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Too good to be entirely true (A coda on the pleasure of archives and avant-garde publishing)
Sophie Seita
Published online: 10 Jun 2024
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Signal and noise in Skelton
Raphael Lyne
Published online: 10 Jun 2024
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‘Counting fry under a waterfall’: the history, development, and current use of the Small Press Collections at University College London
Elizabeth Lawes
Published online: 07 Jun 2024
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‘Mike, Bob, Bill, Jim, Thom’: queer communal life and poetic form in Thom Gunn’s ‘Jack Straw’s Castle’
Tom McLaughlin
Published online: 24 May 2024
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A poetic geography: placing urban literature in two districts of Istanbul, Türkiye
Jameson B. Kısmet Bell
Published online: 20 May 2024
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Do Shakespeare’s characters mean what they say?
Jeffrey Knapp
Published online: 16 May 2024
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The chaff and the wheat: Emily Dickinson and Maurice Blanchot
Tania Ganitsky
Published online: 13 May 2024
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Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism
Jennifer Hamilton, Emily Potter & Killian Quigley
Published online: 13 May 2024
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The endurance of utterance and the incorporeal in the writing of Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee
Polona Osojnik
Published online: 09 May 2024
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‘The outside after all must be right there beside me’: Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond and post-critical perspective
Stephen Benson
Published online: 09 May 2024
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From before to after – bridging the gap: photography, art and the state in J.M. Coetzee’s late fiction
Michael Jardine
Published online: 09 May 2024
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Fencing with the symptom: a Lacanian reading of Laurence Sterne's sentence structure and punctuation in Tristram Shandy
Tim MacGabhann
Published online: 09 May 2024
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The paradoxes of Roland Barthes’s fait-divers murders and Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Things external to the game’
Alistair Rolls
Published online: 09 May 2024
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Constraint and corporeality: reading Brooke-Rose and Garréta’s gendered experiments
Kaye Mitchell
Published online: 09 May 2024
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Breaking down in fits and starts: navigating a good naturalisation of J. H. Prynne’s ‘Blue Slides at Rest’ (2004)
Max Eliott Heuvels
Published online: 09 May 2024
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The human after math: Nnedi Okorafor’s unruly engagements with Cartesian desire
Moyang (Moya) Li
Published online: 09 May 2024
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Kae Tempest, London and the digital affects of neoliberalism
George Legg
Published online: 02 May 2024
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‘The problem of other minds’: disappropriation and the limits of polyphony in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School
Marta Zanucco
Published online: 30 Apr 2024
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‘Writing is expensive, and it takes a long time’: publishing as picaresque in Emma Healey’s Best Young Woman Job Book
Sarah Brouillette
Published online: 30 Apr 2024
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Tennessee Williams’ escapology and the heterotopia of ‘The Mysteries of the Joy Rio’
James Phillips
Published online: 29 Apr 2024
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The groovy: an everyday aesthetic of the sixties
James Reath
Published online: 25 Mar 2024
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Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege
by Adam Parkes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 326 i-x, 78£ (hbk), ISBN 978-0-19-286629-5
Michael Bell
Published online: 20 Mar 2024
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Speaking (from) out of tradition: hermeneutics, literary style and the task of textual interpretation in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Julian Barnes’s Elizabeth Finch (2022)
Ian Tan
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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The lost shape of words: reading the post-literate condition in Ali Smith’s Like (1997)
Adrienne Mortimer
Published online: 08 Mar 2024
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How the earth feels: geological fantasy in the nineteenth-century United States
by Dana Luciano, Durham, Duke University Press, 2024, 256 pp., 21.27£, ISBN 978-1-478-02570
Sophia Houghton
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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The uneasiness of emotion and its representations in Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Adel Cheong
Published online: 22 Feb 2024
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Native daughters, evil empires, Blazing Worlds: Margaret Cavendish's imperialism
Elizabeth Mazzola
Published online: 21 Feb 2024
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‘Perfectly, perfectly funny’?: laughing with the internet in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This
Giorgia Garilli
Published online: 16 Feb 2024
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The actor-network in Herman Melville’s ‘The Apple-Tree Table’
Xinshuo Zhou & Quan Wang
Published online: 15 Feb 2024
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Metaphor, subjectivity and self-knowledge in Edward St. Aubyn’s novels
Guibing Qin
Published online: 15 Feb 2024
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Queering history: palimpsestuous bodies and theirstories in Zen Cho’s The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
Grace V.S. Chin
Published online: 15 Feb 2024
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‘Our poison’d chalice to our own lips’: toxic masculinity and tyranny in Macbeth
Sam Gilchrist Hall
Published online: 14 Feb 2024
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Rethinking the discourse of ‘marginality’ in English literary studies and the social sciences: M. NourbeSe Philip’s ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’
John Roache
Published online: 03 Jan 2024
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Whimsical criticism
Thom Dancer
Published online: 03 Jan 2024
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Insect or affect? John Ashbery's ‘Daffy Duck in Hollywood’, the dramatic monologue, and lyric theory
Eric Tyler Powell
Published online: 03 Jan 2024
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Capitalist modernity and gendered subalternity in contemporary Muslim fiction: Saudi Women in Raja Alem’s Fatma: A Novel of Arabia (2002)
Hamidah Allogmany
Published online: 18 Dec 2023
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The reversed monomyth in a queer Russian web series
Artem Prokhorov
Published online: 18 Dec 2023
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Out of the blue: Prynne’s gifts
Beci Carver
Published online: 11 Dec 2023
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Writing the Liberal City: literature and the contested experience of economic change. Bogotá 1849–1870
Constanza Castro Benavides
Published online: 06 Dec 2023
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From Orientalism to neo-Orientalism: medial representations of Islam and the Muslim world
Muhammad Abdul Wahid
Published online: 04 Dec 2023
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The infinite unleashed: Benjamin revisited in the context of the mechanical philosophy
Sung-Ik Kim
Published online: 29 Nov 2023
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W.S. Graham’s blanks
Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg
Published online: 29 Nov 2023
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Literature and Class, from the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution
by Andrew Hadfield, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021, 331 pp., £81 (hbk), Print ISBN: 9781526125835, Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5261-2584-2
Michael Pierse
Published online: 28 Nov 2023
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Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans: images of twenty-first century Occident in Arab eyes
Ahmed Shalabi & Yousef Abu Amrieh
Published online: 28 Nov 2023
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Stage directions as endotext: the psychological and socio-historical messages in the stage directions of Cao Yu and Lao She
Valerie Pellatt
Published online: 17 Nov 2023
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Alternative avatars of the plagiarist, or, an embarrassment of glitches
Rick de Villiers
Published online: 14 Nov 2023
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Past forms, present concerns: reading transhistorically for feminised labour
Charlotte J. Fabricius & Emily J. Hogg
Published online: 13 Nov 2023
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Polyphony, sonic texture and acoustic ecology in Cynan Jones’s Stillicide
Angelo Monaco
Published online: 13 Nov 2023
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The empire writes back: The Moor’s Account’s decolonial appropriation of Cabeza de Vaca’s La Relación
Wael J. Salam
Published online: 13 Nov 2023
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‘What is toast?’ Language and society in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Katherine Parsons
Published online: 13 Nov 2023
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