Textual Practice

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Decolonizing the English literary curriculum8
‘Without too much anxiety’: re-reading Cage and Feldman through Gertrude Stein’s theatre poetics7
Caring about lyricality7
How does the novel create life? Thinking the impossible in Elizabeth Costello5
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: thinking with spirits Engagements with Aimé Césaire: thinking with spirits , by Jason Allen-Paisant, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 20245
Staging the state of exception: William le Queux and the campaign for emergency powers in Britain 1906–19144
Oceans, hormones and female flow in Twelfth Night4
New voices in an old form: rethinking the earliest Chinese translations of ‘The Isles of Greece’4
Genet’s dying words4
Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege , by Adam Parkes, Oxford, Oxford University Pre4
The notion of criticism at the present time: from postcriticism to an ethics of reading well4
From Palibino to Riviera: narrative rhythmanalysis of Sofia Kovalevskaya’s literary writings4
An atelic model for the textual limen4
‘Mystery of the self’: embodied personhood and artificial intelligence in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me3
The master as parasite in modern literature3
Stage directions as endotext: the psychological and socio-historical messages in the stage directions of Cao Yu and Lao She3
Editing Laura3
Spectres of the district commissioner: the negotiation of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in contemporary African historical fiction2
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’Connor2
Metaphor, subjectivity and self-knowledge in Edward St. Aubyn’s novels2
Antonin Artaud and the healing practices of language: how life matters in Artaud’s later writings2
Bloom’s Freud and Bloom’s anxiety2
Queering history: palimpsestuous bodies and their stories in Zen Cho’s The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water2
Telepathy terminable and interminable2
Surviving marriage narratively. Storytelling through women's friendships in Mary McCarthy's The Group (1963) and its adaptation by Lara Feigel (2020)2
Close reading in crisis times2
Tediousness in Coryats Crudities (1611): early modern travel writing, rhetoric, and notions of canonicity2
The actor-network in Herman Melville’s ‘The Apple-Tree Table’2
Limitation as excess: A reappraisal of transgressive aesthetics in Amanda Filipacchi's Love Creeps2
Inhabiting the impasse: on care and ambivalence in Lisa Baraitser’s Enduring Time and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts1
Listening as influence1
Playing with fire: unhousing and unsettlement at the antebellum hearthside1
Through Sun Tunnels : radical subjectivity and the radiant drive1
‘Perfectly, perfectly funny’?: laughing with the internet in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This1
In light of myth: photography as truth in Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida1
The translator’s task: influence beyond the monolingual paradigm1
‘Sweet Mephistopheles, tell me’: desire between the scholar and the devil in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus1
Huge urgency and consummate skill: an interview with Jim Pennington1
Literary form and historicised relationality: theorising the city as text in Teju Cole’s novels1
Crisis and critique in Christine Smallwood’s The Life of the Mind (2021)1
Imaginarium politicum1
Network(ed) confession: disidentification, digitality, and the politics of self-representation in the work of Kathy Acker and Joanna Walsh1
Out of the blue: Prynne’s gifts1
Monuments, unreal spaces and national forgetting: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant and the abyss of memory1
Affect, precarity, unhousing: reading trends in twenty-first-century US literature1
Poundian influences and misty poetics in Yang Lian’s concentric circles1
The empire’s double bind: Kazuo Ishiguro and the Imperial Rescript on Education1
To body or not to body?: Gender performativity and posthumanism in the actor-network of Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein1
‘Someone lives in me’: how essayists enter our lives1
Beckett and politics. New directions in Irish and Irish American literature1
Elsewhere: Laura Marcus and autobiography1
Alternative avatars of the plagiarist, or, an embarrassment of glitches1
Tennessee Williams’ escapology and the heterotopia of ‘The Mysteries of the Joy Rio’1
