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Invisible Words: Cultivating Multilingual Australian Literature Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Raelke Grimmer
Australia prides itself on its multicultural identity. This identity is increasingly explored in Australian literature. Yet these narratives are predominately constructed in English, and there is l...
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Stillbirth: Metaphors and Uncanny in They Were Still Born: Personal Stories About Stillbirth Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Swathi Mohan, Manali Karmakar
The 2010 collection of autobiographical narratives edited by Janel C. Atlas – They Were Still Born: Personal Stories About Stillbirth – encapsulates the phenomenological experiences of stillbirth a...
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Daedalus and Icarus in Verbal and Visual Frames: A Comparative Reading of Bruegel, Auden and Ağıl Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Özlem Uzundemir, Özkan Çakırlar
The myth of Daedalus and Icarus has been the subject of numerous literary texts as well as artworks in the Western tradition. The Turkish poet Nazmi Ağıl’s two ekphrastic poems ‘Bruegel: The Landsc...
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Chronotopes of Immigration: The Configurations of Spatio-temporal Relations in Mohammad Abdul-Wali’s novella They Die Strangers Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Anisah Saeed Nasser, Muneera Muftah, Hafidh Shams Addin
‘Space’ and ‘time’ have been frequently discussed in diaspora studies. Yet, these studies generally approach the temporal and spatial dimensions of diaspora as separate issues, filtering them throu...
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Annals of Vietnam: The Preservation of a Literary Heritage Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Norbert Francis
In the study of literary language, we often look back to examples from history and look cross-culturally to verbal art forms in literature and in the surviving oral tradition. These observations en...
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A Space of Their Own. Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950 Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Anna Nygren
Published in Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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Figures in Farming: Carrie Tiffany’s Mateship with Birds (2012) and the Sexual Politics of Animal Figuration Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Clare Archer-Lean
This paper presents new scholarship on the complex figuration of the animal in Australian fiction through the significantly under-analysed Mateship with Birds (2012). Carrie Tiffany’s acclaimed sec...
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Remembering Wiji Thukul, Indonesia's Murdered Poet-activist Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Stephen L. Miller, Richard A. Curtis, Rifka A. O. Sibarani
Modern Indonesia has been shaped by human rights abuses, with the military regime of Major-General Suharto (1966 −1998) standing at the fulcrum of this history. Over twenty-five years since its fal...
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Title: Earthlove – Theorising Neurodivergent Reader Love of A Room Called Earth Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Anna Nygren, Sarinah O’Donoghue
This paper is a neuroqueer reading of the novel A Room Called Earth (2020) by Madeleine Ryan. In the paper, we explore and theorise a neuroqueer reading practice. Ryan’s novel depicts a neurodiverg...
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Achieving Humanity through Animality: A Study of the Birds in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Lu Sun, Yunjie Wei
Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening explores the interconnection between animality and humanity by means of various bird metaphors. In the novel, Edna Pontellier’s ‘evolutionary’ self-perception of b...
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Beneath the Sea, Inland: Reading Aquifers and Opals in Australian Literature Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Theodora Galanis
Deep beneath the surface of the continent, memories of the ancient Eromanga Sea are retained in subterranean aquifers and the veins of opal that flash above them in lithic fissures. The excavation ...
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Decolonising Ngannelong: A Geocritical Approach to Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock and Its Visual Adaptations Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Jyothi Justin, Nirmala Menon
The study involves close readings of Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock1 and its visual adaptations from a postcolonial feminist and geocritical theoretical framework to analyse how the space op...
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Liminality, Representation, Silence: The Poetics and Politics of Sarnath Banerjee’s Doab Dil (2019) Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Nishevita Jayendran
This paper interrogates the value of silence, located within liminal spaces in Sarnath Banerjee’s Doab Dil (2019). Structured as an informal graphic essay, Doab Dil proffers ironic commentaries on ...
