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Silence in the Classroom: reflections on teaching poetry in UK secondary schools and universities English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 John Blackmore
This extended contribution to English’s forum on teaching poetry seeks to shift discussion away from the capabilities, expectations, and motivations of students in university poetry seminars and invite university educators to reflect on how aspects of their practice consciously and unconsciously effect how poetry is understood by new generations. The article recounts how the author’s understanding
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‘As I Learn from you, I Guess You Learn From Me’: Three Modernists on the Teaching of English English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Charlie Pullen
The subject of this essay is the way modernist literary texts represent and think about the teaching of English, especially when it is conceived as a subject grounded within relational pedagogies and experiences of collaboration and interdependence between student and teacher. I begin with an autobiographical reflection on my own experience of teaching a text that calls attention to its pedagogical
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‘All These Unimportant Details’: John Ashbery at home English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Paul Norris
John Ashbery is a domestic poet. He recognizes that the home contains and organizes a plurality of objects, but also a plurality of thoughts, experiences, and social roles. The domesticity of Ashbery’s poetry materializes many of the contradictory abstractions of modern life, and gives them a place, even if their relationship with each other remains obscure. His poetic homes are microcosms of America
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Leftover liquids and the moisture of mourning: the oozes of Ocean Vuong’s oeuvre English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Minh Huynh Vu
This article tracks the moisture that spills across Ocean Vuong’s poetry and prose. Whereas the oceanic serves as the spectacular site across which Vietnamese refugees are rescued and rehabilitated through the scripts of US humanitarianism, moisture – as an ambient material and process – coagulates a queer, minor mode of refugee mourning and melancholia in the ongoing aftermath of the War in Vietnam
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A manifesto for communication studies English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Stephen Coleman
In this article, a case is made for confident self-expression as a practice of democratic citizenship that is no less important than literacy. This article then considers what is entailed in ‘doing citizenship’ as opposed to ‘being a citizen’.
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Making the voice matter in English Studies Teaching English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Tom F Wright
This introduction frames the guest edition of the journal on ‘Oracy and English Studies’. The pieces in this special forum explore how a renewed focus on speaking can re-imagine what it means to ‘do English’. We are two university-level teachers, one from Classics, one from English, eager to explore the potential of this idea. We have brought together a series of short provocations from leading UK-based
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Is every teacher a teacher of oracy? English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Amanda Moorghen
In this article I argue that oracy is disciplinary: it has both generic and subject-specific dimensions that need to be taught explicitly. As such, every educator has a responsibility for teaching students the oracy skills they need in their subject domain; and providing them with the opportunity to practise using them. It cannot be hidden within a single department (e.g. treated as part of ‘English’
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Becoming less silent readers English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Jennifer Richards
This short essay tells the story of how much my thinking about literature, and the kind of questions I ask students, have changed since I first attended to the features of the physical voice – tone and timbre – and their role in reading.
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‘A benevolent technology’: Desiring-production and the petromodern death drive in J. G. Ballard’s Crash English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 William Taylor
Published in the same year as the 1973 oil crisis, J. G. Ballard’s Crash examines the pathological desires that maintain the subject’s entanglement and complicity with fossil fuel infrastructure. The novel functions as a colliding network of hallucinatory renderings that reveal the unconscious, programmed compulsions underpinning petromodern destruction. Combining recent work in the energy humanities
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Childhood and spatial hermeneutics in tertiary education: pathways to place-based learning English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Ruth Barratt-Peacock
Spatial hermeneutics is a key topic in Australian literary studies. This article asserts that the same attention should be paid to space in Australian children’s literature in tertiary education. Because the discursive nature of childhood and postmodern geography are challenging and highly abstract concepts for undergraduates, this article details two place-based approaches for tertiary teaching on
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Teaching Whiteness in Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 18’ English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Richard Stacey
This article will outline several strategies which can be used to teach Shakespeare’s poem ‘Sonnet 18’ in the pre-University classroom. Although one of the most famous texts in the canon, and regularly read in non-educational contexts, ‘Sonnet 18’ is rarely discussed in relation to its racial politics and its normalizing treatment of metaphorical whiteness. Being able to detect the operative invisibility
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Listening at the edge of the line English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Mina Gorji
To be listening, according to Jean-Luc Nancy, is ‘is always to be on the edge of meaning’. How do we listen to a poem’s edge? To the end of the line? This essay thinks about line endings and how they invite our listening. It explores the acoustics, dynamics, and somatic experience of line endings in the works of a number of poets, including Alice Oswald, Kathleen Jamie, William Wordsworth, and Jen
