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

BOOK NEWS: Beckett's ecological thinking

Samuel Beckett and Ecology

Edited by Trish McTighe, Céline Thobois-Gupta, and Nicholas E. Johnson

Methuen Drama, 2025

ISBN: 9781350366022

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/samuel-beckett-and-ecology-9781350366022/

This is the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett's work through contemporary ecological thinking, offering a wide range of artistic and scholarly responses to the ecological crises provoked, mediated or challenged by Beckett's work.

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Beckett was not an environmental artist, but his oeuvre, poised between forms of precarity and hope, is a rich territory for the exploration of the most pressing issues of our time: the rift between the human species, its technological and economic advancement and the ecologies that sustain it all.

In recent years, Beckett's name, aphorisms and work have been invoked relative to environmental catastrophe, helping stimulate debates on ecology, the arts and the ecosystemic place of the human. The volume reflects on ecology as a productive term, as well as the varied practices and narratives in Beckettian intermedial ecologies. While some authors offer new insights into the connections between Beckett and the Anthropocene across translation, adaptation, performance and the visual arts, others also explore the potential of Happy Days (1961) for ecological thought and the role it has taken in recent ecodramaturgical experiments in the theatre. Woven throughout the volume are short bursts of writing, 'coups de gong', which testify to the variety of Beckett-inspired local responses to global climate instability.

"This volume us transformation in Beckett studies in its range of global contributors and in the dialogues it sets up between scholars, artists, and activists. This book is an important and compelling addition to Beckett studies, theatre studies, and ecocriticism." --Anna McMullan, University of Reading

Trish McTighe is senior lecturer in Drama at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Her publications include Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland and Staging Beckett in Great Britain, both co-edited with David Tucker, and the monographs The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama and Carnivals of Ruin: Beckett, Ireland and the Festival Form. She is theatre reviews editor for the Journal of Beckett Studies.

Céline Thobois-Gupta is an IRC-funded PhD researcher and an adjunct assistantpProfessor in the Department of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, as well as an ECR Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub. She is published in Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui, The Beckett Circle, Theatre Journal and Samuel Beckett and Technology. She is also co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies on the anthropocene.

Nicholas E. Johnson is associate professor and Head of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he co-directs the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies. He has published two co-authored monographs, Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices (with Jonathan Heron, 2020) and Bertolt Brecht’s David Fragments (1919–1921): An Interdisciplinary Study (Bloomsbury/T & T Clark, with David Shepherd, 2020). He has also co-edited two volumes on Beckett: Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett (2021) and Influencing Beckett / Beckett Influencing (2020).

Introducing JML's first BOOK, On Beckett, On!

On Beckett, On!, published by Indiana University Press, brings together thirteen Journal of Modern Literature essays on Beckett with two previously unpublished pieces that demonstrate how exciting and productive Samuel Beckett scholarship has become, encompassing philosophy, psychoanalysis, ethics, contemporary history, and literary theory.

Available HERE in paperback and as an ebook

Contents

Introduction, by Jean-Michel Rabaté

Nothing is Impossible: Bergson, Beckett, and the Pursuit of the Naught, by Jeremy Colangelo

Beckettian Habit and Deictic Exhaustion, by Shuta Kiba

Glitches in Logic in Beckett's Watt: Toward a Sensory Poetics, by Amanda M. Dennis

Beckett's Vessels and the Animation of Containers, by Hunter Dukes

Blanchot in Infinite Conversation(s) with Beckett, by Arleen Ionescu

Beckett, Painting and the Question of "the human", by Kevin Brazil

Art of Impoverishment: Beckett and arte povera, by Erika Mihálycsa

Beckett, War Memory, and the State of Exception, by Emilie Morin

Putting the Impossible to Work: Beckettian Afterlife and the Posthuman Future of Humanity, by Ruben Borg

Dogging the Subject: Samuel Beckett, Emmanuel Levinas, and Posthumanistic Ethics, by Karalyn Kendall-Morwick

A Defense of Wretchedness: Molloy and Humiliation, by Rick De Villiers

Who Hobbles after the Subject: Parables of Writing in The Third Policeman and Molloy, by Yael Levin

" 'Tis my muse will have it so": Four Dimensions of Scatology in Molloy, by Andrew G. Christensen

