Contributions to Journals
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Essays
1) 'Leaf into Flame: John Burnside", The Riveraine Muse, vol. 1, no. 2 (Sep 2024), pp. 44-8.
2) 'In Cold Blood: A Modern Tragedy', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 105 (Sep 24), pp. 28-31.
3) 'Narrative Prose - Significant Sentences', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 100
(Apr 2023), pp. 54-8.
4) 'On the Edge of Danger - Passing', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 97 (Sep
2022), pp. 4-7.
5) 'True Connection -Trauma and Joy in A Thousand Splendid Suns', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 96 (Apr 2022), pp. 26-9.
6) 'Beginnings, Middles and Ends: Sequence and Organization in Narrative', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 89 (Feb 2020), pp. 10-12.
7) 'Urban Space, Singularity and Networks in Laura Del-Rivo's The Furnished Room (1961)', American, British and Canadian Studies, Special Issue: Literature and the City, vol, 34 (Jun 2020), pp. 26-48.
8) 'Composed in Clichés? Style in The Kite Runner', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 87 (Feb 2020), pp. 20-3.
9) 'Reading Round Gatsby', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 86 (Dec 2019), pp. 49-51.
10) 'Recreating the Past – Historical and Neo-historical Fiction', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 83 (Feb 2019), pp. 41-5.
11) 'Fighting Back: Documents, Modernity and Feminism in Dracula', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 81 (Sep 2018), pp. 36-8.
12) 'Realism, Naturalism and Modernism in the 19th and 20th-century Novel', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 80 (Apr 2018), pp. 17-19.
13) 'A Plurality of Belongings: Tzvetan Todorov', PN Review 236, 43:6 (Jul-Aug 2017), pp. 30-1.
14) 'Competing Stories - A Short History of Literary Criticism in the Twentieth Century', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 76 (Apr 2017), pp. 34-7.
15) 'My Ántonia - Strong Women, Nostalgia and Progress', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English,75 (Feb 2017), pp. 44-6.
16) ‘Grapes into Wine - Steinbeck's "We-centred Novel"', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 72 (Apr 2016), pp. 57-8.
17) 'A Question of Dialogue - Dialogue in the Novel', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 66 (Dec 2014), pp. 10-12.
18) 'Time in the Novel - You Can Repeat the Past', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 63 (Feb 2014), pp. 13-17.
19) 'Huckleberry Finn - Voice, Identity, Race and Myth', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 59 (Feb 2013), pp. 38-41.
20) 'Migration, Vision and Community: The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath', emagazine:
the magazine for Advanced Level English, 53 (Sep 2011), pp. 34-6.
21) 'The 19th-century Novel: Genre, Techniques and Themes', emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English, 52 (Apr 2011), pp. 52-5.
22) 'Information and Misinformation: Narrative Structure and Voice in The Great Gatsby', emagazine: the Magazine for Advanced Level English, 42 (Dec 2008), pp. 34-6.
23) 'Panoramic Sleights: Figures of Cinema in Literature’, PN Review 146, 28:6 (Jul-Aug 2002), pp. 17-21.
24) 'Assaults on Authority: B. S. Johnson’s Albert Angelo', Abraxas, 16 (2000), pp. 10-16.
25) 'Feelgood Fiction: The Novels of Graham Swift', Oxford Quarterly, 1:4/2:1 (Spring/Summer 1997), pp. 37-41.
26) 'Uncancelled Challenge: The Work of Raymond Williams: Part IV', PN Review 73, 16:3 (1989), pp. 45-50.
27) 'Uncancelled Challenge: The Work of Raymond Williams: Part III', PN Review 69, 16:1 (1989),
pp. 43-8.
28) 'Uncancelled Challenge: The Work of Raymond Williams: Part II', PN Review 67, 15:5 (1989),
pp. 32-41.
29) 'Uncancelled Challenge: The Work of Raymond Williams: Part I', PN Review 65, 15:3 (1988),
pp. 36-43.‘
30) 'See B. S. Johnson Decently', Part 2, PN Review 58, 14:2 (1987), pp. 58-62.
31) 'See B. S. Johnson Decently', Part I, PN Review 57, 14:1 (1987), pp. 47-52.
