by Pablo Ruano Delving into characters’ minds is not Dickens’s strong suit. On the contrary, Dickens’s figures are best known…
Category: Literary Theory
The November 2018 issue of Derrida Today publishes the keynote addresses from the 2018 Derrida Today conference in Montreal. One…
CounterText guest editor Norbert Bugeja shares some interesting thoughts about the special issue, Afterward/Afterword, and the important, complex questions it…
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the Ben Jonson Journal. Read on and learn more about the history and impact…
Language and Literature
You Don’t Know Jacques: Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and the Denial of Deconstruction
Fifty years have passed since the publication of Of Grammatology, and the Oxford Literary Review has dedicated its July 2018…
By Randall Stevenson On Bastille Day, 2000, why did 3 million people sit down to a picnic lunch along a…
Welcome to November where, very sadly, we’ve reached the last in our blog series for OLR’s 40th anniversary. To go…
Annotation has become one of the most popular themes in the reception and editing of literary (and other) texts. In…
In 1963, Jean-Luc Nancy tackled the subject of generational silence in his article ‘A Certain Silence’ (republished in OLR in…
CounterText Volume 3.2 (August 2017) is a special issue entitled The Poetic, and contains a contains a wide-ranging interview with…