Literature – Page 6 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Event, the Subject, and the Artwork

Into the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: R.A. Goodrich, Ann McCulloch

£47.99

This collection explores art's power to mediate political events, creating temporal ruptures and heralding an indescribable future.

This collection explores art’s power to mediate political events, creating temporal ruptures and heralding an indescribable future.

Assembling Identities

Edited By: Sam Wiseman

£47.99

This cross-disciplinary collection explores how identities – individual, communal, and national – are constructed, maintained and contested. These essays emphasize the invariable ambiguity and instability of identity, offering new perspectives on a concept in ceaseless change.

Voicing the Text

American Drama and the Production of Voice

By: Petra Ragnerstam

£47.99

By using both drama and film, and by exploring the translation between the two, this study shows that voice can be placed in a grid where the subject, body, language and power interconnect in ways that question established ideas concerning voice – what it is and what it can do.

A History of Neapolitan Drama in the Twentieth Century

By: Mariano D'Amora

£47.99

This monograph shows how Neapolitan theatre managed to not only survive, but thrive in an era that saw the disappearance of a number of regional theatre traditions in Italy, with Neapolitan playwrights forcefully proclaiming their roots as a primary source for their work.

Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture

Edited By: Justyna Stępień

£47.99

This collection of essays traces the evolution of kitsch and camp aesthetics in popular culture and the avant-garde. From diverse theoretical perspectives, it provides a much-needed commentary on the function of these aesthetics today.

We Speak a Different Tongue

Maverick Voices and Modernity 1890–1939

Edited By: Yoonjoung Choi, Anthony Patterson

£47.99

This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era's tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.

This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era’s tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.

Art and the Artist in Society

Edited By: Jane Elizabeth Alberdeston, Elsa Luciano Feal, José Jiménez-Justiniano

£49.99

This compilation of essays examines the nexus between artists, their art, and society. Through a diverse group of artists, it explores important issues like the representation of the Other and the construction of the self, offering fascinating insights.

The Flâneur Abroad

Historical and International Perspectives

Edited By: Richard Wrigley

£49.99

This volume offers new perspectives on the flâneur, mapping the figure’s travels beyond Paris. It explores the flâneur in international cities and across visual media, revising stereotypes and reconsidering the nature of this cultural icon.

Close Relations

Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre

Edited By: Paul Monaghan

£52.99

This book applies insights from the “spatial turn” to Greek and Roman theatre. It explores the complex interweaving of space-time, the relations between ancient theatrical space, and how it has been interpreted and transformed throughout history.

Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama

Edited By: René Agostini, Madelena Gonzalez

£52.99

What is the value of art in an age of corporatized knowledge? This volume explores the crucial intersection of aesthetics and ideology. Through a wide range of international examples, these essays argue that the arts are fundamental to any progress in society.

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.

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.

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.

Gender-Related Variation in the Speech of English and Romanian Adolescents

By: Costin-Valentin Oancea

£52.99

Oancea analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, suggesting that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that fully understanding language requires grasping the nature and function of variation.

Russian Classical Literature Today

The Challenges/Trials of Messianism and Mass Culture

Edited By: Yordan Ljutskanov, Hristo Manolakev, Radostin Rusev

£54.99

This book explores the struggle for Russia's literary canon. It reveals how contemporary culture reworks the classics while resisting political and economic pressures, showing how a new canon is forged.

This book explores the struggle for Russia’s literary canon. It reveals how contemporary culture reworks the classics while resisting political and economic pressures, showing how a new canon is forged.

James Bond in World and Popular Culture

The Films are Not Enough, Second Edition

Edited By: Jack Becker, Robert G. Weiner, B. Lynn Whitfield

£54.99

The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.

Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2015

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£57.99

Deriving from the 6th Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, this collection presents material from the fields of philosophy, literature and theatre. It will interest researchers of literature, theatre and the arts from a consciousness studies perspective.

Intermediality and Spectatorship in the Theatre Work of Robert Lepage

The Solo Shows

By: Aristita I. Albacan

£57.99

This text highlights Robert Lepage’s preoccupation with an ongoing dialogue with worldwide audiences, and their involvement in developing an innovative practice of the Western theatre landscape. It examines the notion that intermediality is situated at the core of his approach.

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.

The Suspense of Horror and the Horror of Suspense

By: Maria Anastasova

£58.99

This academic study analyzes suspense in Stephen King’s novels The Shining and Carrie and their film adaptations. It compares techniques for achieving suspense in literature versus cinema and provides a model that can be used for analyzing other literary or cinematic works.