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As Papers on Language and Literature enters its 51st year, it remains committed, as strongly as ever, to publishing rigorous scholarship. PLL has always sought to break through boundaries and [...]

In her 2006 essay 'Writing as a Child: Lowell's Poetic Penmanship,' Rei Terada called for a greater '[a]ttention to [Robert] Lowell's allegorization of the material forms in which his own [...]

'Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century' British Association for Victorian Studies Conference 23rd - 26th June 2021 Online Event Can women be funny? After a 2017 conference on [...]

What are the implications for modernist studies of the reappraisal, through subaltern, neglected archives, of one of modernism's crucial enterprises in its engagement with the new media industries of the [...]

INTRODUCTION The modernist scholar increasingly engages in work in the archive. Yet, as much as it is a place of work, it seems also to function domestically, as Jacques Derrida [...]

Introduction Given the paucity of material offering in-depth scholarly analyses of experimental film and video from both traditional and revisionist theoretical perspectives, this special issue of Papers on Language and [...]

On Saturday, 13 April 2019, the third annual Thomas Hardy Society Study Day took place in the Town Hall at the Corn Exchange in Dorchester, attended by 115 people from [...]

O.V. Vijayan (1930-2005) is regarded as one of the most gifted novelists to contribute to the literature of the South Indian state of Kerala. His The Legends of Khasak (1969) [...]

Zitkala-Sa's autobiographical stories, titled 'School Days of an Indian Girl' and 'An Indian Teacher among Indians,' appeared initially in The Atlantic Monthly (1900) and were subsequently compiled with her fictional [...]

DETECTIVE FICTION AND THE FOREIGN In their edited volume The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations (2014), Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, and Barbara Pezzotti define detective fiction as 'a [...]

As two figures that exist on the margins of society and culture, the antiheroine and the stranger are uncannily alike in their boundary-crossing and liminal occupation of physical and metaphorical [...]

Despite the publication of Hubert Poppel's 2001 study, La novela policiaca en Colombia [The Detective Novel in Colombia], local writers have not demonstrated the kind of sustained engagement with the [...]

The nation's memory was held to be powerfully unified; no more discontinuity existed between our new Greco-Roman cradle and the colonies of the Third Republic than between the high erudition [...]

Fiona Kidman is one of New Zealand's premier contemporary novelists with a writing career spanning about half a century. A prolific writer in multiple genres, including the novel, short story, [...]

More than a one observer has called the work of Julian Barnes 'odd' or 'strange' (Greaney 225). Part of this surely comes from the form his books tend to take--some [...]

When we began collecting medieval texts featuring positive human-animal relations for our annotated anthologies, (1s we were surprised at the vast number of such texts our search uncovered, particularly in [...]

Rachel Ferguson's eccentric 1931 novel, The Brontes Went to Woolworths, troubles many assumptions about modernism and the middlebrow and modernity's distinctions between these categories. The novel's meaning emerges only amidst [...]

The editors of Papers on Language and Literature extend their thanks to those who have given freely of their time and expertise in the reading of manuscripts submitted to the [...]

Due to their remarkable ability to retrain perception and create an evocative 'illusion of preserving nature,' avant-garde film and VR nature videos often draw on slow and ecocinema aesthetics to [...]

There is nothing like distance to Remove us from all ugliness. Gaspard-Felix 'Nadar' Tournachon (qtd. in Frizot 385) The city gave birth to the moving image, and the moving image [...]

It would not be an error to say that the films of Joseph Cornell are both renowned and little known. Historians of the avant-garde and students of film, especially those [...]

Travelling, emigration, and immigration have featured so prominently in Paul Muldoon's poetry that his can deservedly be called an art of the late modern wanderer, for whom 'there is no [...]

When Lucky Jim first appeared in 1954, it received varied responses from different classes of readers and critics. Of course, the general response was favorable. It was positively reviewed by [...]

The Woodlanders A THOMAS HARDY SOCIETY STUDY DAY In association with The University of Exeter. The Corn Exchange, Dorchester, Dorset, England. 22 April 2017 On Saturday, 22 April, the inaugural [...]

Identity, space, and self-esteem issues are central to everyday existence in a multicultural society that is growing out of its imperial shadows. There have been many endeavors to study such [...]

