Here is a selection of studies published by current and former members of the ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory in 2025:
Zaal Andronikashvili, “Born of the Earth: Autochthony in the Colonial and Decolonial Struggles of the Caucasus,” in Discourses in Global Political Theory, ed. Hartmut Behr & Felix Rösch (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), 95–119;
Natalya Bekhta, “Democratic Futures, Utopia, and the Literary Imagination of Contemporary Ukraine,” in Utopia and Democracy, ed. Zsolt Czigányik & Iva Dimovska (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), 213–29;
Vladimir Biti, Perpetrators’ Legacies: Post-imperial Condition in Sebald and McEwan (London: Routledge);
Luciana Villas Boas (co-ed w. Daniel Bonomo et al.), James Joyce e Virginia Woolf: experiências, limites e redefinições do modernismo (= Aletria 35.2);
Marco Caracciolo, “Gamification and the Ambiguities of Digital Play in Contemporary Fiction,” SubStance 54.3: 34–52;
Anne Duprat (co-ed. w. Alison James, Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian, and Anne-Gaëlle Weber), Le Hasard : littérature, arts, sciences, philosophie (Paris: CNRS 2025);
Davide Giuriato (co.ed. w. Anatol Heller), Insektenpoesie: Ansätze zu einer literarischen Entomologie (Berlin : J. B. Metzler);
Djelal Kadir, Solitude: Apocryphal Posts from Distant Archives (Cambridge: Ethics International P);
Woosung Kang, “Heterotopos of Desert Island,” Kritika Kultura 46: 98–113;
Ulrike Kistner, “‘No One Believes in His Own Death.’ On More and Less Necessary Illusions,” in Sigmund Freud as a Critical Social Theorist, ed. Dustin J. Byrd & Seyed Javad Miri (Leiden: Brill), 350–63;
Karin Kukkonen, “Maximal Selves, Narrative Repression and Impossible Structures: Self-Narrative and the Challenge of Literature,” Topoi 44.5: 1–11;
Kukkonen, Karin, Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing. London: Bloomsbury
Mengchen Lang, “Intentionally Signaled Lying or Tenorless Metaphor? Comparing Two Rhetorical Conceptions of Fictionality through Lauren Slater’s Lying,” Poetics Today 46.2: 227–51;
Xiaofan Amy Li, “City of the Anthropocene Surreal: Hong Kong in Hon Lai-chu and Dorothy Tse’s A Dictionary of Twin Cities,” The Journal of Asian Studies 84.4: 1034–54;
Ivana Perica, Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur: Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968 (London: Bloomsbury Academic);
Tiphaine Samoyault, “Poésie bilingue,” Critique 936, 29–38;
Robert Stockhammer, “(In)stabile Sprachkonstellationen in Romanen über den deutschen Kolonialismus in Afrika,” in Instabile Translationen, ed. Franziska Jekel-Twittmann & Myriam-Naomi Walburg (Berlin: J. B. Metzler), 157–71;
Susanne Strätling, “Lines of Force: Writing Theory and the Energetic Scripts of Modernism,” in Ecologies of Writing, ed. Urs Büttner & Jacob Haubenreich (London: Bloomsbury Academic), 77–110;
Ábel Tamás: “‘Serenus, You Should Understand’: Lucan’s Intertextual Acrostic at BC 9.600–605,” Hermes 153.2: 191–96;
Galin Tihanov, Literatură mondială, cosmopolitism și exil, trans. Maria Chiorean (Sibiu: Editura Universităţii “Lucian Blaga” din Sibiu);
Stefan Willer, “Einführung: Verhaltenslehren,” in Wissensgeschichte des Verhaltens, ed. Sophia Gräfe & Georg Toepfer (Berlin: De Gruyter), 19–26;
Robert J. C. Young, “Weird Luck,” Textual Practice 39.4: 501–22;
Enrica Zanin, Fiction et vérité : l’éthique du récit de Boccace à Madame de Lafayette (Paris: Droz);
John Zilcosky (co-ed. w. Teresa Valentini and Angela Weiser), Alternative Temporalities: The Emancipatory Power of Narrative (Toronto: U of Toronto P).
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