Texas Studies in Literature and Language, University of Texas Press

An established journal of literary criticism publishing substantial essays reflecting a variety of critical approaches and covering all periods of literary history.

Texas Studies in Literature and Language is indexed and/or abstracted in Abstracts of English Studies, Academic Search Premier, American Humanities Index, Current Contents: Arts and Humanities, IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews), IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), Literary Criticism Register, MHRA Annual Bibliography of English Languages and Literature, MLA Bibliography, and Sociological Abstracts.

Manuscripts and editorial correspondence: The Editors, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Department of English, 1 University Station B5000, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0195.

Summer 2009, 51:2
Spring 2009, 51:1
Winter 2008, 50:4
Fall 2008, 50:3
Summer 2008, 50:2
Spring 2008, 50:1
Winter 2007, 49:4
Fall 2007, 49:3
Summer 2007, 49:2
Spring 2007, 49:1
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Summer 2009, 51:2

Scratching the Surface: Reading Character in Female Quixotism: Jessica Lang
"Clothes upon sticks": James Fenimore Cooper and the Flat Frontier: Sandra Tomc
Intimate Geography: The Body, Race, and Space in Larsen's Quicksand: Laura E. Tanner
"[A]ll / things began in Order to / end in Ordainer": The Theological Poetics of Louis Zukofsky from "A" to X: Jonathan Ivry
Fun City: Kenneth Koch among Schoolchildren: Timothy Gray

Spring 2009, 51:1: Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond

Alan W. Friedman and Charles Rossman, Guest Editors

"The Protestant Thing to Do": Anglo-Irish Performance in James Joyce's Dubliners and Samuel Beckett's All That Fall: Emily C. Bloom
Hesitancy in Joyce and Beckett's Manuscripts: Dirk Van Hulle
From Hardware to Software, or "Rocks, Cocks, Creation, Defacation, and Death": Reading Joyce and Beckett in the Fourth Dimension: Rodney Sharkey
Samuel Beckett Meets Buster Keaton: Godeau, Film, and New York: Alan W. Friedman
"White World. Not a Sound": Beckett's Radioactive Text in Embers: James Jesson
"Thought of everything? . . . Forgotten nothing?": (Re-)Editing Beckett's Eh Joe: Justin Tremel
"Someone is Looking at me still": The Audience-Creature Relationship in the Theater Plays of Samuel Beckett: Matthew Davies
The Posthumous Worlds of Not I and Play: Brian Gatten
Giving Sam a Second Life: Beckett's Plays in the Age of Convergent Media: Sean McCarthy

Winter 2008, 50:4

Raiding, Reform, and Reaction: Wondrous Creatures in the Exeter Book Riddles: Brian McFadden
Pedagogy or Gerontagogy: The Education of the Miltonic Deity: Neil D. Graves
William Jones, "Eastern" Poetry, and the Problem of Imitation: Zak Sitter
"In a Room": Elizabeth Bishop in Europe, 1935-1937: Marit J. MacArthur

Fall 2008, 50:3, Cultures of Detention

The Inside Stories of the Global American Prison: H. Bruce Franklin
Detention Without Subjects: Prisons and the Poetics of Living Death: Caleb Smith
Pits, Pendulums, and Penitentiaries: Reframing the Detained Subject: Jason Haslam
Permeable Borders and American Prisons: Malcolm Braly's On the Yard: Katy Ryan
Reading and Reckoning in a Women's Prison: Megan Sweeney

Summer 2008, 50:2

Globalizing Jewish Communities: Mapping a Jewish Geography in Fragment VII of the Canterbury Tales: Miriamne Ara Krummel
George Puttenham's Lewd and Illicit Career: Steven W. May
Disputing Good Bishop's English: Martin Marprelate and the Voice of Menippean Opposition: Joseph Navitsky
Heroic Contradictions: Samson and the Death of Turnus: Maggie Kilgour

Spring 2008, 50:1

James Purdy's Allegories of Love: Don Adams
"Not to Creation or Destruction but to Truth": Robert Duncan, Kenneth Anger, and the Conversation between Film and Poetry: Daniel Kane
Fire, Flutter, Fall, and Scatter: A Structure in the Epiphanies of Hawthorne's Tales: Martin Bidney
The Domestic Transcendentalism of Fanny Fern: Carole Moses

Winter 2007, 49:4

Imagining the "Scottis Natioun": Populism and Propaganda in Scottish Satirical Broadsides: Tricia A. McElroy
"I am made an ass": Falstaff and the Scatology of Windsor's Polity: William Stockton
The Good Wound: Memory and Community in The Unconsoled: Natalie Reitano
The Mode of Romance Revisited: Pierre Vitoux
Apostrophe, or the Lyric Art of Turning Away: J. Mark Smith

Fall 2007, 49:3

"I Stuck the Gimlet in and Waited for Evening": Writing and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Daneen Wardrop
Jim Trueblood and His Critic-Readers: Ralph Ellison's Rhetoric of Dramatic Irony and Tall Humor in the Mid-Century American Literary Public Sphere: Gillian Johns
The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: Timothy Jacobs
Capturing China in Globalization: The Dialectic of Autonomy and Dependency in Zhang Yimou's Cinema: David Leiwei Li

Summer 2007, 49:2

Milton's "sage and serious Poet Spencer": Error and Imitation in The Faerie Queene and Areopagitica: George F. Butler
Shakespearean Seductions, or, What's with Harold Bloom as Falstaff?: Alan D. Lewis
"To Sin in Loving Virtue": Angelo of Measure for Measure: Martha Widmayer
Robert Herrick and the Ambiguities of Gender: David Landrum

Spring 2007, 49:1

Fast Learner: The Typescript of Pynchon's V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin: Luc Herman and John M. Krafft
"Full Fathom Five": The Dead Father in Sylvia Plath's Seascapes: Peter J. Lowe
Susan Sontag's "Archaeology of Longings": Sara Meyer
The Navajo, Psychosis, Lacan, and Derrida: Bernard Selinger

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Guidelines for Contributors

Texas Studies in Literature and Language invites essays, including some at monograph length, that contribute to our understanding of a significant subject. Essays should be stylistically precise and rich and critically contextualized, whether in carrying forward the contemporary criticism of the subject or in questioning its terms. For occasional issues devoted to special topics, we call for papers well in advance. We do not accept notes (generally, manuscripts of less than seventeen pages), and we accept reviews only in the form of essay-length, well-argued articles examining the basic assumptions involved in contemporary critical thinking about a given topic. A stamped self-addressed envelope should accompany all submissions. Please also include an e-mail address and FAX number, if available. Receipt of a manuscript is acknowledged. Before an essay is approved for publication, it must receive strong recommendations from at least two readers and from the editors. We try hard to keep this process down to three months, though sometimes various exigencies delay our response. Acceptable formats for essays are the Chicago Manual of Style or the MLA Style Manual. Manuscripts must be double-spaced throughout, and notes should be numbered consecutively and grouped on pages separate from the text. Blind submission form please. Please send two copies of the manuscript to the Editors, Texas Studies in Literature & Language, Dept. of English, 1 University Station B5000, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0195. Manuscripts originating outside the continental United States may be sent via e-mail to tsll@uts.cc.utexas.edu.