Literature – Page 77 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Governing the Tongue in Northern Ireland

The Place of Art/The Art of Place

By: Shane Alcobia-Murphy

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Governing the Tongue examines how creating art in a time of violence brings anxiety to the Northern Irish artist, questioning the ability to represent events. These essays explore the guarded, self-conscious work of key writers and visual artists.

From Colonialism to the Contemporary

Intertextual Transformation in World Children's and Youth Literature

Edited By: Lance Weldy

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This selection of essays highlights key shifts in ideology found in world children’s literature. It traces the transformative and intertextual nature of these texts, revealing that this genre is subject to the same ideologies as other literature.

Messengers of Eros

Representations of Sex in Australian Writing

By: Xavier Pons

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Messengers of Eros examines the literary strategies Australian writers use to represent sex. This compelling book offers readings of classics and modern writers in Australia's postcolonial context. Nominated as a ‘Best Book of the Year’.

Messengers of Eros examines the literary strategies Australian writers use to represent sex. This compelling book offers readings of classics and modern writers in Australia’s postcolonial context. Nominated as a ‘Best Book of the Year’.

Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature

Edited By: Robin DeRosa

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Spanning the 17th to 19th centuries, this collection explores dominance and oppression in early American literature. Through Native Americans, Puritan outcasts, and slaves, it reveals assimilation and subversion as codependent, mutually defining forces.

Postcolonial Borderlands

Orality and Irish Traveller Writing

By: Christine Walsh

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This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.

Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century

New Critical Essays

Edited By: Heather Ostman

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This collection of essays updates Kate Chopin scholarship for the 21st century. Breaking from familiar feminist trends, these essays explore her stories and novels through lenses of race, class, gender, and culture, offering fresh readings of The Awakening.

The Traveling and Writing Self

Edited By: Marguerite Helmers, Tilar Mazzeo

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These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.

New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism

Edited By: Andrea Campbell

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These essays on ecofeminist literary criticism highlight the intersections of environment, race, class, and gender oppression. Analyzing authors from Kingsolver to Nwapa, this collection expands the discussion to a global scale and environmental justice.

Triumphant Bodies

Sexual Political Conquest in Women’s Published Writing, 1660-1763

By: Emily Smith

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This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.

Readers, Audiences and Coteries in Early Modern England

Edited By: Geoff Baker

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This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text's physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.

This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text’s physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.

Exploring Space

Trends in Literature, Linguistics and Translation

Edited By: Shakila Abdul Manan, Lalita Sinha

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This collection of original essays on Literature, Linguistics, and Translation by Malaysian academics reflects state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary research. It provides textual and theoretical readings from a variety of traditional and modern perspectives.

Susan Glaspell

New Directions in Critical Inquiry

Edited By: Martha Carpentier

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Susan Glaspell’s work engages with feminism, war, class, and law. Susan Glaspell: New Directions in Critical Inquiry brings scholarship up to date, featuring new essays from leading scholars on her art and thoughtful social commentary.

Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, The History of the Count de Comminge, translated by Charlotte Lennox

Edited By: Marianna D’Ezio

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In 1756, celebrated novelist Charlotte Lennox translated a novel by the controversial French intellectual Madame de Tencin. Knowing it was penned by a woman, Lennox serialized it in her feminist magazine. This is the first reprint in two centuries.

Engaging Tradition, Making It New

Essays on Teaching Recent African American Literature

Edited By: Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn

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Engaging Tradition, Making It New offers fresh scholarly and pedagogical approaches to new African American literature. Focusing on transgression, this collection explores writers who challenge expectations, pointing toward new methods of teaching and research.

The Position of Magic in Selected Medieval Spanish Texts

By: Francis Tobienne

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This book addresses the blurred lines between magic, religion, and science in Spanish literature and history. It explores the divide between white and black magic, Alfonso X’s court, and a window of quasi-tolerance amidst Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

Romanticism and Parenting

Image, Instruction and Ideology

Edited By: Carolyn Weber

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How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.

Fiction Unbound

Bernardine Evaristo

By: Sebnem Toplu

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This book shows how Bernardine Evaristo is not simply a “multicultural” writer. It reveals an author who questions concepts like “Englishness,” race, and gender, giving marginalized characters the chance to tell their own stories.

“A Noble Unrest”

Contemporary Essays on the Work of George MacDonald

Edited By: Jean Webb

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"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.

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.

Through Other Eyes

The Translation of Anglophone Literature in Europe

Edited By: Sophie Alatorre, Richard Trim

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This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.