Literature – Page 49 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Not Far From Here

The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver

Edited By: Vasiliki Fachard, Robert Miltner

£39.99

Hailed as the “American Chekhov,” Raymond Carver’s work has international appeal, yet critical attention has been mostly US-based. This collection of essays by international scholars provides readers with new and multinational insights into his poetry and fiction.

Thy Truth Then Be Thy Dowry

Questions of Inheritance in American Women's Literature

Edited By: Stéphanie Durrans

£44.99

This collection of essays offers new insights into inheritance in American women’s writing. Contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to their legacy, revealing strategies of resistance and empowerment used to cope with the burden or lack of inheritance.

Electric Sheep Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Speculative Fiction in a Post Modern World

Edited By: Harry Eiss

£49.99

On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. A bomb shattered Hiroshima, and the easy truths of centuries no longer applied. Speculative Fiction projects real possibilities beyond these now shattered assumptions, moving through marginalized fictional landscapes.

Transfigurations of the European Identity

Edited By: Zsolt Almási, Mike Pincombe

£39.99

European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.

Displaced Women

Multilingual Narratives of Migration in Europe

Edited By: Lucia Aiello, Joy Charnley, Mariangela Palladino

£44.99

These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.

The Fire Within

Desire in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature

Edited By: Elena Borelli

£44.99

Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.

Tabish Khair

Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Om Prakash Dwivedi

£44.99

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair's unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair’s unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

Literature and the Monarchy

The Traditional and the Modern Concept of the Office of Poet Laureate of England

By: Ewa Panecka

£44.99

This book explores the Poet Laureateship from the Restoration to today, revealing the symbolic link it forges between literature, the Monarchy, and national identity.

Milestones on the Road to Dystopia

Interpreting George Orwell’s Self-Division in an Era of ‘Force and Fraud’

By: Firas Adnan Jabbar Al-Jubouri

£44.99

This book explores George Orwell’s journey to dystopia, examining the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a divided self. It presents a new understanding of his work by connecting his critiques of ‘force and fraud’ to the totalitarian tactics of Machiavelli.

Fabricating the Body

Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse

Edited By: Sarah Himsel Burcon

£39.99

Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on "indebted" bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.

Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on “indebted” bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.

Reading the Fantastic Imagination

The Avatars of a Literary Genre

Edited By: Dana Percec

£44.99

This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy 'lowbrow' fiction being studied by canonical scholars.

This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy ‘lowbrow’ fiction being studied by canonical scholars.

The New Criticism

Formalist Literary Theory in America

Edited By: Alfred J. Drake

£34.99

This volume traces the history and theories of the New Criticism school. It assesses the New Critics' lasting influence, examining how their work has been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by subsequent theorists and educators.

This volume traces the history and theories of the New Criticism school. It assesses the New Critics’ lasting influence, examining how their work has been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by subsequent theorists and educators.

The Empty Too

Language and Philosophy in the Works of Samuel Beckett

By: Arthur Broomfield

£39.99

This controversial study argues that for Beckett, pure language is reality. While the world we perceive cannot be proved to exist, language survives to become the real. Beckett’s art is his philosophy, a thinking that surpasses the major philosophers.

Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie

The Correspondence between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976-1995

Edited By: Gillian Dooley, Graham Nerlich

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This collection of correspondence, covering over twenty years, records the deeply affectionate friendship between novelist Iris Murdoch and philosopher Brian Medlin. They spar over Marxism and radical politics, while he regales her with tales of Australian life.

Greece and Britain since 1945 Second Edition

Edited By: David Wills

£29.99

This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945, focusing on the perceptions of writers and organisations. This updated edition includes new chapters discussing the recent "Greek Crisis" and its portrayal in British media.

Reviewing Imperial Conflicts

Edited By: Cristina Baptista, Ana Cristina Mendes

£44.99

This volume of essays investigates the “European civilizing mission” through conflict. Centered on a controversial debate, contributors review colonial and postcolonial imperial conflicts to offer new perspectives on the British Empire.

Face to Face/Faccia a Faccia

Edited By: Maria Cristina Cignatta

£44.99

Twelve of Italy's best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.

Twelve of Italy’s best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.

Albert Camus’s The Stranger

Critical Essays

Edited By: Peter Francev

£49.99

This collection of critical essays by international experts examines Camus’s The Stranger from both philosophical and literary perspectives. Presenting the first known critical examination in English, this volume sheds new light on the classic novel.

De-stereotyping Indian Body and Desire

Edited By: Kaustav Chakraborty

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This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.

Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal

The Early Phase

By: Hema Dahiya

£44.99

This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.