Literature – Page 10 – 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.

Identity, Nation, Discourse

Latin American Women Writers and Artists

Edited By: Claire Taylor

£39.99

This volume explores women’s literary production in Latin America and how their works engage with identity, nationhood, and gender. Prominent scholars examine how women writers carve out space within national discourses and critically re-work literary genres.

Rethinking the Vanguard

Aesthetic and Political Positions in the Modernist Debate, 1917-1962

By: John W. Maerhofer

£39.99

This study re-interprets the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, focusing on the convergence of aesthetics and politics. From the Bolshevik Revolution to decolonizing movements, it reveals the vanguard's transformation and its relevance today.

New Essays on Life Writing and the Body

Edited By: Christopher Stuart, Stephanie Todd

£39.99

The physical body is an inescapable object of inquiry in life writing. This collection of new essays by established and emerging scholars offers a timely, interdisciplinary study with subjects ranging from Wharton and Stein to disability memoirs.

Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

Edited By: Tao Dongfeng, Rosemary Roberts, Yang Xiaobin

£44.99

This volume explores the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature from various angles, including feminism, sexuality, and history. Scrutinizing its complex legacy, revolution is viewed as neither a progressive force nor a simple tragedy.

Byron and Scott

The Waverley Novels and Historical Engagement

By: Roderick S. Speer

£34.99

Though traditionally seen as opposites, the writers Scott and Byron cherished a lifelong friendship. This study reveals how Scott’s invention of the historical novel was crucial to Byron’s later work, shaping the evolution of the Byronic Hero and Byron himself.

Passages

Movements and Moments in Text and Theory

Edited By: Maria Beville, Marita Ryan, Maeve Tynan

£39.99

This collection of essays navigates literal and metaphorical “passages”—crossings, boundaries, and identity. Combining close textual readings with cultural theory, it stimulates debate on how old texts are revisited and how identity is renegotiated.

Charles Taylor’s Vision of Modernity

Reconstructions and Interpretations

Edited By: Christopher Garbowski, Jan Hudzik, Jan Kłos

£39.99

A penetrating cross-section of influential philosopher Charles Taylor's thought. The contributions in this volume engage with and find inspiration in his work on the modern self, secularization, liberalism, communitarianism, language, and culture.

A penetrating cross-section of influential philosopher Charles Taylor’s thought. The contributions in this volume engage with and find inspiration in his work on the modern self, secularization, liberalism, communitarianism, language, and culture.

The Healing Power of Ancient Literature

Edited By: Stephen Bertman, Lois Parker

£34.99

Can the past cure the ills of the present? This anthology explores how ancient literature possesses a profound power to heal our souls. Scholars explore timeless wisdom from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Marcus Aurelius as sources of peace of mind.

Strategies of Remembrance

From Pindar to Hölderlin

Edited By: Lucie Doležalová

£39.99

This collection explores memory in the Middle Ages through literature, history, cognitive science, and philosophy, offering a variety of approaches to its connection with identity, the past, and immortality.

Voices and Silence in the Contemporary Novel in English

Edited By: Vanessa Guignery

£39.99

This volume examines silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels. It explores how authors use silence not as absence, but as presence and resistance, while compulsive verbosity may hide more than it reveals, testing the limits of language.

The Snare in the Constitution

Defoe and Swift on Liberty

By: Zouheir Jamoussi

£49.99

This comparative study of Defoe and Swift explores their treatments of liberty. It examines the relationship between “snare” and “liberty” through the analogy of the political and human constitutions in their fictional and non-fictional works.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: April van Camp, Claudia Slate

£39.99

This eclectic mix of Florida literature and history features essays by scholars on topics as diverse as Florida's first black general, poet Wallace Stevens, EPCOT theme park, the rhetoric of Carl Haissen, and Jim Morrison’s use of Floridian imagery.

This eclectic mix of Florida literature and history features essays by scholars on topics as diverse as Florida’s first black general, poet Wallace Stevens, EPCOT theme park, the rhetoric of Carl Haissen, and Jim Morrison’s use of Floridian imagery.

Narrative, Social Myth and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women’s Writing

Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke, Ní Dhuibhne, and Carr

By: Tudor Balinisteanu

£44.99

This book analyzes the link between myth, identity, and reality, examining how contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers reconfigure normative stories to create new possibilities for feminine identity and social order.

Charles Williams and his Contemporaries

Edited By: Richard Sturch

£34.99

After a period of neglect, interest in Charles Williams—Inkling, novelist, and theologian—is growing once more. This symposium contributes to the serious study of his work, exploring his novels, theology, and influence, which is being recognized more and more.

Literature of New York

Edited By: Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams

£34.99

This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city's contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.

This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city’s contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.

Joyce in Progress

Proceedings of the 2008 James Joyce Graduate Conference in Rome

Edited By: John McCourt, Franca Ruggieri

£39.99

A testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce's writings, this volume offers ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary readings. These essays look at Joyce from a variety of angles and connect his work with contemporary writers, rivals, and successors.

A testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce’s writings, this volume offers ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary readings. These essays look at Joyce from a variety of angles and connect his work with contemporary writers, rivals, and successors.

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.

Redefining Literary Semiotics

Edited By: Jørgen Dines Johansen, Christina Ljungberg, Harri Veivo

£39.99

This volume marks a shift in literary semiotics toward methodological pluralism. As the sharp lines of division between dominant approaches dissolve, contributors highlight the communicative functions and representational possibilities of literary texts.

Modern John Buchan

A Critical Introduction

By: Nathan Waddell

£34.99

This book claims John Buchan as a key interpreter of modernity whose diverse work complicates the divide between “low” and “high” literature. It situates him as an intellectual figure and discusses his most famous work, The Thirty-Nine Steps.