Bryan Counter

Journal Articles

• Counter, B. (2025). ‘Stopping the flow of time’: The Stillness of the Sentence in Rachel Cusk. Vol: 11, Issue: 1, Page: 48-65. CounterText.
• Counter, B., Wainstein, N. (2024). Mere Light. Vol: 38, Issue: 9, Page: 1357-1379. Textual Practice.
• Counter, B. (2024). Reading, Dreaming, Writing in Proust and Cixous. Vol: 14, Page: 48-65. S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique.
• Counter, B. (2024). The Absence of the Book: Preparing, Researching, Reading with Barthes. Vol: 10, Page: 10-28. Barthes Studies.
• Counter, B. (2023). Spiralling Relations: Barthes, Kant, Balzac. Vol: 9, Page: 26-44. Barthes Studies.
• Counter, B. (2021). Intoxication: Reading Between Proust and Barthes. Vol: 7, Page: 85-109. Barthes Studies.
• Counter, B. (2020). ‘Pour cet état si particulier’: Disinterest and the Impersonal Resonance of Aesthetic Experience. Vol: 49, Issue: 3, Page: 19-36. SubStance.

Books

• Counter, B. (2025). Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience: Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and Cusk. Anthem Press.

Book Chapters

• Counter, B. (2025). "For the space of an instant": Beckett on the Subject of Thought: Beckett and Nature. Page: 51-66. Bloomsbury. link
• Counter, B. (2022). 'Peut-être aurais-je dû penser': Research and Event in Proust: Literature and Event: Twenty-First Century Reformulations. Routledge.