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Contemporary Palestinian Prison Literature: Ḥikāyat Ṣābir (Ṣābir's Story) by Maḥmūd Isā as a Case Study Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Khaled Igbaria, Saleem Abu Jaber
ABSTRACT The Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century, brought occupation to the Palestinian people and caused oppression and suffering. This study examines the novel Ḥikāyat Ṣābir [Ṣābir’s Story] by Maḥmūd Isā (born in 1967) as a sample of contemporary Palestinian prison literature. The novel’s social and political resonances pushed Al-Jazeera television
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The Haunting of Flat Texts: Liberal Discourse and the Elision of Labour Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Paddy Gordon
ABSTRACT Using a method informed by hauntology, this article reads the discourse produced by two activist-influencers – Jordan Peterson and Clementine Ford – who currently define the liberal tradition’s reactionary and progressive boundaries. Locating consistent elisions of a rich concept of labour in the work of these representatives of contemporary liberalism, this article contends that a rich and
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Who is Telling ‘Australian’ Stories? The Results from the First Nations and People of Colour Writers Count Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Natalie Kon-yu, Emily Booth
ABSTRACT The Australian Publishing Industry has long been critiqued for its lack of diverse voices. In Australia movements such as Voices From the Intersection and The Stella Diversity Survey have been aimed at bringing an awareness of this lack to a larger audience, while festivals such as Blak and Bright, and awards such as The Next Chapter, have sought to highlight the works of authors who identify
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David Malouf and the Secret of Literature Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Chinmaya Lal Thakur
ABSTRACT In three of the nine novels that David Malouf has produced to date, problems of literature are figured in important ways at the level of narrative. Practices of literary culture and scenes of reading, writing and representation feature particularly prominently in Child's Play (1982), Johnno (1975), and The Great World (1990). This article examines the configurations of the literary in these
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Mary Shelley’s ‘Hideous Progeny:’ Readaptation and (Textual) Deformity in Two Recent Frankenstein Films Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Paul Mitchell
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss two recent films, Frankenstein (Kevin Connor 2004) and Victor Frankenstein (Paul McGuigan 2015), in terms of how they represent disability for mainstream television and cinema spectators. Using a critical framework that blends disability and adaptation studies, I analyse both films from a ‘crip’ perspective – that is, by interpreting how they propagate or resist
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The Anticipation of the Black Aesthetic in Richard Wright’s Work Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Abeer Abdulaziz Al-Sarrani
ABSTRACT This essay investigates the relationship between Richard Wright and the Black Arts Movement (BAM), arguing that Wright’s literary work anticipates the Black aesthetic of the BAM well before the advent of the BAM itself in 1965. This essay argues that Wright’s oeuvre contains five characteristics which are more readily associated with the Black aesthetic: (1) the affirmation of a black writer
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Cross-Species Contagion in Beckett’s Endgame: A Posthumanist (Re)reading Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Ghadeer Alhasan, Dina Salman
ABSTRACT This paper explores the intersection between posthumanism and ecological thought in Beckett’s Endgame. Based on a reception-informed approach, this article revisits Beckett’s Endgame with a special focus on how the recent context of pandemic affects our reading of the human in his work. Building on the existing body of critical response to Beckett’s re-evaluation of the human, we particularly
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Water and its Kinship with Communities in Subhash Vyam’s Water Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Sohini Bera, Rajni Singh
ABSTRACT Subhash Vyam’s Water revolves around the life-sustaining natural resource, water, and its kinship with the Gond communities that live simple yet sustainable lives in close proximity to nature. Water adumbrates the social and environmental aftermaths of dam building and documents modern development’s impacts on the lives of Gond villagers, on the ecosystem they inhabit, and on their intimate
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Between Literary Entertainment, Public Engagement, and Social Research: Nineteenth-Century Investigative Reporting and the Case of ‘London Horrors’ (1861) by John Hollingshead Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-21 Christiane Schwab
ABSTRACT Around the mid-nineteenth century, the investigative reportage consolidated as a journalistic genre that introduced early social debates into the commercial periodical. This article analyzes how John Hollingshead's series ‘London Horrors’ (1861) and comparable journalistic reports such as ‘Labour and the Poor’ (1849–1850) produced testimonials on the housing and working conditions of the underprivileged
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The Influences of Books of Manners and Dedekind's Grobianus on John Gay's Trivia Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 William Wesley Patton