When worlds converge: geological ontologies and volcanic epistemologies in Colombian literature after the 1985 eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz1
Mind reading?1
Via literary mothers: Kathleen Fraser and the ‘permission-giving’ moment of ‘projective verse’1
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life1
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
On poetry and the crowd: lyric and locodescription1
Getting to Good Friday: literature and the peace process in Northern Ireland1
Writing (with) the body: the case of Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch1
Writing the Liberal City: literature and the contested experience of economic change. Bogotá 1849–18701
W.S. Graham’s blanks1
An archive of modern medical culture: the critique of turn-of-the-century medical discourses in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives1
Creaturely forms in contemporary literature: narrating the war against animals1
Resourceful melodrama: carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Dymphna Cusack’s Southern Steel (1953)1
Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child: A Critical Theory Approach1
Ivan Juritz Prize 20211
Deconstructing hegemony: contemporary Middle East literature, theory, and historiography1
Public criticism0
Veering and tunnelling0
Dissection Nation0
Insurgent imaginations: world literature and the periphery0
‘Toward the evening of a gone world’: on forgetting Hugh Kenner0
‘Think of the Iliad’: mid-century language research (inc.)0
Reflections on sublation0
Literary multilingualism: exploring latent practices0
Anxiety again0
Slow comics: resource extraction in graphic narrative0
The art of imitation and the desire for violence: the rebirth of Homo Mimeticus0
Roland Barthes writing the political: history, dialectics, self0
Literature and Class, from the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution0
Phillis Wheatley Peters’ fugitive poetics of freedom0
Incredible speech0
Philosophy’s ghosts: Nicholas Royle, Naji al-Ali, and Me0
‘ … pure existence, without sense … ’: Joan Copjec, Hitchcock’s Rebecca , and reading the real0
Scaling up the Capitalocene: paratexts, storyworld, and climate change in New York 21400
Materiality and the canon: manuscripts, fragments, and medieval outlaw literature0
Modernism, forgetting, and the book of the heart0
Royle reading0
Haptic poetics and community (re)building in Swinburne’s The Flogging Block0
Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism0
How to see what has been done with words0
Do Shakespeare’s characters mean what they say?0
Music and interspecies equality in George Orwell’s Animal Farm0
Ezra Pound’s drafts for the translation of Confucius’ ShijingThe Book of Odes0
Gertrude Stein’s radio audience0
Ian Watt, Hau Kiou Choaan and the Rises of the Novel0
Philology at the end of history: Erich Auerbach and the standardisation of cultures0
Constructing the human in the works of William Baldwin: coloniality, race, and animality0
Snow globes and instant coffee: transparent commodities and the global infrastructures of late capitalism in contemporary fiction0
In praise of failure: four lessons in humility0
The ‘wonder’ in the handkerchief0
Constraint and corporeality: reading Brooke-Rose and Garréta’s gendered experiments0
Thinking destructively with aesthetics0
Of lyric proportions: poetry and the genres of climate-change communications0
The lost shape of words: reading the post-literate condition in Ali Smith’s Like (1997)0
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
Radical openness against African American Houses of Law: Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills and the rhetoric of decline0
Towards a poetics of the pipelines: an infrastructural analysis of the figure of the pipeline in Iranian petrofiction0
Introduction0
Aesthetics of the fucked0
An intercultural dialogue: the Buddha, Schopenhauer and Beckett. Angela Moorjani in Colloquy with Asijit Datta0
Revisiting dialogue, revisiting Daniel Deronda0
Understanding ‘understanding music’ in Proust0
This confused music0
Transculturality and the contingency of belonging0
Dickinson’s felicity0
Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe0
Empathy, curiosity, and critique: an AI-assisted mapping of non-academic reception of Asian American literature0
Post literacy0
Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism0
Anonymity, canonicity, and literary value0
Photomimesis and the anti-aesthetic0
If you could read my mind …0
Reimagining Shakespeare’s The Tempest in its afterlife: a study of cuts, revisions, and potential sources0
Border-crossing Japanese literature: reading multiplicity0
