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Hegel after Ulysses ? The (Dis)Appearance of Politics in “Cyclops”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 293–328.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and mutual implication of civil society and state, first articulated by G. W. F. Hegel and developed by Hannah Arendt. The essay rereads Hegel’s state/society diremption through Gillian Rose’s conception of “speculative thinking” and the historical openness of the “broken middle.” It argues that “Cyclops...
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Woman Is a Cause: Kanafani’s Returning to Haifa as Critique of Patriarchal Nationalism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in the Sun (1962). Borrowing from Hannah Arendt’s theory of action, we propose a reading of Returning to Haifa that comes to grips with the enigmatic but crucial phrase “man is a cause,” arguing that in his representation of women in the novel, Kanafani not only writes against Palestinians resigning...
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Law, Trauma, and Modernist Aesthetics
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 551–558.
Published: 01 December 2010
... that include three Virginia
Woolf novels as well as Rebecca West and Hannah Arendt’s post-World
War II reporting, Reichman makes a compelling case for the influence of
modernist aesthetics not just on specific developments within the law but
on the emergence of a new sociopolitical ethic...
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“A Not-Exactly-Good Man”: Lionel Trilling on Law and Judgment
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 129–160.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 Hannah Arendt legal philosophy liberalism Nuremberg Trials postwar literature The discrepancy between legality and justice could never be bridged because the standards of right and wrong into which positive law translates its authority...
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Against Things: The At-Home Objects of Marianne Moore
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 640–662.
Published: 01 December 2012
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ern conflict. In this thinking about the ethical implications of everyday
actions, Moore here anticipates the work of philosopher Hannah Arendt.
Arendt’s writings on WWII attend to the ways in which traumas like
the Holocaust, though monstrous, are not the work of a few monstrous
individuals...
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The Defense of Judgment by Michael Clune
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 205–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Mary Esteve Works Cited Benhabib Seyla . 2018 . Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Emerson Ralph Waldo . (1837) 2017 . “ The American Scholar .” In The Norton...
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The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain by Brian K. Goodman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2025) 71 (2): 191–197.
Published: 01 June 2025
... behind the Iron Curtain” (27). Aside from unearthing Kafka’s journey into English, which is tied to the exile of many other prominent writers of the period like Thomas Mann or Hannah Arendt, and his slow establishment as a cult figure for many of the New York intellectuals, Goodman provides a convincing...
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Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination by Vaughn Rasberry
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 371–378.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... The election of Donald Trump may have prompted the appearance of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) on bestseller lists, but Rasberry’s powerful book, in its traversal of disciplinary, historical, and cultural boundaries at the micro and the macro level...
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The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 , by Victoria Olwell
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 688–693.
Published: 01 December 2012
... with this possibility when she confronts a 2004 text by Julia Kristeva
which, in a manner strangely akin to Olwell’s historical examples, muses
on “feminine genius” with reference to the work of Hannah Arendt, Co-
lette, and Melanie Klein, defining it as “’the breakthrough that consists in
going beyond...
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Tales of Abjection and Miscegenation: Virginia Woolf’s and Leonard Woolf’s “Jewish” Stories
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 298–327.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... Such a method—operating in terms of the in-be
tween—is practiced, for example, by Hannah Arendt in her analysis of
how modern anti-Semitism responds to the fact that Jews were “a non
national element in a world of growing or existing nations” (22).3 Social
and national identities do...
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Anti-Nazi Modernism: The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction by Mia Spiro, Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel by J. Dillon Brown
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 251–258.
Published: 01 June 2014
... allegory, connecting Robin’s
“evil” to the lack of empathy that Hannah Arendt associates with the
“banality of evil” (128). For many readers, Nightwood is likely the least
explicitly political of the three novels discussed by Spiro; it is a story of
heartbreak, loss, and desire, rather than...
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Under the Nation-State: Modernist Deterritorialization in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., Lowry anticipates Hannah Arendt’s observations
regarding the dangers faced by displaced persons—persons who circulate
“outside the common world” (302) that is comfortably inhabited by those
nondisplaced persons on whom nation-states have bestowed the privileges
and prerogatives of citizenship...
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“So He Who Strongly Feels, Behaves”: Marianne Moore’s Ethical Detail
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 475–498.
Published: 01 December 2017
... intensified by the presence of leading writers and artists in exile—Hannah Arendt, for example, recently escaped from Europe, was a significant contributor to the proceedings—the occasions necessitated a sure sense of how any given statement might contribute to larger intellectual concerns. For Moore, where...
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The Bloomsbury Enlightenment Project
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 401–409.
Published: 01 September 2008
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to her original ground of Kantian philosophy, filtered through the con
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Suzette Henke
temporary interpretive voice of Hannah Arendt, to depict LaTrobe as a
dialogic artist calling for a “we” summoned in freedom and community,
“with roots in European democracy’s Athenian origins” (319...
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The Modern Reader’s Dilemma: Something Old, Something New…
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 245–253.
Published: 01 June 2010
... Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism. London: Verso, 1991.
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. Ed. Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken, 1969.
Bhagwati, Jagdish. “Secularism in India: Why Is It Imperilled?” The Future of
Secularism. Ed. T. N. Srinivasan. New Delhi...
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Abandoned Being: The Aesthetic of Inhabiting in Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
... waiting territories but as “persisting in their being,” and as lying “on the cusp of being” (25). 4 For further reading see, for example, Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958); Michel Foucault’s “The Subject and Power” (1982) or The Hermeneutics of the Subject (2005); Judith Butler’s...
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Early Civil Rights “Voice Work” in Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 238–266.
Published: 01 June 2012
.... Finally, I choose “work” following
Hannah Arendt’s use of it as a term with which to talk about speech and
action together. According to Arendt, action is the basis of all politics. One
must insert oneself into the world with action, which is the beginning of
change. However, speech is also...
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Silence as Resistance in Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 429–447.
Published: 01 December 2016
... earlier, writes of the impossibility of witnessing from the inside, Dawes articulates a distinction between the emancipatory and disciplinary models of language through a figure borrowed from Hannah Arendt: “Language is not the city gate that separates us from violence, as in Arendt; it is instead...
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Dismembering Remembering: Mourning with Disgust in Delbo’s Auschwitz and After
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 483–503.
Published: 01 December 2018
... University Press . Geddes Jennifer L. 2003 . “ Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust .” Hypatia 18 , no. 1 : 104 – 15 . Hamaoui Lea Fridman . 1991 . “ Art and Testimony: The Representation of Historical Horror in Literary...
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Empire and the Rhetoric of Total War in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to admit, the enemy of values, and in this sense he is the absolute evil.” Replacing “the native” here with “the German” would render this the sort of picture the British propaganda office in the Second World War aimed to produce. 4 Hannah Arendt (1968 : 351) sketches a similar picture, writing...
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