Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281685
Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg
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...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2287323
Michael Pierse
Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于《文本实践》(2023年出版前)
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Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2288115
Ahmed Shalabi, Yousef Abu Amrieh
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...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2275375
Robert Laidlow
Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于《文本实践》(2023年出版前)
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Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281698
Valerie Pellatt
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Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2275382
Ada Xiaoyu Hao
Published in Textual Practice (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于《文本实践》(2023年出版前)
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Pub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281692
Rick de Villiers
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281684
Andrew Gaedtke
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,
在许多以闪电战期间和之后的伦敦为背景的小说中，如帕特里克·汉密尔顿的《孤独的奴隶》、亨利·格林的《被捕》、穆里尔·斯帕克的《家境贫弱的女孩》和佩内洛普·菲茨杰拉德的《人声》，创伤经历往往被置于相对较少受到批评的关注之下。这篇文章认为，闪电战小说的一个分支主要涉及闪电战期间出现的特殊社会网络的映射。大规模撤离、房屋被毁以及战时岗位的转移导致了临时的国内安排、微观政治紧张局势以及突然出现和消失的护理网络。这些不寻常的社会结构的虚构表现需要非常规的叙事技巧。一种闪电战小说采用了网络叙事的形式结构，以呈现分布的、动态的和错位的社会地形。这篇文章超越了战争文学与创伤表征之间的既定联系，以便将反映闪电战下偶然性的文化逻辑的网络叙事集中起来。关键词:创伤、工作、男子气概、伦敦闪电战、第二次世界大战披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1:闪电战的心理影响在威廉·桑索姆的《墙》和《闪电战:战争中的威斯敏斯特》(伦敦:费伯和费伯出版社，1947年)等作品中得到了突出表现;格雷厄姆·格林，《恐惧部》(伦敦:海涅曼出版社，1943年)，伊丽莎白·鲍恩，《炎热的一天》(伦敦:乔纳森·凯普出版社，1948年);詹姆斯·汉利，《没有方向》(伦敦:费伯和费伯出版社，1943年)。关于战时焦虑和创伤的学术讨论，见林赛·斯通布里奇，《焦虑的写作:想象中世纪英国文化中的战时》(纽约:帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦出版社，2007年);《20世纪40年代的小说:生存故事》(纽约:帕尔格雷夫出版社，2001);Paul Saint-Amour，时态未来:现代主义，全面战争，百科全书式(牛津:牛津大学出版社，2015);Paul Crosthwaite，《创伤、后现代主义与二战余波》(伦敦:Palgrave出版社，2009);亚当·皮耶特:《战争中的想象:1939-1945年的英国小说与诗歌》(伦敦:麦克米伦出版社，1995)位于苏塞克斯大学的质量观测档案可在https://www.amdigital.co.uk/primary-sources/mass-observation-online上访问。