Reimagining postcolonial Sri Lanka as ‘Ceylon’: Shyam Selvadurai’s Cinnamon Gardens0
Deleuze, subjectivity, and literature as life0
When wasn't modernism? Reflections on the stone age0
A case for religious criticism0
Performing the poetics of the Iranian dream on silver screen: Hamoun as a tale of spiritual rebirth0
‘THIS IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT’: advertising poetics in Yugen0
Bringing the dead back to life: Marx, Muriel Rukeyser, and the work of documentary0
Love in the sacrifice zone: queer ecopoetics in the Appalachian Mountains0
Rethinking the discourse of ‘marginality’ in English literary studies and the social sciences: M. NourbeSe Philip’s ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’0
Past forms, present concerns: reading transhistorically for feminised labour0
‘Speculative Fiction: What Nicholas Royle will have written in David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine , which I haven’t read’0
Touching the screen: on visual textuality and knowledge construction in Anne Carson’s poetry0
Failure as/in the queer bildungsroman0
Translated memories: autobiography and the surrender to literature0
Outlived by a lesser shamelessness : the inscrutable subject and sensuality before the Law in Augustine, Dostoevsky and Kafka0
Introduction: beyond the sacrifice zone0
The other vow: affirmative Denial in Kafka, Shakespeare and Kol Nidrei0
Monkeying around with fact and fiction: radical epistemology and reactionary metaphysics in the work of R.A. Lafferty0
Son et lumière in Proust0
Dis/placed: veerer – where , and when , are you? (asides)0
‘Our idea of distortion’: misprision between Bloom and Ashbery0
Winner for text0
Deleuze, Palestine, and Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun0
Wall woodpeckers project0
Smiles are made of tears0
‘It envelops’: elementality and form in nineteenth-century Scottish melodrama0
‘Counting fry under a waterfall’: the history, development, and current use of the Small Press Collections at University College London0
Language games: the gendered politics of the speech act in Ben Lerner's The Topeka School0
Nick Makoha’s – a low pressure system0
Baldwin as phonographer0
The idealist Austen0
A singing bird inside the human mind: a posthumanist rereading of Wallace Stevens0
‘What is toast?’ Language and society in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake0
At home in a racist universe: weird phenomenology and cosmic alterity in H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Dunwich Horror’0
Laura’s living writing0
THE SPIRIT LIVES! An interview with Douglas Blazek0
Breaking down in fits and starts: navigating a good naturalisation of J. H. Prynne’s ‘Blue Slides at Rest’ (2004)0
On the reading mind: what you will already have known I was about to say now anyway0
Following Laura Marcus: from autobiography to testimony0
Commemoration, modernism and self-identity in contemporary graphic memoir0
Media and environment in elemental melodrama: afterword0
Helen Keller’s ‘Sense of light’: life-writing, light-writing and the photosynthetic subject0
Climate engineering in The Ministry for the Future and Termination Shock0
An exercise in analysis as enjoyment0
The nonhuman and coming community in the selected works of Olga Tokarczuk0
The early reception of the Sun Machine0
Unhousing and unhoming: the politics of space in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do0
Critique du récit pur : gleam of time in Maurice Blanchot’s narratives0
Rendered obsolete: energy culture and the afterlife of U.S. whaling0
The near future in twenty-first-century fiction: climate, retreat and revolution0
From Orientalism to neo-Orientalism: medial representations of Islam and the Muslim world0
The catastrophe of the face: ethics, deconstruction, plasticity0
The minor poet: a case of John Wieners0
Toni Morrison and the writing of place0
‘On it, in it, what you will’ – Reading Nicholas Royle’s Quilt0
For Laura0
Poetry or politics? On Jacques-Alain Miller’s Effort of Poetry after Lacan0
‘Little magazines were the only option’: an interview with Tina Morris0
Knick-knacks or Nick’s wits0
Cyril Connolly, late modernism and the essay form0
To decompose the gender possibilities of the contemporary sestina: queer formalism reimagined through a poetic fixed form0
Introduction: origins, obsolescence and a new timeliness0
Autofiction and the possibility of life in neoliberal ruins: reification, friction and the affective dominant in Weijers and Heti0
‘The Ralahine way’: the rural commune in the writings of Irish radical W.P. Ryan0
