Literature – Page 47 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries

Edited By: Pavel Drábek, Klára Kolinská, Matthew Nicholls

£34.99

This book explores the cultural notion of “Shakespeare.” His collaborators are not only his contemporaries but all who give his works new life as plays, films, and novels, collaborating in both a literal and figurative sense.

Imagining Blackness in Germany and Austria

Edited By: Sabrina K. Rahman, Michael Saman, Charlotte Szilagyi

£39.99

These provocative essays examine how blackness has been configured in cultural productions from the modern German-speaking world, tracing crucial shifts from colonial notions of race to the recodification of blackness as American and an entry-point into modernity.

Greece and Britain since 1945

Edited By: David Wills

£34.99

This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945. With contributions from leading academics and journalists, it focuses on cultural perceptions, covering literature, the work of aid agencies, and television series set in Greece.

Theory and the Transformative Humanities

Edited By: Kunhammad K K, Rafseena M.

From £32.99

This volume explores the transformative humanities, a vision for transforming cultures, individuals, and society. Through scholarly essays on topics like posthumanism and film studies, it offers new perspectives to innovate and transform the world we live in.

Empowering Transformations

Mrs Pepperpot Revisited

Edited By: Maria Lassén-Seger, Anne Skaret

£39.99

Alf Prøysen’s classic Mrs Pepperpot stories have received surprisingly little critical attention. This overdue collection of essays by experts explores Prøysen’s heroine through modern theory to deepen the understanding of her enduring popularity.

Writings on Caribbean History, Literature, Art and Culture

One Love

Edited By: Irline François

£58.99

This book discusses the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists and literary scholars explore in their narratives a historical process embedded in the violence seared in their pasts and their present, drawing attention to the way history shapes their memories.

Stabilisation

By: Peter Prazmowski

£39.99

This book contributes to the debate on economic stabilisation in developing countries affected by exchange rate volatility and high inflation. It provides a review of the literature and extends analytical models to test their relevance for policymakers.

Multicultural Narratives

Traces and Perspectives

Edited By: Hywel Dix, Mustafa Kirca

£58.99

Unpacking multiculturalism in literature, this interdisciplinary collection reveals how narratives subvert fixed notions of race, nation, and identity. A vital resource of theoretical and analytical essays for scholars, students, and researchers.

Frontier Justice in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy

By: Daniel Davis Wood

£47.99

Davis Wood explores James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy as engaged in a complex legal and ethical dialogue regarding the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier despite the centuries that separate their lives and their work.

Studies in Ontology in Twentieth Century Literature

Edited By: Doris Enright-Clark Shoukry

£61.99

Representing a study of literary concern with ontology throughout the twentieth century, this title consists of ten essays, each of which focuses on one or various writers’ absorption with the nature of man and his ‘being in this world.’

The Power of Form

Recycling Myths

Edited By: Ana Fernandes, Ana Raquel Fernandes, Rui Carlos Fonseca, José Pedro Serra

£47.99

Once dismissed as primitive fancy, myths are now seen as complex symbolic narratives that carry meaning. This interdisciplinary volume studies how myths are recycled within heritage, examining their personal and political implications for societies making sense of life.

Hybridity in Spanish Culture

Edited By: Emily Knudson-Vilaseca, Maureen Tobin Stanley, María P. Tajes

£34.99

This anthology explores hybridity in Spanish culture from Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The literary and visual texts studied blur fixed boundaries between genres, cultures, and languages. A hybrid itself, this collection points to the future.

The Right Sort of Woman

Victorian Travel Writers and the Fitness of an Empire

By: Precious McKenzie Stearns

£34.99

Nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing reveals how they found freedom abroad. Far from strict Victorian codes, they participated in men’s sports, improving their health and confidence. This shaped feminism and the revolutionary image of the New Woman.

Levity of Design

Man and Modernity in the Poetry of J. H. Prynne

By: Wit Píetrzak

£39.99

Is it still possible to think of the human subject as a viable category? This book demonstrates how J. H. Prynne’s poetry overcomes the impasse of poststructuralism, developing a language in which the notion of man can be restituted.

Contours of Privacy

Edited By: David Matheson

£39.99

An international group of contributors explores privacy’s contours in a series of accessible yet rigorous essays. Themes include the psychology of privacy, social accountability, and the concerns of emerging information technologies.

Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora

Edited By: Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, Alloy Ihuah, Felisters Kripono

£47.99

This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent's chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.

This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent’s chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.

Grotesque Revisited

Grotesque and Satire in the Post/Modern Literature of Central and Eastern Europe

Edited By: Laurynas Katkus

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the grotesque in modern Central and Eastern European writing, focusing on the Soviet era. Scholars analyze the relationship between the socio-political background and subversive literary representations of the grotesque.

Reflections on / of Dickens

Edited By: Ewa Kujawska-Lis, Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska

£49.99

This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.

Defoe and the Dutch

Places, Things, People

By: Margaret J-M Sönmez

£57.99

This first book to examine the presence of references to, and influences of, the Dutch in Defoe’s novels investigates the perceptions of English readers of fiction of the Dutch, in an era during which two Anglo-Dutch wars were fought and a Dutch king took over the English throne.

Myth as Symbol

A Psychoanalytic Study in Contemporary German Literature

By: Sonia Saporiti

£39.99

Reconsidering the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, this study explores the modern literary reworking of myth. From Jungian archetypes to the Freudian unconscious, it analyzes figures like Undine and Medea to explore timeless questions.