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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Decolonizing the English literary curriculum18
Caring about lyricality8
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: thinking with spirits Engagements with Aimé Césaire: thinking with spirits , by Jason Allen-Paisant, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 20246
‘Without too much anxiety’: re-reading Cage and Feldman through Gertrude Stein’s theatre poetics6
Kazuo Ishiguro’s gestural poetics5
Narrating the (non)human: ecologies, consciousness and myth4
How does the novel create life? Thinking the impossible in Elizabeth Costello4
Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege , by Adam Parkes, Oxford, Oxford University Pre3
The master as parasite in modern literature3
From Palibino to Riviera: narrative rhythmanalysis of Sofia Kovalevskaya’s literary writings3
New voices in an old form: rethinking the earliest Chinese translations of ‘The Isles of Greece’3
Editing Laura3
Metaphor, subjectivity and self-knowledge in Edward St. Aubyn’s novels2
‘Life as literature’: Wright Morris's Love Among the Cannibals2
The notion of criticism at the present time: from postcriticism to an ethics of reading well2
‘Mystery of the self’: embodied personhood and artificial intelligence in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me2
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
An atelic model for the textual limen2
Staging the state of exception: William le Queux and the campaign for emergency powers in Britain 1906–19142
Telepathy terminable and interminable2
Limitation as excess: A reappraisal of transgressive aesthetics in Amanda Filipacchi's Love Creeps2
Stage directions as endotext: the psychological and socio-historical messages in the stage directions of Cao Yu and Lao She2
Genet’s dying words2
Surviving marriage narratively. Storytelling through women's friendships in Mary McCarthy's The Group (1963) and its adaptation by Lara Feigel (2020)1
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
Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child: A Critical Theory Approach1
The translator’s task: influence beyond the monolingual paradigm1
An archive of modern medical culture: the critique of turn-of-the-century medical discourses in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives1
On poetry and the crowd: lyric and locodescription1
‘Exploiting magnificence’: Hart Crane versus T. S. Eliot on the matter of diction1
Yogic style in motion: experiments in power and knowledge1
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life1
Creaturely forms in contemporary literature: narrating the war against animals1
Monuments, unreal spaces and national forgetting: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant and the abyss of memory1
Resourceful melodrama: carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Dymphna Cusack’s Southern Steel (1953)1
Queering history: palimpsestuous bodies and their stories in Zen Cho’s The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water1
Spectres of the district commissioner: the negotiation of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in contemporary African historical fiction1
Antonin Artaud and the healing practices of language: how life matters in Artaud’s later writings1
Imaginarium politicum1
Crisis and critique in Christine Smallwood’s The Life of the Mind (2021)1
Writing (with) the body: the case of Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch1
Alternative avatars of the plagiarist, or, an embarrassment of glitches1
Huge urgency and consummate skill: an interview with Jim Pennington1
Out of the blue: Prynne’s gifts1
‘Sweet Mephistopheles, tell me’: desire between the scholar and the devil in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus1
Via literary mothers: Kathleen Fraser and the ‘permission-giving’ moment of ‘projective verse’1
Literary form and historicised relationality: theorising the city as text in Teju Cole’s novels1
Encountering Ulysses1
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
Tediousness in Coryats Crudities (1611): early modern travel writing, rhetoric, and notions of canonicity1
Elsewhere: Laura Marcus and autobiography1
‘Someone lives in me’: how essayists enter our lives1
In light of myth: photography as truth in Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida1
Beckett and politics. New directions in Irish and Irish American literature1