"Strange laughter": Post-Gothic Questions of Laughter and the Human in Samuel Beckett's Work, by Hannah Simpson

The Illusionless: Adorno and the Afterlife of Laughter in How It Is, by Michelle Rada

NEW ISSUE: JML 48.3 "Human-Nonhuman Transgressions and the Global Uncanny" is now LIVE

Journal of Modern Literature 48.3 (Spring 2025) on the theme "Human-Nonhuman Transgressions and the Global Uncanny" is now LIVE on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55227

Content includes

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo

Editor’s Introduction: Human-Nonhuman Transgressions and the Global Uncanny

Romy Rajan

Subaltern Mosquitoes and Cyborg Histories in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift

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Tracy A. Stephens 

Kinship as a Counter to the Settler Gaze in Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians 

Emad Mirmotahari 

Revisiting Juan José Saer’s El entenado / The Witness—Forty Years Later 

Isabelle Wentworth

Fluid Dynamics of Queer Desire: Ellen van Neerven’s “Water” and Lía Chara’s Agua 

Trevor Westmoreland

Inverting the Coordinates: Place, Dystopia and Utopia in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West 

Xiaofan Amy Li

Neo-Surrealism in Hong Kong: The Fiction of Hon Lai-chu and Dorothy Tse

Stanka Radović

Alice in Monsterland: Neocolonial Investigation in J.G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes

Mara Reisman 

Grotesque Spaces and Transformative Nature in Patrick McGrath’s The Grotesque 

Tiasa Bal and Gurumurthy Neelakantan 

Memory, Uncanny, and Spectrality in Joseph Skibell’s A Blessing on the Moon 

Umar Shehzad

“[D]elete the face it’s preferable”: Prosopagnosia as an Artistic Practice in Samuel Beckett’s Work

Xiaoshan Hou and Fuying Shen

Puppet and Paralipsis: The Performance of Maria and the Narrator in Joyce’s “Clay”

Derek Ryan 

Review: Abstraction for All

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: First book-length study of Beckett's complete poetry

Samuel Beckett's Poetry

EDITED BY JAMES BROPHY AND WILLIAM DAVIES

Cambridge UP, 2022

ISBN: 9781009222549

https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/samuel-becketts-poetry

Samuel Beckett's Poetry is the first book-length study of Beckett's complete poetry, designed for students and scholars of twentieth century poetry and literature, as well as for specialists of Beckett's work. This volume explores how poetry provided Beckett a medium of expression during key moments in his life, from his earliest attempts at securing a reputation as a published writer, to the work of restoring his own speech while suffering aphasia shortly before his death. Often these were moments of desperation and discouragement, when more substantial works were not possible: moments of illness, of personal loss or of public disaster. 

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This volume includes an introduction that contextualizes Beckett as a poet and a chronology of the composition and publication of all his known poems. Essays offer a range of critical perspectives, from translation theory, war poetics and Irish Studies to Beckett's debts to Modernism, Romanticism and the Jazz Age.

• Makes a systematic introduction to Beckett's poetry simple, clearly arranged
• The introduction and chronology provide readers with an overview of Beckett's poetry six decade career
• Chapters offer a range of critical perspectives, including translation theory, war poetics and Irish Studies

The editors and a distinguished team of contributors have produced a superb collection that leaves no poetic allusion unanalyzed. This book will be a classic of Beckett criticism. Here is scholarship taken to a high degree, adding contexts and glosses to Sean Lawlor’s and John Pilling’s pionneering work. Everyone interested in Beckett will need to read this engrossing book on the poetry and rediscover Beckett the poet. —Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

James Brophy is a lecturer in modern languages & classics, and preceptor in the Honors College of the University of Maine. His scholarship focuses on modern British and Irish literature, poetics, and classical reception studies. His work has appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature, Translation Studies, Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, among other venues.

William Davies is a research fellow at the University of Reading. His work on Samuel Beckett includes the monograph Samuel Beckett and the Second World War (2020) and the edited volume Beckett and Politics (2021, with Helen Bailey). He was a contributor to the BBC Radio 4 documentary "Beckett's Last Tapes" (2019).

