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{"title":"W.S. Graham’s blanks","authors":"Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg","doi":"10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281685","url":null,"abstract":"W.S. Graham has long been seen as a poet overly preoccupied with the unruly, wayward behaviour of poetic language. His two final collections of poetry – Malcolm Mooney’s Land and Implements in Thei...","PeriodicalId":45473,"journal":{"name":"TEXTUAL PRACTICE","volume":" 33","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Literature and Class, from the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution","authors":"Michael Pierse","doi":"10.1080/0950236x.2023.2287323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2287323","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45473,"journal":{"name":"TEXTUAL PRACTICE","volume":" 40","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans: images of twenty-first century Occident in Arab eyes","authors":"Ahmed Shalabi, Yousef Abu Amrieh","doi":"10.1080/0950236x.2023.2288115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2288115","url":null,"abstract":"The East–West encounter in the twenty-first century is a major theme in the works of contemporary Anglophone Arab diasporic writers. However, unlike some Arab intellectuals and writers of the previ...","PeriodicalId":45473,"journal":{"name":"TEXTUAL PRACTICE","volume":" 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Warp","authors":"Robert Laidlow","doi":"10.1080/0950236x.2023.2275375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2275375","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45473,"journal":{"name":"TEXTUAL PRACTICE","volume":" 47","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stage directions as endotext: the psychological and socio-historical messages in the stage directions of Cao Yu and Lao She","authors":"Valerie Pellatt","doi":"10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281698","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45473,"journal":{"name":"TEXTUAL PRACTICE","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139263262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Touching toward the (un)known: working collaboratively with bodies and technologies","authors":"Ada Xiaoyu Hao","doi":"10.1080/0950236x.2023.2275382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2275382","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45473,"journal":{"name":"TEXTUAL PRACTICE","volume":" 42","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alternative avatars of the plagiarist, or, an embarrassment of glitches","authors":"Rick de Villiers","doi":"10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281692","url":null,"abstract":"What is the relation between plagiarism and embarrassment? What unspoken rules dictate our responses to improper literary behaviour? Addressing these questions against the backdrop of South African author Willem Anker’s substantial ‘borrowings’ from Samuel Beckett, this article proposes three alternative avatars – the catfish, hacker, and emperor – to displace Martial’s archetypal plagiarius or enslaver. The catfish is an impostor, an appropriator and aggregator of identities who aims to seduce. The hacker is a digital bandit whose daring encroachments are as much admired as feared. And the emperor is that cipher either clothed by common consent or stripped at the cost of our own exposure. Whatever their vices, these figures have the virtue of nudging discussion of plagiarism away from rights and ownership towards identity, trust and exposure. Where the enslaver tends to ringfence the wronged and the wrong-doer, the alternative avatars open towards the reader. They ask us to consider our role in constituting, condoning or condemning acts of literary deceit, to mark the connections between our moral judgements and our affective responses, and, ultimately, to reflect on our position as hypocrites lecteurs when confronted with plagiarism.","PeriodicalId":45473,"journal":{"name":"TEXTUAL PRACTICE","volume":"28 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134900815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond trauma: provisional networks and eccentric forms in fiction of the blitz","authors":"Andrew Gaedtke","doi":"10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281684","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn many novels set in London during and after the Blitz, such as The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton, Caught by Henry Green, Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, and Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald, traumatic experiences are often subordinated to concerns that have received comparatively little critical attention. This article argues that a strain of Blitz fiction is primarily engaged in the mapping of ad hoc social networks that emerged during the Blitz. Mass evacuation, destroyed homes, and shifting wartime posts resulted in provisional domestic arrangements, micropolitical tensions, and networks of care that abruptly emerged and disappeared. The fictional representation of these unusual social structures demanded unconventional narrative techniques. A strain of Blitz fiction adopted the formal structures of network narratives in order to render distributed, dynamic, and dislocated social topographies. This article moves beyond the well-established association of wartime literature with representations of trauma in order to bring into focus a strain of network narratives that reflect a cultural logic of contingency under the Blitz.KEYWORDS: TraumanetworksmasculinityLondon BlitzWorld War II Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The psychological effects of the Blitz are foregrounded in works such as William Sansom, ‘The Wall’ and Blitz: Westminster at War (London: Faber and Faber, 1947); Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear (London: