Theory’s Theatrics in “Circe”: A Closer Look at JML 47.3
July 29, 2024
By Katherine Franco, author of “Staging the Surface: James Joyce’s Theater for Theorization in ‘Circe,’” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 3,…
Literature
Journal of Modern Literature Call-for-Papers: “Caribbean Literatures and the Environment”
June 14, 2024
Topics addressed may include oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction.
JML publishes essays on twentieth- and twenty-first-century global literature….
Blasting Out the Past in Milkman: A Closer Look at JML 47.2
April 8, 2024
By Daniel R. Adler, author of “Making Visible the ‘Mental Wreckage’: A Historical Materialist Reading of Milkman,” Journal of Modern Literature 47.2 (Winter 2024),…
The Deeply Rooted Heritage of Recycled Poetics: A Closer Look at JML 47.1
January 9, 2024
By Sam Walker, author of “‘[S]ongs of allusion’: Sterling Brown, Harryette Mullen, and the Roots of Poetic Recycling,”[A1] Journal of Modern Literature 47.1,…
The Beast Turning Human: A Closer Look at JML 46.4
October 31, 2023
By Cory Austin Knudson, author of “Animality and the Limits of Discourse in Djuna Barnes and Georges Bataille,” Journal of Modern Literature 46.4,…
Woolf’s The Waves and tormented public-school boys: A Closer Look at JML 46.4
October 24, 2023
By Patricia Morgne Cramer, author of “‘Everyone chooses their love after their own fashion’: The Waves as a Modernist Symposium,” …
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,…
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,…
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,…