Browsing Twentieth Century and Contemporary, including World Literatures by Issue Date
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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 ... -
'A Scot's Quair' and the times of labour
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Modernism, The City and the 'Domestic Interior'
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Beyond Autonomy: Political Dimensions of Modernist Novels
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'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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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. -
‘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 ‘gal pal epidemic’
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'Where do these lines go? Poetry in Beirut'
(2016-10-01)This essay reflects on my experience performing at a poetry festival in Beirut, incorporating on globalisation, translingualism, colonialism and the status of poetry in the midst of crisis.