Literature – Page 69 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Writing Fundamentalism

Edited By: Axel Stähler, Klaus Stierstorfer

£39.99

Fundamentalism is text-centred, but its complex and paradoxical relationship with literature remains largely unexplored. These essays explore this relationship, analysing literary representations of fundamentalism and revealing unexpected affinities between the two.

Tove Jansson Rediscovered

Edited By: Malin Lidström Brock, Kate McLoughlin

£39.99

Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children's fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.

Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children’s fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.

Love, Sorrow and Joy

A New Voice in Irish Avant-Garde Poetry

By: Graham Gillespie

£39.99

The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.

Literature, Writing, and the Natural World

Edited By: James Guignard, T. P. Murphy

£39.99

This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.

The Other India

Narratives of Terror, Communalism and Violence

Edited By: Om Prakash Dwivedi

£39.99

This book explores how identities and belonging are constructed in postcolonial India. Examining various texts and movies, it discusses how the nation is plagued by communal politics and terrorism, and offers a cogent alternative for creating solidarity.

Knowing Their Place? Identity and Space in Children’s Literature

Edited By: Terri Doughty, Dawn Thompson

£39.99

What does it mean for a child to "know their place" in a globalized world? This collection explores how identity is formed by place in children's literature, studying indigeneity, the natural world, fantastic spaces, and texts like Peter Pan and Harry Potter.

What does it mean for a child to “know their place” in a globalized world? This collection explores how identity is formed by place in children’s literature, studying indigeneity, the natural world, fantastic spaces, and texts like Peter Pan and Harry Potter.

The Survival of Myth

Innovation, Singularity and Alterity

Edited By: Paul Hardwick, David Kennedy

£39.99

What are myths? The Survival of Myth explores the continuing power of primal stories to inhabit our thinking. Contributors examine figures from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy to show how ancient stories give access to the unconscious and transform society.

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.

Madness, Love and Tragedy in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spain

Edited By: Marta Manrique Gomez

£39.99

This book analyzes madness in masterpieces of 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature. It explores how conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, and politics in works by writers like Galdós, Unamuno, Pardo Bazán, and others.

Recounting Cultural Encounters

Edited By: Marija Knežević

£39.99

This book highlights how cultural encounters change our world and its reflection in literature. It emphasizes the rising importance of fostering cultural pluralism and global understanding, focusing on our perception of the Other in an era of globalization.

Romanticism Gendered

Male Writers as Readers of Women’s Writing in Romantic Correspondence

By: Andrea Fischerová

£39.99

This study examines the letters of the great male Romantics—Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Scott, Shelley, and Wordsworth—to discover their views on women writers. Their correspondence reveals a long list of now-marginalized female authors, offering a new gendered perspective.

WWA Journal Volume 5

Edited By: Murari Prasad Regmi, Michael Waldo

£36.99

This journal brings together current research on emotional intelligence, an important factor in the development of emotional competency and cognition. It represents a useful resource for teachers, researchers and students of adolescent psychology, and for mental health workers.

Indian Metaphysics in Lawrence Durrell’s Novels

By: Ravindran Nambiar

£34.99

Professor Nambiar offers a unique milestone in the history of Durrellian criticism, embracing Durrell’s search for universal awareness through Western and Indian metaphysics, and presenting a new metaphysical reading of the writer’s prose that has remained untapped until now.

Re-Reading Richard Hoggart

Life, Literature, Language, Education

Edited By: Sue Owen

£34.99

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.

Beyond Words

The Othering Excursion in Contemporary American Literature

By: Wendy Harding, Jacky Martin

£34.99

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.

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

Edited By: Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

£34.99

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.

Word and Rite

The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works

Edited By: Beatrice Batson

£34.99

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.

Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

Critical Approaches

Edited By: Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally

£34.99

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.

Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns

Essays on Fiction and Culture

Edited By: Penny Gay, Judith Johnston

£34.99

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.

City Visions

The Work of Iain Sinclair

Edited By: Jenny Bavidge, Robert Bond

£34.99

$START$ 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$

$START$
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$