JML 48.1 (Fall 2024) on Stein and Continental Modernism, is now LIVE!

 

JML 48.1 (Fall 2024), with clusters on Gertrude Stein and Continental Modernism, is now live on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54157

Content Includes:

Editorial News: Welcome New Co-Editor Jessica Burstein

Stein

Rei Asaba

“You Ain’t Ever Got Any Way to Remember Right”: Black Affectivity, Insistent Style, and Cross-Racial Transference in Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha” 

Nicole Gantz

Becoming a Minor Literature: Supposing in Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons 

Kelly Krumrie

“Not Unordered”: Gertrude Stein’s Numbers

Chris Raczkowski

“The Man Being Dead”: Stein, Modernism and Detective Stories 

Continental Modernism

Thomas Waller

Confessional Desire: Censorship and Repression in Mário de Sá-Carneiro’s A Confissão de Lúcio 

Fredrik Tydal

“A Man Without Scruples”: The Swedish Judgment of Jay Gatsby 

Edward Waysband

The Politics of Childhood in Vladislav Khodasevich’s “Infancy” 

James Martell 

Modernism’s Totalities: From the Marquis de Sade to Titus-Carmel 

Feng Dong 

Overcoming Gravity: Celan, Nietzsche, and Nihilism

Ken R. Hanssen

W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and the Problems of Representation 

Reviews

Philipp Wolf

Mimesis: A Protean Concept

Amalia Cotoi

How Philosophy Turns up Its Nose at Smell: A Review of Simon Hajdini’s What’s That Smell? A Philosophy of the Olfactory 

JML 46.1 (Fall 2022) "Literary Ethics, Literary History" is LIVE!

JML 46.1 (Fall 2022) on the theme "Literary Ethics, Literary History" is now available on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48859

Content includes:

David Dwan 

Unlucky Jim: Conrad, Chance, Ethics

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Shea Hennum 

Reading Borges Ethically

Aubrey Lively 

Ye Shall Bear Witness: An Ethics of Survival in W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn 

Maggie Laurel Boyd 

Ordinary Language for Extraordinary Loss

Jack Dudley 

The Secularizing Work of the Novel: Modernist Form and Ian McEwan’s Saturday 

Heather Clark 

The Voice Within: Sylvia Plath’s Juvenilia, 1947-1950 

Johan Adam Warodell 

Reading Conrad’s Unpublished Trilogy: “Youth,” Heart of Darkness, and Lord Jim

Howard Fisher 

The Emergence of Resemblances between People: Stein’s Diagrams in The Making of Americans 

Susan Farrell 

American Fascism and the Historical Underpinnings of Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night 

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Walter Kalaidjian 

Occult Surrealism as “Profane Illumination”: Mina Loy, Leonora Carrington, and Ithell Colquhoun

Reviews

Christopher GoGwilt 

“Going Dead Slow”: Joseph Conrad’s Writing the Now, a review of Yael Levin, Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism 

John Zilcosky 

Kafka, or What Does Literature Sound Like? 

Ashley Byczkowski 

Derridean Deconstruction and Modernist Writer-Sons

Ali AlYousefi 

Revitalizing Close Reading

JML 45.3 (Spring 2022) is LIVE!

JML 45.3 (Spring 2022) on the theme "New Materialisms" is now live on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48204

 

Content includes:

Jennifer Yusin

Editorial Changes

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Marit Grøtta

Showing Seeing: The Study of Faces and Portrait Photographs in Virginia Woolf’s Early Novels 

Rachel Murray

Things that Cling: Marine Attachments in Eliot 

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Emma Felin

Faith and Fabrication in To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf’s Table-Cloth(s)

Olga Zolotareva

The Image Responds: Photographic Aura in Aleksandr Ivanov’s “Stereoscope” 

Matt Prout

Art or Shit: Value, Sincerity, and the Avant-garde in David Foster Wallace 

Zackary Vernon

Faulkner’s Charismatic Megaflora: Critical Plant Studies and the US South

Quan Zhou and Qiping Liu

Agentic Things and Traumatized People in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

Aaron McCullough

Sheaths, Molds, and Shards: The Formation of an Anthropological Aesthetics in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark

Alyson Brickey

“Fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth”: Object-Oriented Lists in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 

James Draney

W.G. Sebald’s Paper Universe: Austerlitz and the Poetics of Media Obsolescence 

Reviews

Zachary Kinsella

Becoming Bewildered

Tim Clarke

Modernist Women’s Writing and the Gift of Literature 

Karina Jakubowicz

From Waste Lands to Farmhands: T.S. Eliot and the Organic Husbandry Movement 

Jeffrey Careyva

The Evanescence of Lyric: A Review of John Wilkinson’s Lyric in Its Times: Temporalities in Verse, Breath, and Stone