Since the emergence in the 1960s of English Language as a university subject in its own right, the relationship between the study of literature and the study of language has often been one of bitter rivalry. Literary critics have railed against the ‘cold’, ‘scientific’ approach used by scholars of language in their analyses of literary texts, whilst linguists have accused their literary colleag...

In Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's Ondokuzuncu Asır Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi [The Nineteenth Century History of Turkish Literature], the analysis literary texts, authors, and historical context relies primarily on historian’s particular understanding narrative modernization in literature a critical perspective behind this narrative. This perspective, which also shapes aesthetics works, is constant dialogue...

ENID RHODES PESCHEL (editor), Medicine and literature, New York, Neale Watson Academic Publications, 1980, 8vo, pp. xix, 204, $15.00. This collection of essays by American academics ranges widely over European and American literature of the first and second ranks from the Renaissance to the present day, touching on most conceivable connexions between medicine and literature; the doctor as autho...

In this piece I apply various literary remixing techniques to an article by the critic Edward Picot, written about a remix based sound art project undertook over year in 2011-12. intend end result as commentary, research and minor literature.

ENID RHODES PESCHEL (editor), Medicine and literature, New York, Neale Watson Academic Publications, 1980, 8vo, pp. xix, 204, $15.00. This collection of essays by American academics ranges widely over European and American literature of the first and second ranks from the Renaissance to the present day, touching on most conceivable connexions between medicine and literature; the doctor as autho...

Stylistics is the proper study of literature. We mean this in several senses. Firstly, it is fit and apt. It is special and specialised. It is delineated by rules and principles, and by reasonable, open and honest argument. And for the evaluative sense of ‘proper’, we also do mean to suggest that it is ethically superior to other, non-stylistic forms of literary study. We insist that any approa...

Without analogizing too neatly, the motivating premise of this book is that early literary critics stood at a crossroads similar to the one that confronts literary scholars today. Then, as now, the material basis for critical judgment was shifting. Where we face the rise of digital media and online publishing, early critics wrote against the background of a rapidly changing landscape of books. ...