Listening as influence1
Ivan Juritz Prize 20211
Poundian influences and misty poetics in Yang Lian’s concentric circles1
Deconstructing hegemony: contemporary Middle East literature, theory, and historiography1
Mind reading?1
Inhabiting the impasse: on care and ambivalence in Lisa Baraitser’s Enduring Time and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts1
Tennessee Williams’ escapology and the heterotopia of ‘The Mysteries of the Joy Rio’1
Hypercanonical Joyce: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners, creative disaffiliation, and the global afterlives of Ulysses1
Bloom’s Freud and Bloom’s anxiety1
Veering and tunnelling0
‘The measure! The measure!’0
Nabokov’s secret trees0
Rendered obsolete: energy culture and the afterlife of U.S. whaling0
Border-crossing Japanese literature: reading multiplicity0
The satire of the meritocracy: foreclosed futures in Michael Young, Raymond Williams, and Muriel Spark0
Breaking down in fits and starts: navigating a good naturalisation of J. H. Prynne’s ‘Blue Slides at Rest’ (2004)0
Introduction: confronting medieval and early modern canons0
Tipping effects0
The chaff and the wheat: Emily Dickinson and Maurice Blanchot0
A case for religious criticism0
Framing potentiality in Vona Groarke’s X0
Eroticism as the body without organs in Dennis Cooper’s Frisk: grand narratives, desire, and infinity0
Aesthetics of the fucked0
The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro0
The work of literary studies: interpretation, argument, and socioaesthetic experience0
The near future in twenty-first-century fiction: climate, retreat and revolution0
Introduction: beyond the sacrifice zone0
Autofiction and the possibility of life in neoliberal ruins: reification, friction and the affective dominant in Weijers and Heti0
The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI0
To give the literary event: Blanchot and Lawrence’s narratives of life/death0
Eating and cooking beyond the borders in Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities0
Anthropomorphism in Professional Crocodile and Agamben’s ‘man-animal’0
Reimagining Shakespeare’s The Tempest in its afterlife: a study of cuts, revisions, and potential sources0
The infinite unleashed: Benjamin revisited in the context of the mechanical philosophy0
The other vow: affirmative Denial in Kafka, Shakespeare and Kol Nidrei0
Translated memories: autobiography and the surrender to literature0
Dissection Nation0
Baldwin as phonographer0
Transculturality and the contingency of belonging0
An intercultural dialogue: the Buddha, Schopenhauer and Beckett. Angela Moorjani in Colloquy with Asijit Datta0
‘ … Miles of the rustling secret corn’: nature, cosmic and autonomy in American cosmic horror literature0
Defamiliarisation, invisible characters, and laboured connections0
Anxiety again0
THE SPIRIT LIVES! An interview with Douglas Blazek0
‘Counting fry under a waterfall’: the history, development, and current use of the Small Press Collections at University College London0
The Comic turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?0
Hollow children: utopianism and disability justice0
Helen Keller’s ‘Sense of light’: life-writing, light-writing and the photosynthetic subject0
Rethinking the discourse of ‘marginality’ in English literary studies and the social sciences: M. NourbeSe Philip’s ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’0
On the reading mind: what you will already have known I was about to say now anyway0
Toni Morrison and the writing of place0
The early reception of the Sun Machine0
The art of imitation and the desire for violence: the rebirth of Homo Mimeticus0
The 2022 Ivan Juritz prize: Introduction0
Son et lumière in Proust0
From Orientalism to neo-Orientalism: medial representations of Islam and the Muslim world0
The significance of Osip Mandelstam for Paul Celan0
The minor poet: a case of John Wieners0
Love in the sacrifice zone: queer ecopoetics in the Appalachian Mountains0
Smiles are made of tears0
When wasn't modernism? Reflections on the stone age0
‘Little magazines were the only option’: an interview with Tina Morris0
Mike McCormack’s style of post-mortem modernism0
Ezra Pound’s drafts for the translation of Confucius’ ShijingThe Book of Odes0
Critique du récit pur : gleam of time in Maurice Blanchot’s narratives0
‘A flicker of the divine progress?’: stage-managing narratives of Empire in Jan Morris's Pax Britannica trilogy0
Juan Filloy’s Caterva and the geopolitics of the Joycean novel in Argentina0
