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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
On Decolonisation and the University57
What do we talk about when we talk about extractivism?33
Measures of obliviousness and disarming obliqueness in Anna Burns’ Milkman5
The political novel in our still-evolving reality: Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and the Shamima Begum case5
On not being able to read: doomscrolling and anxiety in pandemic times5
Difficult literature on Goodreads: reading Alexis Wright's The Swan Book4
Introduction3
The poetics of extractivism and the politics of visibility3
‘Here is my shameful confession. I don’t really “get” poetry’: discerning reader types in responses to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel on Goodreads3
‘Out of interest’: Klara and the Sun and the interests of fiction3
Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and the International Booker Prize: reading with and against world literary prestige3
Monuments, unreal spaces and national forgetting: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant and the abyss of memory3
The extractive form of contemporary Black writing: Dionne Brand and Yaa Gyasi3
From the museum of civilisation to The Octopus Museum: curating the anthropocene in contemporary literature2
Hotel-daddy-wasp-machine2
The implicated subject: beyond victims and perpetrators2
This is not an oil novel: obstacles to reading petronarratives in high-energy cultures2
Extrospection: Zen and the art of being posthuman in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being2
An ecoGothic reading of Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown’ and ‘Roger Malvin’s Burial’2
‘Teachings of the death of thought’: Bataille, Beckett, and ‘anhumanism’2
Literary multilingualism: exploring latent practices2
Why the Bildungsroman no longer works2
Arborealism, or do novels do trees?2
Consciousness and the nonhuman: the imaginary of the new brain sciences in Ian McEwan’s Nutshell and Machines Like Me2
Drone fiction, empathy gap and the reader: Mohsin Hamid’s short story Terminator: Attack of the Drone (2011)2
Processes of translation: Bruno Latour’s heterodox semiotics2
‘Come here, it sang, listen’: Juliana Spahr’s commons poetics in That Winter the Wolf Came2
Metamodernism and counterpublics: politics, aesthetics, and porosity in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet2
Felskian Phenomenopolitics: decolonial reading through postcritical singularities2
‘Exploiting magnificence’: Hart Crane versus T. S. Eliot on the matter of diction1
‘It is, that’s all.’: J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K (1983) and the cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet1
Gazing beyond the fourth wall: shame and second-person narration in Fleabag1
Don DeLillo’s cinematic imaginary: from A(mericana) to Z(ero K)1
Capture: American pursuits and the making of the new animal condition1
Reading McLuhan reading (and not reading)1
Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe1
‘ … pure existence, without sense … ’: Joan Copjec, Hitchcock’s Rebecca, and reading the real1
Inscriptions of worldliness: linguistic materiality and the poetics of the vernacular1
Meathead materialisms: César Aira’s ANTsy fictions of a world without conviction1
‘They built a whole lot like that in the fifties and sixties’: Ishiguro and the ghosts of English institutions’1
‘The sad aperture of the dead’: Colson Whitehead’s Zone One and the anti-blackness of the book as an object1
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) as ‘crisis fiction’1
Those scary migrants: feanxiety and Brexit in Agnieszka Dale’s Fox Season and Other Short Stories1
The work of love: Great Expectations and the English Bildungsroman1
Kinship ecology and the bildungsroman: the child–animal relationship in Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House series1
Reading Ong reading McLuhan1
Becoming in a colonial world: approaching subjectivity with Fanon1
Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel 1
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
Translanguaging Joyce: monolingual disruptions and translingual enrichment in Ulysses1
The legacy of literary reflexivity; or, the benefits of doubt1
What can the romantic lyric do?1
‘Bansai, bansai, it’s better to write then die’: Patti Smith as icon of the contemporary writing memoir1
Black comedy and the Bildungsroman: Fran Ross’s Oreo1
The fog of tyranny in ‘Benito Cereno’1
Are some more equal than others? Animated and animatronic adaptations of Animal Farm1
Library fever: lesbian memoir and the sexual politics of order1
The empire’s double bind: Kazuo Ishiguro and the Imperial Rescript on Education1