2 .资料馆中闪电战时代的样本可以在汤姆·哈里森的《生活在闪电战中》(纽约:朔肯出版社，1976)中找到Franco Moretti，“网络理论，情节分析”，《新左派评论》，69(2011)，第80-102页;西恩·恩盖，《网络美学:朱莉安娜·斯帕尔的《转型》和布鲁诺·拉图尔的《重组社会》，载于辛迪·温斯坦和克里斯托弗·罗比(编)，《美国文学的美学维度》(纽约:哥伦比亚大学出版社，2012);卡洛琳·莱文，《形式:整体、节奏、层次、网络》(普林斯顿:普林斯顿大学出版社，2015);3 .大卫·奇科里科，《阅读网络小说》(塔斯卡卢萨:阿拉巴马大学出版社，2007)5 .布鲁诺·拉图尔，《重组社会:行动者网络理论导论》(纽约:牛津大学出版社，2005)Scott Selisker，“Bechdel测试和人物网络的社会形式”，《新文学史》，46.3(2015)，第550 - 23页，第510.6 Patrick Jagoda，《网络美学》(芝加哥:芝加哥大学出版社，2016)，第3.7页。关于闪电战下伦敦社会空间内社会运动的机会以及对这种运动的持续限制的讨论，请参见Kristine a . Miller，《闪电战中的英国文学:与人民战争作斗争》(伦敦:Palgrave, 2009)。有关闪电战下社会空间的文学表现的更多信息，请参见马克·罗林森的《英国第二次世界大战写作》(牛津:牛津大学出版社，2000)和贝里尔·邦的《第二次世界大战中的英国文学和文化:持续时间》(牛津大学出版社，2020)《人声》，佩内洛普·菲茨杰拉德，《无处安全》(伦敦:第四财产出版社，2014年)，第144 - 49页。凯利·m·里奇，“无处安全”:穆丽尔·斯帕克《收入较低的女孩》中的破坏性重建”，ELH, 83.4(2016)，第1194.10页。关于女性战时经历的基础讨论，见吉尔·普莱恩，《二战女性小说:性别、权力和抵抗》(纽约:圣马丁出版社，1996年)穆丽尔·斯Spark，《收入微薄的女孩》(纽约:新方向出版社，1998年)，第17.12页。另见利奥·梅勒，《解读废墟:现代主义、炸弹和英国文化》(剑桥:剑桥大学出版社，2011年)帕特里克·汉密尔顿，《孤独的奴隶》(纽约:纽约书评图书，2007年)，第7.14页。帕特里克·汉密尔顿，《宿醉广场》(欧欧拉版，2006年)，第30-31.15页。约翰·梅芬，《现代主义的变种，不理解的变种:帕特里克·汉密尔顿和伊丽莎白·鲍恩》，见玛丽娜·麦凯和林赛·斯通布里奇(编)，《现代主义后的英国小说:世纪中叶的小说》(纽约:帕尔格雷夫出版社，2007年)，第7页。 63.16关于战时社区的神话化，见安格斯·考尔德的《闪电战的神话》(伦敦:乔纳森·凯普出版社，1991)和马尔科姆·史密斯的《英国和1940:历史、神话和大众记忆》(伦敦:劳特利奇出版社，2000)Eluned Summers-Bremner，“饮酒，饮酒和尖叫”，Patrick Hamilton的《孤独的奴隶》中的战时社会”，见Petra Rau(主编)，《长阴影:英国小说和电影中的第二次世界大战》(西北大学出版，2016)，第94.18页。Thierry Labica认为，对闪电战的情感和语言反应往往被转移到小说中不那么戏剧性的家庭空间，但Labica主要将这些反应视为创伤的口头症状。见拉比卡，“帕特里克·汉密尔顿的《孤独的奴隶》中的战争、对话和语境”，《内涵》，第12期(2002-2003)，第72-83.19页。哈里森，《经历闪电战》，第314.20页。米勒，《闪电战的英国文学》，第33-4.21页。《纽约评论图书》(New York Review Books, 2016)，第48.22页。斯通布里奇(Stonebridge, 2007)采用了另一种方法，强调了小说中绑架、性和爆炸等创伤性因素，他观察到，“《被抓》以绑架场景开始，以对闪电战的描述结束:这两段叙述在排版和风格上是相同的;两者都破坏了罗伊的自由间接引语……”(72)欲了解更多关于二战期间男性气概和英雄主义的表现，请参阅露西·霍尔和吉尔·普兰，“难以形容的英雄主义:第二次世界大战和英雄的终结”，见芭芭拉·科特和斯蒂芬妮·莱斯布里奇(编)，《1800年以来英国小说中的英雄和英雄主义:案例研究》(伦敦:帕尔格雷夫出版社，2017年)，第117-34.24页。卡罗琳·莱文，《形式:整体、节奏、等级、网络》(普林斯顿:普林斯顿大学出版社，2017年)，第115页。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281689
Katherine Parsons
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2281701
Charlotte J. Fabricius, Emily J. Hogg
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,
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