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.
William Carlos Williams was a rare poet who found fame and lived long enough to enjoy it, and yet, Jeffrey Careyva notes, "few learn about the series of strokes that knocked Williams down again and again during the height of his fame after World War II."
Read more about it in Careyva's post for the Indiana University Press blog, "This Old Goose Still Honks: Dysfluency in William Carlos Williams's Late Poetry."
The author's JML 48.2 essay on Williams is available FREE, linked in the post!
JML 45.1 (Fall 2021) is now available. Find it on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47191.
Calista McRae
“More human than others”: Stevie Smith and the Minds of Pets
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Caroline Hovanec
“Animal/Fool/Clown”: Stevie Smith’s Frivolity
Aleksandra Hernandez
Jack London’s Poetic Animality and the Problem of Domestication
Tali Banin
The Winged Creatures of The Waves and Virginia Woolf’s Figurations of “The One”
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Karen Ya-Chu Yang
Female Biologists and the Practice of Dialogical Connectivity in Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer
Michael Davidson
“how to dance / sitting down”: Aging, Innovation, and the Graying of Disability
Benjamin Kossak
A Choreography of Parts: The Impersonal Intimacies of Touch and Movement in Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s Poetry, Contact Improvisation, and Embodied Reading
Katie Collins
“Her Ruined Head”: Defacement and Bodyminds in Jean Stafford’s Life and Work
Naomi Miyazawa
The Blindness of the Writer in Nabokov’s Despair
Takashi Sakai
Stonewall Offstage: Recontextualizing Tennessee Williams’s Small Craft Warnings
Robert Volpicelli
Modernist Illness Now
Jess Waggoner
Leaky Masculinities, Porous Nations, Queercrip Affiliations
Rainer Rumold
After the Animal Fable: Creaturely Ciphers in transition
