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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Free Indirect: the novel in a postfictional age98
‘Here is my shameful confession. I don’t really “get” poetry’: discerning reader types in responses to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel on Goodreads13
The satire of the meritocracy: foreclosed futures in Michael Young, Raymond Williams, and Muriel Spark6
From Palibino to Riviera: narrative rhythmanalysis of Sofia Kovalevskaya’s literary writings4
Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States4
Genesis (what can’t light see?) retrospectively3
Deconstructing Narrative, Deconstructing the death penalty. The case of Billy Budd, Sailor3
Aesop’s vomit: or, stomach problems in early modern England3
‘There; keep thy finger on it’: the prosthetics of measurement in Moby-Dick2
Of squalls and mutinies: emergency politics and black democracy in Moby-Dick and ‘The Heroic Slave’2
The nurse (5 min, video and sound)2
‘A flicker of the divine progress?’: stage-managing narratives of Empire in Jan Morris's Pax Britannica trilogy2
The reversed monomyth in a queer Russian web series2
The master as parasite in modern literature2
‘It is, that’s all.’: J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K (1983) and the cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet2
Poetic transcribbling: Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff’s Yo-Yo’s with Money and Beaned in Boston1
A poetic geography: placing urban literature in two districts of Istanbul, Türkiye1
Gold, cocaine, montage: Latin American sacrifice zones in Michael Taussig’s My Cocaine Museum1
‘At each remove the similarity fades a bit more’: queer politics and experimental prose in two generations of New Narrative1
Caring about lyricality1
Venus sans furs: wolves and women in three medieval poems1
Wasting time? The politics and poetics of feminist waiting1
The paradoxes of Roland Barthes’s fait-divers murders and Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Things external to the game’1
‘Without too much anxiety’: re-reading Cage and Feldman through Gertrude Stein’s theatre poetics1
And be but cryonically extant: Don DeLillo and Sir Thomas Browne1
Producing Historicity: Foucault, Joyce and European Art Cinema, 1955–19801
Those who flee and those who see: Poussin’s drawing and withdrawing1
Performing the poetics of the Iranian dream on silver screen: Hamoun as a tale of spiritual rebirth1
The uneasiness of emotion and its representations in Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers1
As plain as spilt salt: the city as social structure in The Dispossessed1
The book and the pen: reading biography and writing autobiography as feminist project in Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls and I Am A Rebel Girl1
Introduction: ‘Baldewins Straunge Faschions’1
Metaphor, subjectivity and self-knowledge in Edward St. Aubyn’s novels1
Narrating the (non)human: ecologies, consciousness and myth1
Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege , by Adam Parkes, Oxford, Oxford University Pre1
Public criticism1
Signal and noise in Skelton1
(In)visible writing in art and performance1
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: thinking with spirits Engagements with Aimé Césaire: thinking with spirits , by Jason Allen-Paisant, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 20241
Kae Tempest, London and the digital affects of neoliberalism1
Editing Laura1
Decolonizing the English literary curriculum1
A. S. Byatt and the quiddity of things: a material-semiotic approach to narrating the human through the non-human1
The framing of selfless role-playing in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist1
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, M1
Extrospection: Zen and the art of being posthuman in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being1
The actor-network in Herman Melville’s ‘The Apple-Tree Table’1
Ungraspable: Black life in Juan Cárdenas’s novels1
Defamiliarisation, invisible characters, and laboured connections1
Catworld1
Beyond the silence of the voice: Leos Carax’s Annette and silent cinema1
Critique du récit pur : gleam of time in Maurice Blanchot’s narratives1
Oil Cultures, World drama and contemporaneity: questions of time, space and form in Ella Hickson’s Oil1
What happens to thought in a cyborg body? On Brain ships, embodiment and posthuman gest1
Kinship ecology and the bildungsroman: the child–animal relationship in Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House series1
