Literature – Page 15 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Shakespeare on Love

The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism

By: Ronald Gray

£34.99

Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare's Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.

Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.

Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Critical Approaches

Edited By: Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally

£34.99

This first volume of essays on Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel, A Mercy, presents critical approaches to its richly-layered text. It explores the novel’s setting before slavery was linked to race, illuminating the work for scholars and students.

Depictions of Pestilence in Literature, Media, and Art

Edited By: Kübra Baysal

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This volume explores depictions of contagious diseases in literature, media, and art throughout history. From a post-human and environmental perspective, these narratives of 'plague literature' hold a crucial position in guiding humanity towards a greater ecological awareness.

This volume explores depictions of contagious diseases in literature, media, and art throughout history. From a post-human and environmental perspective, these narratives of ‘plague literature’ hold a crucial position in guiding humanity towards a greater ecological awareness.

Whodunits in Dubliners

What Joyce Says, and How He Means

By: Peter van de Kamp

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This super-sleuth investigation places Joyce’s Dubliners under a microscope, revealing how he manipulates readers while reality is hidden in plain sight. The book solves mysteries that have eluded scholars, and for any who read it, Dubliners will never be the same.

This Watery World

Humans and the Sea

Edited By: Nandita Batra, Vartan P. Messier

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In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Messier and Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. This Watery World reminds us that—onshore and inland—we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea. —Professor Ashton Nichols

21st Century Perspectives on Indian Writing in English

A Time to Turn

Edited By: Debasish Lahiri, Pradipta Mukherjee

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These essays offer a critical lens on Indian writing in English, exploring major voices and their socio-historical contexts. With sections on poetry, prose, and drama, plus incisive interviews, it raises crucial questions about culture, intolerance, and diversity.

Orhan Pamuk and the Poetics of Fiction

By: Umer O. Thasneem

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An exhilarating tour through the mesmerizing world of Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk. This book examines nine novels spanning three decades, detailing the thematics and craft of Turkey’s foremost novelist in a style shorn of dry pedantry and jargon.

On History and Memory in Arab Literature and Western Poetics

Edited By: Bootheina Majoul, Yosra Amraoui

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Texts can be a remedy for forgetting or a vivid testimony to trauma. This volume focuses on Paul Ricœur’s work on memory, history, and forgetting, with special emphasis on the dissension between individual and collective memory.

P. Papinius Statius Volume V

Siluae, Readings and Conjectures

Edited By: Mike J. Edwards, J. B. Hall

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The first-century AD poet Statius wrote epics and the Siluae, a collection of occasional poems. This volume provides a comprehensive conspectus of manuscript readings of the Siluae, with a complete register of conjectures by modern scholars.

Achilles beyond Fury

Other Faces of the Hero

Edited By: Maria Fernanda Brasete, Carlos Morais

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Ten insightful essays explore the fury of Achilles. This investigation uncovers new perspectives on the wrathful warrior, from parallels with the biblical Samson and the consequences of his actions to his lasting influence in Roman iconography and contemporary cinema.

Critical Essays on Literature, Language, and Aesthetics

A Volume in Honour of Milind Malshe

Edited By: Saroja Ganapathy, Arnapurna Rath

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Reflecting Professor Milind Malshe’s research interests, this volume of interdisciplinary essays explores the social sciences and humanities. The essays engage in a free play of many voices and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and casual readers.

An Overview of Hamlet Studies

By: Manpreet Kaur Anand

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This book focuses on the critical contribution of Hamlet Studies (1979-2003), an international journal featuring research from global critics. It brings together textual criticism, critical thought, and performance studies, creating a valuable guide for students and teachers.

The Mystery of Hamlet

A Solution

By: Myron Stagman

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Hamlet kills Polonius thinking he is Claudius. Yet he cannot kill Claudius. Why? Shakespeare understood the Freudian slip centuries before Freud, using hints to reveal the secrets of a disillusioned idealist's tragically conscientious character.

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.

Equine Fictions

Human–Horse Relationships in Twenty-First-Century Writing

By: Jopi Nyman

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This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.

Shi‘ism in the Maghrib and al-Andalus, Volume Two

Traditions

By: John Andrew Morrow

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Uncovering the hidden history of Shi'ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi'ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region's history.

Uncovering the hidden history of Shi’ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi’ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region’s history.

Crossing Textual Boundaries in International Children’s Literature

Edited By: Lance Weldy

£54.99

Believing ‘no text is an island,’ this book explores intertextuality and transformation. It examines texts—especially children's literature—that traverse boundaries of genre, medium, and geography, with essays from a wide range of international scholars.

Believing ‘no text is an island,’ this book explores intertextuality and transformation. It examines texts—especially children’s literature—that traverse boundaries of genre, medium, and geography, with essays from a wide range of international scholars.

Slow Violence in Contemporary American Environmental Literature

By: Erden El

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Slow violence is the gradual environmental catastrophe harming the poor. While often associated with the Global South, this book reveals its devastating impact in America, concentrating on Illinois and Appalachia and exploring its reflection in literature.

Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture

Readings on Cameroon and the Global Space

Edited By: Mbuh Tennu Mbuh, Emelda Ngufor Samba

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Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.

Six Pioneer Accounts of Life on the Old North-West American Frontier, 1790-1850

A Critical Reading

By: Franklin E. Court

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How did six pioneer families survive the 19th-century American wilderness? Through their own accounts, this book reveals their struggle, their grace under pressure, and the clashing cultural identities that would sow the seeds of a divided nation.