Milthorpe, Naomi. Evelyn Waugh's Satire: Texts and Contexts. Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2016. 185 pages. Paperback. $42.99. Time rounds off the rough edges of the avant-gardes and transforms them into mainstream [...]

With Appointment in Samarra (1934), John O'Hara positions himself as the authority on all things automotive in American literature. Drawing on George J. Becker's 'creed' for the realist novel, O'Hara [...]

Most lists of important female contributors to the African literary canon, particularly in French, make mention of Mariama Ba. Examples of such lists include d'Almeida's study on Francophone African Women [...]

In a series of performance events that span Antonin Artaud's career, he locates the performing body as the physical vector of spiritual pathogens that can transform society for good or [...]

Nicholas Davis, Head of Society and Innovation at the World Economic Forum, recognized in 2015 that we live in the era of the ''Fourth Industrial Revolution': a fundamental shift in [...]

E. M. Forster: Nature, Culture, Queer! April 13-14, 2018 Ludwigsburg, Germany The international conference 'E. M. Forster: Nature, Culture, Queer!' was the third scholarly gathering organized by the International E. [...]

In 1919, one of the first short stories by Croatian modernist Miroslav Krleza appeared in the Marxist journal Plamen (The Flame). The story centered on a naive young Croat, Pero [...]

The decolonization/decoloniality of the twenty-first century should not be confused with postmodernism and postcolonialism, which cascaded from the powerful Euro-North American academies as well as from the influence of South [...]

Nathaniel Hawthorne's preoccupation with history or the burden of the past is widely embodied in his art. Denis Donoghue argues that there is a greater sense of history in Hawthorne's [...]

Headache sufferer Marie St. Clare is one of the sickest characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and Harriet Beecher Stowe's oeuvre. Marie frequently complains and rests because her headaches cause [...]

The endings of Katherine Mansfield's stories are often ambiguous, leaving the reader with an unsettled feeling coinciding with the protagonist's revelation or epiphany. Anne Mounic draws attention to the fact [...]

Jaillant, Lise. Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers' Series and the Avant-Garde. Edinburgh UP, 2017. 184 pages. Hardcover. $105. For scholars of modernism interested in the archives, the potential scope for [...]

Battershill, Claire, et al. Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. New Directions in Book History. 182 + xv pages. Hardcover. $109.99. Excitement [...]

'Just like in 'real life,'' claims Howard Sklar in the opening of his 2013 book, The Art of Sympathy in Fiction, 'our encounters with fictional 'people' sometimes surprise us by [...]

Gretchen Busl, Guest Editor Over the last twenty years, a considerable amount of scholarship (from Pascale Casanova, David Damrosch, Franco Moretti, for example) has focused on the idea of world [...]

Rambsy II, Howard. Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2020. 223 pages. Paperback. $29.50 In 'Born in a Mighty Bad Land': The Violent Man [...]

Federico, Annette R., ed. My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice. U Missouri P, 2020. 316 pages. Hardcover. $36. My Victorian Novel, edited by Annette Federico, gives us [...]

'All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.' Toni Morrison, 'The Site of Memory' On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, a [...]

In their latest novel, The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi delves into the exploration of the violent death of one of its protagonists, Vivek Oji. Through [...]

Aramburu, Diana. Resisting Invisibility: Detectingthe Female Body in Spanish Crime Fiction. U of Toronto P, 2019. 296 pages. Hardcover. $30.82. In recent years, scholars from around the world and from [...]

Joyce, Laura, and Henry Sutton, editors. Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century CrimeFiction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 292 pages. Paperback. $95.50. Domestic Noir is an edited collection of essays [...]

Crime fiction is a 'strange' genre traditionally situated at the paradoxical coordinates of best-selling success and academic marginality. (1) Often considered a subliterary type and associated with low-class entertainment, thrillers, [...]

One of the most important themes of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy--Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013)--is that of genetic engineering, explored mainly through [...]

What is the pertinence of Moby-Dick (1850) for the narrative technique, political concerns, and lingering guilt of Arthur Koestler (1905-1983), a reformed Communist Party member and Hungarian-British novelist who was [...]