Sexual disorientation: queer narratology and affect plots in new narrative1
Seamus Eile (The 'Other' Seamus)1
Multilingual style1
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger: Mark Twain’s critique of progressive era meritocracy1
As plain as spilt salt: the city as social structure in The Dispossessed1
Building the ‘houses of fiction’: textual spaces and architectural imagination in Eliza Meteyard’s Mainstone’s Housekeeper1
Helga Crane’s camera obscura: Nella Larsen, Garbo’s face, and the modernist longing for plot1
Fixing to die: Kazuo Ishiguro’s reinvention of the Bildungsroman1
‘At each remove the similarity fades a bit more’: queer politics and experimental prose in two generations of New Narrative1
‘I must calculate over again’: measures of pain in Melville1
Oil Cultures, World drama and contemporaneity: questions of time, space and form in Ella Hickson’s Oil1
Aesthetics of the fucked1
On inner voice, free indirect style, and lyric1
Anticipating the plot: overdetermining heteronormative destiny on the twenty-first century screen1
Reading Lionel Fogarty1
Juan Filloy’s Caterva and the geopolitics of the Joycean novel in Argentina1
Gertrude Stein’s radio audience1
Constructing the human in the works of William Baldwin: coloniality, race, and animality1
Hollow children: utopianism and disability justice1
An insectual perspective: text, theory, and politics in Tom McCarthy’s fiction – a conversation1
Severed heads in Iraqi diasporic visual production: Aleiby, Baldin and Alsoudani1
Expanding to bulk: scale and the challenge of posthuman ethics in Moby-Dick1
Tennis as literary technique1
Brexitland’s dark ecologies: new British landscape writing1
‘Grow backwarder and backwarder’: fissured surfaces and crooked bodies in Frances Burney’s Camilla1
Battle for the Bildungsroman: ‘protagonicity’ and national allegory1
Kenneth Lonergan’s networked Bildungsromane: Howards End (2017) and Margaret (2011)1
Lyric weathering: reading poetry in the age of bewilderment1
Public criticism1
Beautiful aliens: a Steve Abbott reader0
Eroticism as the body without organs in Dennis Cooper’s Frisk: grand narratives, desire, and infinity0
Following Laura Marcus: from autobiography to testimony0
The wanderer in the supermarket: an examination of consumer culture in Cold War America0
Antonin Artaud and the healing practices of language: how life matters in Artaud’s later writings0
‘Lovescape crucified’: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s red letter and ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’0
Of squalls and mutinies: emergency politics and black democracy in Moby-Dick and ‘The Heroic Slave’0
Materiality and the canon: manuscripts, fragments, and medieval outlaw literature0
Ad Salutem Publicam: public health and pastoral government in More’s Utopia0
Challenging positions: agency and expectations in testimonial writing about genocide in Rwanda and war in Bosnia and Herzegovina0
Afterword (A hundred flowers)0
Homi Bhabha and ‘Signs Taken for Wonders’: a second reading0
Theorising the collective in British estate literature0
Suicide Century: literature and suicide from James Joyce to David Foster WallaceSuicide Century: literature and suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace, by Andrew Bennett, Cambridge Universit0
Thinking the contemporary: beyond distinctiveness in the literary humanities0
A virtual tour of a virtuous place0
‘There; keep thy finger on it’: the prosthetics of measurement in Moby-Dick0
Creative and non-fiction writing during isolation and confinement: imaginative travel, prison, shipwrecks, pandemics, and war0
‘ … Miles of the rustling secret corn’: nature, cosmic and autonomy in American cosmic horror literature0
Death by capitalism in Eliot’s The Waste Land0
Imagining Marshall McLuhan as a digital reader: an experiment in applied Joyce0
The typewriter mind: modernism, populism and anti-humanism0
The reversed monomyth in a queer Russian web series0
Performing the poetics of the Iranian dream on silver screen: Hamoun as a tale of spiritual rebirth0
Making sense of the rural white working class: the contemporary novel of rural retreat and the politics of resentment0
The role of plants in Jon Silkin’s Holocaust memorial poems0
Phronesis: shifting the concept of the political in the environmental humanities0
Speaking practice0
Thomas Merton: Catholic modernist?0
Liberation and the historical present: Gertrude Stein @ Zero Hour0
Caring about lyricality0
‘A poor and precious secret’: cinema’s remediation in Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder0
‘Imbecile hopes’: dispositions of subjectivation in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and Nostromo0
Reading bodies, books, and beyond: experience and contingency in Troilus and Criseyde*0