ABSTRACT For decades critics have categorised John Gay's Trivia: or The Art of Walking the Streets of London as a mock Georgic deriving its main characteristics and themes from Juvenal's Third Satire and Virgil's Georgics. Many readers have been perplexed by the ambiguities and dissonance between the Walker's/Author's observations, advice, and actions and the characteristics of those classical genres
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Verbal and Visual Arts Engagement in University Classrooms Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Aljawharah A. Aziz Alfuhayd
ABSTRACT This article examines the efficacy of various interdisciplinary methods in creating more effectively developed teaching and learning of English poetry. Worldwide, poetry’s prestige in academia within the humanities curriculum has declined. In Saudi universities, poetry is one of the most difficult literary courses taught in English departments, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University is
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Silence as Political Strategy in Art: A Study of Susan Sontag’s Alice in Bed Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-14 Prity Barnwal, Rajni Singh
ABSTRACT The paper explores the politics of silence as a language of resistance through the prism of feminist discourse in Susan Sontag’s Alice in Bed (1993). Silence marks an essential presence in Sontag’s writings ranging from her essays to her creative oeuvres. Sontag’s initial approach to silence has been that of a modernist aesthete where she understood silence as an aesthetic prospect in art
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The Past and ‘Discontinuity in Religion’ in Octavia Butler’s Parables: A Feminist Theological Perspective Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-14 Elham Mohammadi Achachelooei, Carol Elizabeth Leon
ABSTRACT This article employs feminist theologian Daphne Hampson’s notion of ‘discontinuity in religion’ to explore the concept of the past in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (2007) and Parable of the Talents (2007). Focusing on the activities of a black heroine who appears as a reformer who revives her dead society, this article argues that the novels reflect a posthuman, post-Biblical aspect
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Enactment of Gender and Performing Selves: A Study on Hijra Performativity Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Tanupriya, Dhishna Pannikot
ABSTRACT ‘Sex' is understood as ‘anatomically' and ‘biologically’ inherent in an individual and is mirrored through 'gender' and its signifiers. The contested binaries of male and female are associated with the perceptions of an individual's level of conformity to the vexed ideals of ‘masculinity' and ‘femininity', but a ‘trans' identity finds its expression outside these assigned gender dichotomous
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Nostalgic (Re)Visions of Englishness in Merchant Ivory’s Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-18 Gülşah Göçmen, Özlem Özmen Akdoğan
ABSTRACT This article argues that the adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day (1989) by Merchant Ivory evokes nostalgia as a trope that glorifies the imperial past of the British through portraying extravagantly both the butler protagonist’s professionalism and his attachment to the country house (Darlington Hall), one of the symbolic places used in heritage cinema. In the novel
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Orientalism in D. H. Lawrence’s Novelistic Representation of Italy Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Kui Zeng
ABSTRACT Critical attention to D. H. Lawrence’s two Italian novels has focused on themes of sexual politics and leadership politics, and few critics have noted their engagement with colonial politics. Informed by postcolonial studies, this paper argues that Lawrence’s representation of Italy in The Lost Girl and Aaron's Rod is overloaded with Orientalist imagery in that Italy is imagined as an Other
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Obesity, Contemporary Gothic, and the Rhetoric of Excess in Push Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Srirupa Chatterjee, Nilanjana Ghosal
ABSTRACT This article reads how obesity in Sapphire’s Push (1996) becomes a composite cultural metaphor for Gothic excesses. By critically analysing Claireece Precious Jones – the adolescent overweight African American protagonist of Push – with the help of contemporary Gothic theories of horror and excess this article makes a case for interpreting her fat body as a repository of cultural hatred, anxieties
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Plenitude: Values for a Journal That Speaks to Language, Literature, and Culture Studies Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Tom Clark, Rose Lucas, Emily Palmer
ABSTRACT This is a ‘research editorial.’ It expounds the curatorial values that inform editing decisions for the Journal of Language Literature and Culture in 2020, setting them in a context of current scholarly debates and culture. Its main contribution to knowledge is also the JLLC’s main contribution: to embody the active recognition of the importance of a plenary function for journals such as this
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The Subject of the Discourse: Reading Online Activist Discourse for Human Capital Theory Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Paddy Gordon
