Literature – Page 30 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Mahābhārata and Dharma Discourse

A Vision of Clarity through Its Tales

By: Nitin Malhotra

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This engaging text provides unique insights into ‘dharma’ in the Mahābhārata. Often mistaken for religion, dharma is revealed as an umbrella term for all the deeds in one's life. Each chapter uses the epic's own tales and parables as evidence to explore this complex concept.

This engaging text provides unique insights into ‘dharma’ in the Mahābhārata. Often mistaken for religion, dharma is revealed as an umbrella term for all the deeds in one’s life. Each chapter uses the epic’s own tales and parables as evidence to explore this complex concept.

Dickens and Italy

Little Dorrit and Pictures from Italy

Edited By: Marialuisa Bignami, Michael Hollington

£39.99

Dickens's relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.

Dickens’s relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.

Neoliberalism, Oligarchy and Politics of the Event

At the Edge of Chaos

By: Žarko Paić

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This book shows that today’s oligarchic politics result from the fall of mass movements. The rule is reversed into a cybernetic market where transnational corporations control states, rendering sovereignty an illusion and threatening the very essence of society.

The Inside of a Shell

Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades

Edited By: Vanessa Guignery

£52.99

Worldwide specialists examine the first steps of Nobel laureate Alice Munro. This collection of essays offers new critical perspectives on her debut, Dance of the Happy Shades, revealing how these early stories foreshadow the patterns and themes of her celebrated later work.

New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism

Edited By: Andrea Campbell

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These essays on ecofeminist literary criticism highlight the intersections of environment, race, class, and gender oppression. Analyzing authors from Kingsolver to Nwapa, this collection expands the discussion to a global scale and environmental justice.

The X-Files and Literature

Unweaving the Story, Unraveling the Lie to Find the Truth

Edited By: Sharon R. Yang

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This collection explores The X-Files’ rich adaptation of literature to find the truth. It unveils connections to Gothic writers and delves into unexpected sources like the Arthurian quest, making you a smarter, better reader of this landmark series.

L’épuisement du biographique?

Edited By: Vincent Broqua, Guillaume Marche

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Le biographique n'est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.

Le biographique n’est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.

Freemasonic Enlightenment in the Context of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry

By: Nicolas Laos

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This book details a philosophical approach to Freemasonry designed to take it where it has never been. It provides a system of esoteric work and interdisciplinary education—a creative synthesis of esotericism and science—to create polymaths for a better world order.

Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe

Edited By: Filomena Viana Guarda, Adriana Martins, Helena Gonçalves da Silva

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This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.

Reflecting 9/11

New Narratives in Literature, Television, Film and Theatre

Edited By: Heather Pope, Victoria Bryan

£57.99

This collection challenges the view that artistic responses to 9/11 are limited. It traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing these narratives as self-conscious interventions that ask crucial questions about how 9/11 is being historicized.

Exploring the Connections Between Ethnicity, History, Mythology and Literature

Edited By: Dipa Chakrabarti, Parul Mishra, Gunja Patni

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Explore the intricate connections between history, ethnicity, mythology, and literature. This book unravels how historical events, cultural myths, and ethnic heritage weave together to create multifaceted identities and shape the values of contemporary times.

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.

Close Readings of Jane Austen’s Emma, Volume II

Edited By: Kenneth R. Morefield

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This volume continues the series project of providing interpretations of selected novels through analyses of each of its chapters. It provides in-depth explications of Austen’s text in order to illustrate its thematic complexity and model the practice of close reading.

Irish Childhoods

Children’s Fiction and Irish History

By: Pádraic Whyte

£39.99

This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.

American Multiculturalism in Context

Views from at Home and Abroad

Edited By: Sämi Ludwig

£68.99

This text brings together the reflections of a group of experts who met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in 2015. It reports on Reed’s thoughts from the meeting, and looks at the concept “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.

Women and Work

The Labors of Self-Fashioning

Edited By: Christine Leiren Mower, Susanne Weil

£44.99

The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.

Diasporic Literature and Theory – Where Now?

Edited By: Mark Shackleton

£34.99

The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand 'culture' beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.

The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand ‘culture’ beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.

The Shadow of the Precursor

Edited By: Nena Bierbaum

£44.99

For writers and artists, the shadows of precursors can be a welcome influence or a haunting presence. This book explores conscious and unconscious influences, from imitation to intertextuality, and asks how such references shape how we read.

Racial, Ethnic, Gender and Class Representations in Margaret Laurence’s Writings

By: Andreea Topor-Constantin

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This study analyzes Margaret Laurence's work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.

This study analyzes Margaret Laurence’s work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.

“The Real Thing”

Essays on Tom Stoppard in Celebration of his 75th Birthday

Edited By: William Baker

£49.99

Tom Stoppard is the most significant living British dramatist. The critical essays in this volume celebrate his insightful and wry work, addressing well-known plays like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead as well as his critically neglected fiction.