32) 'The Truths of Lying: Albert Angelo', Review of Contemporary Fiction, 5:2 (Summer 1985),
pp. 64-70.
33) 'Telling Life, Telling Death: The Unfortunates', Review of Contemporary Fiction, 5:2 (Summer 1985), pp. 34-42.
34) 'Sartre/Barthes', PN Review 47, 12:3 (1985), pp. 14-20.
35) 'Post-Theory', PN Review 41, 11:3 (1984), pp. 28-9.
36) 'I’m Not Complaining: Q. D. Leavis and Women’s Estate', PN Review 38, 10:6 (1984), pp. 37-8.
37) 'The Politicization of English', PN Review 37, 10:5 (1984), pp. 12-14.
38) 'Never Trust The Critic', PN Review 32, 9:6 (1983), pp. 34-5.
39) 'Tristram of Lyonesse: Dangerous Voyage', Victorian Poetry, 20:2 (Summer 1982), pp. 97-111.
Essay-reviews
1) 'Vital Tradition' [Terry Eagleton, Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read], PN Review 269, 49:3 (Jan-Feb 2023).
2) 'Pearl of Great Price' [Marjorie Perloff, Infrathin: A Study in Micropoetics], PN Review 263, 48:3
(Jan-Feb 2022), pp. 35-7.
3) 'System and Agon' [Harold Bloom, Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death], PN Review 258, 47:4 (Mar-Apr 2021), pp. 45-7.
4) 'Paths Through the Labyrinth' [Daniel Weissbort and Astradur Eysteinsson (eds), Translation – Theory and Practice], PN Review 174, 33:4 (Mar-Apr 2007), pp. 19-21.
5) 'Speaking Shards' [Stephen Burt, Randall Jarrell and His Age], PN Review 153, 30:1 (Sep-Oct 2003), pp. 44-6.
6) 'The Scrying Game' [Marjorie Perloff, 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics], PN Review 144, 28:4 (Mar-Apr 2002), pp. 67-69.
7) 'Feast at the Spectres’ [Graham Robb, Rimbaud], PN Review 138, 27:1 (Mar-Apr 2001), pp. 65-8.
8) 'The Clamour of Babel' [George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life], PN Review 119, 24:3 (Jan-Feb 1998), pp.34-5.
9) 'Loyalties and Entitlements' [Frank Kermode, Not Entitled: A Memoir; Fred Inglis, Raymond Williams], PN Review 112, 23:2 (Nov-Dec 1996), pp. 63-6.
10) 'At the Harvard Club' [Helen Vendler, Soul Says: On Recent Poetry], PN Review 106, 22:2 (Nov- Dec 1995), pp. 21-3.
11) 'Death of a Critic' [Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages], PN Review 104, 21:6 (Jul-Aug 1995), pp. 38-41.
12) 'Lives of the Leavises' [‘The Leavis Legacy’ in The Cambridge Review; Ian MacKillop, F. R. Leavis:
A Life in Criticism; G. Singh, F. R. Leavis: A Literary Biography], London Quarterly, 9 (Apr-May
1996), pp. 18-20.
13) 'Intimations of Utopia' [Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics], PN
Review 102, 21:4 (Mar-Apr 1995), pp. 38-41.
14) 'Death and Decipherment' [Louis Althusser, ‘L’avenir dure longtemps’ suivi de ‘Les faits’:
Autobiographies; David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault], PN Review 94 (Nov-Dec 1993),
pp. 42-7.
15) 'New World Maps' [Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism], PN Review 93 (Sep-Oct 1993),
pp. 12-15.
16) 'Contribution to "George Steiner’s Real Presences: Three Perspectives"' PN Review 73, 16:3
(1989), pp. 20-2.
17) 'Critic of Crisis' [Mary Gluck, Georg Lukács and His Generation 1900-1918], PN Review 53, 13:3
(1986), pp. 69-72.
18) 'Self, Society and Art' [Charles Altieri, Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry; Alan
Williamson, Introspection and Contemporary Poetry; Frank Lentricchia, Criticism and Social
Change; Christopher Brookeman, American Culture and Society since the 1930s; Peter Conrad,
The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York; Henry M. Sayre, The Visual Text of William
Carlos Williams], PN Review 49, 12:5 (1986), pp. 35-7.