ABSTRACT This paper contends that much of the discourse produced, received and exchanged online by ‘progressive subjects’ – activists committed to contesting oppression and examining privilege – is structured by neoliberal ideology. Human capital theory functions as the ‘interpellative arm’ of the neoliberal project, and a subject conceived as human capital is neoliberalism's discursive mark. Via the
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One Woman's Experience of Migratory Grief: The ‘Woggy Girl’ Crónicas in Spanish-language Newspapers in Australia Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Catherine Seaton
ABSTRACT This article examines the phenomenon of migratory grief through an analysis of crónicas by Bolivian-born medical doctor Clara Espinosa, who migrated to Australia in 1988 and wrote under the pseudonym ‘Woggy Girl’. Crónicas are newspaper columns that comment on aspects of daily life, social habits and the concerns of communities. They have appeared in Spanish-language newspapers in Australia
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Judith Wright’s Fire Sermons Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Paul Sharrad
ABSTRACT Australian poet Judith Wright has been read for her lyrical presentation of a woman-centred perspective on love, for her expression of guilt over colonial history and her solidarity with Aboriginal writer Oodgeroo Noonuccal, and for her support for environmental causes. Some critics have noted elements of mysticism, connecting them to Western literary traditions, but this article outlines
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Many a Tale of Dread: The Dystopian Interface of Totalitarianism and Colonial Imperialism in the Númenor Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Alastair Whyte
ABSTRACT Utopian literature is a literature of interfaces, as it is a discursive space in which countless modes and genres meet and converse. Utopia’s shadow, dystopia, is ‘a lens through which we filter historical reality’, and dystopian discourses have enabled productive and critical scrutiny of the excesses of modern history, although their role in perceiving the interconnectedness of political
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David Malouf and the Event of Writing Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Chinmaya Lal Thakur
ABSTRACT The David Malouf Collections at Canberra and Brisbane archive the manuscripts, correspondence, and diary entries of the noted Australian writer. Malouf’s authorship transforms these ordinary drafts and materials into finished works that are recognised and read internationally. The present paper attempts to indicate some nodes from the collections which bear traces of this metamorphosis of
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Debunking Protestant Celticism: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Language Appropriation in ‘The Quare Gander’ and ‘An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street’ Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Richard Jorge Fernández
ABSTRACT Colonial domination has been exercised by many means, exhibiting varied forms and expressions, one of the most prominent ones being language. Postcolonial countries and writers usually have to contend with the dilemma of which language to use, whether to employ their own native tongues, thus fostering national invigoration and a demise of colonial past, or whether the language of the coloniser
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Revisioning Madame Beaumont’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in Emma Donoghue’s ‘the Tale of the Rose’ and the 2017 Disney Version: A Queer Reading Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Priyanka Banerjee, Rajni Singh
ABSTRACT Madame Beaumont’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ has become one of the most popular fairy tales to be appropriated in both text and screen over the years. This paper analyses how Donoghue’s reinterpretation of this classic tale in ‘The Tale of the Rose’ counters heteropatriarchal discourses about masculinity and femininity through a lesbian subject position. This paper attempts a queer reading of
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Parody of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita in Umberto Eco’s ‘Granita’ Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Baole Cheng, Junwu Tian
ABSTRACT Parody is regarded as a ‘beside-or-against’ song. Based on the theories of parody and intertextuality, this paper analyses the parodic means adopted in Umberto Eco’s short story ‘Granita,’ which is meant to be a parody of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. The study proceeds from three aspects: parody as imitation, parody as reconstruction and intertextuality as text of pleasure and jouissance. The
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‘Set Me Free': Spaces and the Politics of Creativity in Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed (2016) Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Nishevita Jayendran
ABSTRACT This paper explores the politics of space, freedom and creativity through the prism of novelistic discourse in Margaret Atwood’s novel Hag-Seed (2016), which is a twenty-first-century adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest (1610–1611). Hag-Seed, set in a Canadian prison, narrates the revenge orchestrated by the protagonist Felix on his antagonists Tony and Sal. Felix, an instructor
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David Hare’s Fanshen and Hannah Arendt’s Political Views on Action and Public and Private Realms Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Fatemeh Abdous, Fazel Asadi Amjad
