Literature: Latest Papers

18

Aug

2026

The Elimination of Self as an Aesthetic Project in Rachel Cusk’s Outline and Olivia Laing’s Gold Open Access

Life Writing

17

Aug

2026

The tension between form and contingency: the ‘if–then–perhaps’ framework in Ian McEwan’s Lessons

Textual Practice

17

Aug

2026

Ah. Sounds of recognition in Isabel Waidner's Gaudy Bauble Gold Open Access

Textual Practice

17

Aug

2026

White ants and mining: reading degrowth in South Africa

Textual Practice

17

Aug

2026

‘Like that of a crab, backward’: the resistant role of poetry in climate debates Gold Open Access

Textual Practice

17

Aug

2026

Maupassant: A Possible Source for Joyce’s “The Dead“

Anq-A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews

16

Aug

2026

Environmental Preservation and the Grey Cliffs Conflict: Negotiating Common Narratives, Values, and Ethos

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

15

Aug

2026

JADE ELIZABETH FRENCH. Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D

Review of English Studies

15

Aug

2026

‘A Delightfully Audacious Thought’: Robert Browning and Michael Field’s Long Ago

Notes and Queries

15

Aug

2026

A Place-Name in Swetnam, the Woman-Hater, Arraigned by Women (1620) Gold Open Access

Notes and Queries

15

Aug

2026

Equivalence as a Historical Contingency: The Case of Bowra and His Translation of Chinese Buddhist Concepts in Hongloumeng

Forum for Modern Language Studies

15

Aug

2026

Levels of memory in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being

Explicator

15

Aug

2026

“A Bushman Story:” An Opaque Reference to Eugène Marais’s Dwaalstories in Eben Venter’s De Gold Open Access

Explicator

15

Aug

2026

Wallace Stevens’ “The Prejudice against the Past”: Poet and Pedant

Explicator

15

Aug

2026

‘[S]uburban indigenous’: Ivan Vladislavić’s The Near North and ‘the World’s Largest Man-Made Forest’ Gold Open Access

English Studies in Africa

15

Aug

2026

Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel: From Platform to Plot via the Railroad

English Studies

15

Aug

2026

Rivers as Transnational Archives: Trauma, Ecology, and Narrative Form in Elif Shafak’s There are Rivers in the Sky

Critique-Studies in Contemporary Fiction

13

Aug

2026

Geographies of affect: Loneliness, debility, and witnessing in Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

12

Aug

2026

Group Portrait with Pazit: Life Writing in Yael Neeman’s Once There Was a Woman Gold Open Access

Life Writing

12

Aug

2026

Writing the Exiled, Gendered, Queer Self in Nina Bouraoui’s Tous les hommes désirent naturellement savoir Gold Open Access

Life Writing

12

Aug

2026

Queer Thanatography: Joe Orton’s Death and Afterlife Gold Open Access

Life Writing

12

Aug

2026

Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks and the cabinet of curiosity: rethinking legacies of early modern collecting and the nineteenth-century museum Gold Open Access

European Journal of English Studies

12

Aug

2026

Speaking the Bomb into Existence, Again: Re-membering Mā’ohi Histories in Nu/clear Stories and Gold Open Access

ISLE-Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

12

Aug

2026

“Unnerving to Hear this Ice Break”: Landscape and Change in Peter Maxwell Davies’s Antarctic Symphony Gold Open Access

ISLE-Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

11

Aug

2026

The unthinkable end of growth: family time in Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting Gold Open Access

Textual Practice

11

Aug

2026

(Re)Negotiating the world. Autistic being in the world in Nathalie Ruejas Jonson’s Låtsasheten Och Hannah Emer Gold Open Access

Textual Practice

11

Aug

2026

‘The breath of past ideas’: state-Keynesianism, hauntology and growth in Andrew O’Hagan’s Our Fathers

Textual Practice

11

Aug

2026

Cause and effect ceased to have meaning: genres of the metabolic rift

Textual Practice

11

Aug

2026

Modernist Chinoiserie: Archival Sources and Cultural Imagination in Lytton Strachey’s A Son of Heaven

Anq-A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews

11

Aug

2026

Before and after Artificial Intelligence: Experiments and Reflections on Translating an Italian Short Story by Francesco Vettori Gold Open Access

Translation Review

10

Aug

2026

Listening to Beauty: Rhetorics of Science in Sea and Sound

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

10

Aug

2026

Ecological Feelings: A Rhetorical Compendium

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

10

Aug

2026

Olfactory Rhetoric: Sniffing Out Environmental Problems

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

10

Aug

2026

Self‐reflexivity, intertextuality and historicity: A metamodernist reading of Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's Grand Hotel Europa

Orbis Litterarum

10

Aug

2026

Retrospective structure and self‐reckoning: Mo Yan's The Crocodile and Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman in comparative perspective

Orbis Litterarum

10

Aug

2026

Teaching Holocaust Memory Without Mastery: Indirect Witnessing as a Pedagogical Design Principle in Children’s and Youth Holocaust Narratives

Childrens Literature in Education

10

Aug

2026

The Tapestry of Care in Good Night, Mr. Tom: Reciprocity, Remembrance, and Resilience Gold Open Access

Childrens Literature in Education

10

Aug

2026

A corpus-based and collostructional approach to the [V the N taboo-term

Studia Neophilologica

10

Aug

2026

Christian R. Gelder. The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present

Review of English Studies

10

Aug

2026

Angus Vine. Early Modern Merchants and Their Books

Review of English Studies

10

Aug

2026

Beci Carver. Modernism’s Whims

Review of English Studies

10

Aug

2026

Erica Weaver. The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

Review of English Studies

10

Aug

2026

William Rhodes. The Work of Reform: Literature and Political Ecology From Langland to Spenser

Review of English Studies