1. FORMAL CONCEPTS Formal Concepts: Introduction Sean Pryor - Afterlife Alice Bennett - Aisthesis David Vichnar; Louis Armand - Allegory Jonathan Morton - Apostrophe Denis Flannery - Appropriation Julie Sanders - Beauty Jennifer McMahon - Beginnings and Endings Eyal Segal - The Chapter Nicholas Dames - Character Julian Murphet - Cliché Tom Grimwood - Comedy Yi-hsin Hsu - Creolization Ben Etherington - Deixis Mary Galbraith - Description Joanna Stalnaker - Ekphrasis Gabriele Rippl - Enchantment Michael Saler - Enunciation Russell Smith - Epic Herbert Tucker - E-text Niels Ole Finnemann - Fictionality Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen; Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen - Form and Formalism Stephen Cohen - Free Indirect Discourse Daniel Gunn - Gloss Rachel Stenner - Grotesque Rune Graulund - Heteroglossia Ken Hirschkop - Historicities Andrew Kalaidjian - Intention Mark Vareschi - Intertextuality Graham Allen - Irony Claire Colebrook - Laughter Anca Parvulescu - Literary Translation Anthony Pym - Lyric Poetry and Poetics Daniel Tiffany - Medium David Trotter - Melodrama Monique Rooney - Narrative Time Stephanie Nelson; Barry Spence - Parody and Pastiche Leonard Diepeveen - Pastoral Katherine Little - Performativity Julie Rak - Poetic Cognition Marshall Brown - Poiesis Thomas L. Martin - Pornography April Alliston - Possible Worlds Ruth Ronen - Prose Garrett Stewart - Prosody Meredith Martin - Realisms Alison Shonkwiler - Reference Satya Mohanty - Remediation Adam Hammond - Repetition Catherine Pickstock - Rhetoric Tom Ford; Joseph Hughes - Rhizome Claire Colebrook - Rhythm Laura Marcus - Romance Cyrus Mulready - Satire Emmett Stinson - Sentiment James Chandler - Singularity Derek Attridge - Song Stephanie Burt; Jenn Lewin - Spectacle McKenzie Wark - Style Daniel Hartley - Sublime Ian Balfour - Surface Shiamin Kwa - Sympathy and Empathy Rae Greiner - Tekhne Ian James - Textuality Rossana De Angelis - Thing Woosung Kang - Tragedy Alberto Toscano - Voice David Nowell Smith - World Jen Hui Bon Hoa 2. IDENTITIES Identities: Introduction Julie Rak - Animal Christopher Peterson - Anonymity Robert Griffin - Celebrity Lorraine York - Class Benjamin Balthaser - Daemonic Angus Nicholls - Diaspora Smaro Kamboureli - Disability Studies Robert McRuer - Ethology Dominique Lestel - Genders Pelagia Goulimari - Hybridity David Huddart - Identification James Purdon - Identity Technologies Anna Poletti - Impersonation Laura Browder - Lesbian Poetics Judith Roof - Life Writing Craig Howes - Mourning and Melancholia Tanya Dalziell - Posthuman Daniele Rugo - Queer Octavio Gonzalez; Todd G. Nordgren - Race and Ethnicity Amritjit Singh; Aaron Babcock - Sexualities Stephanie Clare - Theorizing the Subject Sidonie Smith - Trans Quinn Eades - Transnational Paul Jay - Virtual Identities Zara Dinnen 3. METHODOLOGIES Methodologies: Introduction Mark Byron - Actor-Network Theory Hugh Crawford - Affect Studies Patrick Hogan - Arabic Literary Theory Lara Harb - Biblical Criticism Richard Briggs - Chinese Literary Theory Cao Shunqing - Classical Criticism Andrew Ford - Close Reading Mark Byron - Cognitive Poetics Ellen Spolsky - Deconstruction Jemma Deer - Digital Humanities Simon Burrows; Michael Falk - Digital Textuality John Lavagnino - Discourse Analysis Andrea Macrae - Ecocriticism Cheryl Lousley - Ethics of Reading Matthew Garrett - Feminist Theory Pelagia Goulimari - Futures for Literary Studies Paul Jay - Genealogy Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson; Amy Nigh - Geo-locations Peta Mitchell - Hermeneutics Georgia Warnke - Historical Poetics Sean Pryor - Hypertext Theory Astrid Ensslin - Indigenous Studies in the US and Canada Aubrey Hanson; Sam McKegney - Indigenous Studies: Aotearoa/New Zealand Tina Makereti - Indigenous Studies: Australia Peter Minter - Indigenous Studies: Brazil Tracy Devine Guzmán - Information and Meaning Wendy Wheeler - Interdisciplinarity Julie Thompson Klein - Literary Stylistics Michael Toolan - Literature and Science Michael Whitworth - Mathesis Baylee Brits - The Matter of Drafts Jani Scandura - Midrash Carol Bakhos - Modern Manuscripts Dirk van Hulle - Narrative Theory Didier Coste - Narratology Gerald Prince - Narratology of the Moment Peter Rabinowitz - New Materialisms Liedeke Plate - Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) Graham Harman - Phenomenology Horst Ruthrof - Philology Harry Lönnroth - Poetics Jonathan Culler - The Postcolonial Mary Layoun - Postcolonial Theory Vijay Mishra - Poststructuralism and Its Discontents Paul Ardoin - Psychoanalytic Theory Marshall Alcorn - Queer Theory Lilith Acadia - Reception Theory Ika Willis - Sanskrit Literary Theory Chettiarthodi Rajendran - Semiotics Bob Hodge - Speculation Graham Harman - Speech Acts and Performative Utterances Daniel Allington - Textual Studies Mark Byron - Theory of the Novel Jesse Rosenthal - Trauma and Memory Studies Karyn Ball 4. INSTITUTIONS Institutions: Introduction Pelagia Goulimari - Anthology Benjamin Grant - Archive and Library Marlene Manoff - Authorship John Frow - Canon and Classic Trevor Ross - Censorship Nicole Moore - Codex Michelle Brown - Copyright Kim Treiger-Bar-Am - Critique Charlie Blake - Discipline Peter Hitchcock - Dispositif Ricky Crano - Everyday William Galperin - Infrastructure Russell Coldicutt - Literacy Lee Morrissey - Literary Marketplace Evan Brier - Literary Prize Culture Stevie Marsden - Love of Literature Deidre Lynch - Minor Literature Salah El Moncef - Networks Patrick Jagoda - Orality John D. Niles - Pedagogy Brenton Doecke; Philip Mead - Reading Stephen Watt - Reading in the Digital Era Lutz Koepnick - Reception in the Digital Era DeNel Rehberg Sedo - Scandal Tarek El-Ariss - Space Eric Prieto - Technology Eleonora Lima - Temporality Theodore Martin - The Institutional Turn Jeremy Rosen - Value Joshua Clover; Christopher Nealon

John Frow is Professor of English at the University of Sydney. He was formerly Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne (2004-2012), the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University (2000-2004), and Darnell Professor of English at the University of Queensland (1990-1999). He works at the boundary between literary studies and cultural studies and has published ten monographs and edited collections, including On Interpretive Conflict (2019) and Character and Person (2019). He is a member of numerous editorial boards, including New Literary History, Law, Culture and the Humanities, symploke, and Textual Practice.

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