Literature – Page 45 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

English as a Foreign Language for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Persons

Challenges and Strategies

Edited By: Ewa Domagała-Zyśk, Edit H. Kontra

£47.99

This volume describes experiences of teaching foreign language to deaf and hard-of-hearing students and presents aspects of empirical research in this field. It discusses mainly the issue of specific methodology for teaching English as a foreign language to these learners.

Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture

Edited By: Luis H. Castañeda, Javier González

£52.99

This book studies the fictional representation of circles of artists and intellectuals, and other diverse associations that share the common trait of being small and subversive collectives, showing how such communities represent the “other side” of official institutions.

The Arts of Memory and the Poetics of Remembering

Edited By: Abbes Maazaoui

£45.99

This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.

Sanctified Subversives

Nuns in Early Modern English and Spanish Literature

By: Horacio Sierra

£47.99

Sierra illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood.

American Women Writers, Poetics, and the Nature of Gender Study

Edited By: Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo

£45.99

This collection studies processes of creating voices of the past to analyze and to juxtapose, discussing the educational community viewed through feminist theory. It explores facets of language to focus on metaphorical grammatical constructions, specific with form and function.

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.

Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala

Lessons of Collaborative Governance

By: Megha Jacob, Jacob John

£45.99

This monograph considers a new public health model in the Indian state Kerala, which is unique in achieving human and social development with a low level of economic development.

Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind

Edited By: Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske

£47.99

This collection demonstrates the novel's power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind's urge to understand itself.

This collection demonstrates the novel’s power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind’s urge to understand itself.

The Theoretical Background and Practical Implications of Argumentation in Ireland

By: Davide Mazzi

£54.99

Mazzi suggests, linguistically, that the study of reasoned argument is likely to have many potential applications in the context of Irish public discourse. He tackles the issue of the construction of argumentation in the judiciary and in the politics of the Irish Republic.

Literary Madness in British, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women’s Writing

By: Shahd Alshammari

£45.99

Alshammari considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women authors, readdressing the madwoman trope from a transnational approach set in contrast to the traditional Eurocentric approach to literary madness.

Two Questers in the Twentieth-century North Africa

Paul Bowles and Ibrahim Alkoni

By: Imen Ayari Cozzo

£47.99

This unique exploration of Paul Bowles and Ibrahim Alkoni reveals timely insights into the relationship between the West and the Orient. An original work, it challenges existing scholarship and is a valuable contribution to comparative and postcolonial literature.

Narratives at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium

Edited By: Jessica Homberg-Schramm, Anna Rasokat, Felicitas Schweiker

£45.99

This volume offers an approach to narratives in the 21st century, amid growing concern with the decreasing explanatory capacity of theoretical concepts and narrative configurations. It provides cutting-edge research from a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences.

The Fantastic of the Fin de Siècle

Edited By: Zdeněk Beran, Irena Grubica

£52.99

This volume explores the fantastic and the fin de siècle’s relationship. It studies how this period reflects the fantastic’s relation to: aesthetic ideas, terror and horror, the sublime, and evil, Gothic and sensation fiction, the Aesthetic Movement and Decadence.

Ways of Being in Literary and Cultural Spaces

Edited By: Leo Loveday, Emilia Parpală

£52.99

This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.

The Many Voices of Contemporary Piedmontese Writers

By: Andrea Raimondi

£61.99

Raimondi presents a linguistic analysis of a group of modern narratives written by Piedmontese authors. The novels and short stories examined are notable for the way they move between various idioms—Standard Italian, regional vernaculars, English and pastiches.

The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century

More than a Bestseller

Edited By: Daniela Richter

£52.99

This collection looks at aesthetic and thematic continuities, as well as changes in the historical genre in Germany from the late 18th century to the present. It also gives insights into the novels’ political and socio-cultural implications and studies several historical novels.

Mapping out the Rushdie Republic

Some Recent Surveys

Edited By: Prasanta Bhattacharyya, Tapan Kumar Ghosh

£63.99

This collection differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of content. Every major writing of the writer is paid due attention as separate articles are devoted to every aspect of his literary persona.

Defining and Redefining Space in the English-Speaking World

Contacts, Frictions, Clashes

Edited By: Fanny Moghaddassi, Ghislain Potriquet

£52.99

Focusing on contacts, frictions, and clashes, this collection explores their spatial nature, highlighting the stakes of (re)definitions of space. It examines how efforts, such as defining and mapping spaces, lead to geographical, social, political, and aesthetic definitions.

Science Fiction beyond Borders

Edited By: Shawn Edrei, Danielle Gurevitch

£50.99

Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.

Ecstatic Consumption

The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature

By: Pavlina Radia

£52.99

Radia argues how the culture of spectacle is ever-evolving and affecting the global dependence on consumption and its many different forms. She asks if avatar (anti)forms provide an escape into a utopian space or further enhance the dystopian ecstasy.