Literature – Page 18 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

A History of Armenian Women’s Writing

1880-1921

By: Victoria Rowe

£29.99

A History of Armenian Women’s Writing introduces the diversity of literature from 1880-1921. Focusing on six key authors, it reveals how their work formed a literary genealogy and guided debates on national identity, education, the family, and society.

Understanding Institutionalized Education

Towards a Different Philosophy of the School

By: Roland Reichenbach

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This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.

An Approach to Absurd Theatre in the Twentieth Century

By: Pradip Lahiri

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This study examines how 20th-century absurdist theatre reveals humanity’s angst by confronting the subconscious self with the socio-moral façade. It highlights the dramatic revolution of the mid-20th century through the plays of Beckett, Pinter, Ionesco, and others.

Exile and Return as Poetics of Identity in Contemporary Anglo-Caribbean Literature

Becoming Home

By: Eleonora Natalia Ravizza

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This volume explores how the interplay of “exile” and “return” in Anglo-Caribbean literature shapes identity. Against a history of colonialism, diaspora, and slavery, it raises questions about literature's function in an increasingly hybrid and transcultural world.

This volume explores how the interplay of “exile” and “return” in Anglo-Caribbean literature shapes identity. Against a history of colonialism, diaspora, and slavery, it raises questions about literature’s function in an increasingly hybrid and transcultural world.

New Perspectives on Sartre

Edited By: Adrian van den Hoven, Adrian Mirvish

£49.99

Leading scholars from philosophy, psychology, and history cast new light on Sartre. This volume deliberately stresses a middle and final period of his work, exploring diverse topics and offering new insights on authenticity, freedom, and ethics.

The Mirror Crack’d

Fear and Horror in JRR Tolkien's Major Works

Edited By: Lynn Forest-Hill

£34.99

How did Tolkien craft such enduring horror? Scholars reveal how he transformed medieval sources, turning landscapes, dragons, the Undead, and even darkness itself into potent symbols that tap into our most deeply rooted fears.

A Linguistic Analysis of Fictional Conversations in Kafka’s Works

By: Yoshinori Nishijima

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This volume analyzes the “seeing-through utterances” in Kafka's works, suggesting he intentionally used them as a type of rhetoric. As the first study of this technique, this book provides a new perspective for analyzing the rhetoric of Kafka’s works.

This volume analyzes the “seeing-through utterances” in Kafka’s works, suggesting he intentionally used them as a type of rhetoric. As the first study of this technique, this book provides a new perspective for analyzing the rhetoric of Kafka’s works.

Essays on English and American Literature

By: Olivier Abiteboul

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Abiteboul brings together a group of essays on 27 English or American writers contributing to the history of English and American literature, and offers a concise survey of the question of literary understanding.

Psalms as Postmodern Poetry

By: Lyola Thomas

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A refreshing new look at the Book of Psalms, this analysis of its postmodern poetry reveals its enduring relevance as a source of sustenance, comfort, and a practical handbook for life.

Female Subjectivity in Women’s Writing

By: Hatice Yurttaş

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Through an Irigarayan lens, this study explores how Carter, Atwood, and Byatt use genre transgression to forge a female subject position. It examines their distinct strategies for challenging a literary tradition that has historically denied women a voice.

Death Representations in Literature

Forms and Theories

Edited By: Adriana Teodorescu

£57.99

This volume overcomes stereotypes that trivialize death in literature. It reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh ways of interrogating death as an unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction.

Voices and Silence in the Contemporary Novel in English

Edited By: Vanessa Guignery

£39.99

This volume examines silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels. It explores how authors use silence not as absence, but as presence and resistance, while compulsive verbosity may hide more than it reveals, testing the limits of language.

A Comparative Guide to Sartrean and Deleuzean Selves in Modernist and Post-Modernist Fiction

By: Onur Ekler

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This book provides a comparative study of the Sartrean no-self and the Deleuzean rhizomic self, tracing the shift from Sartre’s nihilistic self in modernist fiction to the celebratory Deleuzean self in postmodernism, which may be a possible alternative for survival in crisis.

Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities in the Post-Truth Era

The Reality Machine

Edited By: V. Doğan Günay, Murat Kalelioğlu, Sibel Bayram

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This book dissects how post-truth operates in the public sphere and social media. It brings together research from different disciplines to reveal how each field has been affected by the post-truth era and what the intellectual reactions have been.

Deconstructions of the Russian Empire in Western Travel Literature

By: Dimitrios Kassis

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How did the West see Russia, the empire caught between Europe and Asia? This book explores representations of Russian identity and culture from 1792 to 1912, drawing on the accounts of British and American travellers as they attempted to understand this imperial "Other."

The Invention of Illusions

International Perspectives on Paul Auster

Edited By: Stefania Ciocia, Jesús A. González

£39.99

International scholars examine Paul Auster’s recent work, viewing him as an inventor of illusions. Not as deceitful gimmickry, but as an imaginative testing of possibilities and the establishment of real bonds between people through storytelling.

Glocal Ireland

Current Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts

Edited By: Juan F. Elices Agudo, Marisol Morales Ladrón Soledad

£39.99

Ireland's transformation from the Celtic Tiger's boom to its dramatic downfall has redefined the nation's identity. This volume explores the interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Irish literature, culture, and cinema.

Ireland’s transformation from the Celtic Tiger’s boom to its dramatic downfall has redefined the nation’s identity. This volume explores the interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Irish literature, culture, and cinema.

Deconstructing Lolita

By: Jacqueline Hamrit

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This book explores how to read and teach Nabokov’s Lolita with Jacques Derrida. Using deconstruction to analyze literary issues, it offers teaching guidelines for Nabokov specialists, students, and anyone interested in literary theory.

Churchill’s Socialism

Political Resistance in the Plays of Caryl Churchill

By: Siân Adiseshiah

£39.99

While Caryl Churchill is celebrated, her socialism has been overlooked in favour of gender and postmodern themes. This book examines eight of her plays, reframing her work within socialist discourses to produce persuasive political readings of her drama.

Narratives of Community

Womens Short Story Sequences

Edited By: Roxanne Harde

£44.99

This collection of essays examines short story sequences by women from around the world. Using diverse theoretical models, contributors consider how female identity is negotiated in community, making a major contribution to feminist and genre theory.