A Closer Look

Maps and Traps in Joyce’s Ulysses: A Closer Look at JML 46.3

July 31, 2023

By Sarah Coogan, author of “‘I am other I now’: Identity, Intertextuality, and Networks of Debt in Ulysses,” Journal of Modern Literature (JML) 46.3,… READ MORE

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

July 25, 2023

By Cristinia Ionica, author of “‘For the Sake of Harmony’: Beckett’s Enactment of the Violence of Abstraction in The Lost Ones,” Journal of Modern Literature (JML) 46.3,… READ MORE

Coetzee’s Survival Tactics: A Closer Look at JML 46.2

April 19, 2023

By Lynda Ng and Paul Sheehan, editors of special guest cluster “Precarious Times: J.M. Coetzee and the Politics of Survival” and authors of “Introduction: Caring to Survive,” from Journal of Modern Literature,… READ MORE

The Elements of Pace in Spy Fiction: A Closer Look at JML 46.2

April 12, 2023

By Allan Hepburn, author of “‘To Come into the Story as Late as Possible, and To Tell It as Fast as You Can’: Pace in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,… READ MORE

Laughing at Fascism in Vonnegut’s Mother Night: A Closer Look at JML 46.1

January 10, 2023

By Susan Farrell, author of “American Fascism and the Historical Underpinnings of Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night,” from Journal of Modern Literature,… READ MORE

Eliot’s Gripping Crustaceans: A Closer Look at JML 45.3

July 27, 2022

Eliot’s Gripping Crustaceans: A Closer Look at JML 45.3

By Rachel Murray, author of “Things that Cling: Marine Attachments in Eliot,” now available for free on Project Muse…. READ MORE

On E.M. Forster’s doubt, and my own: A Closer Look at JML 45.2

April 20, 2022

On E.M. Forster’s doubt, and my own: A Closer Look at JML 45.2

By Rachel Gaubinger, author of “The ‘Voiceless Language’ of Sisters: Queer Possibility in E.M. Forster’s Howards End,” now available for free on Project Muse…. READ MORE

Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: A Love Story?

February 14, 2022

Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: A Love Story?

A Closer Look at JML 45.1

By Tali Banin, author of “The Winged Creatures of The Waves and Virginia Woolf’s Figurations of ‘The One,’” now available on Project MUSE …. READ MORE