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Laura’s Virginia Woolf – a note Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Isobel Armstrong
This essay charts the presence of Virginia Woolf in Laura’s work, not only in Virginia Woolf (1997) but in 12 articles and every critical study she wrote, from Auto/biographical Discourses (1994) t...
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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) Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ian Tan
This essay will argue for the pertinence of a hermeneutical approach to textuality, literary style, and the legacy of the contemporary novel in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello and Julian Barnes’...
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Tribute to Laura Marcus Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ankhi Mukherjee
This essay pays mournful tribute to Laura Marcus through a reading of Hilda Doolittle's extrapolations of Freudian psychoanalysis, an area of scholarship pioneered by Marcus. Examining the dream-li...
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Elsewhere: Laura Marcus and autobiography Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Peter Middleton
This essay pays tribute to Laura Marcus’s work on autobiography, and her interest in emergent aesthetic discourses, by discussing two fictionalised memoirs, John Berger’s Here is Where We Meet, and...
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Laura Marcus: Rhythmical Subject Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Rebecca Beasley
Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The lost shape of words: reading the post-literate condition in Ali Smith’s Like (1997) Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Adrienne Mortimer
This article explores the representation of ‘post-literacy’ in Ali Smith’s debut novel Like (1997). The protagonist Amy Shone – once a fellow in English an unnamed Cambridge college who wielded boo...
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For Laura Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Hannah Sullivan
Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Translated memories: autobiography and the surrender to literature Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Robert J. C. Young
In an exploration of the problems of writing autobiography and biography articulated by Laura Marcus, I show how Yeats, Wittgenstein and Woolf, identify the note as the form that keeps alive the li...
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Following Laura Marcus: from autobiography to testimony Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Bryan Cheyette
The publication of Laura Marcus’s Auto/biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice (1994) coincided with a conference that I co-organised with her called ‘Modernity, Culture and “the Jew”’...
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The changing History of English Poetry 1774–1871: language, literature and Anglo-Saxon whiteness Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Helen Young, Shyama Rajendran, Sabina Rahman
Race formation, canon formation, and the writing of linguistic history can all be understood as processes of standardisation that differentiate through inclusion and exclusion of selected character...
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Introduction: confronting medieval and early modern canons Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Mary C. Flannery, Carrie Griffin
In this introduction, the editors lay out the rationale behind this special issue. The goal of this issue is to identify and disrupt the complacency surrounding the medieval and early modern canon ...
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Beyond the silence of the voice: Leos Carax’s Annette and silent cinema Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Lara Feigel
Cinema’s relationship with the voice is passionate and enduring – perhaps nowhere more so than in silent cinema. This article takes the Lara Feigel’s experience of being supervised by Laura Marcus ...
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Laura Marcus and the train to Freud Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Maud Ellmann
This essay examines Laura Marcus’s chapter ‘Oedipus Express: Psychoanalysis and the Railways’ in her book Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014), which argues that the train...
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Caring about lyricality Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-28 David James
This article offers a close reading of Laura Marcus’s styles of close reading, taking as its point of departure a lockdown recording (in spring 2020) of her lyrical rendition of the ‘Time Passes’ s...
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How the earth feels: geological fantasy in the nineteenth-century United States Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sophia Houghton
Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Manuscript canonicity Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Daniel Sawyer
Some manuscripts containing Middle English possess canonicity in modern scholarship for their own sakes, that is, for their interest as objects rather than due to the canonicity of their contents. ...
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The uneasiness of emotion and its representations in Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Adel Cheong
In Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015) a sense of crisis in a family with two young sons, brought on by the sudden death of their mother, is undisguised. What makes the novel more ...
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Native daughters, evil empires, Blazing Worlds: Margaret Cavendish's imperialism Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Elizabeth Mazzola
The kidnapped maiden reborn as an Empress in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World (1666) ultimately returns to her birthplace to wage war upon its enemies, using her newfound powers to unleash a deva...
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Rhetorical fractures: poems, photos, power stations, gardens, glasshouses, ghosts and the essay Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-21 John Kinsella
Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Filling in the gaps: early middle English, nationalist philology, and reparative codicology Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-21 J. D. Sargan
Ongoing interventions by antiracist scholars and activists demonstrate the lasting impact that the racist, nationalist, and colonialist foundation of the field has had on modern perceptions of the ...
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Materiality and the canon: manuscripts, fragments, and medieval outlaw literature Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Carrie Griffin
This essay examines the place of outlaw literature, particularly the English tradition of Robin Hood narratives, on the outskirts of the literary canon. It considers that the ‘flawed’ material cont...