BOOK NEWS: Reconceptualizing Nietzsche’s relationship to Irish modernism

Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations 

BY MATTHEW FOGARTY

Liverpool UP, 2023

ISBN: 9781802077223 

https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781802077223

Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations reconceptualizes Friedrich Nietzsche’s position in the intellectual history of modernism and substantively refigures our received ideas regarding his relationship to these Irish modernists. Building on recent developments in new modernist studies, the book demonstrates that Nietzsche is a modernist writer and a modernist philosopher by drawing new parallels between his engagement with established philosophical theories and the aesthetic practices that Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot identified as quintessentially modernist. With specific reference to key Nietzschean philosophemes — eternal recurrence, the Übermensch, transnationalism, cultural paralysis, and ethical perspectivism — it challenges the longstanding assumption that Yeats, who repeatedly acknowledged his admiration for Nietzsche, is the most ‘Nietzschean’ of these Irish modernists.

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While showing how both Joyce and Beckett are in many important ways more ‘Nietzschean’ than Yeats, this interdisciplinary study makes a number of significant and timely contributions to the fields of Irish studies and modernist studies.

Nietzsche, the Protean philosopher par excellence, must be reinvented by each generation, and yet, in the first decades of the twentieth century, his revolutionary ideas were instrumental in bringing about Irish modernism, here represented by Yeats, Joyce and Beckett. Thanks to Matthew Fogarty’s astute, original, and compelling analyses, we discover an Übermensch speaking with an undeniable Irish accent. —Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

Matthew Fogarty is an associate lecturer at Maynooth University and University College Dublin. He has published articles in the Irish Gothic Journal, International Yeats Studies, Modern Drama, and the Journal of Academic Writing. His latest article is forthcoming in the James Joyce Quarterly. His co-edited collection, Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism, is forthcoming with Clemson University Press.

A Closer Look at JML 46.3: Beckett's Permanent Revolution

 

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 LIVE!

JML 46.3 (Spring 2023), "Joyce and Beckett," is now LIVE on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/50460

Content includes:

Joyce

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

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Shantam Goyal

New Reading: Notes on a Critical Phenomenology of Reading with Finnegans Wake

Beckett

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

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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

Book News: Literary modernism and the environment

Eco-Modernism: Ecology, Environment and Nature in Literary Modernism

EDITED BY JEREMY DIAPER

Clemson UP, 2021

ISBN: 978-1-949-97985-5

https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/54594/

This volume of critical essays provides the first major guide to ecology, environment and nature in literary modernism. It explores the environmental turn and green consciousness in modernist criticism and broadens the boundaries and scope of current ecocritical enquiry. In drawing together contributions from leading and emerging scholars from across the UK and America, Eco-Modernism offers a diverse range of environmental and ecological interpretations of modernist texts and illustrates that ecocriticism can offer fresh and provocative ways of understanding literary modernism. In the rapidly burgeoning field of environmental studies, it will serve as a vital touchstone for scholars and students alike to explore the major areas and crucial themes in ecocritical modernism.

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CONTENTS

“Ecocriticism and Modernism”

Jeremy Diaper

 

“Modernism and the Rural Novel”

Dominic Head

“Edith Sitwell: Modernist Experimentation and the Revitalisation of Nature Poetry”

Elizabeth Black

 

“‘No poetic phantasy / but a biological reality’: The Ecological Visions of H.D.’s Trilogy”

Elizabeth O’Connor

 

“‘Has it begun to sprout?’: The Ecological Life of Modernist Corpses”

Julia E. Daniel

“Marianne Moore’s Ecopoetics”

Sharla Hutchinson

 

“Modernism’s Insect Sense”

Rachel Murray

“Eco-consciousness and Eco-poetics in Modernist Writing”

Fiona Becket

 

“‘The Parched Eviscerate Soil’: Environmental Thought in Eliot’s Poetry and Prose”

Jeremy Diaper

 

“The Law of Hoes and Rakes”: Wallace Stevens’s Agrarian Poetics

Jasmine McCrory

 

“‘Grain by grain’: Beckett’s Agripessimism and the Anthropocene”

Caitlin McIntyre

 

“‘There All The Time Without You’: Modernism and the Anthropocene”

Peter Adkins

Jeremy Diaper has published numerous articles and chapters on T.S. Eliot's agrarianism and the history of the organic husbandry movement. His essays have appeared in Agricultural History, Agricultural History Review, the Journal of the T.S. Eliot Society UK, T.S. Eliot Studies Annual and Literature & History. He recently edited a special issue of Modernist Cultures on "Modernism and the Environment." 

