Gustaf Tenggren, illustration for “Sleeping Beauty”, watercolour and pencil on paper, 1929. Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. My article proposes to employ hybridity as a tool to describe the genericcrisscrossing characterising literary texts I…
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JNT 53.2 Featured Author: Liwen Zhang
Flirting with Filler: Significance is Overrated “Flirting with Filler” was originally a discarded chapter draft from one of my previous book projects. This may well be a fitting origin for an article that talks about filler: behind every discarded draft…
JNT 53.1 Featured Author: Daniel Newman
Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. My essay in JNT introduces the special issue I guest edited on “Narratologies of Science.” I have always been interested in how scientists develop all kinds of strange models,…
JNT 52.3 Featured Author: Yanli He
The Road to Socialist World Literature I am very grateful to many friends and scholars who have helped me shape the idea of Socialist World Literature. The central concern of Socialist World Literature is remapping the connection between Socialist Realism…
JNT 52.2 Featured Authors: Florian Zitzelsberger and Melanie Kreitler
“Making (Narrative) Sense: Introspection and Retrospection in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” When I started watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, I did not know what I was in for. People recommended the show to me because of my dissertation project, in which I…
JNT 52.1 Featured Author: Dan Shen
When I first read Kate Chopin’s “A Pair of Silk Stockings” all the way back at the turn of the century, I only took it to be a feminist text. Although I found some textual elements that didn’t fit in…
JNT 51.3 Featured Authors: Mary Burger and Camille Roy
Biting the Narrative: A Conversation Mary Burger and Camille Roy Mary: It’s been almost 20 years since you and I, Gail Scott, and Robert Glück started gathering work for Biting the Error (an anthology of theoretical writings on narrative with…
JNT 51.3 Featured Author: Earl Jackson, Jr.
Glossing the Real and the Fictional Earl Jackson, Jr. I cannot think of any more fitting way to begin this reflection on my essay on New Narrative and Laura Moriarty’s Ultravioleta, than advice Kevin Killian once gave me. I was…
JNT 51.2 Featured Author: Jeffrey Gonzalez
Jeffrey Gonzalez My article’s long backstory begins with a conversation I had while I was pursuing my Ph.D. at Penn State all the way back in late 2007. I met with Eric Hayot, whom I cite in the article, in…
JNT 51.2 Featured Author: Sarah Copland
Sarah Copland Truth and Reconciliation and Narrative Ethics, Form, and Politics In December 2016, my mother told me she was introducing Joseph Boyden’s novella Wenjack to her library book club in January. Her contribution was timely because Wenjack was published that fall as part…
