Literature – Page 26 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Art of Allusion in Chinese Poetry

Analysing the Works of Li Shangyin

By: Li Zeng

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This book explores the rhetorical function of allusion in Li Shangyin’s poems, formulating an English taxonomy for the practice in Chinese poetry. It challenges conventional gendered allegory, revealing how Li’s manipulation of history produces metaphorical and ambiguous effects.

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.

Rethinking National Literatures and the Literary Canon in Scandinavia

Edited By: Dag Heede, Anne Heith, Ann-Sofie Lönngren

£47.99

The Nordic literary canon is transforming. This book highlights how migration, minority, and queer literatures challenge national identity. It showcases the plurality of voices questioning the fundamentals of canon formation and Nordic self-understanding.

Violence and Dystopia

Mimesis and Sacrifice in Contemporary Western Dystopian Narratives

By: Daniel Cojocaru

£52.99

A critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating, and sacrifice in contemporary dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. It analyzes works by J.G. Ballard, Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, and Will Self.

Mapping the Postcolonial Domestic in the Works of Vargas Llosa and Mukundan

Tales of the Threshold

By: Minu Susan Koshy

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A pioneering analysis of postcolonialism through the lens of the domestic. This study challenges the limits of Western theory, forging new methods to understand the ‘inner’ realm of colonial experience and its overlooked histories.

This “Self” Which Is Not One

Women’s Life Writing in French

Edited By: Natalie Edwards, Christopher Hogarth

£34.99

This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.

Women Editing/Editing Women

Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism

Edited By: Chanita Goodblatt, Ann Hollinshead Hurley

£44.99

This collection applies “the new textualism” to early modern women writers. Fusing seminal essays with original research, it offers a solution to editing authors with little biographical data by focusing on the material history of the text itself.

Aimer et mourir

Love, Death and Women’s Lives in Texts of French Expression

Edited By: Eilene Hoft-March, Judith Holland Sarnecki

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These essays address how love and death are linked in women's lives. While male writers associate women's sexuality with death, women writers from Marguerite de Navarre to Amélie Nothomb rework the old formulae, offering love that defies death's frontiers.

These essays address how love and death are linked in women’s lives. While male writers associate women’s sexuality with death, women writers from Marguerite de Navarre to Amélie Nothomb rework the old formulae, offering love that defies death’s frontiers.

Passages through Enclosures and the Spacetime Continuum in English and American Science Fiction

Edited By: Iren Boyarkina

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This book analyzes the spacetime continuum in science fiction, synthesizing cutting-edge research from literary analysis, quantum physics, and astrophysics. These essays offer fresh views and analytical tools to stimulate the curiosity of educators, researchers, and students.

The Edges of Trauma

Explorations in Visual Art and Literature

Edited By: Tamás Bényei, Alexandra Stara

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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.

Love and Laughter in the Work of Aymé Dubois-Jolly

By: Mary Munro-Hill

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This book considers love and laughter in the four romans galants of Aymé Dubois-Jolly. Though the love is unashamedly erotic, the novels are redeemed by comic elements and elegant prose, with nods to the literary giants of the eighteenth century.

You are What You Eat

Literary Probes into the Palate

Edited By: Annette M. Magid

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This collection offers tantalizing essays on the culture of food in literature. Exploring works by authors from John Milton to J.K. Rowling, it covers topics from feminist theory to film, appealing to students, food enthusiasts, and scholars alike.

Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century

Clubs, Literary Salons, Textual Coteries

Edited By: Ileana Baird

£52.99

This collection uses social network analysis and digital humanities to re-imagine the 18th century as a networked community. It explores how clubs and associations formed public opinion, revealing surprising parallels to today's digital public sphere.

New Perspectives on Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire

Edited By: Ana de Francisco Heredero, Susana Torres Prieto

£57.99

Leading scholars offer a fresh, thought-provoking examination of Byzantium in Late Antiquity and beyond. This multi-disciplinary volume presents innovative research on the interaction between the Empire's core and periphery, and relations between Romans and Barbarians.

Leading scholars offer a fresh, thought-provoking examination of Byzantium in Late Antiquity and beyond. This multi-disciplinary volume presents innovative research on the interaction between the Empire’s core and periphery, and relations between Romans and Barbarians.

Transnational England

Home and Abroad, 1780-1860

Edited By: Monika Class, Terry F. Robinson

£39.99

Transnational England sheds light on how England’s encounters with other cultures shaped its identity. Through literature from 1780-1860, these essays reveal how global connections simultaneously fostered and challenged the sovereignty of the English nation.

New Readings of The Merchant of Venice

Edited By: Horacio Sierra

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Why has The Merchant of Venice garnered so much attention? This collection offers readers sundry answers, showcasing disparate approaches from a feminist view to a Manga version, providing students with different critical lenses to interpret the play.

Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction

The Shadow of Imagination

By: Lisann Anders

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Exploring urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this book reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in our digital age. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, it highlights how distanced communication triggers an imagination of violence and destruction.

The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton

By: Arya Aryan

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This book argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not just self-referential, but hetero-referential. Using Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton, it shows how texts create their own worlds while referring to an external reality, even if that reality is a human construct.

Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel

Edited By: José Manuel Losada Goya, Marta Guirao Ochoa

£54.99

This bilingual work identifies and explains the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval, and modern myths in contemporary novels. Analyses cover classical (Oedipus), biblical (the Golem), and modern (Faust) myths in fiction, art, and cinema.

The Yields of Transition

Literature, Art and Philosophy in Early Medieval China

Edited By: Jana S. Rošker, Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

£44.99

This volume on the Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220–589 AD) opens new pathways in sinological studies. It reveals a new image of this period, undermining common historical interpretations and showing its decisive achievements.