European Journal of English Studies

‘Just because it isn’t happening here, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening’: narrative, fictionality and reflexivity in humanitarian rhetoric

Realism for the post-truth era: politics and storytelling in recent fiction and autobiography by Salman Rushdie

Changing dominants, changing features? The fiction/nonfiction distinction in contemporary literary and Instagram narratives

‘You have done our shame’: interrogating shame and honour in diaspora in Jasvinder Sanghera’s Shame trilogy

Will Hodgkinson’s The House is Full of Yogis (2014) as an anti-conversion narrative

Living on the frontier of Catholicism: Graham Greene’s disloyal conversions

Tales of conversion in the British press: the body and soul paradigm

Shame and shamelessness in Anglophone literature and media

Shame and shamelessness in contexts of care and caregiving in Philip Roth’s Patrimony (1991) and Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles (2012)

‘And Rome is Rome’: Ronald Knox’s Virgilian Catholic conversion narrative

Faith and understanding: late twentieth-century autobiographical conversion narratives by British and American philosophers

Fictional characters in a real world: unruly fictionalised encounters in Borat, The Ambassador, and the Yes Men’s media hoaxes

‘They all know what I am. I’m a woman come in here to get drunk’: shame, femininity and the literature of intoxication

‘Plain, hamely, fife’: James Boswell’s shameful national masculinity

The importance of being earnest again: fact and fiction in contemporary narratives across media

The return of the ‘real’ in Ali Smith’s Artful (2012) and How to Be Both (2014)

Reality beckons: metamodernist depthiness beyond panfictionality

Guilty aesthetic pleasures

‘My body is burning with the shame of not belonging’: gender, violence and shame in diasporic Somali women’s writings

Introduction

Antony and Cleopatra and the dramaturgy of shame

Language contact and the future of English, by Ian MacKenzie