Literature – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Literature and Ethics

From the Green Knight to the Dark Knight

Edited By: Steve Brie, William T. Rossiter

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This volume examines the crucial relationship between literature and ethics from the late medieval period to the present day. It focuses on instruction, judgement, and justice across a range of periods, texts, and genres to illustrate this relationship.

Of Mice and Men

Animals in Human Culture

Edited By: Nandita Batra, Vartan P. Messier

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This collection of essays by international scholars examines human views of animals. Addressing topics from animal rights and ecology to feminism and domestication, the book considers global issues from ancient to contemporary times.

The Da Vinci Code in the Academy

Edited By: Bradley Bowers

£24.99

Reacting to The Da Vinci Code, scholars debate the feminist challenge to patriarchal authority and the textual construction of meaning. These essays examine resistance to the sacred feminine in religious, cultural, and literary histories.

Francophone Women Coming of Age

Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean

Edited By: Debra Popkin

£29.99

These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.

Mapping Appetite

Essays on Food, Fiction and Culture

Edited By: Pere Gallardo-Torrano, Jopi Nyman

£29.99

This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.

Trends in Contemporary Italian Narrative 1980-2007

Edited By: Gillian Ania, Ann Hallamore Caesar

£29.99

This volume's eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.

This volume’s eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.

Islamophobia in Non-Western Online Newspapers

By: Isyaku Hassan, Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi

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In reporting violence, the media often construct a negative image of Islam, which reproduces unfounded hostility known as Islamophobia. This book provides a systematic analysis of how non-western online newspapers reproduce Islamophobia in news reporting.

Feminist Themes in Sevim Burak and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Worlds

From "Boxes" to "Cages"

By: Sultan Komut Bakınç

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Sevim Burak used unconventional writing for realistic worlds; Ursula K. Le Guin used traditional writing for unusual ones. This study shows how both authors explored similar feminist themes and aimed to destroy phallogocentric language in different ways.

Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables

Kindred Spirits

Edited By: Jessica Carniel, Nike Sulway

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International readers and critics explore our relationship with Anne of Green Gables. Through studies of fan culture, translation, and adaptation, this unique collection of essays bridges the divide between a critical and deeply personal response to literature’s iconic girl.

The Role of the Social Media in Empowering Saudi Women’s Expression

By: Hend T. Alsudairy

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This book reveals how masked activists in Saudi Arabia use social media to challenge a patriarchal society. It connects their hidden online identities to influential newspaper columns, investigating the true extent and consequences of a Saudi woman's freedom of expression.

Cultural Poetics and Social Movements Initiated by Literature

By: Maryann P. DiEdwardo

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This book presents critiques of African American authors, poets, and a composer who contributed to social change, including Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin. It also discusses Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen and his novel The Sympathizer.

Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English

Edited By: Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Gilberta Golinelli

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The various essays collected here examine how ‘women’, across time and space, experimented with new genres or forms of expression in order to transform, question, resist or paradoxically consolidate gender discriminations and dominant ideologies in their respective societies.

Changing Societies

Cultures in Movement in Coastal Cities

Edited By: Vincent Mariet, Muthia Chandra, Letyzia Taufani, Martine Raibaud, David Waterman, Micéala Symington

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From migration to environmental crises and the rise of AI, our societies are in constant movement. This volume explores how populations confronted with such social changes are affected, and how these dynamics can foster new ways of individual or collective decision-making.

Perspectives on Waste from the Social Sciences and Humanities

Opening the Bin

Edited By: Richard Ek

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Our growing waste problem is typically viewed through a technocratic lens. This book offers vital new perspectives from social scientists and humanists, showing how waste is constituted through relationships, politics, and culture—a necessary step to building a circular economy.

Representing the Contemporary North American Family

Family Portraits

Edited By: Sophie Chapuis, Marie Moreau

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Central to this book is the idea that the family still plays a pivotal role in North America. Gathering approaches from sociology, politics, media, and literature, these contributions show the centrality of the family as a social, political, legal, and fictional construct.

What Literature Teaches in Times of Crisis

Plague Readings

By: David Pickus

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The Covid pandemic offers a new lens for old stories. This book explores how collective trauma deepens our understanding of authors like Joyce, Kafka, and Chekhov, revealing the enduring psychological power of classic literature.

Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media

Edited By: Alberto Baracco, Rosario Pollicino

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This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of unanalyzed media. It looks at trauma not simply as a national event, but as the force creating subnational and transnational communities.

The Taiwanese Cinematization of Feminine Writing

By: Ya-chen Chen

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This book explores how Taiwanese scholars adapted French feminist theories, applying the concept of écriture féminine (“feminine writing”) to Taiwanese cinema. It analyzes how women’s voices emerge when the camera becomes a cinematic pen in films like The Butcher’s Wife.

South Asian Women’s Narratives

Literatures of Their Own

Edited By: Somjeeta Pandey, Bidhu Chand Murmu

From £33.99

This collection explores works by South Asian women authors, discussing themes of gender, identity, diaspora, trauma, and the new ‘self.’ Their writings critically engage with social discrimination, empowerment, and the political issues of their times.

Stratified Nature in Women’s Writing

Past, Present, and Future

Edited By: Marie Hendry

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This book presents a diverse collection of essays about women writers and nature. Ranging across time periods and the globe, it approaches the nature-focused work of women-identifying writers through several conceptual frameworks.