Sociology – Page 6 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Living and Learning in Dissimilitude Without Dissonance

Wording Otherness

Edited By: Michelle Gadpaille, Mojca Krevel

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In an age of globalisation, being other is what we all have in common. This volume offers insights into how contemporary literature explores this paradox, revealing the underlying message: to confront otherness is to encounter ourselves in the mirror of culture.

(Post)Colonial Passages

Incursions and Excursions across the Literatures and Cultures in English

Edited By: Silvia Albertazzi, Francesco Cattani, Rita Monticelli, Federica Zullo

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The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.

The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs

Foundational Texts Compared

Edited By: Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

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The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life. This title presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora.

Cultural and Literary Traditions in India

History, Myth and Orality

Edited By: Prakash Chandra Pradhan, Devender Kumar, Arti Nirmal, Sandip Paul

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Indian myth is a living force. This book traces the interplay of history and orality from The Ramayana to diverse folk traditions, revealing how ancient narratives of power, gender, and identity illuminate contemporary conflicts and crises.

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.

An Existentialist Theory of the Human Spirit (Volume 2)

To Create and Believe... or Not

By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

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From sexuality and religion to quantum physics, this volume traces existentialism's vast influence. It explores global mysticism, the minds of outcasts like van Gogh and Artaud, and the profound link between the absurd and the cosmos.

From sexuality and religion to quantum physics, this volume traces existentialism’s vast influence. It explores global mysticism, the minds of outcasts like van Gogh and Artaud, and the profound link between the absurd and the cosmos.

The Reality behind Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women

The Troublesome Woman Revealed

By: Robin R. Joyce

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This book analyses Barbara Pym’s work through the image of the troublesome woman. It highlights her feminist ideas, hidden in village settings and revealed by these women. Exploring Pym's published and unpublished writings shows her as a complex person.

This book analyses Barbara Pym’s work through the image of the troublesome woman. It highlights her feminist ideas, hidden in village settings and revealed by these women. Exploring Pym’s published and unpublished writings shows her as a complex person.

The Human and Humanities in the Age of Globalization

Edited By: Afis A. Oladosu, Ayobami Ojebode, Adeshina Afolayan

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This volume engages with how the idea of the human features in African societies and scholarship. Contributors are concerned with the urgent imperative of rescuing what it means to be humane in a world being pushed towards a dystopic future by climate change and fundamentalism.

WWA Journal Volume 5

Edited By: Murari Prasad Regmi, Michael Waldo

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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.

Responsiveness to Comparison in Literature

By: Fatima Festić

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This book proposes a framework for rethinking world literature in nomadic terms. A unique, itinerant scholarly autobiography, it exemplifies how literary and cultural comparisons are shaped by real-life circumstances, violence, and wars across the globe.

Game of Thrones as a Contemporary Feminist Revenge Tragedy

By: Lea M. Peters

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Are Game of Thrones and feminism compatible? This book shows how the series’ female characters use revenge to acquire autonomy. Drawing on Renaissance Revenge Tragedies and modern feminism, it interprets Game of Thrones as a contemporary, feminist version of a Revenge Tragedy.

Post-Millennial Cultures of Fear in Literature

Fear, Risk and Safety

Edited By: Mustafa Kirca, Adelheid Rundholz

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This volume investigates our contemporary “cultures of fear.” Original articles explore post-millennial works ranging from political fictions and trauma narratives to literary disaster discourses and apocalyptic scenarios, using insights from multiple disciplines.

Gynocritics and the Traversals of Women’s Writing

Intersections of Diverse Critical Essays

Edited By: Hemant Verma, Ajit Kumar, Rafseena M.

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This volume's scholarly articles use feminist approaches to re-read male-centered narratives, revealing how women's rights and roles have been historically undermined. The book offers a space for scholars to contribute to the development of a more egalitarian world.

This volume’s scholarly articles use feminist approaches to re-read male-centered narratives, revealing how women’s rights and roles have been historically undermined. The book offers a space for scholars to contribute to the development of a more egalitarian world.

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.

Representations of Childhood in Art and Literature

Edited By: Kanak Kanti Bera, Anindita Bhaumik, Krishanu Maiti

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This book rejects the idea of childhood as an unambiguous monolith. It explores the constantly evolving term’s literary, artistic, and cultural representations, offering critical approaches to its treatment with all its complexities in art and literature.

Romanticism Gendered

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

By: Andrea Fischerová

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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.

Madness, Love and Tragedy in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spain

Edited By: Marta Manrique Gomez

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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.

The Survival of Myth

Innovation, Singularity and Alterity

Edited By: Paul Hardwick, David Kennedy

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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.

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

Edited By: Terri Doughty, Dawn Thompson

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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.

Literature, Writing, and the Natural World

Edited By: James Guignard, T. P. Murphy

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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.