Unlocking Literacy on World Book Day
Frederick Douglass said: “Once you learn to read you will be free.” On this World Book Day (7 March, 2024) Cambridge hopes to help spark that enquiry.…
Frederick Douglass said: “Once you learn to read you will be free.” On this World Book Day (7 March, 2024) Cambridge hopes to help spark that enquiry.…
The appearance of a new text by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ is cause for celebration. And appropriately enough, “Festac .…
The mutual gravitational pull of word and image is irresistible. In the late sixth century BCE Simonides of Ceos declared that “poetry is a speaking picture; painting a mute poetry,” and later the Roman poet Horace confirmed this equation in his formula “ut pictura poesis” (“as in painting, so in poetry”).…
In 1984 I was a graduate student in Paris working on my dissertation, which would be published six years later as Revising Memory: Women’s Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France (Rutgers UP, 1990).…
When William Riley Parker became the secretary of the MLA in 1947, the position also included the role of editor of PMLA.
“La Push, baby!” exclaims a minor character in the film Twilight. As catchphrases go, it lacks a certain je ne sais quoi, but one can nevertheless find it printed on shirts and cross-stitched onto fabrics. La Push, in the billion-dollar Twilight franchise, is the home of the shape-changing werewolves who combat vampires.
I can smell when it’s going to snow. A peculiar statement by all accounts, but for one who was reared in Bedford, Massachusetts—a town that borders Concord—snow is something of a birthright. …
Frederik Unseld is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His Ph.D. focuses on artists in the context of political and economic violence in Kisumu, western Kenya.…
Founded in 1960, The China Quarterly is on the eve of entering its seventh decade of publishing world-class research on China.…
Cambridge University Press has reached an agreement with the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) to publish their flagship journal, PMLA.…
The injunction to “make it new!” has come to function as the defining slogan of modernist literature. For the modernist author, Peter Gay writes, making it new was “a professional, almost a sacred obligation.”…
In 1584 Edmund Roberts had just a few months to live. A devout Christian, the book of hours that he used every day to guide his prayers was old and worn, with extra texts crammed into spaces that had originally been left blank.…
To venture an answer to the question my title poses is to reveal something fundamental about how one understands and values literary form.…
What does an empty bottle of concentrated orange juice have to do with colonialism? Some of you may remember the Welfare Orange Juice that the British government provided to pregnant women and young children from the middle of the Second World War until 1971.…
In Woody Allen’s Amazon Prime series, Crisis in Six Scenes, his character Sidney suffers a home invasion. Sidney complains: ‘This is my home, this is my castle, you’re going into the moat!’…
Journalists, China-watchers and academics have fiercely debated the legacy of China’s leaders, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. Some see the Hu–Wen period (2002–2012) as a “golden era” of rapid growth, while others portray it as a “lost decade” for economic and political reform.…
How is academia represented in children’s literature? This was a question that became important to me in the spring of 2012, whilst reading reams of picture-books with my three young boys, and wondering what they were understanding of their mother’s chosen profession from the media they were being exposed to.…
Ten years ago, it would have been literally unthinkable to publish this volume. Nobody then would have believed in the lasting presence and impact of a genre that was still treated with little respect, a suspicious attempt to forget about the awful reputation of comics.…
In honour of Women's History Month 2018, we are sharing highlights throughout March, written by and about inspirational women. In the following blog post, Katherine West Scheil discusses the contributions of Anne Hathaway.
I don’t know that Jane Austen is the first author to come to mind in relation to International Women’s Day: one is perhaps more likely to think of notorious firebrands from Mary Wollstonecraft to Arundhati Roy, whereas Austen is stuck with a relatively sedate reputation. But Austen has more in common with Wollstonecraft than many readers imagine.
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is to be free again in March, to celebrate Women’s History Month.…
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson is now available as an online resource collection. The first release of the online version of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson took place in January 2014.…
Edwina Palmer is the winner of the 6th Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature in Australia and New Zealand.…