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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 147–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Elda Tsou Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature , by Park Josephine Nock-Hee . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 320 pages. Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism , by Tang Amy . Oxford : Oxford...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 235–268.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Sharon Kunde “The ‘Nature’ of American Literature” explores how John Crowe Ransom and his less-studied contemporary Elizabeth Madox Roberts advanced a theory of literary objects that emerged from nature itself. This theory formed the basis of Ransom’s bid, in “Criticism, Inc.,” for disciplinary...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 159–168.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Steven Belletto Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960 , by Hungerford Amy , Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2010 . 224 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review
Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 174–180.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Gary Edward Holcomb Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature , by Norman Brian , University of Georgia Press , 2010 . 214 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Gary Edward Holcomb
Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 128–136.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Ali Chetwynd Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature 1945–1975 , by LeMahieu Michael , Oxford University Press , 2013 . 244 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Ali Chetwynd
Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 120–127.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Joseph Conte Postmodern/Postwar—And After: Rethinking American Literature , ed. by Gladstone Jason Hoberek Andrew Worden Daniel . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2016 . 258 pages. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 The architectural theorist Charles Jencks...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 145–166.
Published: 01 March 2019
... . Bezmozgis David . 2006 . “ Bezmozgis and the Jewish Question: Interview with David Bezmozgis .” By Paul Morton . Baltic Times , April 12 . m.baltictimes.com/article/jcms/id/114566/ . Bezmozgis David . 2014 . “ The End of American Jewish Literature, Again .” Tablet , September 17...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 105–113.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Jason Arthur The Global Remapping of American Literature , by Giles Paul , Princeton University Press , 2010 . 340 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Review
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The Worlding of American Literature
The Global Remapping of American Literature
by Paul Giles...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and Peter Oldham. This article explores the heyday of these suggestive concepts in British and North American science writing and popular fiction. To this end I will group orthogenesis and phylogeronty, along with recapitulation (the belief that growing animal embryos rapidly reenact their own...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Katherine Sugg Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America , by Adams Rachel , University of Chicago Press , 2009 . 310 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Katherine Sugg
Transamerican Transformations
and American Literatures
Continental Divides...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 241–243.
Published: 01 September 2023
... American literature, US literary radicalism, and Marxist literary criticism. Her most recent book is Marxist Literary Criticism Today (2019). She is past president of the Radical Caucus of the Modern Language Association and currently serves on the editorial board and manuscript collective of Science...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Steven Belletto This essay focuses on the life and writing of African American novelist, playwright, and activist Julian Mayfield, whose under-studied work and extraordinary life tell a story about race and civil rights in literature that challenges familiar accounts. By analyzing Mayfield’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
... .” American Anthropologist 113 , no. 3 : 463 – 77 . Damrosch David . 2003 . What Is World Literature? Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Dimock Wai Chee . 2007 . “ Introduction: Planet and America, Set and Subset .” In Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 121–144.
Published: 01 March 2019
... on in the Russian American immigrant literature that has sprung up since the turn of the millennium. The city even has its own New World simulacrum in New York’s “Little Odessa” neighborhood. This article investigates the impact of the “Odessa Text” on the work of two Odessa-born US authors, the poet Ilya Kaminsky...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 285–314.
Published: 01 September 2024
... after 1906 in the context of the wider “Americanization” of the British culture industry and illustrates the ways in which cinema drove changes to readerly expectation, advertising, and the marketing of literature. It also examines how the business of writing for the cinema came to be incorporated...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 71–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and place. Blažević-Krietzman anticipated these concerns when she started writing in the late 1970s and 1980s in Yugoslavia and, alongside other young women writers, jumpstarted a new feminist literature. That perspective manifests itself most clearly in her novel-essay Američka predigra ( American...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 June 2022
... . “ Elizabeth Bishop and Containment Policy .” American Literature 75 , no. 4 : 843 – 67 . Benton William . 2011 . Introduction to Exchanging Hats, by Elizabeth Bishop , vii – xx . New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux . Bishop Elizabeth . 1994 . One Art: Letters . Edited...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 170–196.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Jason Vredenburg In both the critical literature and the popular imagination, Jack Kerouac’s seminal road narrative On the Road is often viewed as a celebration of American individualism and frontier myth. Placing the novel within the context of the changing approach to automotive infrastructure...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Herren Graley . 2015 . “ ‘The Martiniad’: Nick Shay as Embedded Author within Don DeLillo’s Underworld .” Studies in Contemporary Fiction 56 , no. 4 : 449...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 57–74.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., however, that view helps Heaney develop a poetics where form itself—the essential border-making and border-crossing apparatus—is emblematic of a solution to political crisis, making his misreading a highly productive one. © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 American literature criticism gender Irish...
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