Textual Practice

Papers
(The median citation count of Textual Practice is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Caring about lyricality17
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: thinking with spirits Engagements with Aimé Césaire: thinking with spirits , by Jason Allen-Paisant, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 20248
‘Without too much anxiety’: re-reading Cage and Feldman through Gertrude Stein’s theatre poetics6
Decolonizing the English literary curriculum5
New voices in an old form: rethinking the earliest Chinese translations of ‘The Isles of Greece’4
How does the novel create life? Thinking the impossible in Elizabeth Costello4
Kazuo Ishiguro’s gestural poetics4
Narrating the (non)human: ecologies, consciousness and myth3
The master as parasite in modern literature3
As plain as spilt salt: the city as social structure in The Dispossessed3
Kinship ecology and the bildungsroman: the child–animal relationship in Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House series3
From Palibino to Riviera: narrative rhythmanalysis of Sofia Kovalevskaya’s literary writings3
Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege , by Adam Parkes, Oxford, Oxford University Pre2
‘Mystery of the self’: embodied personhood and artificial intelligence in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me2
The notion of criticism at the present time: from postcriticism to an ethics of reading well2
Introduction: the irresolute language of images2
Editing Laura2
Metaphor, subjectivity and self-knowledge in Edward St. Aubyn’s novels2
An atelic model for the textual limen2
‘A 40 years works feels / 40 more 40 thousand’: Lionel Fogarty’s hauntological poetics and the archive2
Stage directions as endotext: the psychological and socio-historical messages in the stage directions of Cao Yu and Lao She2
The actor-network in Herman Melville’s ‘The Apple-Tree Table’2
Antonin Artaud and the healing practices of language: how life matters in Artaud’s later writings2
Genet’s dying words2
Beware the Cat (2018): Adapted from William Baldwin by Frances Babbage, Terry O’Connor and Rachel Stenner, introduced and edited for publication by Frances Babbage and Terry O’Connor1
Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child: A Critical Theory Approach1
Literary form and historicised relationality: theorising the city as text in Teju Cole’s novels1
Tennessee Williams’ escapology and the heterotopia of ‘The Mysteries of the Joy Rio’1
Introduction: futures of literary studies1
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life1
The legacy of the forest: a source study of ‘Wood’ (2009) by Alice Munro1
Ivan Juritz Prize 20211
Beckett and politics. New directions in Irish and Irish American literature1
Crisis and critique in Christine Smallwood’s The Life of the Mind (2021)1
An archive of modern medical culture: the critique of turn-of-the-century medical discourses in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives1
Imaginarium politicum1
‘As good as a chorus’: Hamlet’s Mousetrap in philosophy and psychoanalysis1
Out of the blue: Prynne’s gifts1
On poetry and the crowd: lyric and locodescription1
Queering history: palimpsestuous bodies and their stories in Zen Cho’s The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water1
Writing (with) the body: the case of Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch1
Telepathy terminable and interminable1
Tediousness in Coryats Crudities (1611): early modern travel writing, rhetoric, and notions of canonicity1
‘Someone lives in me’: how essayists enter our lives1
Getting to Good Friday: literature and the peace process in Northern Ireland1
The empire’s double bind: Kazuo Ishiguro and the Imperial Rescript on Education1
Deconstructing hegemony: contemporary Middle East literature, theory, and historiography1
In light of myth: photography as truth in Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida1
Creaturely forms in contemporary literature: narrating the war against animals1
‘Perfectly, perfectly funny’?: laughing with the internet in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This1
‘Exploiting magnificence’: Hart Crane versus T. S. Eliot on the matter of diction1
Huge urgency and consummate skill: an interview with Jim Pennington1
Via literary mothers: Kathleen Fraser and the ‘permission-giving’ moment of ‘projective verse’1
W.S. Graham’s blanks1
Encountering Ulysses1
Mind reading?1
Hypercanonical Joyce: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners, creative disaffiliation, and the global afterlives of Ulysses1
‘Life as literature’: Wright Morris's Love Among the Cannibals1
