Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’: why a 3,000-year-old story still captivates us
As Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' reaches cinemas, explore the scholarship behind one of history's most enduring and influential stories.
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Literature
June Releases from Cambridge Aspire
Book XXIII of the Iliad deals with the Funeral Games of Patroclus, whose death Achilles has avenged in Book XXII with his slaying of Hector.…
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Do You Know Your South?: How Magazine Readers Shaped one of the South’s Most Successful Novels
Midway through Chester Himes’s 1945 novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, the main characters argue over the comparative merits of Richard Wright’s Native Son and Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit.…
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Re-imagining Landscapes through Indigenous Literature
“Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries” discusses the work of four 21st century poets who write bilingually in Spanish and their Indigenous language: Ethel Xochitiotzin Pérez (Nahuatl), María Dolores Dzul Barboza (Yucatec Maya), César Vargas Arce (Central Peruvian Quechua), and Emilio Corrales (Bolivian Quechua).…
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Publishing a ‘Software Paper’ in Computational Humanities Research: Undate
In my previous blog (‘Introducing the ‘Software Paper’), I introduce the Software Paper at Computational Humanities Research (CHR). In tandem with my editorial work as Associate Editor for the journal, an opportunity arose for me to write a Software Paper myself.…
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Introducing the ‘Software Paper’: New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research
When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ultimately impossible to turn down was the journal’s interest in publishing Software Papers.…
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Elements in Victorian Literature, Science, and the Environment
Many eco-scholars today have lamented our current tendency to soft denial. We acknowledge major environmental concerns such as climate change while continuing to go about our lives as if they don’t exist.…
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Revisiting the Cinema Special Topic
In the May 1991 issue of PMLA, then editor John W. Kronik begins his “Editor’s Note” by announcing that the current volume of the journal “has elicited strong responses, praise as well as reproof, even before the year is out” (393).…
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Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture
Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture aims to extend our understanding of the critical role race has played in shaping US literary history.…
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PMLA Articles in the College Classroom
Many years ago, while still in graduate school, I was helping a group of undergraduates understand a scholarly essay about translation, when one student asked me (with all good intentions): “Why do we need to know this?”…
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Fredric Jameson in PMLA; or, “Metacommentary” and More
Our greatest thinker, Fredric Jameson, died on 22 September 2024 at the age of ninety. His example of socially meaningful interpretation—indeed, his commitment to Marxism—is fundamental, now more than ever.…
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Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance
I had already seen Sleep No More eleven times before I saw the beginning of Sleep No More. That’s not the sort of admission you’d expect from a theatre scholar who has actually written a book about a particular performance.…
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From the Author: Visualizing Race Virtually with Dr. David Sterling Brown
Dr. David Sterling Brown is an award-winning author and a tenured Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, Connecticut. His book, Shakespeare’s White Others, published by Cambridge University Press, examines the racially white ‘others’ whom Shakespeare portrays in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite ‘white enough’.…
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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.…
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Mariama Bâ’s “Memories of Lagos”
The appearance of a new text by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ is cause for celebration. And appropriately enough, “Festac .…
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The importance of open access publishing for the arts and humanities
Between 2012 and 2014, I held a two-year Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (WT096499AIA) for a project on women surgeons in Britain, 1860-1918.…
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A Specular History of PMLA: Visual Cultures and Literary Scholarship
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”).…
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Transforming Cultural Memory: Early Modern French Women Writers
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).…
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For Members Only
When William Riley Parker became the secretary of the MLA in 1947, the position also included the role of editor of PMLA.
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Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Global Urban History
Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History reinterprets the history of the world’s cities by combining the approaches of urban and global history.…
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Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Publishing an academic book takes time. Sometimes even years. And that can be for all kinds of reasons, from the extensive length to making corrections, and from production delays to peer reviewers going awol.
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World Crime Fiction
At the end of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Auguste Dupin, the prototype of the analytical detective, offers a disparaging verdict on the Parisian Prefect of Police.…
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Cambridge to publish a new flagship journal in the fast-growing field of Pakistan studies
Critical Pakistan Studies will be the first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its peopleJournal will be interdisciplinary and open accessAims to give the widest possible understanding of Pakistan, past, and present Cambridge University Press is to publish the world’s first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its people.…
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Teaching successfully with Cambridge Shakespeare: the case of California Polytechnic State University
Her students were struggling. Nicole Jacobs, a Shakespeare scholar and lecturer at California Polytechnic State University, had been noticing for a while.…
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The reservation at the heart of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight and Frank Herbert’s Dune
“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.