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‘Perfectly, perfectly funny’?: laughing with the internet in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Giorgia Garilli
Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This (2021) has been hailed as an authentic literary depiction of the contemporary internet. This essay homes in on its protagonist’s veneration of ‘perf...
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Metaphor, subjectivity and self-knowledge in Edward St. Aubyn’s novels Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Guibing Qin
Edward St. Aubyn shows a persistent metaphysical interest in consciousness, personal identity and psychoanalysis. Reading seven of his novels, this article investigates the relationship between wha...
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The actor-network in Herman Melville’s ‘The Apple-Tree Table’ Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Xinshuo Zhou, Quan Wang
This article focuses on the actor-network in Herman Melville’s ‘The Apple-Tree Table or Original Spiritual Manifestations’ and argues that the agency of the nonhuman helps human beings to reshape t...
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Queering history: palimpsestuous bodies and theirstories in Zen Cho’s The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Grace V.S. Chin
In her fantasy novella, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water (2020), transnational Malaysian writer Zen Cho agitates and disrupts Malaysia’s heteropatriarchal and ethnocentric history as w...
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‘Our poison’d chalice to our own lips’: toxic masculinity and tyranny in Macbeth Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Sam Gilchrist Hall
Paying close attention to Shakespeare’s adaptation of his sources, this article traces the relationship between poisoning, tyranny and infanticide in Macbeth, contending that the play’s chilling vi...
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Tediousness in Coryats Crudities (1611): early modern travel writing, rhetoric, and notions of canonicity Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Natalya Din-Kariuki
Despite its increasing prominence in university syllabi and anthologies, travel writing continues to be excluded from the canon of early modern literature. Its exclusion can be attributed to the vi...
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The early modern canon and the construction of women’s writing Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Danielle Clarke
In this essay, I aim to provide an overview of the relationship between women’s writing and the ‘canon’, to suggest some reasons for its continuing marginality to that canon, and to outline briefly...
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Anonymity, canonicity, and literary value Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Myra Seaman
This article investigates institutional forces that maintain the focus on canonical authors in Middle English studies, despite the ubiquity of anonymity in the Middle English corpus, and despite th...
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Modernism, forgetting, and the book of the heart Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jean-Michel Rabaté
This article sketches a theory of modernist memory. Borges provides an entry-point for an exploration of the relation between forgetting and memory in modernism, from which I show that memory (as w...
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Modernist memories: mnemotechnics, transmissions, temporalities Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-09 John Greaney
This introduction sets the critical parameters for this special issue on the topic of modernist memories. It describes how the 1922 modernist centenary, and a general turn to critical commemoration...
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When wasn't modernism? Reflections on the stone age Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Václav Paris
In The Politics of Modernism, Raymond Williams pointed out that as a category for understanding the new, modernism was thoroughly ideological. This article addresses the problem of modernism's excl...
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Modernism living on: periodisation and polarisation Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-09 John Greaney
This article is concerned with the legacy of modernism in twenty-first century literature. It asks: do contemporary experimental literatures signal a new literary epoch distinct from iterations of ...
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Game-changing Homeric memory: Odysseys before and after Joyce Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Astrid Erll
This article connects new modernist studies with memory studies and classical reception studies. It addresses the perennial conundrum about the relation between James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and the...
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Clickbait modernism Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Barry Sheils
Over recent years terms such as autofiction, postcritique and postfiction have been repurposed to designate a moment in the history of the novel, and in culture more broadly, to do with the distrib...
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A method of her own: tracing memory in Marion Milner's The Hands of the Living God Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Julie Walsh
This article contributes to the growing critical literature that situates the British Psychoanalyst and pioneer of life writing Marion Milner within the modernist tradition, not only as a Freudian ...
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Modernist futures: re-reading 1922 Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-09 John Brannigan
We are used to thinking of modernist works, à la Ricoeur, as ‘tales about time’, either as marking ruptures in time, or cycling back on time. In recent criticism, in what has been seen as a move be...
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Commemoration, modernism and self-identity in contemporary graphic memoir Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Katherine Ebury
This essay focuses on two texts, Mary M. Talbot’s and Bryan Talbot’s Dotter of her Father’s Eyes (2012) and Sarah Laing’s Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir (2016). Both texts are in a direct line ...
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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’ Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-03 John Roache
Despite a series of critiques concerning its validity as a tool of socio-political analysis, the notion of ‘marginality’ continues to play a role in a range of important global debates. This articl...
