ESLA Journal

ESLA: A Journal of Cultural and Literary Criticism is an online literary journal from the English Literature Department of Facultad de Letras, UC.

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📢 NEW ISSUE OUT NOW 📢

❗We're thrilled to announce the publication of our newest issue, available to be read (fully Open Access) at our website, following the link below.

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👀 Remember, clicking the link below gives you access to Peter's complete article & the rest of the issue online:

🔗https://t.co/cB3Bk876QC

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Happy Monday, everyone!

It's a new week, & we're thrilled to share a new Academic highlight from our latest issue: "Rothenberg's Early Anthologies" by Peter Middleton.

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📍Peter Middleton is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southampton, UK. Currently, he is writing about the history of the concept of code, & researching the representation of autism in fiction & poetry.

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❕We will be taking a closer look at these readings in the coming weeks. In the meantime, don't forget to visit our dossier and full issue following the link below!

🔗https://t.co/YYc5g3TcGV

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Happy Wednesday, everyone!

🐍🔥Let's get over the midweek blues with a new highlight from our latest issue. Today, we're happy to share the Preface to our special dossier featuring readings from Jerome Rothenberg's The Serpent and the Fire.

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📑 As guest editor Jeffrey Robinson explains, the poems here selected 'exhibit the power of collective selves' by bringing together 'the North-South American axis.' In addition, we've also included voice recordings of each reading to go alongside each poem!

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❕As always, you can find the full version of Allen's essay by clicking the link below:

🔗https://t.co/5mdJyRxK9S

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Happy Friday, everyone!

We're happy to finish off this week with our first Non-Fiction work: "Anthology as Manifesto: Celebrations and Extensions of the work of Jerome Rothenberg. INFLUENCING" by Allen Fisher.

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📍Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, and art historian with over 160 single-author publications. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and editor of the journal Spanner and Spanner Editions.

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👀 Clicking the link below, you can access Nia's complete article & the rest of the issue online:

🔗https://t.co/KAN6dBmCQC

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Happy Tuesday, everyone!

It's a new week, and we're thrilled to share our first Academic highlight from our latest issue: "How to be a conduit: performance, translation and the reflexive poetics of Jerome Rothenberg" by Nia Davies.

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📍Nia Davies is a poet experimenting with performance and embodied practice. She is also a writer, curator, & interdisciplinary researcher based in Cymru/Wales. Her most recent book is Votive Mess (2024).

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👀 Follow the link below to read the full text, and don't forget we will be highlighting every text from our latest issue in the coming weeks!

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Happy Tuesday, everyone!

We're delighted to kick off our Issue 30 highlights the same way each issue begins, with its Introduction.

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📑 As Jeffrey declares, this issue is dedicated to 'fulfilling a contrary vision, a vital counter-point of boundless connection, a present-participial manifest of unending unfoldings of thoughtfulness and song'.

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🔔 DEADLINE for Submissions is March 15th, 2026.

🗓️ This special 31st issue is scheduled for publication in July 2026.

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Happy Monday, everyone!

🔔 We're halfway through February & we have a new reminder of our ongoing CFP, "Early Modern Transnationalism, Translation & Print: Anglo/Latin American Contexts," guest edited by Alejandra Ortiz & Javiera Lorenzini.

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📚 You can check out the first instalment of this bibliography in our main feed!