Here is a selection of studies published by current and former members of the ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory in 2024:
Zaal Andronikashvili (ed.), Vom Krieg zerrissene Kulturlandschaften: Nachdenken über die Ukraine. Göttingen: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen;
Natalya Bekhta, “A Re-Invention of Language: War, National Community and a Poetics of the First-Person Plural,” in The Aesthetics of Collective Agency, ed. Simone Knewitz & Stefanie Mueller (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag), 193–212;
Natalya Bekhta, “Beyond the Novel: Satire in Eastern Europe and Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Mondegreen,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 66.1: 12–22;
Rok Benčin, Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP);
Vladimir Biti, “Past Empire(s), Post-Empire(s), and Narratives of Disaster: Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March and Ivo Andrić’s The Bridge over the Drina,” in The Languages of World Literature, ed. Achim Hölter (Berlin: De Gruyter), 65–84;
Marco Caracciolo, “Metaphorical Figures for Moral Complexity,” New Literary History 55.1: 125–43;
Michel Chaouli, Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins (Chicago: The U of Chicago P);
Anne Duprat (co-edited w. Alison James), Figures of Chance II: Chance in Theory and Practice, trans. Martyn Beck (London: Routledge);
Divya Dwivedi, “The Psychomachia of Caste and Psychoanalysis in India,” CASTE 5.2: 97–120;
Angela Esterhammer, “The March of Mind: Knowledge Mobilization in the 1820s,” European Romantic Review 35.2: 399–416;
Alexandre Gefen, Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Berlin: De Gruyter);
Davide Giuriato, “Die Armut (er-)zählen: Bettine von Arnim und die Poetik der Armenliste,” in Armut und Menge, ed. Jobst Welge & Cornelia Wild (Leiden: Brill), 93–109;
Djelal Kadir, “Telemachos Kanthos, the Optometrist of History,”
in Exhibition Catalogue, Kanthos: The Sharp Edges of History. A. G.
Leventis Foundation Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus (23/11/2024—09/03/2025);
Woosung Kang (co-ed. w. Yu-lin Lee), Current Comparative Literary Studies in East Asia (= Concentric 50.2);
Maya Kesrouany, “Between Writer and Militant: Arab Realism and the Accidental,” Neohelicon 51.1: 85–103;
Ulrike Kistner, “Traumatic Neuroses and Psychoneuroses in (and) Beyond the Pleasure Principle,” in Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking: Critical Edition and Readings of Beyond the Pleasure Principle, ed. Herman Westerink, Jenny Willner & Philippe Van Haute (Leuven: Leuven UP), 197–223;
Karin Kukkonen, “Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Literary Texts as Boundary Objects,” Social Epistemology 38.1: 38–48;
Svend Erik Larsen, Between Truth and Trust: Forgiveness as a Literary and Cultural Challenge (Cambridge: Ethics P);
Xiaofan Amy Li, “Translation as Queer Practice: (De)gendering Feminist Language in the Poetry of Xi Xi and Zhai Yongming,” in Inclusion, Diversity and Innovation in Translation Education, ed. Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano & Mazal Oaknín (London: UCL P), 157–76;
Ivana Perica (co-ed. w. Benjamin Kohlmann), The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920–2020 (London: Bloomsbury);
Tiphaine Samoyault, “La traduction durable,” Littérature 216: 41–54;
Robert Stockhammer (co-ed. w. Bernd Stiegler & Johannes Ullmaier), Brian Eno (= AugenBlick 90–91);
Susanne Strätling, “Literary Theory between Contingency and Contiguity: Yakov Druskin’s ʽLaw of Heterogeneity’,” Neohelicon 51.1: 19–31;
Ábel Tamás, “Maius opus moveo: Vergil’s Hidden Signature in Aeneid 7.45?”, Classical Philology 119.3: 429–34;
Galin Tihanov, “Desynonymizing (World) Theory and Poetics,” Philosophy and Literature 48.1: 31–47;
Elisabeth Weber, “ʽWhat We Are to Remember in the Future’: Thoughts on Elliot Wolfson’s Book on Dreams,” in New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson, ed. Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel & Shaul Magid (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP), 31–40;
Stefan Willer, “Contingencies of Localization in Literary Theory,” Neohelicon 51.1: 78–84;
Robert J. C. Young, “Winging It with Wittgenstein and Benjamin,” Neohelicon 51.1: 33–56;
John Zilcosky, “The End of Drawing: Kafka, Jugendstil, and Losing Weight in All Directions,” The Germanic Review 99.2: 144–71.
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