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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Caring about lyricality103
Deconstructing Narrative, Deconstructing the death penalty. The case of Billy Budd, Sailor14
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: thinking with spirits Engagements with Aimé Césaire: thinking with spirits , by Jason Allen-Paisant, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 20246
The notion of criticism at the present time: from postcriticism to an ethics of reading well4
‘A 40 years works feels / 40 more 40 thousand’: Lionel Fogarty’s hauntological poetics and the archive4
‘Without too much anxiety’: re-reading Cage and Feldman through Gertrude Stein’s theatre poetics4
Kazuo Ishiguro’s gestural poetics3
New voices in an old form: rethinking the earliest Chinese translations of ‘The Isles of Greece’3
Decolonizing the English literary curriculum3
Kinship ecology and the bildungsroman: the child–animal relationship in Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House series2
The actor-network in Herman Melville’s ‘The Apple-Tree Table’2
As plain as spilt salt: the city as social structure in The Dispossessed2
Narrating the (non)human: ecologies, consciousness and myth2
How does the novel create life? Thinking the impossible in Elizabeth Costello2
Metaphor, subjectivity and self-knowledge in Edward St. Aubyn’s novels2
Stage directions as endotext: the psychological and socio-historical messages in the stage directions of Cao Yu and Lao She2
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
Elsewhere: Laura Marcus and autobiography1
Telepathy terminable and interminable1
Poundian influences and misty poetics in Yang Lian’s concentric circles1
Antonin Artaud and the healing practices of language: how life matters in Artaud’s later writings1
Imaginarium politicum1
Yogic style in motion: experiments in power and knowledge1
‘Mystery of the self’: embodied personhood and artificial intelligence in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me1
Gazing beyond the fourth wall: shame and second-person narration in Fleabag1
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life1
‘Someone lives in me’: how essayists enter our lives1
Nègre, Figura1
Huge urgency and consummate skill: an interview with Jim Pennington1
Community for the friendless1
‘As good as a chorus’: Hamlet’s Mousetrap in philosophy and psychoanalysis1
Encountering Ulysses1
Cliché and repetition: McLuhan understanding modernism1
Queering history: palimpsestuous bodies and theirstories in Zen Cho’s The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water1
Alternative avatars of the plagiarist, or, an embarrassment of glitches1
On Decolonisation and the University1
Resourceful melodrama: carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Dymphna Cusack’s Southern Steel (1953)1
‘Life as literature’: Wright Morris's Love Among the Cannibals1
Crisis and critique in Christine Smallwood’s The Life of the Mind (2021)1
Creaturely forms in contemporary literature: narrating the war against animals1
Limitation as excess: A reappraisal of transgressive aesthetics in Amanda Filipacchi's Love Creeps1
Literary form and historicised relationality: theorising the city as text in Teju Cole’s novels1
Editing Laura1
The master as parasite in modern literature1
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
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
Don DeLillo’s cinematic imaginary: from A(mericana) to Z(ero K)1
Monuments, unreal spaces and national forgetting: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant and the abyss of memory1
Ivan Juritz Prize 20201
Out of the blue: Prynne’s gifts1
Beckett and politics. New directions in Irish and Irish American literature1
S at the Beach1
Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child: A Critical Theory Approach1
Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege , by Adam Parkes, Oxford, Oxford University Pre1
‘Exploiting magnificence’: Hart Crane versus T. S. Eliot on the matter of diction1
Editing, directing, and The Cool World: filmmaking as a choreographic art1
Tennessee Williams’ escapology and the heterotopia of ‘The Mysteries of the Joy Rio’1
Ivan Juritz Prize 20211
Introduction: the irresolute language of images1
From Palibino to Riviera: narrative rhythmanalysis of Sofia Kovalevskaya’s literary writings1