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Emerson and the lyric essay in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Georgia Walton
This article examines the previously underacknowledged influence of nineteenth-century writer Ralph Waldo Emerson on the contemporary essayist and memoirist Maggie Nelson, in particular the 2009 book-length essay Bluets. Nelson’s hybrid texts have often been seen as key examples of the quintessentially contemporary genre of the lyric essay. My argument here complicates the claims of originality that
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Creating across languages: the poem as process English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Zoë Skoulding
This article describes the project Creating Across Languages, a collaboration between GwE, the North Wales regional school improvement service, and commissioned poets working in Welsh, English, and French, in response to the new Curriculum for Wales. A shift away from considering the poem as a challenging object of study, and towards engaging creatively with poetry as a plurilingual process, can provide
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Ash the Poet and Ash the Tree: Possession by the Past in A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Xiuchun Zhang
This article examines five poem extracts written by the fictional Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash in A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance, which, depicting the Paradise gardens in various mythologies across the world, become rewritten tales of the Paracelsian elemental spirits guarding treasure hoarded in nature.These poems, placed at the heads of different chapters, are read as summaries of the detective
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Impractical Criticism English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Ewan Jones
On 25 October 2017, the Daily Telegraph falsely accused an undergraduate student of demanding that the University of Cambridge ‘drop male authors’. This essay takes the polemics around this episode as jumping-off point for a wider discussion of pedagogical method. It argues that the defamiliarizing procedures of practical criticism, which have been the subject of much ideological critique, can be extended
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Attuning ourselves to tunes English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 David Nowell Smith
The below is a transcript (with a small number of footnotes added) for an inaugural lecture given at the University of East Anglia on 28 November 2022. The lecture sought to answer the following questions: why read poems? Why study poetry? This talk argues that poetry constitutes language in its most condensed, but also most enlarged, form: when we read poems, we enliven ourselves to the expressive
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Challenging sympathy in Mary Shelley’s fiction: Frankenstein, Mathilda, and ‘The Mourner’ English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Michelle Faubert
Several critics have noted Mary Shelley’s engagement with the medico-philosophical concept of sympathy in Frankenstein (1818) and, to a lesser extent, in Mathilda (written 1819; published 1959), but no one has observed that these texts – and I would add her critically neglected short-story ‘The Mourner’ (1830) to the mix – work together to explore sympathy as problematic, both between characters and
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Memorizing poetry English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Jonathan Culler
Before the mid-twentieth century, pedagogy in many countries involved a considerable amount of memorization, perhaps especially in engagements with literature. But after World War II, the practice of memorization and public recitation virtually disappeared in American schools, generally replaced by a practice of analysis in which the poem is experienced principally as an object of interpretation. Here
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Conan Doyle and the rhetoric of genre English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Douglas Kerr
Arthur Conan Doyle is recognized as a master of narrative. This essay argues that this mastery expresses itself in his management of genre, at a time when social and cultural changes had created a literary environment that saw the emergence of what is now called genre fiction. Crucial elements in the field of literary publishing which his stories served included the expansion of the monthly magazine
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Reading the event of the poem: Derek Attridge and John Wilkinson on Denise Riley’s ‘Lone Star Clattering’ English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 David Nowell Smith
In this brief introduction to Derek Attridge’s ‘The Event of a Poem’ and John Wilkinson’s ‘Reading Denise Riley with Derek Attridge’, David Nowell Smith outlines some of the key concepts and questions explored in Attridge’s and Wilkinson’s essays. The central question is a double one: How does meaning in a poem unfold, and how do we as readers make sense of this unfolding? To ask this question means
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Is This the Way to Amarillo? Reading Denise Riley with Derek Attridge English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 John Wilkinson
This essay responds to a challenge offered by the avowed bafflement of the critic and prosodist Derek Attridge faced with a poem by Denise Riley, ‘Lone Star Clattering’. It argues that Attridge’s adoption of an interpretative approach derived from Don Paterson, employing a step-by-step and constrictive cognitive framing, cannot succeed with a late Modernist lyric poem. Drawing on classroom experience
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The Event of a Poem: Denise Riley’s ‘Lone Star Clattering’ English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Derek Attridge
If we think of a literary work as an event experienced by a reader or listener, and if one mode of literary criticism is an honest report on that event, a poem whose singularity lies in part in its resistance to the conventional protocols of interpretation, such as coherence and continuity, presents a particular challenge. In this short essay, I give an account of my reading of Denise Riley’s ‘Lone
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The View from Here – Teaching ‘Popular’ Nationalism in English English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Saradindu Bhattacharya