‘Lovescape crucified’: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s red letter and ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’1
Introduction: Gertrude Stein's theatre and the Radio Free Stein project1
How the earth feels: geological fantasy in the nineteenth-century United States How the earth feels: geological fantasy in the nineteenth-century United States , by Dana1
Introduction: unoccupied air1
A: Account1
The notion of criticism at the present time: from postcriticism to an ethics of reading well1
Evidence of eden: unstable continuum and manifest history in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!1
Thinking the contemporary: beyond distinctiveness in the literary humanities1
‘A 40 years works feels / 40 more 40 thousand’: Lionel Fogarty’s hauntological poetics and the archive1
Stage directions as endotext: the psychological and socio-historical messages in the stage directions of Cao Yu and Lao She1
Elemental melodrama0
Vibrancy of nouns: Philip Terry’s Quennets and the vitality of matter0
Revisiting Pascale Casanova’s world literary space0
The empire’s double bind: Kazuo Ishiguro and the Imperial Rescript on Education0
Mere light0
‘Piers Plowman’ and the reinvention of church law in the late middle ages0
‘Despicable beauty’: the embedded sublime and the poetics of violence in Iraq war reportage0
Game-changing Homeric memory: Odysseys before and after Joyce0
The fog of tyranny in ‘Benito Cereno’0
The contemporary problem of style0
Against explanation: Dylan Thomas and smudginess0
The work of literary studies: interpretation, argument, and socioaesthetic experience0
Fencing with the symptom: a Lacanian reading of Laurence Sterne's sentence structure and punctuation in Tristram Shandy0
Processes of translation: Bruno Latour’s heterodox semiotics0
Tasting/Loving/Writing the Other: The Sensuous Poetics of Li-Young Lee and Walt Whitman0
The near future in twenty-first-century fiction: climate, retreat and revolution0
W. S. Graham’s already made voices0
Writing (with) the body: the case of Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch0
Exit this way: afterward0
The Barfly and the Beatnik: the literary relationship of Charles Bukowski and Kay ‘Kaja’ Johnson0
Vulnerability in contemporary Northern Irish literature: from climate change to troubles tourism0
The silkworms of Eugenides and Derrida0
Dissection Nation0
Cuts0
Getting to Good Friday: literature and the peace process in Northern Ireland0
To decompose the gender possibilities of the contemporary sestina: queer formalism reimagined through a poetic fixed form0
Reading utopias now0
‘Glimpses of Arcadia’: queer spectralities in Shola von Reinhold’s Lote0
3 x Shapes of Home – a topographical moving image experiment0
The permeable reader: queer metalepsis and the novels of Barbara Trapido0
Psychoanaliterature, or, how the American relational move made Are You My Mother? and The Argonauts0
Material in its fashion: Proust’s Fortunys and the pleats of time*0
Fourwalkers, taildanglers, headhangers: labouring animals in Ulysses0
‘Toward the evening of a gone world’: on forgetting Hugh Kenner0
‘Mike, Bob, Bill, Jim, Thom’: queer communal life and poetic form in Thom Gunn’s ‘Jack Straw’s Castle’0
‘Like a bee’s sting or a bullet’: eroticism, violence and the afterlives of colonial romance in Medbh McGuckian’s The Flower Master and Other Poems (1993)0
Manuscript canonicity0
Laura Marcus and the train to Freud0
Deleuze, subjectivity, and literature as life0
Pregnancy, silence, and cinematic apocalypse in debbie tucker green’s second coming (2015) and ear for eye (2018/2021)0
‘Exploiting magnificence’: Hart Crane versus T. S. Eliot on the matter of diction0
Poetics of liveliness: molecules, fibers, tissues, clouds0
For Laura0
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger: Mark Twain’s critique of progressive era meritocracy0
‘The most elemental process’: Sunshine as solar melodrama0
I can scrawl and I can crawl: drawing towards New Narrative0
Creaturely forms in contemporary literature: narrating the war against animals0
Eating and cooking beyond the borders in Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities0
The Comic turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?0
Grasping extinction: the natural history museum as haptic space in the work of Clarke, Robinson and Jamie0
‘Melville knew the score’: ‘Benito Cereno’ as an index of Black Atlantic globality0
The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI0
Whimsical criticism0
A horizon line: flat style in contemporary women’s poetry0
Archival geometries: virtual pasts and subaltern futures in Caribbean digital art0
A conversation with Robert Glück0
