JML 47.3 (Spring 2024) is now LIVE!

 Journal of Modern Literature 47.3 (Spring 2024), with a special guest-edited cluster “Affective Forms of the Modernist Novel,” and a cluster on “Ireland’s Modernists,” is now LIVE on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/52819.

Content includes:

Affective Forms of the Modernist Novel

Doug Battersby

Introduction: Affective Forms of the Modernist Novel

Kirsty Martin

D.H. Lawrence and Shyness

Doug Battersby

Elizabeth Bowen’s Equivocal Modernism

Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle

Elizabeth Bowen’s Queer Heart

Rick de Villiers

True Feints: Samuel Beckett and the Sincerity of Loneliness 

Ulrika Maude

“Other kinds of emotions”: Ishiguro’s Late-Modernist Affect 

Derek Attridge

Joycean Form, Emotion, and Contemporary Modernism: Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport and McCarthy’s The Making of Incarnation

Ireland’s Modernists

Katherine Franco

Staging the Surface: James Joyce’s Theater for Theorization in “Circe” 

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Karl O’Hanlon

Ferdinand Levy: A Harlem Renaissance Dubliner and De-Colonial Cosmopolitanism

Danielle N. Gilman

Elizabeth Bowen’s Critical “Scrap Screen” 

Jivitesh Vashisht

“He will now think he hears her”: Indirect Perception and the Return to Proust in Samuel Beckett’s Ghost Trio

Mantra Mukim

Timbral Poetics: Samuel Beckett and the Impossible Voice

BOOK NEWS: Using Animal Studies tools to approach liminal figures in fiction

Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction

BY DAVID P. RONDO

Bloomsbury, 2023

ISBN: 9781350356122

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/doing-animal-studies-with-androids-aliens-and-ghosts-9781350356122/

Exploring what can be learned when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures like androids, aliens and ghosts, this book examines the boundaries of humanness. Simultaneously, it encourages the reader both to see nonhuman animals afresh and to reimagine the terms of our relationships with them.

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.

Examining imaginative texts by writers such as Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson and J. M. Coetzee, this book looks at depictions of androids that redefine traditional humanist qualities such as hope and uniqueness. It examines alien visions that unmask the racist and heteronormative roots of speciesism. And it unpacks examples of ghosts and spirits who offer posthumous visions of having-been-human that decenter anthropocentrism. In doing so, it leaves open the potential for better relationships and futures with nonhuman animals.

"A great leap forward in the literary-theoretical approach to animal studies. Recommended for students of theory and fantastika. Heartily recomment" —Anthony Lioi, The Julliard School

"Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts provides a brilliantly subtle and compelling discussion of how thinking about entities that aren't animals can change our conceptions of animals by reconfiguring understanding of the human." —John Miller, University of Sheffield

David P. Rando is a professor in the Department of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. He is the author of Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce (Bloomsbury, 2022); Hope and Wish Image in Music Technology (Palgrave, 2017); and Modernist Fiction and News (Palgrave, 2011). 

JML 46.4 (Summer 2023) is now LIVE!

JML 46.4 (Summer 2023), "Evocations of Intimacy," is now LIVE on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51258

Content includes:

Anca Parvulescu

The Biography of a Face: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Patty Argyrides

Hauntingly Beautiful: Embodied Reading, Virginia Woolf, and Woolf Works 

Patricia Morgne Cramer

“Everyone chooses their love after their own fashion”: The Waves as a Modernist Symposium 

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Cory Austin Knudson

Animality and the Limits of Discourse in Djuna Barnes and Georges Bataille

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Farah Ali

The Invisible Flesh: Mimesis in Jean Genet’s The Maids

Molly B. Lewis

The Life-Giving Efficacy of Beauty and Desire in Stoppard’s Drama 

Sina Movaghati

A Beast to Be Slain: The Tiger and the Unquenched Desire of Man

Yi-chin Shih

Senses of Place: The Black Community in Alice Childress’s Wedding Band

Hsiao-wen Chen

Black Cosmofeminism: Commodity, Sexuality, and the Transnational Mixed-Race Subject in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand

Celiese Lypka

“I Look Straight into His Eyes … For the Last Time”: Intimacy and Indifference in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight 

Reviews

Karalyn Kendall-Morwick

Imagining Justice for Sentient Lives 

Caroline Hovanec 

The Modernist Dog 

Book News: Key aspects of Ishiguro's oeuvre

 The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro

EDITED BY ANDREW BENNETT

Cambridge UP, 2023

ISBN: 9781108822022

https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-after-1945/cambridge-companion-kazuo-ishiguro

The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro offers an accessible introduction to key aspects of the novelist's remarkable body of work. The volume addresses Ishiguro's engagement with fundamental questions of humanity and personal responsibility, with aesthetic value and political valency, with the vicissitudes of memory and historical documentation, and with questions of family, home, and homelessness. 

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.

Focused through the personal experiences of some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction, Ishiguro's writing speaks to the major communitarian questions of our time – questions of nationalism and colonialism, race and ethnicity, migration, war, and cultural memory and social justice. The chapters attend to Ishiguro's highly readable novels while also ranging across his other creative output. Gathering together established and emerging scholars from the UK, Europe, the USA, and East Asia, the volume offers a survey of key works and themes while also moving critical discussion forward in new and challenging ways.

Contents

Part I. Kazuo Ishiguro in the World

1. "Ishiguro and the question of England," Andrew Bennett

2. "Ishiguro and Japan: History in An Artist of the Floating World," Yoshiki Tajiri

3. "Ishiguro and colonialism," Liani Lochner

4. "Immigration and emigration in Ishiguro," Jerrine Tan

5. "Ishiguro and translation," Rebecca Karni

Part II. Literature, Music, and Film

6. "The Ishiguro archive," Vanessa Guignery

7. "The unconsoled of The Unconsoled: Ishiguro and modernism," Ulrika Maude

8. "'A more sophisticated imitation': Ishiguro and the novel," Peter Boxall

9. "Ishiguro and genre fiction," Doug Battersby

10. "Ishiguro's TV and film scripts," Peter Sloane

11. "'I'm a songwriter at heart, even when I'm writing novels': Ishiguro and music," Stephen Benson

Part III. Ethics, Affect, Agency, and Memory

12. "Ethics and agency in Ishiguro's novels," Robert Eaglestone

13. "'Emotional upheaval' in An Artist of the Floating World and The Buried Giant," Cynthia F. Wong

14. "Ishiguro and love," Laura Colombino

15. "Memory and understanding in Ishiguro," Yugin Teo

16. "Ishiguro's irresolution," Ivan Stacy

Andrew Bennett is professor of English at the University of Bristol. He is co-author, with Nicholas Royle, of the best-selling textbooks Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (6th edn., 2022), and This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (2nd edn., 2023).