ABSTRACT The British dramatist David Hare (1947–) is a distinguished contemporary figure in the field of historical-political playwriting. To address the issues of his age, he makes use of history and the recent past as a model. Like Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), the twentieth-century political theorist and activist, Hare conducts a pathological study of his surrounding environment and the world. Both
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Becoming Human: Dombey and Son and the Economy of the Pet Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Kevin A. Morrison
ABSTRACT While much has been written about Charles Dickens’s figuration of the daughter as a means of salvation for the capitalist father in Dombey and Son, the figure of the pet, which bears enormous ideological weight, is underanalysed. Attending to the style, content, and purposes of the symbolic and psychic economy of the pet, I argue that the distinction of public and private on which Dickens
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Some Knights are Dark and Full of Terror: The Queer Monstrous Feminine, Masculinity, and Violence in the Martinverse Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Tania Evans
ABSTRACT Violence is intimately connected with the body, and in particular with male embodied masculinity, in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-forthcoming) and its television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011–2019). While many scholars and media commentators have decried the series’ depictions of aggression, in this essay I focus on intersections of violence and male
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Intertwined Traumas: Narrative and Testimony in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Ahmed Ben Amara
ABSTRACT That Heart of Darkness continues to generate multiple critical responses owes to a large extent to the text's endemic ambivalence. Conrad's tendency to remain inconclusive, what Harold Bloom calls his ‘unique propensity for ambiguity'1, has received a great deal of critical attention, and its ideological and moral foundations have been thoroughly analysed. However, the possibility that the
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Athletic Antagonism in Wilkie Collins’s Man and Wife Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Jina Moon
ABSTRACT Wilkie Collins’s Man and Wife (1870) has notoriously been criticised by both Victorian and contemporary reviewers for its seeming oversimplified antagonism toward athleticism and sport. However, Man and Wife provides profound insights into the debates and anxieties of the time regarding the cultivation of physical prowess in conjunction with British imperialism. Collins’s antagonism represents
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‘Cast a Cold Eye’: Life and Death in W. B. Yeats's Poetry Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Hawk Chang
ABSTRACT Acclaimed as one of the best poets of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats is often the focus of critical attention. The connections between Yeats's work and the Abbey Theatre, Irish nationalism, language arts, and his love affair with Maud Gonne have been widely explored. Many of Yeats's poems focus on death, a universal topic which engenders fear and enchantment simultaneously, so
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The Politics of the Novel Circa 1965: Reading Brooke-Rose with Ngugi wa Thiong’o Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Duncan McColl Chesney
ABSTRACT The article reviews mid-century debates about politics and art by Sartre and Adorno to tease out a coherent sense of the political dimension of the novel form. The novel is essentially mediated by art-autonomous concerns, but it nonetheless exists to serve an ethical or political function. Alain Robbe-Grillet is then reviewed as developing a (late) modernist, critical, political aesthetic
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Cutting the Umbilical Cord: Patriarchy and the Family Metaphor in Turgenev's Virgin Soil Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Katya Jordan
ABSTRACT In his final novel, Virgin Soil (1877), Turgenev takes up the theme of the particular kind of populism (Narodnichestvo) that swept across the European part of Russia in the 1860s and 70s. Critics on both ends of the political spectrum believed that Virgin Soil failed to truthfully depict the populist movement; however, the novel provides an important cultural commentary that heretofore has
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Neo-Orientalist Stereotyping in Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Rima Bhattacharya
ABSTRACT An American novelist of Chinese origin, Amy Tan attempts to reconstitute the American experience for both the first and second generation Chinese immigrants in her fictional discourses. Curiously, she defiantly promotes the idea of a re-created identity through assimilation, even while she is aware of the inability of Asian Americans to discard their ethnicity and disappear into the American
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Loss, Motherhood and the Queer ‘Happy Ending’ Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Sashi Nair
ABSTRACT Throughout the twentieth century, and particularly prior to Stonewall, literature frequently represented same-sex desire in direct opposition to the forward-looking heterosexual romance narratives that ended with marriage and implied or literal procreation. When Patricia Highsmith published The Price of Salt, in 1952, its popularity with readers, and in particular queer readers, was attributed
