Literature – Page 16 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe’s Novels

By: Ranjana Das Sarkhel

£58.99

Das Sarkhel explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation, showing that he critiques the postcolonial methodology, and provides an alternative narrative of such an experience.

Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel

Spaces, Nations and Empires

Edited By: Barbara Franchi, Elvan Mutlu

£61.99

This title discusses how, in the Victorian era, space and empire were shaped around the notion of boundaries, by travel narratives and from a variety of methodological and critical perspectives. It assesses a broad range of canonical and lesser-studied Victorian travel texts.

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.

Cryptohistories

Edited By: Alicja Bemben, Rafał Borysławski

£41.99

Cryptohistories is a collection of essays analysing cryptic discourses in history. The focus is on history as a subjective narrative, a conscious construct, and manipulation, exploring the mechanics of the rise and popularity of such narrative strategies.

Cultural and Literary Traditions in India

History, Myth and Orality

Edited By: Prakash Chandra Pradhan, Devender Kumar, Arti Nirmal, Sandip Paul

From £35.99

Indian myth is a living force. This book traces the interplay of history and orality from The Ramayana to diverse folk traditions, revealing how ancient narratives of power, gender, and identity illuminate contemporary conflicts and crises.

Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects

Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego, Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

£34.99

This collection explores women's identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

Cultural Politics in Derek Walcott’s Prose and Poetry

A Postcolonial Reading of Selected Works

By: Naglaa Saad M. Hassan

From £30.99

This book offers a new reading of Derek Walcott, introducing him as a postcolonial theoretician by focusing on his neglected essays. It singles out concepts that parallel and precede seminal views in postcolonial theory, wedding theory to practice by applying them to his poems.

Cultural Transformations in the English-Speaking World

Edited By: Cécile Cottenet, Jean-Christophe Murat, Nathalie Vanfasse

£39.99

This book tackles cultural transformations across the English-speaking world in literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It provides readers with tools to decipher these dynamic phenomena and understand the new life they infuse into cultures.

Culture and Literature

Edited By: Tawhida Akhter

From £30.99

This book draws parallels between different cultures. It explores how culture plays an important role in the development of personality, examines how behavior has a positive and negative effect, and interrogates how literature portrays the reality of a culture.

Culture and Society in Crete

From Kornaros to Kazantzakis

Edited By: Liana Giannakopoulou, E. Kostas Skordyles

£64.99

The papers here explore original aspects of the Cretan cultural and historical tradition, offering unique insights into already established fields. As a result, they will appeal to scholars of modern Greek studies, Renaissance Studies and comparative literature, among others.

Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief

Edited By: Zbigniew Białas, Paweł Jędrzejko, Julia Szołtysek

£49.99

Though resented, grief and grieving occupy a significant place in culture. Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief offers an intellectual excursion into their imposing presence at the intersection of present-day literary, cultural and political phenomena.

Culture Wars and Literature in the French Third Republic

Edited By: Gilbert D. Chaitin

£34.99

In the French Third Republic (1870-1914), literature was mobilized for political and social warfare. These essays analyze how literature became the site for fierce culture wars over national identity, secular education, women’s liberation, and more.

Culture-blind Shakespeare

Multiculturalism and Diversity

Edited By: Maryam Beyad

£46.99

This collection of essays offers a plethora of responses to Shakespeare by both Western and Eastern critics, indicating that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be defined as a global writer.

Curious Exotica (Ink on Paper)

By: Andrea Zittlau

£41.99

Despite efforts by ethnographic museums to acknowledge contemporary cultural practices and aesthetic expressions, this book reveals how the institution of the museum as such continues to be haunted by its previous, restrictive ideas of the other while talking about the self.

Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development

Research and Practice

Edited By: Thomai Alexiou, Christina Gitsaki

£52.99

Representing presentations given at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the chapters here discuss issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world.

Current Research on Language Learning and Teaching

Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Edited By: Azamat Akbarov

£52.99

This first collection of essays by scholars from Bosnia and Herzegovina provides state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences, uniting interdisciplinary perspectives on language acquisition and its applications for foreign language education.

Cynic Satire

By: Eric McLuhan

£47.99

For centuries, critics have failed to define Menippean satire. This book reveals a potent new method: the satire does what a Cynic would. This approach explains the fluid, polymorphous form in any medium and ends with a litmus test for its detection.

D. H. Lawrence and Pre-Einsteinian Modernist Relativity

By: Kumiko Hoshi

£58.99

Hoshi considers Lawrence’s exploration of relativity in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European cultural climate of Modernism and examines his representation of this theoretical concept in four of his more well-known works.

D. H. Lawrence Then and Now

An A to Z of Lawrence Studies

By: David Ellis

£66.99

In 26 short, alphabetically arranged chapters, this jargon-free book explores the strange, often offensive ideas that accompanied D. H. Lawrence's genius. It offers a surprising new portrait that will intrigue even those who know his work well.

In 26 short, alphabetically arranged chapters, this jargon-free book explores the strange, often offensive ideas that accompanied D. H. Lawrence’s genius. It offers a surprising new portrait that will intrigue even those who know his work well.

D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix

Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence

By: Peter Balbert

£52.99

This innovative study of D. H. Lawrence’s fiction examines the dominant presence of a “marriage matrix”, showing how this intense pattern of preoccupation consistently engages with such important subjects in Lawrence’s life as depression, illness, friendship, and renewal.