Tediousness in Coryats Crudities (1611): early modern travel writing, rhetoric, and notions of canonicity1
Deconstructing hegemony: contemporary Middle East literature, theory, and historiography1
In light of myth: photography as truth in Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida1
Hypercanonical Joyce: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners, creative disaffiliation, and the global afterlives of Ulysses1
‘Perfectly, perfectly funny’?: laughing with the internet in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This1
Via literary mothers: Kathleen Fraser and the ‘permission-giving’ moment of ‘projective verse’1
Writing the Liberal City: literature and the contested experience of economic change. Bogotá 1849–18701
Inhabiting the impasse: on care and ambivalence in Lisa Baraitser’s Enduring Time and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts1
Mind reading?1
Afterword (A hundred flowers)0
Anonymity, canonicity, and literary value0
Migrancy and utopia: the global network in Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Hamid’s Exit West0
‘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
Juan Filloy’s Caterva and the geopolitics of the Joycean novel in Argentina0
Introduction: the new stylism0
Performing the poetics of the Iranian dream on silver screen: Hamoun as a tale of spiritual rebirth0
Ghosts in the urban sacrifice zone: (De)colonial relationality in Global North imaginaries0
Rendered obsolete: energy culture and the afterlife of U.S. whaling0
Thinking destructively with aesthetics0
For Laura0
To decompose the gender possibilities of the contemporary sestina: queer formalism reimagined through a poetic fixed form0
On not being able to read: doomscrolling and anxiety in pandemic times0
Roland Barthes writing the political: history, dialectics, self0
Breaking down in fits and starts: navigating a good naturalisation of J. H. Prynne’s ‘Blue Slides at Rest’ (2004)0
Veering and tunnelling0
Snow globes and instant coffee: transparent commodities and the global infrastructures of late capitalism in contemporary fiction0
Stimming [live] pathologising [ifitfits] and restaged made, in a staged setting, repeat non – eye – contact – contact0
Laura’s Virginia Woolf – a note0
A virtual tour of a virtuous place0
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
Philosophy’s ghosts: Nicholas Royle, Naji al-Ali, and Me0
Introduction to James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100: still learning0
The other vow: affirmative Denial in Kafka, Shakespeare and Kol Nidrei0
The work of literary studies: interpretation, argument, and socioaesthetic experience0
The catastrophe of the face: ethics, deconstruction, plasticity0
Emblem of ruin: the fate of allegory in a time of weak theory0
Dissection Nation0
Sounds like the Anthropocene: Alice Oswald’s water-stressed, Homeric verse0
Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans : images of twenty-first century Occident in Arab eyes0
Autofiction and the possibility of life in neoliberal ruins: reification, friction and the affective dominant in Weijers and Heti0
An exercise in analysis as enjoyment0
Love in the sacrifice zone: queer ecopoetics in the Appalachian Mountains0
Phillis Wheatley Peters’ fugitive poetics of freedom0
Nick Makoha’s – a low pressure system0
From Orientalism to neo-Orientalism: medial representations of Islam and the Muslim world0
Editorial Note0
‘ … Miles of the rustling secret corn’: nature, cosmic and autonomy in American cosmic horror literature0
Language games: the gendered politics of the speech act in Ben Lerner's The Topeka School0
Insurgent imaginations: world literature and the periphery0
Wall woodpeckers project0
Baldwin as phonographer0
Expanding to bulk: scale and the challenge of posthuman ethics in Moby-Dick0
A singing bird inside the human mind: a posthumanist rereading of Wallace Stevens0
‘Piers Plowman’ and the reinvention of church law in the late middle ages0
Do Shakespeare’s characters mean what they say?0
Towards a counterfactual criticism: alternate history and the study of English Literature0
This confused music0
Fragmentary modernism: the classical fragment in literary and visual cultures, c.1896 – c.19360
Dialect, voice, and identity in Chinese translation: a descriptive study of Chinese translations of Huckleberry Finn , Tess , and 0
Public criticism0
Watching readers reading0
