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Materialities of Abstraction: Jessie Dismorr’s Poems , Transatlantic Modernism, and Feminist Poetics
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2021
... as chapbooks to the study of material culture within literary history and within art history as well. In some sense, its first word, “excessive,” describes one of the poem’s main concerns, as the overprocessed quality of Dismorr’s lines highlight the material encounter with the thingness of language...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 March 2017
... consideration of how the illusion of transparency invites connection to other times, places, and people—and just as readily forecloses it. Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 Material history Mrs. Dalloway “A Sketch of the Past” Virginia Woolf visual culture Shop windows, car windows, house...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 139–162.
Published: 01 June 2021
... with a desire to write a utopian collective. This is confirmed both by previously unstudied draft material for Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) and the published texts that followed. However, in The Four-Gated City this attempt to break from the destructive globalization of the postwar era becomes deeply...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 427–450.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the composition of verse and the fabric of national narratives. Whereas Pound detects the rhythmic coherence of a robust economy beneath the surface differences of documented history, Moore’s attention to the syllabic material of the prose she read and the stanzas she composed trained her attention...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 455–462.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in the material history of modernism. DuPlessis writes of Stein’s impact on the work of Virginia Woolf, drawing out the ways in which Stein’s dispersive treatment of gender in “Forensics” would seem to be at odds with Woolf’s ongoing attempts at new unities, even as Stein so clearly influenced Woolf’s thinking...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 267–295.
Published: 01 June 2012
... fiction and underscoring the importance of material history in
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Worldlessness, Utopia, and the Void in Rushdie’s Grimus
our understanding of it, I recommend that we might also recognize in
Koax’s radical founding of Conceptualism the initial step in the novel’s
dialectical unfolding...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 235–268.
Published: 01 September 2021
... understanding of the value of poetry, or of the natural history behind any adult poem” (italics mine). Having snuck materiality into literary form, Ransom’s metaphors turn the poem into part of the natural world and the critic into a scientist. And defining the poem as a material object, he can...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 June 2009
... French in origin), yet its material history suggests an
uncertain boundary between England and the foreign. This helps to
answer a question so basic that it has rarely been asked: why is Verloc a
seller of pornography? I suggest it is because pornography establishes a
convergence between...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 June 2016
... understanding of space as both material and metaphor preserves Caribbean history, both what is visible to the West above the sea and Kamau Brathwaite’s invisible unity beneath it. Chapter two, “A House of One’s Own: Individual and Communal Spaces in the Caribbean ‘Yard Novel’” explains one of the most...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 392–410.
Published: 01 September 2015
... unthinkingly, out of habit. We don’t perceive objects in their material specificity or vitality, as we are concerned only with what they can do for us. Brown writes: “As they circulate through our lives, we look through objects (to see what they disclose about history, society, nature, or culture—above all...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
... illuminate what distinguishes Crane from his contemporaries, this genealogy of criticism largely fails to account for the consistent relation among Crane’s modes of speech, his use of figuration, and the material histories of transient experience. Of course, describing the “materialist consciousness” ( Trask...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 287–317.
Published: 01 September 2010
... a process, more about the creativity of individuals and commu-
nities than about official hearings, testimonies, and reports generated by
state institutions” (3). Thus, in some countries with violent authoritarian
histories, the aesthetic performance of forensic materials—photographs of
writs...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2006
...” (55).
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Frederick Whiting
29. Harris makes a compelling case for the primacy o f the material history,
and in particular the epistolary provenance, of Burroughs’s text for any further
critical consideration of his work.
This article has profited from the criticism and suggestions o f...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 39–71.
Published: 01 March 2001
... abandons all claims to objectivity: the subjective emphasis falls,
as it does in A Room of One’s Own, on the material conditions that allow
or prevent a greater understanding for another’s point of view.
The difficulty of composing with propriety while still crafting a “true”
history marks...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 396–400.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Tyrus Miller Remembrances of Left Pasts
History, Memory, and the Literary Left:
Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968
by John Lowney
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. 287 pages
Tyrus Miller
John Lowney s History, Memory, and the Literary Left considers in detail, and
with a focus...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 249–258.
Published: 01 June 2005
... of experimental poetry and seizing on certain insights
of its history as well as uncovering the prevailing absence in this tradition
of materials outside a Eurocentric focus. Discussing his first book of criti
cal essays, Discrepant Engagement, Mackey describes his intent this way: “I
called conventional...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 353–363.
Published: 01 September 2022
... shifting panorama between earth and water” (37). Allen’s unique mixture of material culture, ecocriticism, aesthetics and maritime history is perhaps best exemplified in the chapter on the scrapbooks of Jack Yeats, volumes in which the painter pasted print images that vividly suggest the capacious...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 97–104.
Published: 01 March 2008
... appears to embrace the aims and methods of cultural history,
an approach committed, at least in part, to interpreting the material con
ditions of the past. However, idealism rather than materialism structures
this scholarly work, a book best classified as a study in the history of ideas.
On one...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 377–384.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of Moore criticism. That world has changed significantly in the intervening decades, as new critical methodologies have come into play, the canon of Moore’s work has itself expanded significantly, and the advent of the internet has transformed our access to formerly recondite material. 1 Nevertheless...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 307–342.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and evokes varied resistance and civil rights discourses. . . In its materiality, the patch quilt brings workers together as ‘people,’ not in relation to their race, birthplace, or nationality, but in relation to their labor. It grounds them in a collectivity that owes less to familial ties than...
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