Editing Laura0
Actors, puppets, Girls: Little Women and the collective Bildungsroman0
Native daughters, evil empires, Blazing Worlds: Margaret Cavendish's imperialism0
British romanticism and peace0
‘Common people to talk of Mr. Dombey and his domestic affairs!’: the politics of gossip in Dombey and Son0
Ghosts in the urban sacrifice zone: (De)colonial relationality in Global North imaginaries0
Sport, life, This Sporting Life, and the hypertopia0
Migrancy and utopia: the global network in Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Hamid’s Exit West0
Dodie Bellamy is on our mind0
‘What is toast?’ Language and society in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake0
Catworld0
Shakespeare and the economics of the death penalty0
Aldous Huxley: the unstable self, consciousness and the ‘ground of being’0
Rocky v The Wrestler: sport as genre, shifting ideology, and the doubleness of the sports film0
Introduction: the irresolute language of images0
World, war, zoo: zoo-break narratives in a biopolitical frame0
If Not Critical, by Eric Griffiths/edited by Freya Johnston, and The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry, by Eric Griffiths0
Those who flee and those who see: Poussin’s drawing and withdrawing0
Compliant and impetuous: the phenomenology of existence in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels0
Suffering and the feeling of suffering in Marx's Capital0
A method of her own: tracing memory in Marion Milner's The Hands of the Living God0
Venus sans furs: wolves and women in three medieval poems0
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
The framing of selfless role-playing in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist0
Sketch for a financial theory of the poem0
The other vow: affirmative Denial in Kafka, Shakespeare and Kol Nidrei0
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 Dana0
Translational Authorship and Multilingual (Re)writing in Uljana Wolf and Sophie Seita's Subsisters: Selected Poems (2017)0
Tediousness in Coryats Crudities (1611): early modern travel writing, rhetoric, and notions of canonicity0
‘You are what you read’: beside a book, beside a self0
And be but cryonically extant: Don DeLillo and Sir Thomas Browne0
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life0
Prosthetic performatives: reading disability’s discomfort through emotives and affect patterns in Jane Eyre0
‘Here she comes by God! ram away Doctor if one Bolus won’t do put in three’ – the Queen Caroline affair in satirical prints0
Inscribed in code: depictions of computational algorithms in twenty-first century fiction0
The notion of criticism at the present time: from postcriticism to an ethics of reading well0
Magical realism and literature0
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’Connor0
Unbearable life: a genealogy of political erasure0
‘Deskless, commuteless, and theoretically omnipresent’: work, global violence, and capitalist realism in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad0
The uneasiness of emotion and its representations in Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers0
‘A 40 years works feels / 40 more 40 thousand’: Lionel Fogarty’s hauntological poetics and the archive0
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s In Praise of Shadows and critical transparency0
‘The measure! The measure!’0
The actor-network in Herman Melville’s ‘The Apple-Tree Table’0
Introduction: Gertrude Stein's theatre and the Radio Free Stein project0
Framing potentiality in Vona Groarke’s X0
Deconstructing Narrative, Deconstructing the death penalty. The case of Billy Budd, Sailor0
Gold, cocaine, montage: Latin American sacrifice zones in Michael Taussig’s My Cocaine Museum0
Narrating the (non)human: ecologies, consciousness and myth0
Coal optimism: carbon ideologies and the good lives of extraction0
Sex, lies, and architecture: Brutalism and the search for sexual truth in David Cronenberg’s Stereo0
Planetary utopianism: geoengineering, speculative fiction, and the planetary turn0
‘But I doubt not the people’: beasts of the apocalypse in Thomas Müntzer and King Lear0
Tactics of dwelling: alterity and the room in Tender Buttons0
About time: Rainer Maria Rilke and the abyssal distance of Duino Elegies0
Introduction: unoccupied air0
Metaphors of confinement: the prison in fact, fiction and fantasy0
Modernist futures: re-reading 19220
Limitation as excess: A reappraisal of transgressive aesthetics in Amanda Filipacchi's Love Creeps0
New voices in an old form: rethinking the earliest Chinese translations of ‘The Isles of Greece’0
Capitalist modernity and gendered subalternity in contemporary Muslim fiction: Saudi Women in Raja Alem’s Fatma: A Novel of Arabia (2002)0