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Whimsical criticism Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Thom Dancer
For many decades, Virginia Woolf's reputation in the history of literary criticism has been as a heroic rebel and challenger to the dominant forms and institutions of literary criticism. This legac...
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Insect or affect? John Ashbery's ‘Daffy Duck in Hollywood’, the dramatic monologue, and lyric theory Textual Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Eric Tyler Powell
This article reads John Ashbery’s poem ‘Daffy Duck in Hollywood’ in relation to theories of the dramatic monologue and the lyric genre. I argue that the poem is meant to make the New Critical model...
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The reversed monomyth in a queer Russian web series Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Artem Prokhorov
This article explores Here I Come, a web series released on YouTube in November 2020 and the only fictional queer web series in Russia since 2013. The starting point of the study is a narrative ana...
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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) Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Hamidah Allogmany
Contemporary Muslim women’s writing can help to shed light on how the ostensibly incommensurate relationship between the conditions of women’s lives and gendered forms of social reproduction in mod...
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Out of the blue: Prynne’s gifts Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Beci Carver
A couple of years ago a friend presented me out of the blue with a gift: a little brown, blank envelope, and inside it Prynne’s newest poem at the time, Dune Quail Eggs. Any book given as a gift ma...
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Speaking practice Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Yanita Georgieva
Published in Textual Practice (Vol. 37, No. 12, 2023)
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The 2022 Ivan Juritz prize: Introduction Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Lara Feigel
Published in Textual Practice (Vol. 37, No. 12, 2023)
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Dissection Nation Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-14 April Yee
Published in Textual Practice (Vol. 37, No. 12, 2023)
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Warp Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Robert Laidlow
Published in Textual Practice (Vol. 37, No. 12, 2023)
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Touching toward the (un)known: working collaboratively with bodies and technologies Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Ada Xiaoyu Hao
Published in Textual Practice (Vol. 37, No. 12, 2023)
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Wall woodpeckers project Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Kaifan Wang
Published in Textual Practice (Vol. 37, No. 12, 2023)
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Stimming [live] pathologising [ifitfits] and restaged made, in a staged setting, repeat non – eye – contact – contact Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Lisa Barnard
Published in Textual Practice (Vol. 37, No. 12, 2023)
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Writing the Liberal City: literature and the contested experience of economic change. Bogotá 1849–1870 Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Constanza Castro Benavides
Costumbrista literature has been repeatedly analysed as a strategy as well as an expression of the process of nation formation in nineteenth-century Latin America. However, it is also a powerful le...
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From Orientalism to neo-Orientalism: medial representations of Islam and the Muslim world Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Muhammad Abdul Wahid
The debate on Orientalist representations of Islam and/or Muslims has been rampant in academic literature since Edward Said’s publication of his seminal work Orientalism (1978). The articulation of...
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The infinite unleashed: Benjamin revisited in the context of the mechanical philosophy Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sung-Ik Kim
This essay examines Walter Benjamin’s politico-theological conception of time (the messianic time) against the background of the mechanical philosophy which the Copernican turn brought about. My ar...
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W.S. Graham’s blanks Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg
W.S. Graham has long been seen as a poet overly preoccupied with the unruly, wayward behaviour of poetic language. His two final collections of poetry – Malcolm Mooney’s Land and Implements in Thei...
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Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans: images of twenty-first century Occident in Arab eyes Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ahmed Shalabi, Yousef Abu Amrieh
The East–West encounter in the twenty-first century is a major theme in the works of contemporary Anglophone Arab diasporic writers. However, unlike some Arab intellectuals and writers of the previ...
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Literature and Class, from the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Michael Pierse
Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Past forms, present concerns: reading transhistorically for feminised labour Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Charlotte J. Fabricius, Emily J. Hogg
This article makes the claim that experiences of feminised work are represented through literary forms that recur across disparate genres, periods, and media. Drawing on Caroline Levine’s concept o...
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The empire writes back: The Moor’s Account’s decolonial appropriation of Cabeza de Vaca’s La Relación Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Wael J. Salam
The article explores the aesthetic and stylistic strategies by which Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) decolonises Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s chronicle La Relación (1542) and hence writes ...
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‘What is toast?’ Language and society in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake Textual Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Katherine Parsons
With its depiction of a ‘word man’ as the sole survivor of the human race, Oryx and Crake offers a unique perspective on the correlation between the death of a people and the death of their languag...