolution of Tamil Dalit writing from the early twentieth century to the present and explores its impact on academia. It analyses the literary works of Tamil Dalits and explores how students respond to this literature in university curricula.

Contextual Identities

A Comparative and Communicational Approach

Edited By: Leo Loveday, Emilia Parpală

£47.99

This interdisciplinary, intercultural book brings the concepts of “identity,” “comparativism,” and “communication” together to reinterpret postmodernism. It investigates multiple identities in discursive contexts and will interest those in image and literary studies.

Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora

Edited By: Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, Alloy Ihuah, Felisters Kripono

£47.99

This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent's chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.

This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent’s chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.

Continental Perceptions of Englishness, ‘Foreignness’ and the Global Turn

By: Adriana Neagu

£58.99

This volume details the uneasy and uncomfortable relationship between English identity and the discipline of English Studies. It draws together literary and cross-cultural studies material to shed light on internal visions and external projections of Englishness.