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DEADLINE EXTENSION: Moveable Type 2024 Call for Papers: Promise
Posted by The Moveable Type editorial team on 2024-06-15

We have extended our deadline for Moveable Type: Promise to July 15, 2024. A promise is an essentially human speech act – a performative utterance of intended action which assumes or conceives an imagined, but uncertain ethical responsibility to our future selves. Self-reflexive, and anchoring, it both constrains and creates the self to come; as an intersubjective force, it binds and [...]

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Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise

Editorial Introduction


Introduction

  • Sarah Chambre

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 1–6

Academic articles


Philoclea’s Vows: Falling in Love, Protestant Neoplatonism, and the Structure of Romance in Sidney’s 1593 Arcadia

  • Mr Bret van den Brink

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 7–16

'Come on. Come on. Move on.’: Linear Time as False Promise in African American Literature

  • Ms Kennedy Marie Crowder

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 17–27

‘[D]o me right’: The Promise of Protection and State Action in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

  • Luke Basil Louis Ow Zhi Heng

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 28–37

The Soundtrack to Revolution: Examining Rap as a Resistance Against the Black Man’s ‘Existential Deviation’ in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks

  • Alexander Williams

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 37–45

The promissory Obligations of Ghosts in Scary Tales 

  • Sohini Chaudhuri

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 46–53

Saintly Promises: The Spiritual Bond Between God and Saints in the Old English Andreas and Guthlac A

  • Bruce N. Xiao

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 55–70

Promise and Kairos: A Study of Queen Elizabeth I ’s Promise to Parliament

  • Nabanita Chakraborty

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 71–79

Creative writing


An Unspoken Promise

  • Lydia Pearson

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 80–81

The Promise

  • Nicholas Samaras

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 82–84

this is what august tastes like

  • Misha S. McDaniel

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 83–86

Sea Swimming

  • Fiona O'Malley

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 87–90

No One is Voiceless...

  • Sonakshi Srivastava

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 91–94

Book reviews


The Potent Promise: Henry James and the Promise of Fiction

  • Freddy Conway-Shaw

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 95–97

The Promise of Connection in Victoria MacKenzie’s Retelling of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich

  • Sarah Wallace

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 98–100

The Promise of Control: Food, Sex, and Jewish Faith in Melissa Broder’s Milk Fed

  • Catherine Marcotte

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 101–102

Winthrop Wetherbee’s The Ancient Flame: Exemplarity, Intertextuality, and Illumination in Dante’s Re-Vision of the Past

  • Alani Hicks Bartlett

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 103–106

Fear is Not an Heirloom

  • Kushali Mahajan

Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 108–109