Insect or affect? John Ashbery's ‘Daffy Duck in Hollywood’, the dramatic monologue, and lyric theory0
The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI0
The significance of Osip Mandelstam for Paul Celan0
The satire of the meritocracy: foreclosed futures in Michael Young, Raymond Williams, and Muriel Spark0
Beyond the door, behind the veil: Brian Catling and the Weird/Visionary tradition0
Psychoanaliterature, or, how the American relational move made Are You My Mother? and The Argonauts0
Poet of the medieval modern: reading the early modern library with David Jones; David Jones and Rome: reimagining the decline of Western civilisation0
Fragmentary modernism: the classical fragment in literary and visual cultures, c.1896 – c.19360
‘The problem of other minds’: disappropriation and the limits of polyphony in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School0
Gold, cocaine, montage: Latin American sacrifice zones in Michael Taussig’s My Cocaine Museum0
Introduction: confronting medieval and early modern canons0
Feminist refusal from Jacob’s Room to the climate protest: Bonnie Honig, Virginia Woolf and Greta Thunberg0
Virginia Woolf’s ‘ontology of style’: Mrs. Brown, The Waves , and the ethics of character*0
Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans : images of twenty-first century Occident in Arab eyes0
The infinite unleashed: Benjamin revisited in the context of the mechanical philosophy0
Poetic transcribbling: Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff’s Yo-Yo’s with Money and Beaned in Boston0
The chaff and the wheat: Emily Dickinson and Maurice Blanchot0
Oxford Freud: autofictions and reflections0
Anthropomorphism in Professional Crocodile and Agamben’s ‘man-animal’0
Reading lovecraft in the Anthropocene: a new dark age0
Aesthetics of obscenity: the avant-garde text and underground impact of My Own Mag and Poetmeat0
The scientific lab: sacrifice zones as contact zones0
Chinese modernist satire: Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son (1929), Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged (1947), and Eileen Chang’s Lege0
Towards a counterfactual criticism: alternate history and the study of English Literature0
The work of literary studies: interpretation, argument, and socioaesthetic experience0
Assessing intelligence: the Bildungsroman and the politics of human potential in England, 1860–19100
The changing History of English Poetry 1774–1871: language, literature and Anglo-Saxon whiteness0
Inimitability0
Filling in the gaps: early middle English, nationalist philology, and reparative codicology0
Nabokov’s secret trees0
The 2022 Ivan Juritz prize: Introduction0
Laura’s Virginia Woolf – a note0
Under the net: universal time, modernism, and the subversive temporality of golden age detective fiction0
Time against the sovereign power: the interregnum in Stuart Brisley’s performance art0
‘Our poison’d chalice to our own lips’: toxic masculinity and tyranny in Macbeth0
Weird luck0
Tribute to Laura Marcus0
‘ … Miles of the rustling secret corn’: nature, cosmic and autonomy in American cosmic horror literature0
Defamiliarisation, invisible characters, and laboured connections0
Stimming [live] pathologising [ifitfits] and restaged made, in a staged setting, repeat non – eye – contact – contact0
Uncanny reminiscing: Nicholas Royle in conversation with Adrien Ordonneau0
Breach and suture in China Miéville’s interstitial cities0
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-atmospheric0
Migrancy and utopia: the global network in Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Hamid’s Exit West0
Glossectomy and lyric histories in Sujata Bhatt’s poetry0
Fire escapes: queer unhousing in Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, and Ocean Vuong0
Hollow children: utopianism and disability justice0
Severed heads in Iraqi diasporic visual production: Aleiby, Baldin and Alsoudani0
Disburdening the house, liberating the self: narratives of domestic discomfort and unhousing in Henry James’ late short fiction0
Footnotes0
Beyond trauma: provisional networks and eccentric forms in fiction of the blitz0
Death in flight0
Apropos of something: a history of irrelevance and relevance0
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
Somewhere else in the market: an essay on the poetry of J.H. Prynne0
Eating and cooking beyond the borders in Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities0
Revisiting Pascale Casanova’s world literary space0
The T.S. Eliot problem0
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