Literature – Page 29 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Critical Readings of the Works of Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Edited By: Gambo Sani

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This collection of essays on Ngugi wa Thiong’o, one of the most important postcolonial writers, offers fresh insights into his artistic oeuvre. The volume animates Ngugi’s politics, poetics, and commitment to decolonisation, covering his novels, plays, and scholarly works.

The Philosophy of Yoga in Contemporary American Fiction

Bellow, Salinger, Updike, Vonnegut

By: Sukhbir Singh

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This book unveils the mystical motifs and yoga philosophies interwoven into the narrative structures of fictions by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, and Kurt Vonnegut, opening new vistas on the interface between Eastern philosophy and Western literature.

Theoretical Perspectives on Cultural Representations in Vietnamese Children’s Picturebooks

By: Ngoc Tai Huynh, Vinh To, Angela Thomas

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This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It's a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.

This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It’s a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.

Legilimens!

Perspectives in Harry Potter Studies

Edited By: Christopher E. Bell

£39.99

Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.

Homosexuality in Italian Literature, Society, and Culture, 1789-1919

Edited By: Elisa Bianco, Anita Virga

£61.99

Homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestitism and trans-genders represented new ideas and mentalities which shattered nineteenth-century Italy. This book offers a comprehensive overview of this phenomenon and makes a major contribution to Italian studies and modern European history.

Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte

His Life and Times

By: Michael Duke

£39.99

Bony was a “blacktracker” who became a police inspector and worked throughout Australia. For the first time, learn of the real Bony and the Aboriginal background to his cases. This biography displays the real spirit of Australia!

Realism’s Others

Edited By: Eva Aldea, Geoffrey Baker

£44.99

Challenging the idea that realism promotes sameness, this volume argues that realist narratives actively create otherness. Essays examine how collisions of class, gender, and nationality reveal the strategies of constructing difference in realist and postmodern texts.

Byron’s Religions

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

This comprehensive study of Byron’s eclectic attitude to religion concludes he was never the atheist of cliché, but a man whose profound need for a faith always clashed with an equally profound scepticism.

Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism

Miscellanies in Honour of Anna Gural-Migdal

Edited By: Marie-Sophie Armstrong, Riikka Rossi, Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt

£54.99

Beyond Zola and France. This collection traces naturalism's global journey and evolution, tracking its transformations across Europe, the Americas, and Asia into the twenty-first century.

Beyond Zola and France. This collection traces naturalism’s global journey and evolution, tracking its transformations across Europe, the Americas, and Asia into the twenty-first century.

Reconsidering Shakespeare’s ‘Lateness’

Studies in the Last Plays

By: Xing Chen

£47.99

This book reconsiders Shakespeare’s “lateness” by analyzing his last plays. It reveals a pattern of steady artistic development, arguing that his final works show a continuation of his sustained professional energy and ongoing self-challenge.

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.

Malady and Mortality

Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture

Edited By: Helen Thomas

£52.99

This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.

The Nordic Storyteller

Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen

Edited By: Susan C. Brantly, Thomas A. DuBois

£49.99

Nineteen essays explore Nordic storytelling, from oral traditions like folklore and legend to the great literary works of authors like H. C. Andersen, Ibsen, and Isak Dinesen. The volume demonstrates the enduring power of narrative in Scandinavian life.

Crisis in Contemporary British Fiction

Edited By: Anastasia Logotheti

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This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.

Post/modern Dracula

From Victorian Themes to Postmodern Praxis

Edited By: John S. Bak

£29.99

This collection explores the postmodern in Bram Stoker’s Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppola’s film, demonstrating how the century separating them binds more than it divides. These essays reveal why Dracula remains forever post/modern.

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.

Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature

Edited By: Scott M. Powers

£39.99

This collection offers an international perspective on evil in contemporary French literature. Essays explore how authors give account of human catastrophes—from genocide to terrorism—investigating the origins of evil and the ethics of writing on suffering.

The Modern Philosopher, Letters to Her Son and Verses on the Siege of Gibraltar, by Elizabeth Craven

Edited By: Julia Gasper

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Gasper offers a modern edition of three fascinating and important works by Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), an English author who lived for many years on the Continent. Put together, these three works demonstrate Craven’s versatility as a writer and startling modernity.

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.

Rethinking Mimesis

Concepts and Practices of Literary Representation

Edited By: Saija Isomaa, Pirjo Lyytikäinen

£44.99

Literary mimesis, an age-old and contested concept, has been brought back to the forefront of scholarly interest. This volume explores how literature produces its reality effects, challenging our understanding of representation through textual analyses.