Helen Keller’s ‘Sense of light’: life-writing, light-writing and the photosynthetic subject0
The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI0
The satire of the meritocracy: foreclosed futures in Michael Young, Raymond Williams, and Muriel Spark0
Translational Authorship and Multilingual (Re)writing in Uljana Wolf and Sophie Seita's Subsisters: Selected Poems (2017)0
Influx and efflux: writing up with Walt Whitman0
Making sense of the rural white working class: the contemporary novel of rural retreat and the politics of resentment0
Beautiful aliens: a Steve Abbott reader0
Bruce Boone Dismembered: Poems, Stories, and Essays0
Defamiliarisation, invisible characters, and laboured connections0
Assessing intelligence: the bildungsroman and the politics of human potential in England, 1860–19100
‘Little magazines were the only option’: an interview with Tina Morris0
Creative and non-fiction writing during isolation and confinement: imaginative travel, prison, shipwrecks, pandemics, and war0
‘The problem of other minds’: disappropriation and the limits of polyphony in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School0
Literary multilingualism: exploring latent practices0
‘The dreadful done’: Henry James’s style of abstraction0
Gold, cocaine, montage: Latin American sacrifice zones in Michael Taussig’s My Cocaine Museum0
Shakespeare and the economics of the death penalty0
Of lyric proportions: poetry and the genres of climate-change communications0
Under the net: universal time, modernism, and the subversive temporality of golden age detective fiction0
Aesthetics of obscenity: the avant-garde text and underground impact of My Own Mag and Poetmeat0
The near future in twenty-first-century fiction: climate, retreat and revolution0
Towards a poetics of the pipelines: an infrastructural analysis of the figure of the pipeline in Iranian petrofiction0
Introduction: beyond the sacrifice zone0
‘Good heavens! that’s where I got it!’ McLuhan reads Wyndham Lewis0
Haptic poetics and community (re)building in Swinburne’s The Flogging Block0
Reimagining Shakespeare’s The Tempest in its afterlife: a study of cuts, revisions, and potential sources0
Poetic transcribbling: Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff’s Yo-Yo’s with Money and Beaned in Boston0
On inner voice, free indirect style, and lyric0
Weird luck0
Introduction: confronting medieval and early modern canons0
Photomimesis and the anti-aesthetic0
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
A case for religious criticism0
Commemoration, modernism and self-identity in contemporary graphic memoir0
Past forms, present concerns: reading transhistorically for feminised labour0
Reading Ong reading McLuhan0
To give the literary event: Blanchot and Lawrence’s narratives of life/death0
Psychoanaliterature, or, how the American relational move made Are You My Mother? and The Argonauts0
‘Our poison’d chalice to our own lips’: toxic masculinity and tyranny in Macbeth0
‘Counting fry under a waterfall’: the history, development, and current use of the Small Press Collections at University College London0
The scientific lab: sacrifice zones as contact zones0
An intercultural dialogue: the Buddha, Schopenhauer and Beckett. Angela Moorjani in Colloquy with Asijit Datta0
A horizon line: flat style in contemporary women’s poetry0
Chinese modernist satire: Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son (1929), Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged (1947), and Eileen Chang’s Lege0
Constructing the human in the works of William Baldwin: coloniality, race, and animality0
Filling in the gaps: early middle English, nationalist philology, and reparative codicology0
Simulation and flesh: total cinema, virtual reality and 1930s science fiction0
Hollow children: utopianism and disability justice0
Modernism, forgetting, and the book of the heart0
Transculturality and the contingency of belonging0
Critique du récit pur : gleam of time in Maurice Blanchot’s narratives0
Footnotes0
‘Toward the evening of a gone world’: on forgetting Hugh Kenner0
The Comic turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?0
Royle reading0
Capture: American pursuits and the making of the new animal condition0
Melville’s gravity: necessity, art, democracy0
Reading McLuhan reading (and not reading)0
Visceral goosebumps: on White-Jacket’s minor resistance0