Inhabiting the impasse: on care and ambivalence in Lisa Baraitser’s Enduring Time and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts1
Yogic style in motion: experiments in power and knowledge1
Through Sun Tunnels : radical subjectivity and the radiant drive1
Strange flesh1
Monuments, unreal spaces and national forgetting: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant and the abyss of memory1
When worlds converge: geological ontologies and volcanic epistemologies in Colombian literature after the 1985 eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz1
Resourceful melodrama: carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Dymphna Cusack’s Southern Steel (1953)1
Writing the Liberal City: literature and the contested experience of economic change. Bogotá 1849–18701
Elsewhere: Laura Marcus and autobiography1
Alternative avatars of the plagiarist, or, an embarrassment of glitches1
Limitation as excess: A reappraisal of transgressive aesthetics in Amanda Filipacchi's Love Creeps1
Cliché and repetition: McLuhan understanding modernism1
Testimony, reconstructed: the secondary witness and testimonial possession in Bart van Es’ The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found1
Poundian influences and misty poetics in Yang Lian’s concentric circles1
Feminist refusal from Jacob’s Room to the climate protest: Bonnie Honig, Virginia Woolf and Greta Thunberg0
The early reception of the Sun Machine0
The art of imitation and the desire for violence: the rebirth of Homo Mimeticus0
Eroticism as the body without organs in Dennis Cooper’s Frisk: grand narratives, desire, and infinity0
Gold, cocaine, montage: Latin American sacrifice zones in Michael Taussig’s My Cocaine Museum0
Performing the poetics of the Iranian dream on silver screen: Hamoun as a tale of spiritual rebirth0
The beast and the sovereign in ‘Circe’: human and animal rights in Joyce studies0
Defamiliarisation, invisible characters, and laboured connections0
Cyril Connolly, late modernism and the essay form0
‘Little magazines were the only option’: an interview with Tina Morris0
The other vow: affirmative Denial in Kafka, Shakespeare and Kol Nidrei0
Towards a counterfactual criticism: alternate history and the study of English Literature0
Helen Keller’s ‘Sense of light’: life-writing, light-writing and the photosynthetic subject0
Media and environment in elemental melodrama: afterword0
Literary multilingualism: exploring latent practices0
Materiality and the canon: manuscripts, fragments, and medieval outlaw literature0
Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe0
‘It envelops’: elementality and form in nineteenth-century Scottish melodrama0
In praise of failure: four lessons in humility0
Reimagining postcolonial Sri Lanka as ‘Ceylon’: Shyam Selvadurai’s Cinnamon Gardens0
‘What is toast?’ Language and society in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake0
A case for religious criticism0
Dialect, voice, and identity in Chinese translation: a descriptive study of Chinese translations of Huckleberry Finn , Tess , and 0
Assessing intelligence: the Bildungsroman and the politics of human potential in England, 1860–19100
To give the literary event: Blanchot and Lawrence’s narratives of life/death0
Hollow children: utopianism and disability justice0
Sexual difference without cisness in Ulysses0
To decompose the gender possibilities of the contemporary sestina: queer formalism reimagined through a poetic fixed form0
The 2022 Ivan Juritz prize: Introduction0
Reading Ong reading McLuhan0
Introduction: confronting medieval and early modern canons0
Royle reading0
‘The great unequivocal International Gestures’: Benjaminian Gestus in Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man0
Tribute to Laura Marcus0
Beyond trauma: provisional networks and eccentric forms in fiction of the blitz0
Translated memories: autobiography and the surrender to literature0
Photomimesis and the anti-aesthetic0
Sounds like the Anthropocene: Alice Oswald’s water-stressed, Homeric verse0
Stimming [live] pathologising [ifitfits] and restaged made, in a staged setting, repeat non – eye – contact – contact0
Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism0
The chaff and the wheat: Emily Dickinson and Maurice Blanchot0
Psychoanaliterature, or, how the American relational move made Are You My Mother? and The Argonauts0
Gertrude Stein’s radio audience0
If you could read my mind …0
An exercise in analysis as enjoyment0
When wasn't modernism? Reflections on the stone age0
Translational Authorship and Multilingual (Re)writing in Uljana Wolf and Sophie Seita's Subsisters: Selected Poems (2017)0
Constructing the human in the works of William Baldwin: coloniality, race, and animality0
