Literature – Page 4 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Crossings

David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media

Edited By: Johan Callens

£39.99

International scholars assess David Mamet's career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

International scholars assess David Mamet’s career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

Art and Social Justice

The Media Connection

Edited By: Mike Hajimichael

£41.99

This book explores the connections between art, social justice, and media. With chapters referencing situations in Brazil, Cyprus, Greece and South Africa, it concentrates on how art campaigns for change and mobilizes youth in a world mediated by the Internet.

Literary Readings of Billy Wilder

Edited By: Georges-Claude Guilbert

£39.99

Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.

Experiments in Freedom

Explorations of Identity in New South African Drama

By: Anton Krueger

£39.99

Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.

Art and Book

Illustration and Innovation

Edited By: Peter Stupples, Jane Venis

£45.99

The place of illustration and innovation is explored in this collection, regarding the relation of image to text in books of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Topics range from the work of Marcel Duchamp and Kazimir Malevich to the design of multimodal works and 3D printing.

Peeping Through the Holes

Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho

Edited By: Eugenio M. Olivares Merino, Julio A. Olivares Merino

£44.99

These essays on Psycho, the novel and the film, invite you to that peculiar house on the hill. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here… at least not until it overcomes you.

Old Stories, New Readings

The Transforming Power of American Drama

Edited By: Miriam López-Rodríguez, Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz, Inmaculada Pineda-Hernández

£52.99

This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright's telling. Focusing on "small stories" that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.

This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright’s telling. Focusing on “small stories” that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.

Mental Illnesses in Symbolism

Edited By: Rosina Neginsky

£63.99

This volume inquires into the mysteries of the psyche of the Symbolist Movement through essays on works of art, literature and music created as part or extension of the Symbolist Movement.

The Origin of Hardy’s Tragic Vision

By: Rıza Öztürk

£39.99

Öztürk gets to the core of Hardy’s ‘tragic vision’: the destruction of self through the dramatic interplay between character and circumstance. This study brilliantly captures Hardy's stark statement about life itself, filling the need for newer interpretations.

Öztürk gets to the core of Hardy’s ‘tragic vision’: the destruction of self through the dramatic interplay between character and circumstance. This study brilliantly captures Hardy’s stark statement about life itself, filling the need for newer interpretations.

The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos

By: Anastasia Psoni

£67.99

Psoni shows the importance of, and the various roles played by, the feminine figure in the work of both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos, highlighting the essential role assumed by the gynocentric mythology permeating the work of the two poets.

Rewriting Shakespeare’s Plays For and By the Contemporary Stage

Edited By: Michael Dobson, Estelle Rivier-Arnaud

£58.99

Why are contemporary playwrights obsessed with rewriting Shakespeare? Across the world, new writers have questioned the political and cultural stakes of repeating his classics. This collection asks: do modern rewritings supplant Shakespeare, or does his survival depend on them?

Longing, Weakness and Temptation

From Myth to Artistic Creations

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj, Jason Blake

£44.99

This book explores the universal themes of longing, weakness, and temptation by comparing literary works influenced by biblical and classic texts. It shows how the source text speaks through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source.

Shifting Subjectivities in Contemporary Fiction and Film from Spain

Edited By: Jennifer Brady, Meredith L. Jeffers

£61.99

This edited volume analyses shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced in Spain in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it establishes an international dialogue of multicultural perspectives on trends in contemporary Spain.

Breaking with Convention in Italian Art

Edited By: Julia C. Fischer

£58.99

This title explores the various ways in which artists, patrons, and art historians throughout history have broken bad by defying authority, challenging convention, or rejecting the norm. The articles here span from the art of ancient Etruria to the twentieth century.

Sounds of Life

Music, Identity and Politics in Zimbabwe

Edited By: Fainos Mangena, Itai Muwati

£52.99

The papers brought together here examine the various roles of music in Zimbabwe, showing how Zimbabwean music has addressed the socio-economic, political and spiritual crisis that the country has endured in recent years.

The Politics of Cultural Memory

Edited By: Jim Aulich, Lucy Burke, Simon Faulkner

£34.99

This collection explores the politics of cultural memory. From monuments to film and literature, it shows how cultural memory is actively made: the site of a struggle over meanings that serves various political and cultural purposes.

On the Edge of the Panel

Essays on Comics Criticism

Edited By: Julio Cañero, Esther Claudio

£52.99

This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium's cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.

This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium’s cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.

Pinter Et Cetera

Edited By: Craig N. Owens

£39.99

PINTER ET CETERA collects essays arguing that Harold Pinter was not merely a unique writer, but an artist influencing and influenced by painters, filmmakers, and poets. This bold volume expands our understanding of Pinter's importance beyond the absurdist stage.

Roots and Routes of Maghrebean Voices in Literature and Art

Edited By: Bootheina Majoul

From £32.99

This volume examines past and contemporary Maghrebean texts to explore what it means to be Maghrebean. Scholars focus on the importance of poetics in (re)making roots and (re)tracing routes, mapping the history, art, and literature of the Maghreb region.

“The Wandering Life I Led”

Essays on Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin and Early Modern Women’s Border Crossings

Edited By: Susan Shifrin

£39.99

International scholars explore the literary, visual, and theatrical representations of Hortense Mancini. Her transgressions of geographical, gendered, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries enhance our understanding of early modern women and cultural formation.