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Introducing the Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies
Welcome to the Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies series. This series defines and expands the elements of digital literary studies through a series of short exemplary texts.…
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The Last of the Moderns
Adalet Ağaoğlu, one of the most prominent authors of modern Turkish literature, passed away at the age of 91 leaving behind a literary legacy that will be difficult to match for years to come.…
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Why are we launching Higher Education from Cambridge University Press?
Higher Education from Cambridge University Press is our new online textbook website, launched in August 2020. In recent months Cambridge University Press has introduced a new set of strategies to support changing teaching and learning needs as higher education institutions prepare for a more digitally driven future in the wake of pandemic.…
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The pitfalls of video calls (and how to avoid them like a pro)
Let’s face it – stepping (sitting) in front of a camera has become a staple component of working from home during the global pandemic.…
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Always Connect
“Always Connect” seems more fundamental than “Always Historicize,” at least for the long eighteenth century (pace Jameson and Foucault). People characterized themselves and others through their multiple relations and positions relative to each other, as master-servant, master-slave, patron-client, parent-child, sister, brother, friend, daughter, feme sole or wife.…
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Lecturing in Lockdown: advice from our Higher Education Panel
Many of us are discovering that working at home for a long stretch can be difficult. Staying productive and motivated is a challenge, and it is not always easy to find a routine to keep things running smoothly.…
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Orlando Project: Special Access for Women’s History Month
Women’s History Month begins on 1 March 2020 and in recognition the Orlando textbase will be freely accessible without subscription for the entire month.…
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World’s leading literary studies journal to be published by Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press has reached an agreement with the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) to publish their flagship journal, PMLA.…
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Catholic Fasting Literature in a Context of Body Hatred: A Feminist Critique
The patterns we witness across Catholic fasting literature establish how to fast (rationally eschew one’s socialized body hatred to abstain from food for God alone), who can fast (anyone who purely wills it, abjuring the influence of body hatred), and what results from fasting (spiritual growth and not anything associated with body hatred).
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Making it New: Acts of Eating Otherwise
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.”…
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The Long Lives of Old Books
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.…
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The Accidental Austen Professor
In 1997, I was asked by my department chair at Marquette University to teach a course on Jane Austen. I had read all of her novels, some of them as a child, but had taught only one of them, Sense and Sensibility, as part of an undergraduate survey on British literature from 1800 to the present.…
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Can Crime Fiction Be Modernist?
To venture an answer to the question my title poses is to reveal something fundamental about how one understands and values literary form.…
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One British Thing: A Bottle of Welfare Orange Juice
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.…
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Ghost Stories in Early Modern England: The Social, Personal, and Spiritual Dynamics
In early modern England, spectral figures like Madam Savage were regular visitors to the world of the living and a vibrant variety of beliefs and expectations clustered around these questionable shapes.
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An Englishman’s Home is His Castle? Shakespeare’s Violent Homes
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!’…
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Reassessing the Hu–Wen Era: A Golden Era or a Lost Decade for Social Policy?
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.…
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Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature
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.…
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Cambridge University Press to publish Renaissance Quarterly for the Renaissance Society of America
Cambridge University Press is partnering with the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) to publish Renaissance Quarterly, the leading American journal of Renaissance Studies.…
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Celebrating Peter Holland’s 19 years as Editor of Shakespeare Survey
To mark his 19 years as Editor of Shakespeare Survey before stepping down this autumn, Peter Holland has looked back across all the volumes he has edited and chosen one article from each.…
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Forgotten Geographies in Asian Studies
UC Irvine history professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom recently concluded his ten-year tenure as editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. One of the new practices that Wasserstrom introduced as editor was a “JAS-at-AAS” panel at the annual conference.…
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Shaping the History of the Graphic Novel
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.…
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Call For Africa Bibliography Introductory Papers
Articles of 5,000-8,000 words on topics relating to research, libraries, archives and publishing in and on Africa, and in African studies, are invited.…
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Orlando and women’s suffrage – Part 3
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a digital text, available on the web at orlando.cambridge.org.…
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Celebrating Anne Hathaway during International Women’s Month
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.
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The Suffrage Campaign and Women Writers – Part 2
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a digital text, available on the web at orlando.cambridge.org.…
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Reading Jane Austen during Women’s History Month
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.
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Putting the Spotlight on Female Playwrights in America
This International Women's Month, we are putting the spotlight on female playwrights in America. Read the following blog by Cambridge University Press author Christopher Bigsby to find out why this is the opportune moment for celebrating these talented female writers.
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REWRITING REASON
Think back to your childhood. What did you take with you when you went to school? Many of us would have set off with a backpack brimming with notebooks, erasers, a ruler, pens, pencils and perhaps a handful of sweets to enjoy when the teacher wasn’t looking.…
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