PREVIOUS WORK BY
THE LIMEN RESEARCH GROUP
since 2021

Articles

  1. Beatriz Sánchez and Manuel Aguirre, The Grammar of a Genre: Rules, Rhetoric, and a Liminal Poetics,’ in ed. Clive Bloom(London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 73-94.

 

  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘Formulaic Language,’ in The Palgrave Handbook on Gothic Origins, ed. Clive Bloom(London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 95-118.
  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘Gothic Drift: The Case of “Raymond” and “Arthur Kavanagh”’, in Gothic Studies 26:1 (March 2024), pp. 34-51.

           

  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘An Atelic Model for the Textual Limen,’ in Textual Practice 1-18 (online: 27 August 2025), DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2025.2551325.
  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘Rite or Narrative of Passage? A Text Analogy for the Liminality of Migrants,’ in Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (forthcoming).

 

  1. Elena Bermejo & Manuel Aguirre, ‘A Liminalist Definition of Fantasy’ (under review).

 

Working documents published in The TRELLIS Papers

(https://limenandtext.com/publishing_catalogue4.html)

(Some of these were originally delivered as talks in the Transitions Seminar, and video recordings of them are available at https://limenandtext.com/rst_online%20videos.html):

  1. Elena Bermejo, ‘“The Song Remains”: Necessity of Fiction in Terry Pratchett’s The Last Hero,’ TTP nº 8 (2021).

 

  1. Isabel Soto, ‘The Threshold as Organizing Principle in Neo-Slave Narrative,’ TTP nº 9 (2021).
  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘Reading Liminality,’ TTP nº 10 (2022).

 

  1. Ineke Jolink, ‘Between Empathy and Apathy: Liminality and the New Diasporic Space of

‘Transnationality’,’ TTP nº 11 (2023).

  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘Towards a Typology of Transitions,’ TTP nº 12 (2023).

 

  1. Mary Farrell, ‘Anxiety of emptiness within liminal space/time in film, music, dance and painting’, TTP nº 13 (2023).
  1. Verónica Frejo, ‘Bloodborne: System Dominants, Liminality, and the Lure of Resistance in Video Games,’ TTP nº 14 (2024).

 

  1. Simon Pritchard, ‘Liminal Ethics - The Doctrine of the Middle Way in Don Delillo´s Zero K,’ TTP nº 15 (2024).
  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘Modelling the Limen,’ TTP nº 16 (2024).

 

  1. Francisco Fuentes, ‘A Re-Imagined Identity of Diasporic Writers: Coping with Perpetual Liminality in Exiledwriters.Co.Uk,’ TTP nº 17 (2025).
  1. Verónica Frejo, Manuel Aguirre, Elena Bermejo, Tareixa García de Polavieja, Andrés Guilló, Jennifer Harding, Belén Piqueras, Trevor Westmoreland, ‘A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Liminality and Transitions,’ TTP nº 18 (2025).

 

  1. Tareixa García de Polavieja, ‘From Labyrinth to Interpretation: Mapping the Narrative Structure and Readers´ Negotiation in Paul Auster´s City of Glass,’ TTP nº 19 (2025).
  1. Manuel Aguirre and The LIMEN Group, ‘Forms of the Threshold Chronotope: A Liminalist Study of Speculative Fiction,’ TTP nº 20 (2026).

 

  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘“It Seemed A Very Quiet House”: Chronotopic Analysis of Algernon Blackwood’s “A Case of Eavesdropping”,’ TTP nº 21 (2026).

 

 
Talks in the Transitions Seminar
(video recordings of most of these are available at https://limenandtext.com/rst_online%20videos.html):

  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘Reading Liminality’ (13 February 2022).

 

  1. Belén Piqueras, ‘Embodiment through Site-specific Digital Narratives: A Liminal Experience’

(13 February 2022).

  1. Andrés Guilló Seuthe, ‘Liminality and Transition in the Development of African American

Heroic Lore’ (18 March 2022).

  1. Beatriz Sánchez Santos, ‘In search of the post-liminal stage in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s

Americanah’ (8 April 2022).

  1. Tareixa García de Polavieja and Manuel Aguirre, ‘Labyrinths’ (13 May 2022).

 

  1. Belén Piqueras, ‘Liminality and Potentiality in Postmodernist Narrative’ (1 March 2023).
  1. Paola del Zoppo, ‘Liminal Spaces and Liminal Emotions in Girlfriend on Mars, by Deborah

Willis, and Die Farbe des Granatsapfels, by Anna Baar’ (26 October 2023).

  1. Verónica Frejo, ‘Critical Role: Embodied Liminality in Role-Playing Games’ (February 2024).

 

  1. Beatriz Sánchez, ‘The Mathematics Inhabiting the Limen’ (7 May 2024).
  1. Celia Marqués Amorós, ‘Driving on a Road of Heartbroken Uncertainty: What the Limen

Brought Together in a Eurovision Song’ (10 December 2024).

  1. Parisa Delshad Rezaee, ‘Captured en Passant: Realism and the Limits of Representation in

Mediations of Europe’s Southernmost Borders’ (24 January 2025).

  1. Lourdes Salgado Viñal, ‘Liminality and Heterotopia in G. W. M. Reynolds’s Servant Novels’

(18 February 2025).

  1. Jennifer Harding, ‘The Curious Case of the Haunted Mead-hall: An Examination of

Threshold Dynamics and the Otherworld as a Pollutant in Beowulf ’ (17 June 2025).

  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘Liminal Paradise’ (20 February 2026)

 

 

Talks in the International Seminar On Liminality and Text
(13-14 November 2025)

  1. Andrés Guilló, ‘An Approach to Rap as a Liminal Phenomenon.’

 

  1. Verónica Frejo, ‘Liminal Negotiation in Video Games.’
  1. Tareixa García de Polavieja, ‘Navigating the Labyrinth: Oscillation and Negotiation in Paul Auster’s City of Glass.’

 

  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘Threshold Landscapes: Traversing the Limen Chronotope.’
  1. Ineke Jolink, ‘Stylistic Manoeuvring of Thresholds towards Touching, Intersecting and perhaps Merging: The Case of Melanie Wallace’s Blue Horse Dreaming.’

 

Talks in The Victorian Haunted House Short Story Seminar

  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘The HHSS Project’ (12 December 2025).

 

  1. Manuel Aguirre, ‘”A Chronotopic Analysis of Algernon Blackwood’s “A Case of Eavesdropping”’ (29 January 2026).
  1. Verónica Frejo, ‘Chronotopic Analysis of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s “The Hunted and the Haunters”’ (27 February 2026).

 

  1. Andrés Guilló Seuthe, ‘Concerning Sheridan Le Fanu’s “An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House”’ (12 June 2026).

 

Books

  1. Manuel Aguirre, The Grammar of Gothic Fiction (under review).

 

  1. Manuel Aguirre & al., eds., Negotiating the Threshold (in preparation).

 

PhD theses

  1. Elena Bermejo, The System of Fantasy Literature: A Study of the Evolution of the Genre

(underway).

  1. Verónica Frejo, Videogames as a Liminal Medium: A Systemic, Transmedia Analysis (underway).

 

  1. Tareixa García de Polavieja, De-constructing the Labyrinth: An Analysis of Narrative Structures in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy (underway).
  1. Andrés Guilló, Between Folklore and Literature: A Comprehensive Study of African American Rap's Liminal Nature (successfully defended on 28 April 2026).

 

  1. Jennifer Harding, The Thresholds of Beowulf (underway).