Joshua Barnes

Joshua wears a black jumper and has short cropped blonde hair. He smiles and looks off to the left. His shoulders are slightly hunched as he sits in front of a window.
Joshua Barnes is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne studying critical theory, fictionality and the history of the novel. He is interested in the relation between historical materialism and other critical practices, from psychoanalysis and feminism to philology.

All essays by Joshua Barnes

Review: Joshua Barneson Anna Kornbluh
and Timothy Bewes
  • Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism Book Cover
  • Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age Book Cover
  • Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh Verso Books
    January 2024
    240pp
    ISBN 9781804291344
  • Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes Columbia University Press
    July 2022
    336pp
    ISBN 9780231192972

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Drawing on the insights of two new books of literary criticism, Joshua Barnes argues that recent developments, such as the rise of autofiction, should serve to remind us that the novel, fiction, and realism are distinct categories despite their historical convergence.

Feb. 2024 • • •