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• #MLA18 Book Launch: The Monster as War Machine

  Meet Dr. Mabel Moraña, William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and winner of the 2013 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, on Saturday (January 6) at 11:30 a.m. at the Cambria Press booth (101) for a book signing for her latest book, The Monster as War Machine. This…

  Cambria Press

  December 13, 2017

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• RMMLA 2013 Annual Convention — A Great Success!

  With much gratitude to the RMMLA committee, in particular Joy Landeira and Christopher Lupke, Cambria Press had a very productive and enjoyable time at the RMMLA 2013 annual convention. Cambria Press director Toni Tan was heartened to meet many scholars daring enough to push the envelope when it comes to scholarship, given how Toni Tan‘s speech was…

  Cambria Press

  October 15, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Culture, Current Events, Film Studies, Latin American Studies, Literature, MLA, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Promotion, Victorian Literature, Women’s Studies

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• Happy New Year! Usher in 2013 with a Nobel Prize Winner!

  HAPPY NEW YEAR! The 2013 MLA annual convention in Boston promises to be an especially exciting one because Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian will be attending! Many new titles for Cambria Press will be showcased, including Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian’s long-awaited book Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. There are two MLA sessions being…

  Cambria Press

  January 1, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Australasian Studies, Book Review, Culture, Film Studies, Literature, MLA, Performing Arts, Theatre, Victorian Literature, Women’s Studies

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• MLA 2013 Book Highlights: Outstanding Journal Reviews!

  Visit the Cambria Press booth (#316) to browse new titles as well as other Cambria Press titles that have received rave journal reviews, including: Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia Winner of Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology! The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History…

  Cambria Press

  December 29, 2012

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture, Literature, MLA, Performing Arts, Theatre, Victorian Literature, Women’s Studies

  17th century, American literature, American poetry, American West, Angela Carter, Australian fiction, Australian literature, Brian Castro, catcher in the rye, Charles Dickens, China, Chinese, Chinese martial arts fiction, Chinese painting, Chinese poetry, Chinese poets, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, David Foster, deconstruction, drama, drama and voice, Dream of the Red Chamber, Empire, ethics and literature, femme fatale, film, food and literature, food culture, freak show, hamlet, Indian English fiction, J. M. Coetzee, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, Jeannette Winterson, Jennie Gerhardt, Jin Yong, Lana Turner, Latin American women writers, literary thieving, Mae West, magical realist fiction, Maria Graham, moby-dick, modern chinese literary history, music, mythology, narrative, New Mexico, Paul Scott, Philip Roth, postcolonial, postcolonial literary history, prison narrative, Raj Quartet, reading blindly, seduction, sex goddess, Singapore stories, tapestry, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Traherne, tihuashi, transnational, traumatic imagination, travel narratives, Victorian, Viking, war drama, William Dean Howells, Zuckerman Books