19) 'Rotten Reconstruction' [Laurence Lerner (ed.), Reconstructing Literature], PN Review 40, 11:2
(1984), pp. 48-9.
20) 'Anti-Philosophers' [F. R. Leavis, The Critic as Anti-Philosopher, G. Singh (ed.) and Jonathan Culler,
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism], PN Review 33, 10:1 (1983), pp. 47-9.
21) 'Hegemony by Other Means' [Peter Widdowson (ed.), Re-Reading English], PN Review 30, 9:4
(1982), pp. 28-30.
Reviews
1) ‘The Mechanical Bard’ [Mike Sharples and Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers], PN Review 267, 49:1 (Sep-Oct 22), pp. 53-5.
2) ‘Questions from the Edge’ [Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life; Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps; A Biography of Jacques Derrida], PN Review 262, 48:2 (Nov-Dec 2021), pp. 65-6.
3) ‘Fireflies and Field’ [Terence Cave, Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism], PN Review 234, 43:4 (Mar-Apr 2017), pp. 54-5.
4) ‘Being and Neverness’ [Sean Ashton, Living in a Land], PN Review 232, 43:2 (Nov-Dec 2016), pp. 68-9.
5) ‘The Muse in Brains’ [Nikki Stillmann, The Lyric in the Age of the Brain], PN Review 232, 43:2 (Nov-Dec 2016), pp. 57-8.
6) ‘Harvest of a Lifetime’ [Jonathan Culler, Theory of the Lyric], PN Review 231, 43:1 (Sep-Oct 2016), pp. 62-3.
7) ‘Nutritious Images’ [Richard Bradford, The Importance of Elsewhere: Philip Larkin’s Photographs], PN Review 230, 42:6 (Jul-Aug 2016), pp. 90-1.
8) ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ [Gregory Woods, Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World] PN Review 230, 42:6 (Jul-Aug 2016), pp. 84-5.
9) ‘Vision and Vacuity’ [Harold Bloom, The Daemon Knows], PN Review 229, 42:5 (May-Jun 2016), pp. 82-3.
10) ‘Difficulties of Demarcation’ [Derek Attridge, The Work of Literature], PN Review 226, 42:2 (Nov-Dec 2015), pp. 76-7.
11) ‘Out of the Shadows’ [Wendy Pollard, Pamela Hansford Johnson: Her Life, Works and Times], PN Review 223, 41:5 (May-Jun 2015), pp. 61-2.
12) ‘A Strange, Tough Spirit’ [Stephen Medcalf, The Spirit of England: Selected Essays, Brian Cummings and Gabriel Josipovici (eds)], PN Review 195, 37:1 (Sep-Oct 2010), pp. 58-9.
13) ‘Failure of Engagement’ [Adam Kirsch, The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry], PN Review 182, 34:6 (Jul-Aug 2008), p. 74.
14) ‘Love Song to Larkin’ [John Osborne, Larkin, Ideology and Critical Violence: A Case of Wrongful Conviction], PN Review 181, 34:5 (May-Jun 2006), pp. 63-4.
15) ‘The Professor of Desire’ [George Steiner, Lessons of the Masters: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 2002-2003], PN Review 156, 30:4 (Mar-Apr 2004), pp. 56-7.
16) ‘Seeing Where We Stand’ [Robert Hampson and Tony Davenport (eds), Ford Madox Ford: A Reappraisal; Sara Haslam, Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War], PN Review 154, 30:2 (Nov-Dec 2003), pp. 65-6.
17) ‘Not Enough’ [Peter McDonald, Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill], PN Review 152, 29:6 (Jul-Aug 2003), pp. 79-80.
18) ‘Voicing the Silence’ [Peter Abbs, Selected Poems], PN Review 150, 29:4 (Mar-Apr 2003), p. 76.
19) ‘Core of the Wound’ [Maeve Brennan, The Philip Larkin I Knew], PN Review 150, 29:4 (Mar-Apr 2003), p. 69.
20) ‘Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’ [Christine Brooke-Rose, Invisible Author: Last Essays], PN Review 148, 29:2 (Nov-Dec 2002), pp. 56-7.
21) ‘The Matter of Art’ [Peter de Bolla, Art Matters], PN Review 146, 28:6 (Jul-Aug 2002), pp. 68-9.