This essay situates the academic enquiry into the ‘popular’ idea of the nation within the shifting disciplinary contours of English in India. Using the iconic Bharatbala music video ‘Vande Mataram’ (1998) as a case study, it demonstrates how methods of analysis derived from literary studies may be used to engage with the mediated nature of contemporary culture; the classroom experience of ‘reading’
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Delivering the Undeliverable: Teaching English in a University Today English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Joe Moran
In UK universities, English has seen a steep fall in admissions, in the context of a general decline in humanities enrolments and changes to the school curriculum which have turned students away from the subject. This article explores what teaching English in a university means in these difficult times. It asks: what actually happens in an English class? What do students learn? And why is it so hard
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Tyranny and Liberty, Resistance and Regicide: Political Assassination in John Galt’s The Spaewife English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Zachary Garber
Though its use declined after the Middle Ages, the chronicle long remained the genre of choice for those unsatisfied with conventional histories. John Galt, a Scottish Romantic author currently enjoying renewed critical interest, demonstrates the political applications of the chronicle, in both form and content, as a means of harnessing Britain’s distant past to come to terms with the material and
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The Epigraph Effect: A Digital Humanities Approach to Literary Influence and Tradition English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Graham Matthews, Francis Bond
It is common to discover an epigraph in the opening pages of a novel that highlights one or more of the major themes and denotes the influence of another author on the composition of the text. Yet, the inclusion of an epigraph also bestows prestige on the citing text – helping the author to select his or her place in the wider literary tradition – and situates the text in a particular genre or historical
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Shakespeare Through Decolonization English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Farah Karim-Cooper
In this article, I ask what Shakespeare’s position is in the ongoing debate about how we present our cultural past today. This debate includes not just efforts to decolonize curricula in universities, but broader polemics within the culture/heritage sector and higher education, notably a right-wing backlash against scholarly efforts, in universities and elsewhere, to re-evaluate, and recontextualize
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Shakespeare’s Othello and Colour-Blindness among Saudi Readers English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Amjad AlShalan
This article discusses the perception of race among Middle Eastern readers, especially Saudi students, who are studying English literature, with focus on Shakespeare’s Othello, to demonstrate the complexity of perceiving race among Saudi readers by linking it to the concept of ‘colour-blindness’. The article highlights the importance of acknowledging one’s own identity in relation to teaching and reading
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Critical Whiteness Studies and Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Literature English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Hannah Lauren Murray
This article argues for implementing a Critical Whiteness studies approach to canonical White literature. After providing an overview of Critical Whiteness studies, I discuss examples from teaching nineteenth-century American literature where Critical Whiteness approaches are fruitful. Alongside widening the selection of what we teach in English departments, incorporating Critical Whiteness studies
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Who has the Time and Responsibility to Decolonize English Studies? English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Eret Talviste
What does decolonizing teaching practices and curricula mean, and who has the time and responsibility to consider these issues? This essay thinks about these questions from the first-person, embodied perspective of someone who has recently finished a PhD in modernist literatures of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys. In this essay, I think about the issues of precarious employment as an early-career researcher
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Decolonizing the Home at Home in the Pandemic: Articulating Women’s Experience English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 N B Abhaya
Feminism bears the promise of liberation of and equality for women. Reading and teaching feminist texts, within the academia and in activist spaces, has provided the opportunity to explore what it means to become and be a woman. This article explores the experience of teaching a course on women’s writing at the undergraduate level during the COVID-19 pandemic. Normally, a course on feminist writings
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Modernism, Empire, World Literature. By Joe Cleary English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Nagihan Haliloğlu
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New York in Slices: The Victorian Origins of The Bonfire of the Vanities English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Adam Abraham
The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe’s first novel, was a bestseller in the 1980s, when it captured its historical moment of yuppie excess, urban corruption, and vanity. Less recognized today are the book’s origins as an experiment in reviving Victorian modes of publication. Taking Dickens and Thackeray, Balzac and Zola as his models, Wolfe planned to write what he conceived of as a new nineteenth-century
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A New Look at Pygmalion: Alfred Doolittle and Henry Higgins as Absent (Substitute) Fathers English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Kenneth Eckert
Scholarship of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912), despite Shaw’s protestations that Eliza and Higgins can never marry, has for a century debated whether the play’s content and structure imply so. A less analysed route to resolving this issue is to more closely consider Eliza’s father, Arthur Doolittle. Some critics read Doolittle as largely a comic diversion meant to ironize her social transformation
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The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England. By Rebecca M. Rush English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Stagg R.
