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journal
edited by
Jason Lee
Bataille
Foucault Kristeva
TWENTIETH C E N T U R Y
Deleuze Gylphi
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ARTS &
HUMANITIES
Ballard
PUBLISHER
A N D B E Y O N D
Nietzsche
http://www.gylphi.co.uk/transgressive
Literature and F
Transgressive Culture (ISSN 2043-7102) is a new The journal seeks to examine the boundar-
international journal to be published by Gylphi ies of culture, both critically and creatively.
Limited. It concerns the limits – in all of their Analysis of culture in all forms, including
guises – and what lies beyond them. The journal literature, art, film, media, and music, is
aims include: (1) questioning the meaning and welcome, with a focus primarily on the
significance of transgressive culture; (2) under- twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and
standing more deeply how this reflects on the transnational. In terms of creative work,
contemporary culture; and (3) offering an poetry, prose, screenwriting and writing for
opportunity for transgressive culture to be more performance, non-fiction and, of course,
widely known through analysis of existing work work that transcends these boundaries is
and through generating new creative work. encouraged. Work needs to be informed by
There are planned themed editions on the ideas of key influential theorists of
addiction, sexual abuse, Hubert Selby Jr., Will transgression, but this is not prescriptive.
Self, and J. G. Ballard. We encourage all writing that challenges
norms and subverts expectations. Please
send a 300-word outline of your work via
email to Jason Lee (j.lee@derby.ac.uk).