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On Classification and the Grotesque: Theorising Para-Genre in Early Modern Nonsense Verse and Montaigne’s Essais Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Katrina L. Spadaro
ABSTRACT It is tempting to over-simplify the status of grotesque literatures in relation to genre. This paper moves beyond the binary of adherence and violation that often frames discussions of taxonomy, and instead suggests that the grotesque is vital in the construction of generic categories. Using two examples of early modern grotesque literature, seventeenth-century nonsense verse and Montaigne’s
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The Novel and Media: Three Essays Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 John Frow, Melissa Hardie, Kelly Rich
These three short papers were initially formulated as contributions to a roundtable discussion on The Novel and Media held at Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center in May 2018. Their brief was to contribute to the recent project of methodological reflection set in train by a resurgence of formalist analysis in literary criticism by thinking about the intersection of the novel form, novel
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Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities: Making The Modernist Archives Publishing Project Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Veronica Alfano
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Windows in George Herbert and Philip Larkin: A Study of Poetic Metaphor Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Eric Meljac
ABSTRACT In ‘Bridge and Door,’ Simmel makes a comment regarding the function of the window. He argues that the window acts as ‘a connection of inner space with the external world.’ He argues that ‘the teleological emotion with respect to the window is directed almost exclusively from inside to outside.’ Simmel speaks of the window as a mediating entity, a structural attribute that separates. With Simmel’s
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Problem with No Name: Ageing and Age Identity in Wendy Wasserstein’s Plays Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Yi-chin Shih
ABSTRACT This paper relies on a feminist perspective on ageing to analyse Wendy Wasserstein’s plays. The Pulitzer-Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) is good at dramatising the experience of women, especially their experience of ageing anxiety and ageing crises in their middle age. Their quest for identity is problematised in the paper in order to show the fluidity of identity through the passage
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The Whiteness of the Bomb: Nuclear Weaponry, Race and the Nation in Australian Indigenous Poetics Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Matthew Hall
ABSTRACT This article reads contemporary Australian Indigenous poetics to substantiate the argument that nuclear threats inherently reproduce the same colonial tendencies of ontologic-epistemic categorisation and social hierarchisation through which terra nullius was claimed. Given the legacy of family destruction, forced assimilation and genocide advanced by colonial powers, and the incursion of nuclear
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Tasmania’s Cupboard: Indigenous and Convict Australia in Carmel Bird’s Writing Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas
ABSTRACT The writings of Carmel Bird (Patrick White Award 2016) are a suitable literary canvas from which to explore a central concern in the work of a white Australian woman writer of Celtic descent: the need to reconcile herself with two dark chapters of Australia’s history; namely, the convict past and Indigenous genocide. This paper investigates Bird’s controversial focus on Australia’s – particularly
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In and Out of Love: Moments in Criticism, Theory and Management Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Meaghan Morris
ABSTRACT In some contexts of institutional change, an initial condition of ‘love and the word’ may become something more like hate or boredom or indifference to the word. Drawing on three different moments of my professional experience, I explore this question by considering how three genres of writing that I used to love practising – the film review, the academic ‘theory’ essay, and the strategic
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Words and Things: The Uncertain Place of Philology in Intellectual History Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Peter Cryle
ABSTRACT This paper considers the ease and the difficulty of adapting the habits of philology to the exigencies of intellectual history. The title chosen by Michel Foucault for one of his major historical studies referred to ‘words and things’, but the relation between those two is not given once and for all. Foucault developed the notion of discourse, which involved articulated sets of words. Discourses
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Love and the Demos Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Stephen Muecke
ABSTRACT Some protest movements around the globe have been deploying a rhetoric of love to make themselves feel less vulnerable to the cynical languages of neoliberal economics and managerial control. Often they involve youthful energies, from the Occupy Movements of 2011, to ‘Feel the Bern’, to the Nuit Debout movement in France. My own research has focused on an anti-gas mining protest in Broome