The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England. By RushRebecca M. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691212555. £30.
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‘You Can’t Have a One Size Fits All Strategy in Translation’: An Interview with Fakrul Alam English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
Fakrul Alam, an academic, editor, essayist, and critic, is one of the leading translators of Bengali literature. With more than four decades of teaching experience at Dhaka University, Bangladesh, where he is currently Director of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Research Institute for Peace and Liberty, he has contributed widely to research and translation. His areas of research include, among others, colonial
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Decolonizing English Studies: Editorial English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Nowell Smith D, Williams N.
It is hardly surprising that English Studies has been at the forefront of debates about decolonizing curricula, pedagogy, and institutional practices in Higher Education. Our discipline scrutinizes which stories we tell, whose experiences are represented and how they are told; but the literature we study comes from a language whose dominance as global lingua franca, and indeed whose evolution into
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Notes on Contributors English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-28
Laura Benney is in her final year of a Bachelor of Arts/Education at Federation University Australia and will be seeking employement in the Australian public education sector in 2022. Laura was the recipient of the HTAV Award for Excellence in History Teaching by a Graduate (pre-service) Teacher in 2021 and was also awarded a High Achievement Scholarship at Federation University Australia in 2018.
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Sorry Not Sorry: (Non-) Apology, Satire, and the Vacuum English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Tara McEvoy
This essay considers the theme of apology and what happens when the demand for apology is subverted, using the Vacuum newspaper as a case study. I consider the argument that played out in 2004 between the Vacuum and Belfast City Council, which partially funded its production. The Vacuum’s publication of themed double issues entitled ‘God’ and ‘Satan’ provoked the ire of conservative Council Members
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‘Forlorn on the Fringe of Life’: Exploring Working-Class Childhood in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Argha Kumar Banerjee
In Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘Life of Ma Parker’, the old, widowed charwoman is plagued by ‘unbearable’ thoughts of her deceased grandson Lennie: ‘Why did he have to suffer so?’ Lennie’s unfortunate death in the story is not a solitary instance of tragic portrayal of working-class childhood in Mansfield’s short fiction. In several of her tales she empathetically explores the marginalized existence
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Decolonization is not Convenient English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Wallace Cleaves
This article addresses the problematic use of the metaphor of decolonization, which has been used at Leicester and in other medieval programmes to justify their de-funding. Instead of addressing actual de-colonial concerns this movement leads to the effacement of the necessary work to re-evaluate medieval studies and its role in colonialism.
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Adapting the Australian Canon and Decolonizing the Tertiary Classroom: Settler Students Respond to Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Demelza Hall, Kate Storey, Laura Benney, Marlee Bourke
The ‘Drover’s Wife Reading Group’ was a collaborative teacher–student project piloted between 2018 and 2020 at Federation University Australia with the intention to create spaces for decolonization, particularly settler (un)learning, beyond the limits of the tertiary English classroom. Drawing upon aspects of reader–response theory, the project began as a small constructivist study in that it sought
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Decolonize Practical Criticism? English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Ben Etherington, Jarad Zimbler
This article reflects on what it might mean to decolonize practical criticism in the current moment by considering previous responses to the same imperative. It discusses critical and institutional interventions by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Mervyn Morris, Chidi Amuta, and, more recently, Harry Garuba and Benge Okot. In this way, the article demonstrates that the antidote to colonial paradigms of literary
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‘It’s Too Easy to Say that Institutions are Decolonizing’: An Interview with Senate House Library’s Richard Espley and Leila Kassir English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Sarah Pyke
In 2020, as public protest against anti-Black police brutality surged globally, institutional public statements in support of the Black Lives Matter movement proliferated. Universities, libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions rushed to deplore racist violence and express their commitment to anti-racist and decolonial practice. Rather than release a statement of their own, staff at Senate
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Knowing Outside of English: Decolonizing at York English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Shazia Jagot
In early 2020, Eugenia Zuroski published a short article in MAI journal's toolkit series critiquing conventional introductory exercises in the university classroom. Called ‘Where Do You Know From?’, the task ‘illustrate[s] the importance of attending conscientiously to the ways we relate to one another in the classroom as part of our pedagogical and political responsibilities’. In this piece, Alexandra
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Decolonizing the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African Ex-Centric English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Jade Munslow Ong
In this snapshot article, I outline the background and context for the development of research-led teaching activities aimed at students pursuing the WJEC Eduqas GCE A-Level English Literature qualification. The aims of these activities are threefold: first, to assist students’ learning and preparation for the exam component ‘Unseen Prose’ (worth 10% of the overall qualification); second, to extend
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Selection from Gentle Housework of the Sacrifice (Guillemot, Forthcoming) English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo
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Contesting Homogeneity: Stereotypes and Heteronormativity in Aruni Kashyap’s His Father’s Disease English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Debajyoti Biswas
This article analyses Aruni Kashyap’s short story collection His Father’s Disease. Kashyap challenges hegemonic structures through an emerging writing area tentatively classified as ‘Anglophone fiction from Northeast India’. By engaging with Foucault’s reading of Power/Knowledge this article examines the disciplining of literary regionalism (Anglophone literature from Northeast India), territory and
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‘“Gott Strafe England”: Ivor Gurney’s Strafes and Ways’ English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Martin Brooks
This essay describes Ivor Gurney’s use of the word ‘strafe’ in his poems of the First World War. At the outbreak of the War, the word was a new arrival in the English national consciousness. It had come to prominence in the German Army’s slogan, ‘Gott strafe England’ (‘God punish England’). Allied counterpropagandists soon redeployed this slogan as evidence that the German people were hateful and frenzied
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Think in Public: A Public Books Reader. Edited by Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Talluto S.
