Scholarly studies of literature in all languages, as well as related arts and cultural artifacts, from 1900 to the present.
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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.
Take a Closer Look at JML 44.3 (Spring 2021). Author Marija Grech discusses the continued relevance of Christine Brooke-Rose’s work and how it engages with some of the most pressing issues of our time. Her essay is a Read-for-Free feature, linked in the post: https://iupress.org/connect/blog/christine-brooke-rose/
JML 44.3 (Spring 2021) is now available. Find it on JSTOR at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.44.issue-3 and on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/45120
Mi Jeong Lee
The Ugly Politics of (Im)passivity, or Why Conrad’s Anarchists are Fat
Laurel Harris
Impassagenwerk: Jean Rhys’s Interwar Fiction and the Modernist Impasse
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Elysia Balavage
Illumination, Transformation, and Nihilism: T. S. Eliot’s Empty Spaces
Alexandra Edwards
Orlando: A Fanfiction; or, Virginia Woolf in the Archive of Our Own
Louis Armand
“He Proves by Algebra”: James Joyce’s Post-Literary Incest Machines
Arleen Ionescu
Blanchot in Infinite Conversation(s) with Beckett
Jeffrey Peer
Hot Spinsters: Revisiting Barbara Pym’s Virtuous Style
Farah Ali
Freedom as a Mirage: Sexual Commodification in Harold Pinter’s Films
Renée Tursi
Searching Pragmatism in Marilynne Robinson
Marija Grech
Re-Visions of the End: Christine Brooke-Rose and the Post-Literary
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Jonathan Culler
Intertexts of Intertextuality
Robert Savino Oventile
Transports, Earthbound
Omri Moses
Technological Paranoia: A Review of Andrew Gaedtke’s Modernism and the Machinery of Madness
James Martell
Logic of Missed Encounters: A Review of Arka Chattopadhyay’s Beckett, Lacan, and the Mathematical Writing of the Real
Ruben Borg
Beckett’s Insistent Bodies
Susan Mooney
The Insider’s View of Beckett’s Re-Generating Art