22) ‘Last Orders’ [Anthony Easthope, Privileging Difference, Catherine Belsey (ed.)], PN Review 145, 28:5 (May-Jun 2002), pp. 59-60.
23) ‘An Elegy for Tragedy’ [Felicity Rosslyn, Tragic Plots: A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca], PN Review 140, 27:6 (Jul-Aug 2001), pp. 56-7.
24) ‘Harrowing Holes’ [J. Hillis Miller, Black Holes; Manuel Asensi, J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading, trans. Mabel Richart], PN Review 134, 26:6 (Jul-Aug 2000), pp. 65-7.
25) ‘Damning with Great Praise’ [Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity; Fredric Jameson, The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1988], PN Review 130, 26:2 (Nov-Dec 1999), pp. 80-2.
26) ‘Who’s We?’ [Nicholas Boyle, Who Are We Now? Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney], PN Review 126, 25:4 (Mar-Apr 1999), pp. 67-8.
27) ‘Peace or a Sword’ [Frank Cioffi, Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer], PN Review 124, 25:2 (Nov-Dec 1998), p. 72.
28) ‘Transgressions and Thresholds’ [Suzanne Guerlac, Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton], PN Review 120, 24:4 (Mar-Apr 1998), pp. 60-2.
29) ‘Vital Corpus’ [Gary Day, Re-Reading Leavis: ‘Culture’ and Literary Criticism], PN Review 116, 23:6 (Jul-Aug 1997), pp. 53-4.
30) ‘Pleasure, Gender, Writing’ [Formations of Pleasure, Formations Editorial Board (ed.)], PN Review 41, 11:3 (1984), pp. 63-4.
31) ‘Inside the Whale’ [Donald Wesling and Tadeusa Slawek, Literary Voice: The Calling of Jonah], PN Review 111, 23:1 (Sep-Oct 1996), p. 72.
32) ‘Metropolitan Myopia’ [Robert Crawford, Devolving English Literature], PN Review 91, 19:5 (May-Jun 1993), pp. 71-2.
33) ‘Cox and Cox’ [Brian Cox, The Great Betrayal: Memoirs of a Life in Education], PN Review 90, 19:4 (Mar-Apr 1993), pp. 48-50.
34) ‘Love in the Ruins’ [Glyn Maxwell, Out of the Rain; Tony Flynn, Body Politic; Linda France, Red; Jeremy Reed, Red-Haired Android; Peter Robinson, Leaf-Viewing], London Review of Books, 14:19 (8 Oct 1992).
35) ‘Modern Tragedy’ [Perry Anderson, English Questions; A Zone of Engagement], PN Review 87, 19:1 (Sep-Oct 1992), pp. 66-70.
36) ‘Uncertainties of the Poet’ [Simon Armitage, Kid; John Burnside, Feast Days; Ben Okri, An African Elegy; Colin Falck, Memorabilia; Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns], London Review of Books, 14:12 (25 Jun 1992), pp. 22-3.
37) ‘New Literary Histories’ [Elizabeth A. Marsland, The Nation’s Cause: French, English and German Poetry of the First World War; Adrian Caesar, Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class and Ideology in the 1930s], PN Review 83, 18:3 (Jan-Feb 1992), pp. 54-6.
38) ‘Textual Harassment’ [Christine Brooke-Rose, Textermination; David Caute, The Women’s Hour; John Fuller, Look Twice], London Review of Books, 13:21 (7 Nov 1991), pp. 26-7.
39) ‘Theories, Stories and Ethics’ [Christine Brooke-Rose, Stories, Theories and Things; J. Hillis Miller, Theory Now and Then], PN Review 81, 18:1 (Sep-Oct 1991), pp. 60-3.
40) ‘Goodbye to Dada’ [Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; Robert Hewison, Future Tense: A New Art for the Nineties], PN Review 80, 17:6 (Jul-Aug 1991), pp. 73-6.
41) ‘Parting with the Whole’ [Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason: Volume Two, trans. Quintin Hoare; Robert Young, White Mythologies: Writing History and the West; Tony Bennett, Outside Literature], PN Review 79 (May-Jun 1991), pp. 56-8.