This confused music0
‘Counting fry under a waterfall’: the history, development, and current use of the Small Press Collections at University College London0
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) as ‘crisis fiction’0
Emblem of ruin: the fate of allegory in a time of weak theory0
Oxford Freud: autofictions and reflections0
Glossectomy and lyric histories in Sujata Bhatt’s poetry0
‘ … pure existence, without sense … ’: Joan Copjec, Hitchcock’s Rebecca , and reading the real0
For Laura0
Poetic transcribbling: Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff’s Yo-Yo’s with Money and Beaned in Boston0
Son et lumière in Proust0
Uncanny reminiscing: Nicholas Royle in conversation with Adrien Ordonneau0
Fragmentary modernism: the classical fragment in literary and visual cultures, c.1896 – c.19360
Haptic poetics and community (re)building in Swinburne’s The Flogging Block0
Toni Morrison and the writing of place0
Footnotes0
Late reception [play memory of a free festival]0
‘Time becomes memory, and memory becomes the ditch in which we drown’: rethinking modes of knowing the past in Ian McGuire’s The Abstainer (2020)0
Following Laura Marcus: from autobiography to testimony0
Reflections on sublation0
Ezra Pound’s drafts for the translation of Confucius’ ShijingThe Book of Odes0
Literature and Class, from the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution Literature and Class, from the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution , by Andrew Hadfield, M0
Poetry or politics? On Jacques-Alain Miller’s Effort of Poetry after Lacan0
Death in flight0
Commemoration, modernism and self-identity in contemporary graphic memoir0
Zadie Smith’s Nonhuman turns0
Towards a poetics of the pipelines: an infrastructural analysis of the figure of the pipeline in Iranian petrofiction0
Breaking down in fits and starts: navigating a good naturalisation of J. H. Prynne’s ‘Blue Slides at Rest’ (2004)0
Somewhere else in the market: an essay on the poetry of J.H. Prynne0
‘ … Miles of the rustling secret corn’: nature, cosmic and autonomy in American cosmic horror literature0
Rendered obsolete: energy culture and the afterlife of U.S. whaling0
Introduction: beyond the sacrifice zone0
Weird luck0
Beyond the door, behind the veil: Brian Catling and the Weird/Visionary tradition0
Do Shakespeare’s characters mean what they say?0
Exit this way: afterward0
Border-crossing Japanese literature: reading multiplicity0
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 0
Anonymity, canonicity, and literary value0
The scientific lab: sacrifice zones as contact zones0
Eating and cooking beyond the borders in Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities0
The near future in twenty-first-century fiction: climate, retreat and revolution0
A singing bird inside the human mind: a posthumanist rereading of Wallace Stevens0
Climate engineering in The Ministry for the Future and Termination Shock0
Phillis Wheatley Peters’ fugitive poetics of freedom0
Apropos of something: a history of irrelevance and relevance0
Dis/placed: veerer – where , and when , are you? (asides)0
Love in the sacrifice zone: queer ecopoetics in the Appalachian Mountains0
Modernism, forgetting, and the book of the heart0
Insect or affect? John Ashbery's ‘Daffy Duck in Hollywood’, the dramatic monologue, and lyric theory0
THE SPIRIT LIVES! An interview with Douglas Blazek0
Introduction to James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100: still learning0
On the reading mind: what you will already have known I was about to say now anyway0
Insurgent imaginations: world literature and the periphery0
Monkeying around with fact and fiction: radical epistemology and reactionary metaphysics in the work of R.A. Lafferty0
D. H. Lawrence’s queer flatness0
Baldwin as phonographer0
‘On it, in it, what you will’ – Reading Nicholas Royle’s Quilt0
The changing History of English Poetry 1774–1871: language, literature and Anglo-Saxon whiteness0
Touching the screen: on visual textuality and knowledge construction in Anne Carson’s poetry0
Laura’s living writing0
Reading McLuhan reading (and not reading)0
Rethinking the discourse of ‘marginality’ in English literary studies and the social sciences: M. NourbeSe Philip’s ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’0
The ‘wonder’ in the handkerchief0
Constraint and corporeality: reading Brooke-Rose and Garréta’s gendered experiments0
Watching readers reading0
‘Our poison’d chalice to our own lips’: toxic masculinity and tyranny in Macbeth0
‘Toward the evening of a gone world’: on forgetting Hugh Kenner0
Aesthetics of obscenity: the avant-garde text and underground impact of My Own Mag and Poetmeat0
