Literature – Page 5 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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.

Film and Literary Modernism

By: Robert P. McParland

£44.99

International scholars explore the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts. Essays highlight cinema's impact on writers like T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, and on directors from Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock.

International scholars explore the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts. Essays highlight cinema’s impact on writers like T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, and on directors from Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock.

Transgressing Women

Space and The Body in Contemporary Noir Thrillers

By: Jamaluddin Aziz

£44.99

Transgressing Women focuses on the 'other' female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.

Transgressing Women focuses on the ‘other’ female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.

“Celebrating Confusion”

The Theatre of Frank McGuinness

By: Kenneth Nally

£44.99

This study explores the challenging work of Frank McGuinness. Combining cultural, political, and theatrical analysis, it charts his development and makes the case for him as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation.

Anti-Tales

The Uses of Disenchantment

Edited By: David Calvin, Catriona McAra

£44.99

The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.

Au Naturel

(Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism

Edited By: Lara Anderson, J. P. Spicer-Escalante

£44.99

The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.

Mutual (In)Comprehensions

France and Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century

Edited By: Rosemary Mitchell

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.

Projecting Words, Writing Images

Intersections of the Textual and the Visual in American Cultural Practices

Edited By: John R. Leo, Marek Paryz

£44.99

This compilation of essays explores the energetic field of visual cultural studies. Scholars engage with photography, film, television, and literature, re-theorizing the relationship between word and image and their intersections with race, gender, and public spheres.

The “I” and the “Eye”

The Verbal and the Visual in Post-Renaissance Western Aesthetics

By: Pragyan Rath

£44.99

Tracing the opposition between verbal and visual arts from Lessing to Greenberg, the author delineates it as a history of diffusions, displacements and idealist reparations of class division.

Art in Literature, Literature in Art in 19th Century France

By: Emilie Sitzia

£44.99

In 19th-century France, painting asserted its independence from literature as art's influence on authors grew. This investigation reveals their complex relationship through case studies of David, Hugo, Van Gogh, and Balzac, shedding new light on both fields.

In 19th-century France, painting asserted its independence from literature as art’s influence on authors grew. This investigation reveals their complex relationship through case studies of David, Hugo, Van Gogh, and Balzac, shedding new light on both fields.

The Future of Text and Image

Collected Essays on Literary and Visual Conjunctures

Edited By: Ofra Amihay, Lauren Walsh

£44.99

This volume explores the evolving relationship between text and image in literature. Scholars examine this dynamic across diverse forms—from novels and poetry to collage books and digital poetry—reflecting the significance of the visual in today’s image culture.

The Public’s Open to Us All

Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England

Edited By: Laura Engel

£44.99

These essays explore how women in 18th-century England used performance to negotiate the public world. As the first actresses, playwrights, and entrepreneurs emerged, they redefined femininity, challenged traditional roles, and shaped cultural imagination.

Authenticity and Legitimacy in Minority Theatre

Constructing Identity

Edited By: Patrice Brasseur, Madelena Gonzalez

£44.99

For ethno-cultural minorities, theatre is a vital space to denounce injustice, explore past trauma, and forge new identities. But should it seek mainstream visibility or remain on the margins to assert its cultural authenticity? This volume tackles these questions.

Alienation and Resistance

Representation in Text and Image

Edited By: Laura Findlay, Gordon Spark

£44.99

This collection examines representations of alienation and resistance across diverse media. Essays explore these themes in everything from 16th-century drama to modern comics and film, asking: what are the roles, forms, and conditions of these forces in our culture?

Images of the City

Edited By: Agnieszka Rasmus, Magdalena Cieslak

£44.99

Images of the City takes readers on a journey through urban landscapes across centuries and borders. These essays offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the city, providing essential reading for cityphiles everywhere.

New Wests and Post-Wests

Literature and Film of the American West

Edited By: Paul S. Varner

£44.99

This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple "New Wests" in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.

This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple “New Wests” in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.

East Meets West

Edited By: Reiko Aiura, J. U. Jacobs

£44.99

This collection of peer-reviewed papers, from an international conference in Japan, explores the cultural cross-fertilisation between the literatures of East and West. The collection demonstrates the stimulating effect of cross-cultural literary studies.

Metanarrative Functions of Film Genre in Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare Films

Strange Bedfellows

By: Jessica M. Maerz

£45.99

Maerz demonstrates Kenneth Branagh’s appeal to classical film genres in order to meta-narrate for a popular audience the unfamiliar terrain of the Shakespearean original. She examines the debts Branagh owes, stylistically and structurally, to classically-defined generic modes.

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.

Goethe’s Faust I

The Making and Impact of a Contemporary Performance

Edited By: David W. Lovell, Heinz-Uwe Haus

£45.99

This book tracks the creative process of Heinz-Uwe Haus’s adaptation of Goethe’s Faust and his question of how Goethe’s Faust is relevant today. It unites comments from stage and costume designers as they bring their own understanding of the audience to bear on the play.