42) ‘Pragmatic Protocols’ [Robert Scholes, Protocols of Reading; Paul B. Armstrong, Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation], PN Review 78, 17:4 (Mar-Apr 1991), pp. 89-91.
43) ‘Seeing Yourself Dead’ [Andrew Motion, Love in a Life; Douglas Oliver, Three Variations on the Theme of Harm: Selected Poetry and Prose; John Eppel, Spoils of War; Brian Waltham, Music for Brass; Rosamund Stanhope, Lapidary], London Review of Books, 13:4 (21 Feb 1991), pp. 15-16.
44) ‘Magazine Montage’ [europe: revue littéraire mensuelle; Le courrier du centre internaional d’études poétiques: Trimestrial Poetry Review; Verse; Scripsi], PN Review 77, 17:3 (Jan/Feb 1991), pp. 69-71.
45) ‘The Twinings of Tradition’ [Stephen Bann, The True Vine: On Visual Representation and the Western Tradition; Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson; Robert D. Stock, The Flutes of Dionysus: Daemonic Enthralment in Literature], PN Review 77, 17:3 (Jan/Feb 1991), pp. 66-9.
46) ‘Rhetoric, Aesthetics, Poetics’ [Stanley Fish, Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies; Terry Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic and The Significance of Theory; David Lodge, After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism], PN Review 76 (Nov/Dec 1990), pp. 61-4.
47) ‘In A Dry Place’ [C. H. Sisson, On the Look-Out: A Partial Autobiography; In Two Minds: Guesses at Other Writers], London Review of Books, 12:19 (11 Oct 1990), pp. 22-3.
48) ‘Endings and Beginnings’ [Bernard Bergonzi, Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture; Ian Hunter, Culture and Government: The Emergence of Literary Education; Thomas Docherty, After Theory: Postmodernism/postmarxism], PN Review 75, 17:1 (Sep/Oct 1990), pp. 63-4.
49) ‘American Journals’ [New Criterion; Partisan Review; Sewanee Review; Hudson Review; Grand Street], PN Review 75, 17:1 (Sep/Oct 1990), pp. 61-2.
50) ‘Mergings and Margins’ [Daniel Gunn, Psychoanalysis and Fiction: An Exploration of Literary and Psychoanalytic Borders], PN Review 74, 16:6 (1990), pp. 52-3.
51) ‘Spiritual Materialism’ [Michael Edwards, Poetry and Possibility: A Study in the Power and Mystery of Words], PN Review 73, 16:5 (May-Jun 1990), pp. 58-60.
52) ‘Funerary Comebacks’ [Howard Davies, Sartre and ‘Les Temps Modernes’; Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier, Simone de Beauvoir, trans. Lisa Nesselson], PN Review 67, 15:5 (May-Jun 1989), pp. 52-4.
53) ‘Orthodoxy and After’ [Patrick Parrinder, The Failure of Theory: Essays on Criticism and Contemporary Fiction], PN Review 64, 15:2 (Nov-Dec 1988), pp. 63-5.
54) ‘Desire’ [Norman Bryson, Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix], Textual Practice, 1:1 (Spring 1987), pp. 107-11.
55) ‘Urbane Structuralist’ [John Sturrock, Structuralism], PN Review 60, 14:4 (Mar-Apr 1988), pp. 66-8.
56) ‘Desert of Discourse’ [Diane MacDonald, Theories of Discourse: An Introduction], PN Review 58, 14:2 (Nov-Dec 1987), p. 80.
57) ‘Tense Interpretations’ [Stephen Prickett, Words and ‘The Word’: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation], PN Review 58, 14:2 (1987), pp. 76-8.
58) ‘Bad Mythology’ [Eva Figes, The Seven Ages], PN Review 54, 13:4 (Mar-Apr 1987), pp. 58-9.
59) ‘Ambiguous Order’ [Christopher Prendergast, The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert], PN Review 54, 13:4 (Mar-Apr 1987), pp. 53-4.
60) ‘Death of Fathers’ [Jean-Paul Sartre, The Freud Scenario, J.-B. Pontalis (ed.), trans. Quintin Hoare], PN Review 52, 13:2 (Nov-Dec 1986), pp. 54-5.
