Literature – Page 25 – 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.

Glimpses of the Bulgarian Other in British Travel Literature

By: Dimitrios Kassis

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This volume explores British depictions of Bulgaria as a dystopian land from the 18th century until its 1878 Liberation. In these travel narratives, the Bulgarian nation is an antithesis to the civilised British, until its National Revival comes to question this depiction.

Rereading Shakespeare’s Prince Hal and Falstaff

By: John Hardy

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This book analyzes the unlikely friendship of Prince Hal and Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV plays. Though the future king rejects Falstaff, arguably the world’s greatest comic character, his voice, representing a more human side of existence, cannot ultimately be denied.

This book analyzes the unlikely friendship of Prince Hal and Falstaff in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays. Though the future king rejects Falstaff, arguably the world’s greatest comic character, his voice, representing a more human side of existence, cannot ultimately be denied.

Technoculture in Margaret Atwood’s Science Fiction Novels

By: Jasmine Sharma

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This book takes a philosophical approach to technocultural studies in Margaret Atwood’s science fiction. It explores how technology and culture reconstitute her literary landscape, from the gender politics of cyborgs to the hyperreal dimensions of video gaming and digital sex.

Representations of the Local in the Postmillennial Novel

New Voices from the Margins

Edited By: Milena Kaličanin, Soňa Šnircová

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This book maps a rich variety of voices from the margins of our globalized world. Through contemporary novels by international authors, it explores the rising tension between global and local identities for those overshadowed by the intense pressure of globalization.

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.

Bodies of Water in African American Literature, Music, and Film

Edited By: Sharon A. Lewis, Ama S. Wattley

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This volume of original essays explores the meaning of water in creative narratives by African Americans. Across literature, film, and music, these writers embody provocative, innovative, and refreshing ways to contemplate water in Black American artistic expressivity.

Rediscovering Women Writers of Wartime London

Shining a Spotlight onto the Blitzed City

By: Evelina Garay Collcutt

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This book shows the war-stricken city through the eyes of five women writers whose long-neglected novels vividly portray life in the Blitz. This new appraisal of their work highlights the social changes taking place, especially in the lives of women, in those turbulent times.

Baltic Postcolonial Narratives

Literature and Power

By: Almantas Samalavičius

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This book explores postcolonialism's difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.

This book explores postcolonialism’s difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.

A Contemporary Interpretation of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: Indrani Deb

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This book is a collection of nineteen critical essays on James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist. The author goes beyond established critical material, providing analyses from twenty-first century lenses. It serves as a reference for all readers–students, scholars, and teachers.

The Element of the ‘Absurd’ in Rajiv Joseph’s Post-9/11 Plays

By: Qurratulaen Liaqat

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Is the Theatre of the Absurd a viable option to express the horror of the post-9/11 era? This book reflects on the tradition's ongoing currency and its changing contours in the plays of American dramatist Rajiv Joseph, establishing its continued relevance today.

Is the Theatre of the Absurd a viable option to express the horror of the post-9/11 era? This book reflects on the tradition’s ongoing currency and its changing contours in the plays of American dramatist Rajiv Joseph, establishing its continued relevance today.

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.

Reflections on Ecotextuality from India

Greening Literature Anew

Edited By: Jibu Mathew George, Mathew John Kokkatt

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In response to the current ecological crisis, this collection of critical essays engages with the intricate relationship between literature and ecology. The volume unravels the premises and assumptions that sustain the modern world view and contemporary knowledge systems.

Kokborok Literature from Tripura

Voices from Below

By: Dustin Lalkulhpuia

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This study delves into the folktales and literature of the Borok tribe, revealing their struggle for cultural identity. Writers draw on myths and folklore to challenge mainstream stereotypes and reclaim a heritage shaped by cultural domination and conflict.

The Art of Allusion in Chinese Poetry

Analysing the Works of Li Shangyin

By: Li Zeng

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This book explores the rhetorical function of allusion in Li Shangyin’s poems, formulating an English taxonomy for the practice in Chinese poetry. It challenges conventional gendered allegory, revealing how Li’s manipulation of history produces metaphorical and ambiguous effects.

Black British Women’s Writing in the 1970s and Beyond

Away from Home

Edited By: Camille S. Alexander

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This collection of essays examines Black British women writers published from the 1970s to the 2000s. Connected to the UK through migration yet attached to their cultural origins, their work explores a crucial question: how were they able to conceptualise ‘home’ in their fiction?

Transformations of Trauma in Women’s Writing

Edited By: Laura Alexander

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This volume examines how trauma alters women’s identities, from individual experiences to national political abuses. The book shows that language has a transformative power for healing, as women use autobiography and memoir to free themselves and reinvent the form.

Crisis in Contemporary British Fiction

Edited By: Anastasia Logotheti

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This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.

How Adaptations Awaken the Literary Canon

Transformative Reimaginings

By: Suzy Woltmann

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This book illuminates how reimagining narratives creates empowerment. It explores adaptations—from classic literature to fairy tales—that retell and awaken the literary canon, interrogating conventions and revealing the unique power of reframing stories.

Humour and Identity in Jewish American Fiction

No Laughing Matter

By: Zuzana Buráková

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This book explores the connection between humour and identity in contemporary Jewish American literature. It is a serious investigation into the strategic use of humour in identity formation, revealing the serious undertones in works that may first appear merely humorous.