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Scholarly journal of world literature literary criticism, 1900-present. Published quarterly by Indiana University Press, with digital editions on Project Muse. https://iupress.org/journals/jml/
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On Beckett, On!, Journal of Modern Literature's first book, demonstrates how exciting and productive Samuel Beckett scholarship has become, encompassing philosophy, psychoanalysis, ethics, contemporary history, and literary theory.
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This collection of essays was born from a wish to show to a wider audience how exciting and productive Samuel Beckett scholarship has become, at a time when ...
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"The Rings of Sarajevo: W.G. Sebald and the Bosnian War" by Denis Topalović
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*Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel* By Sofie Behluli
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BOOK NEWS: The rise of ekphrastic fiction since the 2010s
Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel By Sofie Behluli Oxford UP, 2025 ISBN: 9780198954484 https://global.oup.com...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Hong Zeng and Ping Zhang review and engage in dialogue with *Breaking down Boundaries and “Making it New”: Oriental Elements in Western Modernism* by Qian Zhaoming
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Laura de la Parra Fernández reviews Kelly M. Rich's *The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair*
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October 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Ryan Johnson argues that William Plomer’s *Sado* reconceptualizes the East-West divide in literature via Russian novels.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Duncan Hay explores the ways Iain Sinclair's *Downriver* rethinks and revises the modernist flâneur figure.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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"W.G. Sebald and the Wars in Yugoslavia: A Closer Look at JML 48.4" by Denis Topalović
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W.G. Sebald and the Wars in Yugoslavia: A Closer Look at JML 48.4 - Indiana University Press
By Denis Topalović, author of “The Rings of Sarajevo: W.G. Sebald and the Bosnian War,” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 48, no. 4, Summer 2025,
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October 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Aaron Shaheen uncovers Ernest Hemingway's use of cartographic concepts in his short story "Soldier's Home."
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October 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Cilliers van den Berg examines how S.J. Naude's Afrikaans novel *The Third Reel* engages Walter Benjamin's angelus novus.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Hannah Loeb shows that in Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight,” recurrent images of translucence serve as the loci of trans-historical insights that connect present subjectivities with past traumas
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October 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.

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October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Andrés Ibarra Cordero explores how Alan Hollinghurst's *The Swimming Pool Library* engages queer temporality, especially the concept of "backwardness"
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October 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Laura L. Behling analyzes P.R. Stephensen's critiques of British censorship through his three lampoons of Radlyffe Hall's *The Well of Loneliness*
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October 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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James Dutton explores how Musil's approach to history in *The Man without Qualities* made the novel unfinishable, since meaning remains in the future
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October 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
NEW ISSUE
Journal of Modern Literature 48.4 (Summer 2025) on the theme "History and Geography" is now LIVE on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/issue/55722
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Woolf's first fully realized literary experiment
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BOOK NEWS: Woolf's first fully realized literary experiment
The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories, by Virginia Woolf Edited by Urmila Seshagiri Princeton UP, 2025 ISBN: 9780691263137 https://press.p...
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Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance
*Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature*
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Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature By Matthew Scully Fordham UP, 2024 ISBN: 9781531507077 https://fo...
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The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement By Adam W. Coon SUNY Press, 2024 ISBN: 9781438497785 https://sunypress.e...
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Examining domestic servants in contemporary South Asian fiction
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