Literature – Page 71 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Fiction

Edited By: Alexandra Cheira

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This volume examines the use of myth and fairy tales in contemporary fiction. Through innovative critical approaches, its chapters analyze modern retellings in dialogue with tradition, demonstrating their importance and suggesting new questions for future critical inquiry.

Power and Propaganda in French Second Empire Theatre

Playing Napoleon

By: Janice Best

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In Second Empire France, authorities used the stage for propaganda. This book explores how Napoléon-themed dramas, intended for a working-class audience, were censored to strengthen the regime, shaping collective memory and myths of national identity.

The Social, Psychological and Cultural Significance of Westerns

By: Arthur Asa Berger

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This book explores the psychological, social, and cultural significance of Westerns. While the stories may have simple plots, their cultural importance is a very complicated matter. Discover the psychological and social pleasures and benefits that explain why people read them.

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.

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.

What Made the Eighteenth Century Writers and Their Novels

By: Stefano Mochi

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This book examines eighteenth-century novels, focusing on the skills readers needed to master them. It analyses how these skills were shaped by the cultural and political climate, from debates on education to new philosophical and scientific theories.

Coleridge and Hinduism

The Unstruck Sound

By: Antonella Riem Natale

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The only comprehensive study of Coleridge's profound ties to Oriental Tales, revealing how Hindu works, especially the Bhagavadgītā, shaped his poetic imagination and his quest for the “One life.”

The only comprehensive study of Coleridge’s profound ties to Oriental Tales, revealing how Hindu works, especially the Bhagavadgītā, shaped his poetic imagination and his quest for the “One life.”

Liminality of Justice in Trauma and Trauma Literature

Edited By: Pi-hua Ni, Mei-Chuen Wang

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This volume probes the blurred line between victim and victimizer in trauma and how novelists represent issues of justice. Critical studies range from Cambodia’s genocide to analyses of AIDS literature, contemporary American literature, and Indigenous writing in Canada.

Bioregion and Indigeneity in Literary Imagination

By: Aleena Manoharan

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This book theorizes the bioregional concept as an ecocritical tool for reading literary works. It highlights the interface between nature and culture, using Aboriginal plays to extend ecocriticism beyond prose and sensitize us to place-based cultural nuances.

Psalms as Postmodern Poetry

By: Lyola Thomas

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A refreshing new look at the Book of Psalms, this analysis of its postmodern poetry reveals its enduring relevance as a source of sustenance, comfort, and a practical handbook for life.

An Arab Perspective on Jonathan Swift

Edited By: Samira al-Khawaldeh

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How do young Arab scholars interact with English literature? This book shows why courageous voices from the past, like Swift’s, must remain alive in a wasteland of globalization. Anarchist, champion of the oppressed, Swift’s ghost is needed to wake us to the truth.

Precarity in Culture

Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures

Edited By: Elisabetta Marino, Bootheina Majoul

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By inviting scholars from different disciplines to apply multiple critical lenses, this volume explores the different facets of our precarious world, providing insights into the challenges of our possible futures.

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.

Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures

From Epics to Novels

Edited By: Hülya Çelik, Petr Kučera

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These 12 case studies by experts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature offer new insights into the intellectual universe of the Middle East. Spanning genres from classical poetry and epics to travelogues and novels, this book creates a new comparative framework.

E. A. Robinson’s Narrative Poetry

By: Faisal Al-Doori

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This book explores a critical, often overlooked feature of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poetry: his puzzling method of narration. It argues that a proper understanding of his poems is impossible without analyzing this unique approach, shaped by his New England and Puritan roots.

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.

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.

Modern Fantasies on Love versus Classical Romances

On the Success of Fifty Shades of Grey

By: Ljuba Tarvi

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Viewed through quantum physics, love conquers nothing. This book introduces the Token Valence Method, which treats a word as a quantum state to reveal three models of love patterns in fiction: adaptation, alienation, and imagination.

The Craft of Post-Narratology

Edited By: Zeineb Derbali

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This collection explores “post-narratology,” rethinking classical narratology in relation to ethnicity, culture, history, and religion. Notions of plot, voice, and character are stretched and modified to fit the cultural contexts of contemporary works in various fields.

The Racialization of the Occult in Nineteenth Century British Literature

Dark Magic from 1850-1900

By: John Bliss

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In nineteenth-century Britain, the occult was both a source of support and a threat to society. This book examines novels from 1850-1900 to trace how the representation of occult practitioners participated in and contributed to the racialization of the occult.