Public criticism0
Nick Makoha’s – a low pressure system0
Introduction0
Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism0
Language games: the gendered politics of the speech act in Ben Lerner's The Topeka School0
The satire of the meritocracy: foreclosed futures in Michael Young, Raymond Williams, and Muriel Spark0
The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro0
From Orientalism to neo-Orientalism: medial representations of Islam and the Muslim world0
Afterword (A hundred flowers)0
‘A flicker of the divine progress?’: stage-managing narratives of Empire in Jan Morris's Pax Britannica trilogy0
Laura’s Virginia Woolf – a note0
‘Speculative Fiction: What Nicholas Royle will have written in David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine , which I haven’t read’0
Drone fiction, empathy gap and the reader: Mohsin Hamid’s short story Terminator: Attack of the Drone (2011)0
Critique du récit pur : gleam of time in Maurice Blanchot’s narratives0
Of lyric proportions: poetry and the genres of climate-change communications0
Juan Filloy’s Caterva and the geopolitics of the Joycean novel in Argentina0
On not being able to read: doomscrolling and anxiety in pandemic times0
Deleuze, subjectivity, and literature as life0
Virginia Woolf’s ‘ontology of style’: Mrs. Brown, The Waves , and the ethics of character*0
‘Good heavens! that’s where I got it!’ McLuhan reads Wyndham Lewis0
Thinking destructively with aesthetics0
Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture0
Transculturality and the contingency of belonging0
Anticipating the plot: overdetermining heteronormative destiny on the twenty-first century screen0
Nabokov’s secret trees0
Veering and tunnelling0
Under the net: universal time, modernism, and the subversive temporality of golden age detective fiction0
The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI0
The impersonal forces of disease and death in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron0
‘The problem of other minds’: disappropriation and the limits of polyphony in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School0
Aesthetics of the fucked0
Chinese modernist satire: Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son (1929), Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged (1947), and Eileen Chang’s Lege0
Autofiction and the possibility of life in neoliberal ruins: reification, friction and the affective dominant in Weijers and Heti0
Seamus Heaney as letter writer0
The Comic turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?0
The catastrophe of the face: ethics, deconstruction, plasticity0
Wall woodpeckers project0
Knick-knacks or Nick’s wits0
The space not beyond: T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) and its musical adaptations as elemental melodrama of an upper-atmospheric limit0
Understanding ‘understanding music’ in Proust0
A horizon line: flat style in contemporary women’s poetry0
‘Piers Plowman’ and the reinvention of church law in the late middle ages0
Dissection Nation0
Filling in the gaps: early middle English, nationalist philology, and reparative codicology0
Reimagining Shakespeare’s The Tempest in its afterlife: a study of cuts, revisions, and potential sources0
The work of literary studies: interpretation, argument, and socioaesthetic experience0
Revisiting Pascale Casanova’s world literary space0
Time against the sovereign power: the interregnum in Stuart Brisley’s performance art0
Bringing the dead back to life: Marx, Muriel Rukeyser, and the work of documentary0
When the medium is war: Marshall McLuhan, media, and militarisation0
Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans : images of twenty-first century Occident in Arab eyes0
An intercultural dialogue: the Buddha, Schopenhauer and Beckett. Angela Moorjani in Colloquy with Asijit Datta0
The minor poet: a case of John Wieners0
A Problem of Middlebrow Style: Dialect and Translation in Elena Ferrante’s Naples Tetralogy0
Philosophy’s ghosts: Nicholas Royle, Naji al-Ali, and Me0
Editorial Note0
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger: Mark Twain’s critique of progressive era meritocracy0
Deleuze, Palestine, and Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun0
Seamus Eile (The 'Other' Seamus)0
The lost shape of words: reading the post-literate condition in Ali Smith’s Like (1997)0
‘I went and prayed to have my name put down in the missionaries’ book’: gift exchange and Bible transactions in Britain and Antigua, 1834–18840
Snow globes and instant coffee: transparent commodities and the global infrastructures of late capitalism in contemporary fiction0
0.06223201751709