Heinemann, 1943), Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day (London: Jonathan Cape, 1948); and James Hanley, No Directions (London: Faber and Faber, 1943). For scholarly discussions of wartime anxiety and trauma, see Lyndsey Stonebridge, The Writing of Anxiety: Imagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); The Fiction of the 1940s: Stories of Survival (New York: Palgrave, 2001); Paul Saint-Amour, Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015); Paul Crosthwaite, Trauma, Postmodernism and the Aftermath of World War II (London: Palgrave, 2009); Adam Piette, Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry 1939–1945 (London: Macmillan, 1995).2 The Mass Observation Archive, housed at the University of Sussex, is accessible at https://www.amdigital.co.uk/primary-sources/mass-observation-online. Blitz-era samples from the archive are available in Tom Harrisson, Living Through the Blitz (New York: Schocken Books, 1976).3 Franco Moretti, ‘Network Theory, Plot Analysis’, New Left Review, 69 (2011), pp. 80–102; Sianne Ngai, ‘Network Aesthetics: Juliana Spahr’s The Transformation and Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social’, in Cyndy Weinstein and Christopher Looby (eds), American Literature’s Aesthetic Dimensions (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012); Caroline Levine, Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015); David Ciccorico,","PeriodicalId":45473,"journal":{"name":"TEXTUAL PRACTICE","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘What is toast?’ Language and society in Margaret Atwood’s <i>Oryx and Crake</i>","authors":"Katherine Parsons","doi":"10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281689","url":null,"abstract":"With its depiction of a ‘word man’ as the sole survivor of the human race, Oryx and Crake offers a unique perspective on the correlation between the death of a people and the death of their language: Jimmy/Snowman’s narrative perspective centres the role of language at the tipping point of society. This paper undertakes a close reading of extinction (of humankind and of human language) in the novel, using this to inform a broader conceptual study of meaning-making in social systems and the role of language in memory. The oscillation throughout the novel between memories of a peopled world and the post-apocalyptic present day facilitates discussion of how language functions in both individual and social settings, such as fashioning memory through acts of naming and renaming, and the experience of shared language as a form of intimacy.","PeriodicalId":45473,"journal":{"name":"TEXTUAL PRACTICE","volume":"27 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Past forms, present concerns: reading transhistorically for feminised labour","authors":"Charlotte J. Fabricius, Emily J. Hogg","doi":"10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281701","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article makes the claim that experiences of feminised work are represented through literary forms that recur across disparate genres, periods, and media. Drawing on Caroline Levine’s concept of form and taking a transhistorical approach to the study of literary representations, the article compares the 1952 novel Excellent Women by Barbara Pym and the Instagram comics of Liana Finck. While these texts do not invite immediate comparison, the article demonstrates that Pym and Finck use similar formal strategies in their depictions of feminised labour. Comparing these case studies reveals recurring forms of circularity, incompletion, and ironic comedy, which are used to represent the working lives of women. In both cases, the female protagonists are caught up in feminised experiences of work resulting in resignation to seemingly endless repetition. The article argues that the affordances of these forms capture transhistorically occurring traits of feminised work, thus giving shape to experiences that are not limited to a particular historical moment. Since contemporary working conditions are becoming increasingly feminised, the article concludes that looking to representations of feminised work across time can illuminate experiences of feminisation today, in waged as well as unwaged contexts.KEYWORDS: Affectfeminisationformlabourtranshistorical readingwork AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Ida Aaskov Dolmer, Ella Fegitz, and Bryan Yazell for their feedback during the writing of this article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Jane Jenson, Elisabeth Hagen, and Ceallaigh Reddy (eds.), Feminization of the Labor Force: Paradoxes and Promises (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988); Angela McRobbie, Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries (Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016); Cristina Morini, ‘The Feminization of Labour in Cognitive Capitalism’, Feminist Review, no. 87 (2007), pp. 40–59; Kathi Weeks, ‘Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work’, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 45.3–4 (2017), pp. 37–58.2 Jasper Bernes, Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019).3 See Emily J. Hogg and Peter Simonsen (eds.), Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021); Barbara Korte and Frédéric Regard (eds.), Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014); Michiel Rys and Bart Philipsen (eds.), Literary Representations of Precarious Work: 1840 to the Present (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) for recent discussion of precarity in relation to literature and popular culture.4 Caroline Levine, Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015), p. 16.5 Weeks, ‘Down with Love’, p. 38.6 Ibid., p. 38, see also McRobbie Be Creative pp. 88–9.7 Susan J. Ferguson, Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, ","PeriodicalId":45473,"journal":{"name":"TEXTUAL PRACTICE","volume":"33 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}