Touching the screen: on visual textuality and knowledge construction in Anne Carson’s poetry0
Footnotes0
Pluralism, poetry, and literacy0
Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism0
Bruce Boone Dismembered: Poems, Stories, and Essays0
Chinese modernist satire: Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son (1929), Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged (1947), and Eileen Chang’s Lege0
Melville’s gravity: necessity, art, democracy0
In light of myth: photography as truth in Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida0
Resourceful melodrama: carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Dymphna Cusack’s Southern Steel (1953)0
Gertrude Stein’s radio audience0
Elsewhere: Laura Marcus and autobiography0
Fragmentary modernism: the classical fragment in literary and visual cultures, c.1896 – c.19360
Hotel-daddy-wasp-machine0
Time against the sovereign power: the interregnum in Stuart Brisley’s performance art0
Touching toward the (un)known: working collaboratively with bodies and technologies0
When wasn't modernism? Reflections on the stone age0
Introduction: futures of literary studies0
Sense in translation: essays on the bilingual body0
A Problem of Middlebrow Style: Dialect and Translation in Elena Ferrante’s Naples Tetralogy0
‘Perfectly, perfectly funny’?: laughing with the internet in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This0
Consciousness and the nonhuman: the imaginary of the new brain sciences in Ian McEwan’s Nutshell and Machines Like Me0
Tribute to Laura Marcus0
Time, mourning, and pedagogy in DEVS0
Reimagining Shakespeare’s The Tempest in its afterlife: a study of cuts, revisions, and potential sources0
Zadie Smith’s Nonhuman turns0
Beckett and politics. New directions in Irish and Irish American literature0
Toni Morrison and the writing of place0
Haptic poetics and community (re)building in Swinburne’s The Flogging Block0
Baldwin as phonographer0
W.S. Graham’s blanks0
‘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
A love that kills: The Idiot0
Utopia against the welfare state: rethinking utopia in an age of reproductive crises0
New Narrative now: a collective interview0
The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro0
Snow globes and instant coffee: transparent commodities and the global infrastructures of late capitalism in contemporary fiction0
Going through the motions: natural science and movement in Samuel Beckett's trilogy0
Alternative avatars of the plagiarist, or, an embarrassment of glitches0
Modernism living on: periodisation and polarisation0
‘Making Bataille our own’: the paradoxes of New Narrative’s appropriation of Bataille0
Feminist refusal from Jacob’s Room to the climate protest: Bonnie Honig, Virginia Woolf and Greta Thunberg0
‘The great unequivocal International Gestures’: Benjaminian Gestus in Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man0
Rethinking the discourse of ‘marginality’ in English literary studies and the social sciences: M. NourbeSe Philip’s ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’0
Huge urgency and consummate skill: an interview with Jim Pennington0
Towards a counterfactual criticism: alternate history and the study of English Literature0
Selection from Brightwork0
Style interminable: the auto-fictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner0
An intercultural dialogue: the Buddha, Schopenhauer and Beckett. Angela Moorjani in Colloquy with Asijit Datta0
Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans : images of twenty-first century Occident in Arab eyes0
Post-digital book cultures: Australian perspectives0
Drone fiction, empathy gap and the reader: Mohsin Hamid’s short story Terminator: Attack of the Drone (2011)0
‘The dreadful done’: Henry James’s style of abstraction0
Expanding to bulk: scale and the challenge of posthuman ethics in Moby-Dick0
Phillis Wheatley Peters’ fugitive poetics of freedom0
Correction0
Death’s architrave: the poems and paintings of Prunella Clough0
Writing the Liberal City: literature and the contested experience of economic change. Bogotá 1849–18700
‘Scripted fantasies’: writing the twenty-first century0
Tennessee Williams’ escapology and the heterotopia of ‘The Mysteries of the Joy Rio’0
Ezra Pound’s drafts for the translation of Confucius’ ShijingThe Book of Odes0
‘I must calculate over again’: measures of pain in Melville0
Nick Makoha’s – a low pressure system0
‘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
THE SPIRIT LIVES! An interview with Douglas Blazek0
Insect or affect? John Ashbery's ‘Daffy Duck in Hollywood’, the dramatic monologue, and lyric theory0
Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child: A Critical Theory Approach0
movement0
Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel 0
Reading McLuhan reading (and not reading)0
Photomimesis and the anti-aesthetic0
Private screenings: Ingmar Bergman's ‘Cries and Whispers’ and cinematic fiction0
Visceral goosebumps: on White-Jacket’s minor resistance0
Translated memories: autobiography and the surrender to literature0
‘Our poison’d chalice to our own lips’: toxic masculinity and tyranny in Macbeth0
‘As good as a chorus’: Hamlet’s Mousetrap in philosophy and psychoanalysis0
Revisionist nostalgia: John Banville, Angela Carter, and the circus0
A case for religious criticism0
‘The outside after all must be right there beside me’: Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond and post-critical perspective0
Modernism, forgetting, and the book of the heart0
Afterword: how we argue0
Subaltern discomfort: a phenomenology of the air-conditioner in the age of climate (in)justice0
An archive of modern medical culture: the critique of turn-of-the-century medical discourses in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives0
‘It envelops’: elementality and form in nineteenth-century Scottish melodrama0
Cliché and repetition: McLuhan understanding modernism0
An ecoGothic reading of Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown’ and ‘Roger Malvin’s Burial’0
Wall woodpeckers project0
Filling in the gaps: early middle English, nationalist philology, and reparative codicology0
Stimming [live] pathologising [ifitfits] and restaged made, in a staged setting, repeat non – eye – contact – contact0
Macintosh revisited: posthumanism, critique, and close observing in Ulysses0
Critical revolutionaries: five critics who changed the way we read; The work of reading: literary criticism in the twenty-first century0
The early modern canon and the construction of women’s writing0
The lost shape of words: reading the post-literate condition in Ali Smith’s Like (1997)0
Introduction to James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100: still learning0
Editorial Note0
‘Counting fry under a waterfall’: the history, development, and current use of the Small Press Collections at University College London0
Max Porter’s ruderalism, or what nature is now0
This confused music0
Introduction: the new stylism0
‘Writing is expensive, and it takes a long time’: publishing as picaresque in Emma Healey’s Best Young Woman Job Book0
The impersonal forces of disease and death in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron0
‘Unfinished to perfection’: Geoffrey Hill, revision, and the poetics of stone0
Clown politics: history, populism, and tragic farce0
Laura’s living writing0
When worlds converge: geological ontologies and volcanic epistemologies in Colombian literature after the 1985 eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz0
‘ … pure existence, without sense … ’: Joan Copjec, Hitchcock’s Rebecca , and reading the real0
Insurgent imaginations: world literature and the periphery0
Keats’ Odes: A Lover’s Discourse0
Aesthetics of obscenity: the avant-garde text and underground impact of My Own Mag and Poetmeat0
‘They built a whole lot like that in the fifties and sixties’: Ishiguro and the ghosts of English institutions’0
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) as ‘crisis fiction’0
Constructing the human in the works of William Baldwin: coloniality, race, and animality0
‘Out of interest’: Klara and the Sun and the interests of fiction0
From Orientalism to neo-Orientalism: medial representations of Islam and the Muslim world0
Understanding ‘understanding music’ in Proust0
D. H. Lawrence’s queer flatness0
‘Someone lives in me’: how essayists enter our lives0
Watching readers reading0
The 2022 Ivan Juritz prize: Introduction0
Vineland Reread0
Literary form and historicised relationality: theorising the city as text in Teju Cole’s novels0
Ivan Juritz Prize 20200
Wrestling with Gerard Manley Hopkins0
The changing History of English Poetry 1774–1871: language, literature and Anglo-Saxon whiteness0
The beast and the sovereign in ‘Circe’: human and animal rights in Joyce studies0
‘How do you sleep at night knowing all this?’: climate breakdown, sleep, and extractive capitalism in contemporary literature and culture0
Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism0
Transculturality and the contingency of belonging0
Rhetorical fractures: poems, photos, power stations, gardens, glasshouses, ghosts and the essay0
Metonymic Brigid Brophy: failures In Transit0
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