NEW ISSUE: JML 49.1 (Fall 2025), "Running Counter" is LIVE!

 

Journal of Modern Literature 49.1 (Fall 2025) on the theme "Running Counter" is now LIVE on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56220

Content includes:

Preston Stone 

“She will be right”: Queer Haitian Protest in Roxane Gay’s “Of Ghosts and Shadows”

Laura Lorhan

Turning the Tables on “Bluebeard”: Intertextuality in Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox

Dan Dougherty

“[S]trange new air of myth”: Homophony, Narration, and the Modernist Autobiography in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

Roy Benjamin

“Unprobables in their poor suit of the improssable”: The Improbability Principle in Joyce

Robert Fillman

“[A] certain amusing comfort that makes you happy”: William Carlos Williams’s Ambivalent Pastoral Aesthetic

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Dennis Wilson Wise

C.S. Lewis’s Modernist Moment: Taking up the Gauntlet in “Poem for Psychoanalysts and/or Theologians” 

Jeremy Pomeroy

Reconsidering Moretti’s “rhetoric of innocence”: Ambivalence Toward and Rationalizations of Heroic Violence in Contemporary Epic

Jihuan Yu

A Play on the Post-isms: The Unnamed Narrator’s Quest for Realness in Remainder

Kevin Rulo

Autonomy, Satire, and Parasitic Aesthetics in Wyndham Lewis’s “Joint” and The Apes of God 

Ira Nadel

Lawless Exuberance: Céline and Roth

Reviews

Jean-Michel Rabate

How It Is / Comment C’est / Как ЭTо: Glosses for Beckett’s Darkest Novel

James Mesiti

Samuel Beckett and his Transdisciplinary and Creative Process

Nicole Higgins

“There it is, brothers, sitting there, for USE”: A Review of Joseph Pizza’s Dissonant Voices

Joseph Darlington

Little Wilson and Uncle Sam

Bryan Counter

Turning Around Uncertainty

JML 44.1 (Fall 2020) is LIVE!

 

JML 44.1 (Fall 2020) on the theme "Genealogies and Historiographies" is now live on JSTOR at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.44.issue-1 and on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/43684

Contents include:

Genealogies of the Modern

Michael Bedsole

Exteriority and Interiority in T.S. Eliot’s Graduate Work  

Ignasi Ribó 

“At the farthest pole from man”: Kafka’s Posthuman Outlook on War 

John S. Bak

Tennessee Williams’s “Homage to Ophelia (A Pretentious Foreword)” with Commentary

Joseph Darlington

Anthony Burgess and William S. Burroughs: Shared Enemies, Opposed Friends

Kevin McGuirk

“[T]he apple an apple”: Ammons, Bloom, and “the ten thousand things” – with Emerson and Lao Tzu 

Dream Historiographies

Clare Udras Ellis

Pursued by Time: The Chronolibidinal Aesthetics of Katherine Mansfield 

Annaliese Hoehling

Seeing History in the Baroque Ruins of Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September: An Indictment of Cosmopolitan Modernity

Liran Razinsky

Psychoanalysis and Autobiography: Leiris, Freud and the Obstacle to Self-Knowledge 

Jesse Zuba

Raymond Carver and the Modern Career Imaginary

Bram Mertens

Dread, Desire and Destruction: The Historical Sublime in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999) 

Reviews

Elizabeth Scheer

Surveying the Damage: Marina MacKay’s Modernism, War, and Violence

Robert L. Caserio

Audacious Reconciliation

Farisa Khalid

Good, Brave Causes: British Fiction of the 1950s