21st century writing | 21st century approaches
An editorial in the twentieth anniversary issue of the journal Postmodern Culture in 2010 added another voice to mark the gradual retreat of the postmodern...
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In Edgelands (2011), Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explain their intention to ‘put aside our nostalgia for places we’ve never really known’ and instead seek...
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With DC’s “New 52” reboot of Dial H China Miéville has re-entered the genre of comics after a guest episode of Hellblazer and a much-discussed but ultimately...
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As one of the most important American writers of the late-twentieth century – alongside Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon in particular – Don DeLillo is a notable target of...
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Jan 12, 2013
Christopher Daley Railways are news. On the one hand, they are the source of consternation as above inflation fare rises couple with the perceived drudgery of commuting to characterise the railways as a site of soaring ticket prices and overcrowded, invariably late trains. But this sentiment lives alongside whimsy and romanticism, be it through...
Jan 12, 2013
Rowena Clarke Since the nineteen fifties, when suburban living began to establish itself as the new norm, representations of suburbia in American culture have been dominated by a particular set of characteristic tropes. Responding, in part, to the mass-produced nature of suburban landscapes and buildings, with their uniform housing designs and pre-planned...
Jan 12, 2013
Cultural criticism and cultural histories of the development of English as a subject place special emphasis on the role of intellectuals, education and national identity...
Jan 12, 2013
Comics are the new kids on the block in the world of literary academia. It is only in recent years that they have been accepted at a valid narrative form...
Dec 9, 2012
Over the last few decades, the short story has been the subject of a fierce medical dispute. Observers have gathered to ask, like Ishmael of the Leviathan in Moby-Dick...
Dec 9, 2012
According to Shoshana Felman, “The twentieth century can be defined as a century of trauma” (171 n.1). But is the trauma paradigm relevant for...
Dec 9, 2012
In Death of a Discipline (2003), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak argues that a merging of Comparative Literature with Area Studies can help provide...
Dec 9, 2012
This article is concerned with the fictional forms of cultural resistance and experiment of the last twenty years, which I have called alternative fictioneers...
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