61) ‘Better Metafiction’ [Patricia Waugh, Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction], PN Review 51, 13:1 (Sep-Oct 1986), pp. 60-1.
62) ‘Well-clothed Orality’ [Writers at Work No. 6, George Plimpton (ed.)], Times Literary Supplement (2 Aug 1985), p. 858.
63) ‘Fantasy Function’ [Terry Eagleton, The Function of Criticism: From ‘The Spectator’ to Post-Structuralism], PN Review 47, 12:3 (Jan-Feb 1985), pp. 57-8.
64) ‘Between Two Worlds’ [The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: Vol. 8: The Present, Boris Ford (ed.); Society and Literature, Alan Sinfield (ed.)], PN Review 45, 12:1 (Sep-Oct 1985), pp. 72-3.
65) ‘Reading Magazines’, [Partisan Review; The New Criterion], PN Review 45, 12:1 (Sep-Oct 1985), pp. 11-13.
66) ‘Leavis Life and Times’ [The Leavises: Recollections and Impressions, Denys Thompson (ed.)], PN Review 44, 11:6 (Jul-Aug 1985), pp. 64-5.
67) ‘Deconstructive Diplomacy’ [Christopher Norris, The Deconstructive Turn], PN Review 44, 11:6 (Jul-Aug 1985), pp. 57-8.
68) ‘Radically Harmless’ [Fred Inglis, Radical Earnestness: English Social Theory 1880-1980], PN Review 43, 11:5 (May-Jun 1985), pp. 61-2.
69) ‘Really a Feminist’ [Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir Today: Conversations 1972-78, trans. Marianne Howarth], PN Review 43, 11:5 (May-Jun 1985), pp. 56-7.
70) ‘Pimps and Missionaries’ [Chris Baldick, The Social Mission of English Criticism 1848-1932], PN Review 42, 11:4 (Mar-Apr 1985), pp. 67-8.
71) ‘Liberating Enthralment’ [A. D. Nuttall, A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality], PN Review 42 (Mar-Apr 1985), 11:4, pp. 66-7.
72) ‘Pleasure, Gender, Writing’ [Formations of Pleasure, Formations Editorial Board (ed.)], PN Review 41, 11:3 (1984), pp. 63-4.
73) ‘Secular Closure’ [Edward W. Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic], PN Review 41, 11:3 (Jan-Feb 1985), pp. 62-3.
74) ‘Reading Magazines’ [Temenos; Oxford Poetry; New Poetry from Oxford; The Cambridge Poetry Magazine; The Poet’s Voice; Label], PN Review 40, 11:2 (Nov-Dec 1984), pp. 9-10.
75) ‘No Laurel’ [Ore: W. E. Henley Special Issue; Poetry Wales: W. H. Davies Special Issue], PN Review 38, 10:6 (May-Jun 1984), pp. 61-2.
76) ‘In the Museum of Culture’ [Marshall Walker, The Literature of The United States of America; Larzer Ziff, Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Culture Independence in America; Jerome Loving, Emerson, Whitman and the American Muse; Alan Wald, The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan; Charles Olson and Robert Creeley, The Complete Correspondence Volume 5; Harold Bloom, Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism], PN Review 38, 10:6 (May-Jun 1984), pp. 57-9.
77) ‘Reading Magazines’ [Gadfly; Literature and History; English; Between the Lines; Orbis; Present Tense; Grosseteste Review], PN Review 37, 10:5 (Mar-Apr 1984), pp. 6-7.
78) ‘Unstable Enchantments’ [David Packman, Vladimir Nabokov: The Structure of Literary Desire; Lucy Maddox, Nabokov’s Novels in English], Times Literary Supplement, 4,184 (10 Jun 1983), p. 608.
79) ‘Missing Body’ [Gabriel Josipovici, Writing and the Body; David Piper, The Image of the Poet: British Poets and their Portraits; Shelley on Love, Richard Holmes (ed.)], PN Review 35, 10:3 (Jan-Feb 1983), pp. 64-5.
80) 'Texts and Truth' [Michael Hamburger, The Truth of Poetry; Andre Brink, Mapmakers: Writing in a State of Siege] PN Review 34, 10:2 (Nov-Dec 1983), pp. 55-6.