Cyril Connolly, late modernism and the essay form0
Zadie Smith’s Nonhuman turns0
Roland Barthes writing the political: history, dialectics, self0
Public criticism0
Assessing intelligence: the Bildungsroman and the politics of human potential in England, 1860–19100
Deleuze, Palestine, and Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun0
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
‘The great unequivocal International Gestures’: Benjaminian Gestus in Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man0
Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe0
Introduction: origins, obsolescence and a new timeliness0
Reflections on sublation0
Weird luck0
Phillis Wheatley Peters’ fugitive poetics of freedom0
‘Here is my shameful confession. I don’t really “get” poetry’: discerning reader types in responses to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel on Goodreads0
Haptic poetics and community (re)building in Swinburne’s The Flogging Block0
Stimming [live] pathologising [ifitfits] and restaged made, in a staged setting, repeat non – eye – contact – contact0
Past forms, present concerns: reading transhistorically for feminised labour0
Translational Authorship and Multilingual (Re)writing in Uljana Wolf and Sophie Seita's Subsisters: Selected Poems (2017)0
Climate engineering in The Ministry for the Future and Termination Shock0
Feminist refusal from Jacob’s Room to the climate protest: Bonnie Honig, Virginia Woolf and Greta Thunberg0
Philosophy’s ghosts: Nicholas Royle, Naji al-Ali, and Me0
To decompose the gender possibilities of the contemporary sestina: queer formalism reimagined through a poetic fixed form0
‘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
Media and environment in elemental melodrama: afterword0
Modernism, forgetting, and the book of the heart0
Deleuze, subjectivity, and literature as life0
‘It envelops’: elementality and form in nineteenth-century Scottish melodrama0
‘On it, in it, what you will’ – Reading Nicholas Royle’s Quilt0
Language games: the gendered politics of the speech act in Ben Lerner's The Topeka School0
Laura’s Virginia Woolf – a note0
Chinese modernist satire: Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son (1929), Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged (1947), and Eileen Chang’s Lege0
Bringing the dead back to life: Marx, Muriel Rukeyser, and the work of documentary0
Filling in the gaps: early middle English, nationalist philology, and reparative codicology0
Empathy, curiosity, and critique: an AI-assisted mapping of non-academic reception of Asian American literature0
‘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
Following Laura Marcus: from autobiography to testimony0
Touching the screen: on visual textuality and knowledge construction in Anne Carson’s poetry0
‘Our poison’d chalice to our own lips’: toxic masculinity and tyranny in Macbeth0
Editorial Note0
Time against the sovereign power: the interregnum in Stuart Brisley’s performance art0
Materiality and the canon: manuscripts, fragments, and medieval outlaw literature0
Failure as/in the queer bildungsroman0
Uncanny reminiscing: Nicholas Royle in conversation with Adrien Ordonneau0
Fragmentary modernism: the classical fragment in literary and visual cultures, c.1896 – c.19360
An exercise in analysis as enjoyment0
Laura’s living writing0
Glossectomy and lyric histories in Sujata Bhatt’s poetry0
Outlived by a lesser shamelessness : the inscrutable subject and sensuality before the Law in Augustine, Dostoevsky and Kafka0
Towards a poetics of the pipelines: an infrastructural analysis of the figure of the pipeline in Iranian petrofiction0
Oxford Freud: autofictions and reflections0
Thinking destructively with aesthetics0
Afterword (A hundred flowers)0
Death in flight0
Beyond trauma: provisional networks and eccentric forms in fiction of the blitz0
Drone fiction, empathy gap and the reader: Mohsin Hamid’s short story Terminator: Attack of the Drone (2011)0
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
Making sense of the rural white working class: the contemporary novel of rural retreat and the politics of resentment0
Somewhere else in the market: an essay on the poetry of J.H. Prynne0
Poetry or politics? On Jacques-Alain Miller’s Effort of Poetry after Lacan0
Nick Makoha’s – a low pressure system0
For Laura0
Poetic transcribbling: Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff’s Yo-Yo’s with Money and Beaned in Boston0