Food for Public Thought Think in Public: A Public Books Reader. Edited by MarcusSharon and ZaloomCaitlin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780231190091. 520 pp. PB $24.95/£20.00.
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Desire: A Memoir. By Jonathan Dollimore English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Hansen A.
Desire: A Memoir. By DollimoreJonathan. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. ISBN 9781350023109, p. 192. Pb. $35.99.
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Wordsworth’s Self-Composure English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Jack L Hart
This essay examines William Wordsworth’s attraction to fractious and perplexing selfhood. Attending to the often overlooked riches of the Cornell edition of Wordsworth’s poetry, I argue that the poet’s sense of the self is more than a straightforward aspiration towards organic creation. Recent scholarship has cast Wordsworth’s processes of revision as an effort to create continuity between his past
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(English) Dreams Versus (Hebrew) Reality: Henry Roth’s Call it Sleep as ‘Jewish-American Minor Literature’ English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Shiri Zuckerstatter
This article examines Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep as a particular example of minor literature written in America while suggesting a new term: ‘Jewish-American minor literature’. It has been argued that Jewish-American literature is not minor literature in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s terms mainly due to the openness of American English to other ethnic languages such as Yiddish.1 However, this
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Relentless Individual and Collective Commitment: an Interview with Jaydeep Sarangi and Manohar Mouli Biswas English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 Surya Simon
This interview with Indian translator, Professor Jaydeep Sarangi, and Indian writer, Manohar Mouli Biswas, was conducted on 16th April, 2019 in New Alipore College, India; and was part of a series of interviews conducted for a doctoral project that examines caste system and Dalit experiences in the context of India. In this interview, Sarangi sheds light on his experiences as a translator of Indian
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Moments Of (Re)vision: Thomas Hardy Making Amends English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Eva Dema
Considered far less critically rewarding resources than those of the author’s prose, the manuscripts of Thomas Hardy’s verse have long been neglected. This essay seeks, in part, to challenge the ways in which we attribute significance to such documents, attempting a close textual study of the ‘fair’ copy of Moments of Vision (1917) – a late draft of the volume only minimally revised. The collection
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Unhoming Pedagogies: Collaborative Wandering and Wondering with Literature English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Natalie Pollard, Deborah Ashfield, Jasmin Jelley
This collaborative article reflects on a set of shared practices that were inspired by a Year 3 undergraduate Literary Studies module, which took place in 2018. In co-teaching and learning on this module, the authors found their disciplinary and pedagogic norms unsettled and set adrift (unhomed). This article traces how their processes of working together – in and beyond the University classroom –
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Forms in Motion: The Poetic Prose of Robert Macfarlane and Kathleen Jamie English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Stefanie John
This essay examines the use of poetic prose in recent non-fiction by Robert Macfarlane and Kathleen Jamie. Drawing on selected chapters from Macfarlane’s The Old Ways (2012), Jamie’s Sightlines (2012), and a prose poem from Jamie’s The Bonniest Companie (2015), it demonstrates the hybridity of contemporary nature writing by paying attention to the works’ transgressions of the bounds of verse and prose
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Notes on Contributors English (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-19
Vincent Broqua is a Professor of North American literature and arts at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis. His is the director of the Research Unit Transferts Critiques Anglophones. His work centres on experimentalism in North America, translation studies, and creative writing. He is the co-head of the Poets and Critics research programme . He ran the research programme ‘traduire la performance