Jewishness and postcoloniality in Borges and Derrida: the singular and the specific0
Doug Battersby, Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; Thom Dancer, Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University P0
‘A small, fierce being’: Jon Silkin, Isaac Rosenberg, and the definition of the Anglo-Jewish poet0
Unfulfilled vocations in contemporary American fiction0
Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States0
Destroying necessity with necessity – on László Krasznahorkai’s Satantango0
The new feminist literary studies0
Embroidering Palestine: Tatreez, cultural resistance, and female labour in Palestinian American graphic narratives0
New Narrative now0
The scientific lab: sacrifice zones as contact zones0
Community for the friendless0
‘A flicker of the divine progress?’: stage-managing narratives of Empire in Jan Morris's Pax Britannica trilogy0
Laura’s Virginia Woolf – a note0
‘Life as literature’: Wright Morris's Love Among the Cannibals0
Ivana Trump’s bad Bildung0
(In)visible writing in art and performance0
The master as parasite in modern literature0
‘With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye’: girlhood in crisis in Persepolis0
Imagination, our commune0
On strangers sleuthing and flâneurs reading. The subversive power of C. J. Sansom’s historical crime fiction0
The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction / The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction0
The nurse (5 min, video and sound)0
Composing what happened0
The forces of fossil capital: Sister Carrie and American literary naturalism’s industrial middle-class ideology0
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
Manufacturing crisis under globalisation: middle-class precarity in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King0
Bodies and technologies in Los cuerpos del verano0
Demon writing0
Under the net: universal time, modernism, and the subversive temporality of golden age detective fiction0
A: Account0
‘Good heavens! that’s where I got it!’ McLuhan reads Wyndham Lewis0
‘A stream of words’ – the Antwerp Quay Poem as interrogation of urban open form, polyphony and radical dialogue0
Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege , by Adam Parkes, Oxford, Oxford University Pre0
Wasting time? The politics and poetics of feminist waiting0
Assessing intelligence: the bildungsroman and the politics of human potential in England, 1860–19100
Genesis (what can’t light see?) retrospectively0
Prospective criticism: on private and public things0
Metaphor, subjectivity and self-knowledge in Edward St. Aubyn’s novels0
‘Without too much anxiety’: re-reading Cage and Feldman through Gertrude Stein’s theatre poetics0
‘The problem of other minds’: disappropriation and the limits of polyphony in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School0
Free Indirect: the novel in a postfictional age0
Beyond the silence of the voice: Leos Carax’s Annette and silent cinema0
Kazuo Ishiguro’s gestural poetics0
The dispositif of citizenship: technology and personhood in Iain M. Banks’s culture0
On the reprieve: deconstructive ethics and Primo Levi’s ‘Moments of Reprieve’0
Stage directions as endotext: the psychological and socio-historical messages in the stage directions of Cao Yu and Lao She0
Producing Historicity: Foucault, Joyce and European Art Cinema, 1955–19800
From Babel to biosemiotics: Christine Brooke-Rose's Joycean scripts0
‘The power to burnish and renew’: porno-accumulation, fascism, and surplus populations in Don DeLillo’s Running Dog0
Defamiliarisation, invisible characters, and laboured connections0
‘I am getting on nicely in the dark’: the environments of ‘Proteus’0
Polyphony, sonic texture and acoustic ecology in Cynan Jones’s Stillicide0
Warp0
Baldwin’s communicating cats0
‘Dripping venison memory’: the radical ekphrasis of Max Porter’s The Death of Francis Bacon0
Introduction: ‘Baldewins Straunge Faschions’0
Reflections on Biko’s meditations on death0
On the epistolary as a function of eros in Aidan Higgins’s Bornholm Night-Ferry0
Middle English Mouths: late medieval medical, religious, and literary traditions0
Hospitalities: Transitions and Transgressions, North and South0
Editing, directing, and The Cool World: filmmaking as a choreographic art0
Nègre, Figura0
A. S. Byatt and the quiddity of things: a material-semiotic approach to narrating the human through the non-human0
Science-fictionalizing the Partition of India to ‘re-narrate’ trauma0
Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture0
Commemoration, modernism and self-identity in contemporary graphic memoir0
What happens to thought in a cyborg body? On Brain ships, embodiment and posthuman gest0
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