JML 44.3 (Spring 2021) is LIVE!

 

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

From modernist impasses to our post-literary moment

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

Infinities of the post-

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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Reviews

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

Book News: The Irish Celt figure in modern literature

 Against the Despotism of Fact: Modernism, Capitalism, and the Irish Celt

BY T.J. BOYNTON 

SUNY Press, 2021

Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-8181-4

Paperback ISBN13: 978-1-4384-8180-7

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-7009-against-the-despotism-of-fact.aspx

Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Victorian era to World War II. While this figure assumes many forms and functions, T. J. Boynton argues that he is consistently cast as inherently resistant to capitalism. 

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.

Beginning with an innovative reassessment of Matthew Arnold’s The Study of Celtic Literature, from which the book also takes its title, Against the Despotism of Fact offers new readings of major works by writers such as Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. In their writing, Boynton argues, the Irish Celt served as a transnational vehicle of modernist experimentation geared toward interrogating the imperial, social, and pop-cultural dimensions of capitalist modernity. Making a significant contribution to Irish studies, modernist studies, and postcolonial studies, Against the Despotism of Fact draws attention to not only the prevalence but also the critical potential of this fraught figure.

“Against the Despotism of Fact is an exciting contribution to Irish literary studies, to the study of modernist literature and culture, to the study of postcolonial, materialist, and globalist theory, and it is also a major intervention in the study of a range of important writers, from J. M. Synge to Samuel Beckett. This is an exciting work, building on existing scholarship and research, that will be widely discussed, and cited for years to come.” 

— Enda Duffy, author of The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism

T. J. Boynton is assistant professor of English at Wichita State University.

JML 42.4, A modernist lineage: Joyce, Beckett, Coetzee

JML 42.4 (Summer 2019), on the theme "Joyce, Beckett, Coetzee," is now available!

Read it on JSTOR and Project Muse. 

The sequence of names heading this issue’s thematic clusters—James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and John M. Coetzee—embody an ideal modernist lineage. Indeed, Beckett began his career as Joyce’s unofficial secretary, and he always named Joyce’s devotion to his art as influencing his decision to pursue a literary rather than academic career. Coetzee, who started out as a computer expert and an English professor, wrote an excellent dissertation on the style of Beckett’s Watt, as well as important essays on Beckett. Beckett offered both a repertoire of literary techniques and a model of ethical integrity. This sequence of names suggests that modernism has not yet lost its purchase as an umbrella term. Modernism has not been replaced by the “posts” that have been tried and petered out, one after the other. 

Issue content includes:

Jean-Michel Rabaté

Editor’s Introduction: Joyce, Beckett, Coetzee

David Spurr 

Trials of the Letter in Joyce and Proust

Neil R. Davison

“Ivy Day”: Dublin Municipal Politics and Joyce’s Race-Society Colonial Irish Jew 

Georgina Binnie 

“Photo girl he calls her”: Re-Reading Milly in Ulysses 

Elizabeth M. Bonapfel 

Joyce’s Punctuation and the Evolution of Narrative in Finnegans Wake 

Megan Girdwood

“Danced through its seven phases”: Samuel Beckett, Symbolism, and Stage Choreographies 

Rick de Villiers 

A Defense of Wretchedness: Molloy and Humiliation 

Patrick Whitmarsh 

“So it is I who speak”: Communicating Bodies in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days and The Unnamable 

Emilie Morin

Beckett, War Memory, and the State of Exception

Shannon Forest

Challenging Secularity’s Posthistorical “Destination”: J.M. Coetzee’s Radical Openness in the Jesus Novels

Marc Farrant 

Finitizing Life: Between Reason and Religion in J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Novels

Ian Tan 

Ways into Joycean Silences: Reviewing James Joyce’s Silences 

Michelle Chiang 

Samuel Beckett and Modernist Film Culture: Review of Samuel Beckett and Cinema

Arya Aryan 

The Late Style of Borges, Beckett, and Coetzee as Postmodernist Cynics 

Erin A. Smith

Modernism for the Middle Class