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
‘What is toast?’ Language and society in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake0
Apropos of something: a history of irrelevance and relevance0
Uncanny reminiscing: Nicholas Royle in conversation with Adrien Ordonneau0
Revisiting Pascale Casanova’s world literary space0
The minor poet: a case of John Wieners0
‘A flicker of the divine progress?’: stage-managing narratives of Empire in Jan Morris's Pax Britannica trilogy0
Seamus Eile (The 'Other' Seamus)0
Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe0
Are some more equal than others? Animated and animatronic adaptations of Animal Farm0
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) as ‘crisis fiction’0
Private screenings: Ingmar Bergman's ‘Cries and Whispers’ and cinematic fiction0
Death in flight0
Exit this way: afterward0
‘I am getting on nicely in the dark’: the environments of ‘Proteus’0
Aesthetics of the fucked0
Somewhere else in the market: an essay on the poetry of J.H. Prynne0
Translated memories: autobiography and the surrender to literature0
The impersonal forces of disease and death in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron0
‘Speculative Fiction: What Nicholas Royle will have written in David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine , which I haven’t read’0
Anticipating the plot: overdetermining heteronormative destiny on the twenty-first century screen0
Media and environment in elemental melodrama: afterword0
Reimagining postcolonial Sri Lanka as ‘Ceylon’: Shyam Selvadurai’s Cinnamon Gardens0
Selection from Brightwork0
Understanding ‘understanding music’ in Proust0
Following Laura Marcus: from autobiography to testimony0
Laura Marcus: Rhythmical Subject0
When wasn't modernism? Reflections on the stone age0
‘It envelops’: elementality and form in nineteenth-century Scottish melodrama0
Vineland Reread0
Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture0
Framing potentiality in Vona Groarke’s X0
Sexual difference without cisness in Ulysses0
Style’s contentions0
Insect or affect? John Ashbery's ‘Daffy Duck in Hollywood’, the dramatic monologue, and lyric theory0
The lost shape of words: reading the post-literate condition in Ali Smith’s Like (1997)0
Late reception [play memory of a free festival]0
Materiality and the canon: manuscripts, fragments, and medieval outlaw literature0
Introduction: origins, obsolescence and a new timeliness0
Beyond trauma: provisional networks and eccentric forms in fiction of the blitz0
The chaff and the wheat: Emily Dickinson and Maurice Blanchot0
Knick-knacks or Nick’s wits0
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger: Mark Twain’s critique of progressive era meritocracy0
Rethinking the discourse of ‘marginality’ in English literary studies and the social sciences: M. NourbeSe Philip’s ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’0
Multilingual style0
The changing History of English Poetry 1774–1871: language, literature and Anglo-Saxon whiteness0
Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism0
Touching the screen: on visual textuality and knowledge construction in Anne Carson’s poetry0
Laura’s living writing0
Gertrude Stein’s radio audience0
‘ … pure existence, without sense … ’: Joan Copjec, Hitchcock’s Rebecca , and reading the real0
Reading bodies, books, and beyond: experience and contingency in Troilus and Criseyde*0
The 2022 Ivan Juritz prize: Introduction0
In praise of failure: four lessons in humility0
Beyond the door, behind the veil: Brian Catling and the Weird/Visionary tradition0
When the medium is war: Marshall McLuhan, media, and militarisation0
‘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
Tribute to Laura Marcus0
Constraint and corporeality: reading Brooke-Rose and Garréta’s gendered experiments0
A Problem of Middlebrow Style: Dialect and Translation in Elena Ferrante’s Naples Tetralogy0
Glossectomy and lyric histories in Sujata Bhatt’s poetry0
Samuel Beckett and posthuman spaces0
‘The dead dancer’s DDI’: Hervé Guibert, remedy, contaminant, and getting it down0
Eroticism as the body without organs in Dennis Cooper’s Frisk: grand narratives, desire, and infinity0
Zadie Smith’s Nonhuman turns0
Warp0
Ernst Bloch and the subject of orientalism0
Wrestling with Gerard Manley Hopkins0
THE SPIRIT LIVES! An interview with Douglas Blazek0
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