Literature – Page 77 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Children’s Literature and Culture

Edited By: Harry Eiss

£34.99

This collection of scholarship offers an eclectic overview of youth culture. Essays explore unusual minds that question human existence, the evolution of board and video games, magic in fantasy fiction, and consumerism in popular teen book series.

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.

Fictional Realities / Real Fictions. Contemporary Theatre in Search of a New Mimetic Paradigm

Edited By: Mateusz Borowski, Malgorzata Sugiera

£34.99

This collection tackles the problem of fictionality and reality in contemporary theatre. It analyzes how phenomena like new media and post-dramatic forms challenge the basic dichotomy between the fictional and the real on which Western theatre is based.

Muses and Measures

Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities

By: Frank Hakemulder, Willie van Peer, Sonia Zyngier

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This book is required reading for humanistic disciplines. Too often, scholars present theories without knowing how to test them empirically. In an engaging way, the authors teach statistics, leading students through projects to analyze their own gathered data.

Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature

Remapping Uncertain Territories

Edited By: Magali Compan, Katarzyna Pieprzak

£29.99

As globalization displaces bodies, landscape becomes a potent source for identity. This collection examines how contemporary French literature re-maps post-colonial worlds, exploring dispossession, resistance, and re-appropriation in a constructed literary space.

Patois and Linguistic Pastiche in Modern Literature

Edited By: Giovanna Summerfield

£29.99

In an era of standardization, dialect and patois are marks of identity. No in-depth treatment has been offered as to the causes and consequences of language mixing from both linguistic and literary views. This book aims to fill this lack of analysis.

Narrating our Healing

Perspectives on Working through Trauma

By: Chris N van der Merwe

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This book explores narrative as a way of working through trauma. It offers illuminating perspectives on “narrating our healing”: the re-creating of life narratives shattered by trauma and the search for meaning when all meaning seems to have been lost.

Into the Mainstream

Essays on Spanish American and Latino Literature and Culture

Edited By: Jorge Febles

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This eclectic collection of essays on Spanish American and Latino culture espouses an inclusive approach. Established and developing voices blend high and low realms to reflect on a kaleidoscopic textuality and bring provocative subjects into the academic mainstream.

Occult Joyce

The Hidden in Ulysses

By: Enrico Terrinoni

£34.99

Ulysses is an occult text that deliberately hides its meanings, compelling the reader to unveil its secrets. This penetrating study excavates Joyce’s cryptic system, showing his deep knowledge of the subject and challenging past interpretations.

Sophie’s Choice

A Contemporary Casebook

Edited By: James L. W. West III, Rhoda Sirlin

£29.99

This casebook collects interpretations of William Styron’s controversial novel, Sophie's Choice. It focuses on key themes like its treatment of women, sexuality, and the Holocaust, with commentaries by Elie Wiesel, Gloria Steinem, and Styron himself.

This casebook collects interpretations of William Styron’s controversial novel, Sophie’s Choice. It focuses on key themes like its treatment of women, sexuality, and the Holocaust, with commentaries by Elie Wiesel, Gloria Steinem, and Styron himself.

Margaret Storm Jameson

Writing in Dialogue

Edited By: Jennifer Birkett, Chiara Briganti

£34.99

Storm Jameson’s writing mirrored the 20th century. This first collection of essays devoted to her work reassesses her pivotal role, analysing her engagement with war, fascism, and socialism, and reveals a sequence of unpublished letters.

The Detective as Historian

Edited By: Ray Browne, Lawrence Kreiser

£39.99

Historical crime fiction serves the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. It brings the past to the present, making characters alive and events interesting. Writers fill in human motivations where records don't exist, recovering the past.

Ghosts, Stories and Histories

Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories

Edited By: Sladja Blazan

£39.99

This collection reflects on ghost stories from the seventeenth century to our ghosts in the machine. Analyzing the ghostly figure in narratives from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison's Beloved, it shows how spectral vocabulary is finding its place in cultural theory.

This collection reflects on ghost stories from the seventeenth century to our ghosts in the machine. Analyzing the ghostly figure in narratives from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, it shows how spectral vocabulary is finding its place in cultural theory.

The Forbidden

Edited By: Benito Pérez Galdós

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A wealthy philanderer attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He succeeds with two, but it is the wild and impetuous Camila who resists his temptations and holds our attention. A major work from Spain’s greatest novelist.

“A Noble Unrest”

Contemporary Essays on the Work of George MacDonald

Edited By: Jean Webb

£29.99

"A Noble Unrest" is an international collection of essays on George MacDonald, the 19th-century fantasy writer whose work critiqued the Victorian era. Scholars explore his fiction, his influence, and his relevance for the contemporary reader.

“A Noble Unrest” is an international collection of essays on George MacDonald, the 19th-century fantasy writer whose work critiqued the Victorian era. Scholars explore his fiction, his influence, and his relevance for the contemporary reader.

City Visions

The Work of Iain Sinclair

Edited By: Jenny Bavidge, Robert Bond

£34.99

$START$ This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain's most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$

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This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain’s most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$

Empowerment versus Oppression

Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels

Edited By: Sally Goade

£39.99

Are women readers oppressed by patriarchal romance narratives, or empowered by them? Building on early critics, these selections add new perspectives, examining diverse subtypes and featuring unique voices from international readers, novelists, and critics.

Wilkie Collins

Interdisciplinary Essays

Edited By: Andrew Mangham

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This collection of critical essays explores the life and works of Wilkie Collins. It reveals his connections to key figures in art, theatre, medicine, and law, offering new perspectives on his most canonical works and readings of neglected material.

Boundaries

Edited By: Jenni Ramone, Gemma Twitchen

£39.99

This collection offers creative and critical responses to making, breaking, and negotiating boundaries. A startling reassessment of its subject, it erases the borders between the critical, the creative, and the cultural with passion and precision.

Introductions and Translations to the Plays of Sophocles and Euripides

Vol. II

Edited By: Harry Love

£24.99

From twelve years of producing ancient plays for contemporary audiences, these translations of Sophocles and Euripides are accessible and speakable. They maintain the poetry of tragedy without being archaic, accompanied by essays on drama, irony, and emotion.