Literature – Page 43 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

New Postcolonial Dialectics

An Intercultural Comparison of Indian and Nigerian English Plays

By: Sarbani Sen Vengadasalam

£61.99

This book scrutinizes how Indian and Nigerian plays reframed their cultural terrain in international terms. It offers a comparative guide for studying literatures from Asia and Africa, providing an essential framework for all intercultural literary studies.

New Readings of The Merchant of Venice

Edited By: Horacio Sierra

£44.99

Why has The Merchant of Venice garnered so much attention? This collection offers readers sundry answers, showcasing disparate approaches from a feminist view to a Manga version, providing students with different critical lenses to interpret the play.

New Research in English Studies

Edited By: Samson Thomas, Eligedi Rajkumar

£67.99

This book explores new research in English Studies, rethinking its relationship with other disciplines. The collection covers topics like memory, trauma, migration, identity, and posthumanism with a critical approach to biases related to race, gender, and sexual orientation.

New Thoughts on Old Books

Why Read Homer, Milton, or a Medieval Nun at a Time like This?

Edited By: Marilyn McEntyre, Seth C. Hawkins

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Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.

New Woman Writers, Authority and the Body

Edited By: Stacey Floyd, Melissa Purdue

£34.99

This collection of essays explores fin de siècle “New Woman” writers who challenged women’s limited societal roles. The essays shed light on their progressive portrayals of female authority, strong physical bodies, and re-envisioned marriage plots.

New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe

Gender, Generation and Identities

Edited By: Rosalind Marsh

£64.99

This book investigates the explosion of women’s writing in post-socialist Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. It explores why this writing has become so prominent, whether writers see their gender as a burden or empowering, and its links to nationality and class.

Nonsense and Other Senses

Regulated Absurdity in Literature

Edited By: Elisabetta Tarantino with the collaboration of Carlo Caruso

£49.99

This collection of essays offers a gallery of “nonsense practices” in literature across periods and countries. It reveals literary nonsense not as chaos, but as a deliberate, “regulated” attempt to snatch order from the jaws of chaos.

Northrop Frye in Context

By: Diane Dubois

£39.99

Diane Dubois situates Northrop Frye’s work in its biographical and historical context. Illuminating his œuvre as a personal project rooted in the social and religious conditions of his time, this book helps us see the key theorist's work anew.

Northrop Frye’s Lectures

Student Notes from His Courses, 1947–1955

Edited By: Robert D. Denham

£73.99

This collection provides a transcription of fifteen sets of notes taken by Northrop Frye’s students in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and is the only available extended record of the courses taught by the great Canadian literary critic and humanist.

Not Far From Here

The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver

Edited By: Vasiliki Fachard, Robert Miltner

£39.99

Hailed as the “American Chekhov,” Raymond Carver’s work has international appeal, yet critical attention has been mostly US-based. This collection of essays by international scholars provides readers with new and multinational insights into his poetry and fiction.

Not So Innocent Abroad

The Politics of Travel and Travel Writing

Edited By: Ulrike Brisson, Bernard Schweizer

£39.99

Travel and travel writing are never innocent. This book offers a fresh approach, arguing that journeying always occurs within political systems. It reveals the political implications and dissimulated messages in travelogues from the 18th to 21st century.

Notional Identities

Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies

By: Thomas Christie

£44.99

This book examines popular Scottish speculative and crime fiction from the 1970s onward, investigating how these works engaged with national identity, a tumultuous political climate, and their relationship to mainstream literary writing.

Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind

Edited By: Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske

£47.99

This collection demonstrates the novel's power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind's urge to understand itself.

This collection demonstrates the novel’s power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind’s urge to understand itself.

Obumselu on African Literature

The Intellectual Muse

Edited By: Isidore Diala

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Ben Obumselu’s (1930 – 2017) highly celebrated work on African literature is here brought together in a single volume for the first time. The originality of his insights, his analytic rigour, and the power and grace of his expression render this compendium compelling.

Occult Joyce

The Hidden in Ulysses

By: Enrico Terrinoni

£34.99

Ulysses is an occult text that deliberately hides its meanings, compelling the reader to unveil its secrets. This penetrating study excavates Joyce’s cryptic system, showing his deep knowledge of the subject and challenging past interpretations.

Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts

Edited By: Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong

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This book examines literary and cultural representations of old age in Africa. Using ageism as its central theme, it explores the ambiguity associated with the elderly, who are often highly venerated for their wisdom but also stereotyped because of their advanced age.

Old Masters in New Interpretations

Readings in Literature and Visual Culture

Edited By: Anna Kwiatkowska

£52.99

This volume presents a variety of new interpretations of a selection of well-known works of verbal and visual culture. It describes how the two spheres of literature and broadly understood art interfuse, affect, re-shape, and complement each other.

On History and Memory in Arab Literature and Western Poetics

Edited By: Bootheina Majoul, Yosra Amraoui

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Texts can be a remedy for forgetting or a vivid testimony to trauma. This volume focuses on Paul Ricœur’s work on memory, history, and forgetting, with special emphasis on the dissension between individual and collective memory.

On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind

What the Russian-American Odd Pair Can Tell Us about Some Values, Myths and Manias Widely Held Most Dear

By: Gene H. Bell-Villada

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Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author's own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.

Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author’s own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.

On Shakespeare in Sonnets

A Study in the Theory and Practice of Reader Response Criticism

By: E. L. Risden

£58.99

This text discusses the history and practice of Reader Response criticism and comprises a collection of thirty-eight sonnets responding both critically and creatively to Shakespeare’s works, showing that the creative and the critical need not be separate, exclusive acts.