Literature – Page 2 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Culture Industry Today

Edited By: Fabio A. Durão

£34.99

The concept of culture industry leads a double life. This book is a contribution to a critical tradition that explores the term in relation to media, philosophy, and consumption, showing the continued relevance of an expression whose muteness corroborates its darkest content.

Bodies and Culture

Discourses, Communities, Representations, Performances

Edited By: Christopher E. Forth, Marike Janzen, Damon Talbott

£34.99

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.

Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day

Edited By: Isabella van Elferen

£34.99

The Gothic rewrites the past through nostalgia and perversion. This collection examines how novels, films, and music use this transgressive drive to break down boundaries between past and present, norm and deviation, and other and self.

Men in Color

Racialized Masculinities in U.S. Literature and Cinema

Edited By: Josep M. Armengol

£34.99

This collection analyzes ethnic masculinities—including African American, Asian American, Chicano, and white—in U.S. literature and cinema. It explores the intersection of gender and race, highlighting both the differences and recurring stereotypes among them.

A Multicultural and Multifaceted Study of Ideologies and Conflicts related to the Complex Realities and Fictions of Nation and Identity represented in Contemporary Literature Written in English

Edited By: José María Gutiérrez Arranz

£34.99

This book is a study of ideologies and conflicts related to Nation and Identity in contemporary English literature. It explores the individual’s pursuit of identity amid nationalist conflicts, racial confrontations, and postcolonial legacies.

Twenty-First-Century Gothic

Edited By: Brigid Cherry, Peter Howell, Caroline Ruddell

£34.99

These essays reinterpret the Gothic inheritance from a 21st-century perspective, a mode uniquely applicable to the frightening instability of our world. This collection explores Gothic’s contemporaneity through horror novels, cinema, poetry, music, and fan cultures.

Postmodernism and After

Visions and Revisions

Edited By: Regina Rudaitytė

£34.99

This collection of essays reflects on developments in literature pointing beyond postmodernism. Diagnosing its exhaustion, these articles trace a return to traditional concepts and invite a reconsideration of truth and meaning in our new literary age.

Female Subjectivity in African-American Women’s Poetry

A Critical Reading

By: Tanima Kumari

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This book constructs Black female subjectivity through the poetry of African-American women. It delves into issues like racism, motherhood, and the struggle for identity, illuminating Black female aesthetics, the liberation of self, and the politics of survival.

Serial Authorship and New Directions in Spanish Female Detective Fiction

Edited By: Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva, Melissa A. Stewart

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This collection of essays offers new perspectives on female authors of Spanish crime fiction. The studies analyze how their versatile narratives explore gender, sexuality, and social issues while reformulating the crime genre—and sometimes departing from it entirely.

Samuel Richardson, Comedic Narrative and the Culture of Domestic Violence

Abused Pamela

By: Christopher D. Johnson

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This book reveals the core paradox of Samuel Richardson. Fearing his own novel *Pamela* normalized abuse, he became both a staunch defender of patriarchy and a fierce advocate for women’s safety, happiness, and subjectivity.

Dictating the Rules of Engagement for Contemporary Women

Edited By: Vivek Kumar Dwivedi, Majed Alenezi

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This book challenges the standards, values, and parameters used to judge women in society. Drawing on literary texts, case studies, and insights from global scholars, it serves as an authentic representative of the women’s cause.

Crafting Infinity

Reworking Elements in Irish Culture

Edited By: Rory T. Cornish, Marguerite Quintelli-Neary

£39.99

This collection of essays investigates how traditional Irish culture has been revised and repackaged. Contributors reveal how artists, writers, and emigrants re-interpreted and reshaped Irish myths, music, and history, crafting an infinite legacy.

Civil Strife in a Complex and Changing World

Perspectives Far and Near

Edited By: Gena Howard, Nancy Riecken, Linda Urschel

£39.99

This collection offers perspectives on social conflict, past and present, with a view toward building connections. From Renaissance preachers to soldiers in Afghanistan, these papers explore issues that at some times separate us and at other times bring us together.

Laughter in the Trenches

Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives

By: Jakub Kazecki

£39.99

This study explores humour in German WWI narratives like *All Quiet on the Western Front*. It shows how these works, regardless of ideology, shared narrative strategies using soldier laughter to justify violence and oppressive power structures.

Minor Mythologies as Popular Literature

A Student's Guide to Texts and Films

By: Richard Pine

£39.99

This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. It challenges perceived notions of popular literature.

The Surplus of Culture

Sense, Common-sense, Non-sense

Edited By: Ewa Borkowska, Tomasz Burzyński

£39.99

This volume presents the surplus of culture: the added value of irony, irrationality, and absurdity that subverts mainstream culture. It dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition, where entrenched notions reveal their shattering nature.

Studies in Irreversibility

Texts and Contexts

Edited By: Benjamin Schreier

£39.99

This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.

Passage to Manhattan

Critical Essays on Meena Alexander

Edited By: Lopamudra Basu, Cynthia Leenerts

£39.99

This is the first collection of essays on Meena Alexander, one of the most influential contemporary South Asian American writers. Scholars analyze her poetry, memoirs, and fiction, examining her contribution to postcolonial and US multicultural studies.

The Worlds of Elias Canetti

Centenary Essays

Edited By: William Collins Donahue, Julian Preece

£39.99

The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.

Culture as Text, Text as Culture

Edited By: Elodie Lafitte, Christina Wall, Mary Cobb Wittrock

£39.99

This interdisciplinary analysis demonstrates not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history, by exploring how all texts and their contexts are constructs.