Reimagining postcolonial Sri Lanka as ‘Ceylon’: Shyam Selvadurai’s Cinnamon Gardens0
Hospitalities: Transitions and Transgressions, North and South0
Revisiting Pascale Casanova’s world literary space0
Photomimesis and the anti-aesthetic0
Dialect, voice, and identity in Chinese translation: a descriptive study of Chinese translations of Huckleberry Finn , Tess , and 0
Performing the poetics of the Iranian dream on silver screen: Hamoun as a tale of spiritual rebirth0
In praise of failure: four lessons in humility0
Beyond the door, behind the veil: Brian Catling and the Weird/Visionary tradition0
The nonhuman and coming community in the selected works of Olga Tokarczuk0
Challenging positions: agency and expectations in testimonial writing about genocide in Rwanda and war in Bosnia and Herzegovina0
The impersonal forces of disease and death in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron0
Winner for text0
‘Speculative Fiction: What Nicholas Royle will have written in David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine , which I haven’t read’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
‘Piers Plowman’ and the reinvention of church law in the late middle ages0
Encyclopaedism and totality in contemporary fiction0
Virginia Woolf’s ‘ontology of style’: Mrs. Brown, The Waves , and the ethics of character*0
Understanding ‘understanding music’ in Proust0
Anticipating the plot: overdetermining heteronormative destiny on the twenty-first century screen0
On not being able to read: doomscrolling and anxiety in pandemic times0
Breach and suture in China Miéville’s interstitial cities0
Knick-knacks or Nick’s wits0
Dis/placed: veerer – where , and when , are you? (asides)0
Introduction to James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100: still learning0
Aesthetics of obscenity: the avant-garde text and underground impact of My Own Mag and Poetmeat0
Under the net: universal time, modernism, and the subversive temporality of golden age detective fiction0
Sexual difference without cisness in Ulysses0
Wall woodpeckers project0
Insect or affect? John Ashbery's ‘Daffy Duck in Hollywood’, the dramatic monologue, and lyric theory0
Gertrude Stein’s radio audience0
Late reception [play memory of a free festival]0
The changing History of English Poetry 1774–1871: language, literature and Anglo-Saxon whiteness0
Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture0
Monkeying around with fact and fiction: radical epistemology and reactionary metaphysics in the work of R.A. Lafferty0
Psychoanaliterature, or, how the American relational move made Are You My Mother? and The Argonauts0
Snow globes and instant coffee: transparent commodities and the global infrastructures of late capitalism in contemporary fiction0
Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans : images of twenty-first century Occident in Arab eyes0
A singing bird inside the human mind: a posthumanist rereading of Wallace Stevens0
The scientific lab: sacrifice zones as contact zones0
Constraint and corporeality: reading Brooke-Rose and Garréta’s gendered experiments0
The lost shape of words: reading the post-literate condition in Ali Smith’s Like (1997)0
‘Toward the evening of a gone world’: on forgetting Hugh Kenner0
The ‘wonder’ in the handkerchief0
A Problem of Middlebrow Style: Dialect and Translation in Elena Ferrante’s Naples Tetralogy0
Introduction0
Do stories need critics? Environmental storyism and the ends of ecocriticism0
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
Seamus Eile (The 'Other' Seamus)0
This confused music0
‘ … pure existence, without sense … ’: Joan Copjec, Hitchcock’s Rebecca , and reading the real0
Commemoration, modernism and self-identity in contemporary graphic memoir0
The catastrophe of the face: ethics, deconstruction, plasticity0
Royle reading0
Insurgent imaginations: world literature and the periphery0
Anonymity, canonicity, and literary value0
A horizon line: flat style in contemporary women’s poetry0
Towards a counterfactual criticism: alternate history and the study of English Literature0
Footnotes0
‘What is toast?’ Language and society in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake0
Literary multilingualism: exploring latent practices0
If you could read my mind …0
Apropos of something: a history of irrelevance and relevance0
Tribute to Laura Marcus0
Do Shakespeare’s characters mean what they say?0
Of lyric proportions: poetry and the genres of climate-change communications0
0.13833403587341