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More than four decades after its founding, the Journal of Modern Literature remains a leading scholarly journal in the field of modern and contemporary literature and is widely recognized as such. It emphasizes scholarly studies of literature in all languages, as well as related arts and cultural artifacts, from 1900 to the present. International in its scope, its contributors include scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceana, and South America.
In a special feature for the Indiana University Press blog, Sarah Coogan explores the webs of financial and familial obligations in Joyce's Ulysses and challenges typical assumptions about these debts. Read it HERE.
Her JML 46.3 essay is available for FREE; see link in the post.
In a special feature for the Indiana University Press blog, Cristina Ionica discusses how Beckett's works activate empowering forms of solidarity by using angry, action-oriented forms of laughter. Read it HERE.
Her JML 46.3 essay is available for FREE; see link in the post.
JML 46.3 (Spring 2023), "Joyce and Beckett," is now LIVE on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/50460
Content includes:
Madigan Haley
Modernism’s World Drama: Joyce, Wagner, and the Anti-Systemic Stirrings of a Global Artwork
Michele Chinitz
James Joyce’s Liebestod: Fascism as Civil War
Patrick Eichholz
Joyce, Nussbaum, and the Value of Disgust
Roy Benjamin
Purification Rituals in Joyce
Tristan Power
“That English Paper”: Cannibals, Slaves, and Bits of Fun in Ulysses
Sarah Coogan
“I am other I now”: Identity, Intertextuality, and Networks of Debt in Ulysses
FREE!
Shantam Goyal
New Reading: Notes on a Critical Phenomenology of Reading with Finnegans Wake
Trask Roberts
Deconfining Translation in Samuel Beckett’s Le Dépeupleur and The Lost Ones
Cristina Ionica
“For the Sake of Harmony”: Beckett’s Enactment of the Violence of Abstraction in The Lost Ones
FREE!
Ruben Borg
Agency after the Subject: Beckett with Merleau-Ponty
Llewellyn Brown
Quietism and Literary Creation
John Greaney
Beckett and/in Context: A Review of Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath
Jean-Michel Rabate
A Proposal for a Modest Modernism: A Review of Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism by Rick de Villiers
Trask Roberts
Painful Productions: A Review of Hannah Simpson’s Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness
Andrew Gaedtke
Reflex Modernism
BY DEREK RYAN
Cambridge UP, 2022
ISBN: 9781009182973
Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature reveals how the Bloomsbury group's fascination with beasts – from pests to pets, tiny insects to big game – became an integral part of their critique of modernity and conceptualization of more-than-human worlds. Through a series of close readings, it argues that for Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, profound shifts in interspecies relations were intimately connected to questions of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and technology. Whether in their hunting narratives, zoo fictions, canine biographies or (un)entomological aesthetics, these writers repeatedly test the boundaries between, and imagine transformations of the human and nonhuman by insisting that we attend to the material contexts in which they meet. In demonstrating this, the book enriches our understanding of British modernism while intervening in debates on the cultural significance of animality from the turn of the twentieth century to the Second World War.
BOOK NEWS is an online-only feature announcing new publications in modernist and contemporary literary studies. These announcements do NOT constitute an endorsement by the Journal of Modern Literature.
Derek Ryan is senior lecturer in modernist literature at the University of Kent. His previous publications include Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction (2015) and the co-edited volumes The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (2018) and Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern (2019).
