Browsing Twentieth Century and Contemporary, including World Literatures by Title
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Becoming User: Oracle, Barbara Gordon, and representations of the user in popular culture
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Beyond Autonomy: Political Dimensions of Modernist Novels
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Doing voices: reading language as craft in black British poetry
(Sage Journals, 2014-04-14)This essay offers a detailed exploration and comparative reading of two poems published 20 years apart: John Agard’s “Listen Mr Oxford Don” (1985), and Daljit Nagra’s “Kabba Questions the Ontology of Representation, the ... -
The evolution of Commonwealth, post- and decolonial scholarship: Tracing the impact of field transformation on JCL and vice versa
(SAGE Publications, 16-06-2024)To mark the significant change from the Journal of Commonwealth Literature to JCL: Literature, Critique, and Empire Today, this short article will engage with the shift in title in three ways. As former editors of the ... -
Feminism and Futurity: Revisiting Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)This article considers the question of feminist futurity through Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976). While dominant readings of this novel have focused on its relationship to the feminist utopian genre and ... -
The figure of the refugee in Hassan Blasim’s “The Reality and the Record”
(SAGE Publications, 2017-06-07)This article considers Hassan Blasim’s short story, “The Reality and the Record”. It argues that Blasim’s asylum seeker should be read as a powerful challenge to extant responses to the ever-growing global refugee crisis: ... -
Funeral Elegy
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The ‘gal pal epidemic’
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Ghostly Authorities and the British Popular Press
(Manchester University Press, 2014)folk tales to political pamphlets, linked to an investigation into the later impact of a Gothicized Renaissance. The manifold resonances between the chapters in terms of primary textual references to Renaissance texts as ... -
‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Modernism: “What’s wrong with the other moderns is the lack of purpose in their infernal books”'
(Asls, 2015-09-15)Examining his works within the social, political, and literary developments of his time, this volume demonstrates Gibbon's continuing relevance both in Scotland and internationally. -
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Poet
(Oxford University Press, 2013-09-26)'There is one thing to be said for contemporary poetry that can't be said of any other', T. S. Eliot averred in a piece offilm footage, ... The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry is a ... -
Modernism, The City and the 'Domestic Interior'
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Oulibertinage: Play and Pudeur in Anne Garréta's Pas un jour
(Edinburgh University Press, 2018-03-01)Since the turn of the century, women-authored sexual confessions have proliferated. However, these succès de scandale have been paralleled by anxiety regarding self-exposure and a sense that, for women writers, the ‘taboo’ ... -
'Pleasure too often Repeated': Aldous Huxley's Modernity
(Edinburgh Univeristy Press, 2013)Aldous Huxley’s Modernity Morag Shiach In an essay published in 1923, Aldous Huxley suggested that ‘of all the various poisons which modern civilization, by a process of auto- intoxication, brews quietly up within its own ... -
The Principles of Song: On Denise Riley
(Banff Centre Press, 2015-01-15)With over forty contributors, Toward. Some. Air. is an invaluable resource for readers, students, teachers and writers.