Literature – Page 28 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Conrad’s Destructive Element

The Metaphysical World-View Unifying Lord Jim

By: Kenneth B. Newell

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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.

South Asia and its Others

Reading the “Exotic”

Edited By: Atreyee Phukan, V.G. Julie Rajan

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These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use "exoticization" as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.

These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use “exoticization” as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.

Transatlantic Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Julie A. Chappell, Kamille Stone Stanton

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In an era defined by writers like William Blake and Olaudah Equiano, this collection proves the anti-slavery movement was no single-authored sensation, but a broader transatlantic discourse spanning the entire long eighteenth century.

Nabokov’s Palace

The American Novels

By: Márta Pellérdi

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Nabokov’s Palace discovers the sub-texts and inter-textual patterns in his American novels making them an integral part of the Anglo-American literary tradition, revealing his "otherworld" of art and communion with dead poets.

City Visions

The Work of Iain Sinclair

Edited By: Jenny Bavidge, Robert Bond

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$START$ This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain's most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$

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This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain’s most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$

Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns

Essays on Fiction and Culture

Edited By: Penny Gay, Judith Johnston

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Essays by international scholars explore Victorian writers like Dickens and Eliot in their cultural context. The collection then examines NeoVictorian returns in contemporary literature and film, revealing the era's ongoing dialogue with the modern world.

Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Critical Approaches

Edited By: Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally

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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.

Word and Rite

The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works

Edited By: Beatrice Batson

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This book shows how the Bible and Christian tradition intersect the language of Shakespeare. It focuses on how rites illuminate mysteries and how ceremony turns mayhem into mystery. In Shakespeare, word and rite are as inseparable as word and sacrament in worship.

Women’s Identities and Bodies in Colonial and Postcolonial History and Literature

Edited By: Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

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This collection examines women’s identities and bodies through literary and historical accounts. Using the colonial past to analyze contemporary issues, it explores the female body as a site of abuse and discrimination, but also of knowledge and cultural production.

Beyond Words

The Othering Excursion in Contemporary American Literature

By: Wendy Harding, Jacky Martin

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When interpretation no longer applies, the Othering Excursion begins. This book elaborates a new method for reading texts that use disruptive rhetoric and distortion to point beyond cultural norms, finding meaning in zones of literary obscurity.

Re-Reading Richard Hoggart

Life, Literature, Language, Education

Edited By: Sue Owen

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Richard Hoggart put the working class on the cultural map. The first critic to take popular culture seriously, he founded Cultural Studies and was a key witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. This volume explores his life and significant role in cultural shifts.

Posthuman Becoming Narratives in Contemporary Anglophone Science Fiction

By: Zhang Na

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This book explores the integration of narratology with posthumanism by examining decades of science fiction. It shows that the posthuman, rather than posing a threat, proves to be the companion and savior of human beings, whose sacrifice brings humanity back to a chaotic world.

Alfredo Véa’s Narrative Trilogy

Studies on La Maravilla, The Silver Cloud Café, and Gods Go Begging

By: Roberto Cantú

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Alfredo Véa’s acclaimed narrative trilogy is recognized for its ingenious blend of fiction, autobiography, and penetrating reflections on American society and the Vietnam War. Although a writer of exceptional creativity, no book-length study has been written on him—until now.

Literary Traditions, Culture and the Media in Nigeria

Edited By: Psalms Chinaka

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This collection explores how traditions shape society through movies, music, and literature. It reveals connections between culture and media that simplify our understanding of humanity, offering a guide to the evolving dimensions of African literature and popular culture.

War in Travel Literature

Edited By: Jeanne Dubino, Orkun Kocabıyık, Elisabetta Marino, Andrew J. Smyth

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This collection shows how war functions as a subject, theme, and backdrop in travel writing, enabling readers to rethink both categories. From cookbooks to military magazines, these chapters reveal how war's reach extends far beyond the battlefield.

Three Hundred Chinese Cut Verses with English Translations

By: Yongsheng Cheng

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This anthology presents three hundred Chinese cut verses, each with an English translation. The poems revolve around the poet’s life at Beijing Geely University, his vacations, and his experiences during the fight against the coronavirus.

The Image of Du Fu in the West and China

By: Wang Weihang

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This book compares images of Du Fu from Chinese and Western perspectives by examining famous biographies and research. It explores the differing perceptions of the poet and their causes, while also discussing his representative poems and their various English translations.

Women Writing Trauma in Literature

Edited By: Laura Alexander

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This collection studies trauma and psychoanalysis in women’s writing. It examines how literature helps to heal the wounded self, concentrating on how women explain the traumatic experiences of war, violence, or displacement and recover the voices buried by intense suffering.

A Narrative Biography of Horacio Quiroga, the Lone Anarchist

By: Wilson Alves-Bezerra

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This is the definitive biography in English of Horacio Quiroga, the Latin-American Poe. Based on twenty years of work and newly discovered documents, it humanizes the writer and spotlights the marginalized women in his life, revealing a complex, contradictory man.

Interpreting Literary Texts

A Post-Kantian Approach

By: Michael Giffin

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This book explores how textual interpretation evolved from Classicism to Postmodernism. Using novels by authors like Jane Austen, Patrick White, and Margaret Atwood, it traces the shifts in literary movements and philosophical concepts of truth, reason, and the human mind.