81)‘Understanding All, Doing Nothing’ [Tzvetan Todorov, Symbolism and Interpretation], PN Review 33, 10:1 (Sep-Oct 1983), pp. 71-2.
82) ‘Doubtful Harvests’ [W. W. Robson, The Definition of Literature; Dannie Abse, A Strong Dose of Myself; Paul Auster, The Art of Hunger and Other Essays; Ronald Blythe, From the Headlands], PN Review 33, 10:1 (Sep-Oct 1983), pp. 69-70.
83) ‘Disorder and Play’ [Theo Hermans, The Structure of Modernist Poetry and Sydney Lévy, The Play of the Text: Max Jacob’s Le Cornet à dés], PN Review 32, 9:6 (Jul-Aug 1983), pp. 63-4.
84) ‘Illusions of Literacy’ [Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word], PN Review 31, 9:5 (May-Jun 1983), p. 76.
85) ‘Craft Without Compass’ [Allan Rodway, The Craft of Criticism], PN Review 31, 9:5 (1983), p. 74.
86) ‘Microcosm of Change?’ [Clark Hulse, Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic], PN Review 31, 9:5 (May-Jun 1983), pp. 73-4.
87) ‘Crayon Rides Again’ [Benjamin Lease, Anglo-American Encounters: England and the Rise of American Literature], PN Review 31, 9:5 (May-Jun 1983), p. 69.
88) ‘American Voices: Literary Magazines from the United States’, [American Poetry Review; Sulfur; Antaeus; Manhattan Review; Sewanee Review; Chicago Review; Kenyon Review], PN Review 31, 9:5 (May-Jun 1983), pp. 7-9.
89) ‘Anatomy of Scripture’ [Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature], PN Review 30, 9:4 (Mar-Apr 1983), pp. 80-1.
90) ‘Theories and a Practice’ [Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction, Ann Jefferson and David Robey (eds); Catherine Belsey, Critical Practice], PN Review 30, 9:4 (Mar-Apr 1983), pp. 79-80.
91) ‘The Voices of History’ [Stan Smith, Inviolable Voice: History and Twentieth-Century Poetry], PN Review 30, 9:4 (Mar-Apr 1983), p. 79.
92) ‘Reading and Violence’ [Bernard Sharratt, Reading Relations: Structures of Literary Production], PN Review 29, 9:3 (Jan-Feb 1983), pp. 55-6.
93) 'Energy Discharge' [Charles Olson and Robert Creeley, The Complete Correspondence Volume 3, George F. Butterick (ed.)], PN Review 29, 9:3 (Jan-Feb 1983), p. 52.
94) 'Elusive Epics' [Isidore Okpewho, The Epic in Africa: Towards a Poetics of the Oral Performance; Mazisi Kunene, Emperor Shaka the Great: A Zulu Epic], PN Review 29, 9:3 (Jan-Feb 1983), p. 51.
95) ‘Voluble Voyager’ [Derek Walcott, The Fortunate Traveller], PN Review 28, 9:2 (Nov-Dec 1982), pp. 73-4.
96) ‘Great Father, Lost Son’ [Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life; Betsy Erkkila, Walt Whitman among the French: Poet and Myth; Jay Parini, Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic], PN Review 28, 9:2 (Nov-Dec 1982), pp. 62-3.
97) ‘Poetic Poise, Critical Chaos’ [G. S. Fraser, Poems; A Short History of English Poetry], PN Review 26, 6:6 (Jul-Aug 1982), pp. 61-2.
98) 'Englishman's Avant-Garde' [Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde] PN Review 26, 6:6 (Jul-Aug 1982), pp. 54-5.
99) ‘American Poetries’ [Jerome Mazzaro, Postmodern American Poetry; Charles Molesworth, The Fierce Embrace: A Study of Contemporary American Poetry], PN Review 24, 8:4 (Mar-Apr 1982), p. 58.
100) Pop Art Poetics’ [Donald Wesling, The Chances of Rhyme: Device and Modernity], PN Review 24, 8:4 (Mar-Apr 1982), p. 56.
101) ‘Late Challenges [F. R. Leavis, ‘Reading Out Poetry’ and ‘Eugenio Montale: A Tribute’], PN Review 24, 8:4 (Mar-Apr 1982), p. 54.
