Visual Arts – Page 3 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Towards Creative Imagination in Victorian Literature

By: Aleksandra Piasecka

£44.99

This book explores the creative imagination in Victorian England through five key figures: John Ruskin, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater and Arthur Symons. It contrasts the views of theoreticians with the experiences of practitioners.

Food and Appetites

The Hunger Artist and the Arts

Edited By: Ann McCulloch, Pavlina Radia

£44.99

This book traces food as hunger, desire, and appetite in the arts. Examining hunger in literature and art, it explores food's significance as a metaphor for social class, inequality, and gluttony, revealing the problems of excessive human cravings.

This book traces food as hunger, desire, and appetite in the arts. Examining hunger in literature and art, it explores food’s significance as a metaphor for social class, inequality, and gluttony, revealing the problems of excessive human cravings.

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke

By: Harry Eiss

£44.99

Richard Dadd is a trickster, an Elizabethan Puck in a Victorian insane asylum. His existence foreshadows the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, entering the fragmented shards of today’s world long before the artists who would try to map it.

Shakespeare in Performance

Edited By: Eric C. Brown, Estelle Rivier-Arnaud

£44.99

These essays explore Shakespeare in performance across time and media. From 17th-century stagings to modern cinema, the circus, and global theatre, the collection asks what motivates Shakespearean performance and how we trace what is ephemeral.

The Edges of Trauma

Explorations in Visual Art and Literature

Edited By: Tamás Bényei, Alexandra Stara

£44.99

A collection of essays on visual art and literature that explores the cultural construction of trauma. Scholars offer new perspectives on historical traumas and canonical texts, examining how the non-experience of trauma finds its way into artistic representation.

Peripheral Transmodernities

South-to-South Intercultural Dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the Orient”

Edited By: Ignacio López-Calvo

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the critical dialogue between the Hispanic/Latino world and Asian and Arab cultures. Bypassing old colonial centers, these South-to-South dialogues provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance.

The Language of Color in China

By: Jun Zhou, Gail Taylor

From £45.99

This is the first book to explore color history in Asia. Color is a language of signals, associated with changes in society, economic development, and dynasties. A valuable resource for practitioners of art and design, it offers a new perspective on Chinese aesthetics.

What’s in a Balcony Scene? A Study on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and its Adaptations

Edited By: Hortensia Pârlog

£45.99

Addressing the question “what’s in a balcony scene?”, this book discusses its representation in a number of adaptions of Romeo and Juliet. It shows that there are several fresh angles from which to look at the topic, which, in turn, provide unique insights into the balcony scene.

Learning to See the Theological Vision of Shakespeare’s King Lear

By: Greg Maillet

£45.99

Following the recent ‘turn to religion’ that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, this monograph builds on many of the recent biographies of Shakespeare that have explored the playwright’s religious views, with a specific focus on his King Lear.

Culture-blind Shakespeare

Multiculturalism and Diversity

Edited By: Maryam Beyad

£46.99

This collection of essays offers a plethora of responses to Shakespeare by both Western and Eastern critics, indicating that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be defined as a global writer.

Apocalyptic Projections

A Study of Past Predictions, Current Trends and Future Intimations as Related to Film and Literature

Edited By: Annette M. Magid

£47.99

Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.

Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics

From Cyrano to Barbarella

Edited By: Philippe Mather, Sylvain Rheault

£47.99

French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre's deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.

French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre’s deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.

Traumatic Affect

Edited By: Meera Atkinson, Michael Richardson

£49.99

Traumatic Affect examines the intersection of trauma and affect theory. This collection of essays offers timely critiques of film, art, and politics, venturing into bold new territories to illuminate pressing realities that demand our engagement.

Theory That Matters

What Practice After Theory

Edited By: Kacper Bartczak, Małgorzata Myk

£49.99

Theory That Matters offers an up-to-date assessment of literary and cultural theory. The volume launches a defence of theory, demonstrating this is not achieved at the expense of praxis, but by showing its currency through a variety of contexts.

The Memory of Nature in Aboriginal, Canadian and American Contexts

Edited By: Françoise Besson, Claire Omhovère, Héliane Ventura

£49.99

This volume explores the bond between man and nature through literary and visual works by Native and non-Native artists. It re-imagines our outlook on indigenous production, revealing how the non-human provides a key to understanding our world.

As Time Goes By

Portraits of Age

Edited By: Joy Charnley, Caroline Verdier

£49.99

This volume provides literary analyses of ageing through writers from Cervantes to Cixous. Exploring universal themes, these essays offer portraits of what age is, has been, and might be, demonstrating literature's power to reflect social trends.

“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.

One World Periphery Reads the Other

Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula

Edited By: Ignacio López-Calvo

£49.99

These essays study the decentering interplay between “peripheral” areas and marginalized social groups. They explore rich “South-South” cross-cultural exchanges that disrupt the center-periphery dichotomy, creating multiple centers without Western mediation.

George Bellows Revisited

New Considerations of the Painter’s Oeuvre

Edited By: Nannette Maciejunes

£50.99

The artwork of one of the most important 20th-century American painters and printmakers, George Bellows, is studied in this essay collection. Innovative research is offered that probes his oeuvre from multiple viewpoints, challenging widely-held perceptions of Bellows.

Experiencing Gender

International Approaches

Edited By: Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco

£52.99

This publication investigates the concept of gender in an international context. Focusing on various critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are represented in the arts.