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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 392–410.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Laci Mattison This essay reads Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls (1963) alongside recent theorists of “thingness,” namely, Bill Brown and Jane Bennett. While Bowen’s things intersect with the social terrain, they also simultaneously and paradoxically destabilize that very reality...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 354–363.
Published: 01 December 2011
... if describing, as Bill Brown points out, a cultural logic
“that evacuates or eradicates essence” (736). Looking through PMLA—
which is, after all, the official organ of our field—I discovered only three
essays published with the words “postmodernism,” “postmodernity,” or
“postmodern” in their titles...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 640–662.
Published: 01 December 2012
... for critics to process.6 This continued illegibility of Moore’s at-home
objects comes as no surprise given modernist studies’ recent interest in
the uncanniness, or unhomeliness, of “things.” For Bill Brown, the distinc-
tion between objects and “things” has much to do with a material entity’s...
Journal Article
Materialities of Abstraction: Jessie Dismorr’s Poems , Transatlantic Modernism, and Feminist Poetics
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2021
... movement gendered as male and, perhaps more to my point, within a singular medium under the modernist rubric of abstraction, her art laboring against the “perfected form[s]” ( P 18) into which the arts have been separated. Her aim was, no doubt, a difficult one. As Bill Brown (2014 : 525) has argued...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 September 2015
... recently, and for good reason. In the waning decades of the twentieth century, all that was solid seemed to melt into air as scholars emphasized the linguistic play, discursive construction, and/or ideological encoding of texts both literary and cultural. But as thinkers such as Lawrence Buell, Bill Brown...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 267–298.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the nature and quality of our relations to objects, whether in lived experience or in the pages of a novel. I have been using the terms object and thing in order to mark an ontological difference, and here I follow Bill Brown, whose discussion of “thing theory” returns us to the Kantian problem...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 199–223.
Published: 01 June 2011
... is engaged
with what Bill Brown calls the “material unconscious” of late capitalist
existence,4 which is, in part, comprised of the material underpinnings of
our globalized world. It thus erodes the distinction Rachel Adams ob-
serves between postmodern literature and the literature of globalization...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 233–247.
Published: 01 September 2007
... for the anxiety of its own periodizing declarations,
encoded among other places in the numerous ruminations on the derivative
(post-something else) nature of its name.
Bill Brown’s recent meditation on Jameson’s theory of postmodernity,
which opens:
When will we know...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 283–308.
Published: 01 June 2013
... to Agam-
ben’s approach to the question of the example. In Bill Brown’s terms,
there is something “thingly” about this notion of the example. In Brown’s
well-known distinction, objects are those items which we know and use,
whose functionality is unproblematic and which, existing in a stable re...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 291–308.
Published: 01 December 2011
... a standard feature of periodizing accounts of
postmodernism at least since David Harvey prefaced his foundational
The Condition of Postmodernity by asserting that “it does not matter
whether postmodernism is or is not on the way out” (ix). Indeed, as Bill
Brown suggests in “The Dark Wood...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 March 2017
... surface and depth that glass affords to demonstrate the limits and possibilities of temporal, spatial, and intersubjective relations in interwar London. Glass in some of Woolf’s earlier work—as Elizabeth Outka’s (2009) and Bill Brown’s (1999) readings of Night and Day (1919) and “Solid Objects...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 349–354.
Published: 01 June 2012
...” (xii), we
follow the young baseball fan sending away for “action pictures” of players
like Christy Matthewson, Rube Marquard, and Mordecai “Three-Finger”
Brown, and we chuckle as the fifteen year old reports to an Oak Park
Forest Park High School classmate that he has been “reading Marcelline...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 92–113.
Published: 01 March 2001
... brown” grasshoppers,
which Nick the soldier extolled as the very best trout bait, in both “Now
I Lay Me” (1927) and “A Way You’ll Never Be” (1933), after he had al
ready used them in “Big Two-Hearted River” (1925). In his later two
collections, Hemingway either worked up...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 147–172.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Man” to “Three Days before the Shooting …” New Haven : Yale University Press . Brown H. Rap . 1969 . Die Nigger Die! New York : Dial . Butler Robert J. 2000 . “ Juneteenth: Ralph Ellison’s National Narrative .” In The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison , edited...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 259–266.
Published: 01 June 2014
... that the Twain stories, refusing to provide us
with the truth of race or of corporeal individualism, interrogate dominant
ideologies and values and prefigure important twentieth-century critiques
of subjectivity.
Chapter Two, on Tod Browning’s films The Unholy Three and The
Unknown, situates...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., “I had lived with poor people and knew something of poverty at close hand” (quoted in Brown 1966 : 22). In the 1930s Bishop’s working-class maternal relatives the Shepherdsons moved to Key West (Bishop saw them regularly) ( Millier 1993 : 138), and it is likely that they were supported...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 559–566.
Published: 01 December 2010
... on the shift to Bill’s consciousness at the
conclusion of “The End of Something” or the language of the unedu-
cated narrator of “After the Storm,” his insights light up the page.
Throughout Art Matters you sense an inquiring, curious mind that,
like Melville’s Ishmael, cannot resist raising...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Press . Booth Wayne . 1988 . The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction . Berkeley : University of California Press . Braidotti Rosi . 2013 . The Posthuman . Cambridge : Polity Press . Brown Bill . 1999 . “ The Secret Life of Things: Virginia Woolf and the Matter...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 657–665.
Published: 01 December 2013
... is more complex—and in her reading of this portrait poem
Dickey implicitly suggests an important link between Rossetti’s poetry
and that of Robert Browning. Rossetti’s dramatic monologue “responds
to a painted portrait as an uncanny mirror in which past and present,
Beloved and self mingle...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 263–272.
Published: 01 June 2008
... acknowledges three of O ’Hara’s poet friends as
his chief advisors: Bill Berkson, whom Allen identifies as “my neighbor”
(in Bolinas, California), and Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler, the two
poets most often identified, along with O ’Hara and Ashbery, as members
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