102) ‘David Jones at the Tate’ [Exhibition, Tate Gallery 22 Jul-6 Sep 1981], PN Review 23,8:3 (Jan-Feb 1982), pp. 62-3.
103) ‘RK, OK’ [Richard Kostelanetz, ‘The End’ Essentials/Appendix], PN Review 21, 8:1 (Sep-Oct 1981), p. 53.
104) ‘The Rise of Homo Legens’ [E. S. Shaffer (ed.), Comparative Criticism: A Yearbook, vol. 2], PN Review 21, 8:1 (Sep-Oct 1981), pp. 52-3.
105) ‘Minor Monster’ [Geoffrey H. Hartman, Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today], PN Review 20, 7:6 (Jul-Aug 1981), p. 55.
Interviews
Nicolas Tredell has conducted a total of 25 interviews with leading literary figures. 22 of these are collected in the two editions of Conversations with Critics (1994; 2015) - see "Books Edited".
Uncollected interviews below:
1) 'Michael Schmidt in Conversation', The North 20 (1997), pp. 16-20.
2) 'Brian Cox at Seventy', PN Review 128, 25:6 (Jul-Aug 1999).
3) 'Multitudinous Megafictions: An Interview with Steven Moore', The VP Annual 2016 (Great Britain & Singapore: Verbivoracious Press, 2016), pp. 20-45.
Reports
1) 'Writers at PEN: Lessing and Oz', PN Review 59, 14:5 (1987), pp. 7-8.
2) 'Greene's Afterlife', PN Review 86, 18:6 (Jul-Aug 1992), pp. 5-7.
3) 'Speaking of Drama: Pen International Writers Day, 27 Mar 1993' [Arthur Miller,
Sir Peter Hall], PN Review 92, 19:6 (Jul-Aug 1993), pp. 5-7.
Editorial, Annotated Bibliography, Introduction
1) Editorial, PN Review 48: A New Orthodoxy? 12:4 (1985), pp. 3-5.
2) Annotated Bibliography, PN Review 48: A New Orthodoxy?, 12:4, pp. 62-71.
3) Introduction, Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, 'Teresa Ebert Have You Been to the
MLA Lately?', PN Review 61, 14:5 (1987), p. 69.
Obituaries
1) 'All his Women Friends and Mistresses: Philippe Sollers, PN Review 271, 49:5 (May-Jun 2023), p. 3.
2) 'Fruitful Errata: George Steiner', PN Review 252, 46:4 (Mar-Apr 2020), p. 4.
3) 'Todorov Our Contemporary', PN Review 235, 43:5 (May-June 2017), p. 13.
4) 'Bernard Bergonzi (1929-2016)', PN Review 232, 43:2 (Nov-Dec 2016), pp. 5-6.5) The Double Man: Karl Miller', PN Review 221, 12:3 (Jan-Feb 1986), p. 2.6) ‘A Search for Order: Richard Hoggart', PN Review 218, 40:6 (Jul-Aug 2014), pp. 6-7.
7) 'Christine Brooke-Rose', The Independent (27 Mar 2012), p. 49.
9) 'Hugh Kenner', The Independent (27 Nov 2003), p. 66.10) 'Jean-François Lyotard', PN Review 123, 25:1 (Sep-Oct 1998), p. 7.
10) 'Boris Ford', PN Review 123, 25:1 (Sep-Oct 1998), p. 8.
11) 'Sir Isaiah Berlin', PN Review 121, 24:5 (May-Jun 1998), pp. 8-9.12) 'Practically Everything: William Burroughs 1914-1997', PN Review 119, 24:3 (Jan-Feb 1988), 1997), pp. 9-11.
13). 'Jean Genet', PN Review 51, 13:1 (Sep-Oct 1986). pp. 8-9.
14). 'Simone de Beauvoir', PN Review 51, 13:1 (Sep-Oct 1986), pp. 7-8.
15) 'Conrad Detrez', PN Review 47, 25:1 (Jan-Feb 1986), p. 2.16) 'François Truffaut', PN Review 43, 11:5 (May-Jum 1985), p. 2.17) 'G. Wilson Knight', PN Review 47, 12:3 (Jan-Feb 1986), p. 2.18) 'Michel Foucault', PN Review 41, 11.3 (Jan-Feb 1985), p. 2.
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