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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 232–259.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Derek Furr 2013 Derek Furr
Re-Sounding Folk Voice, Remaking the Ballad:
Alan Lomax, Margaret Walker,
and the New Criticism
Derek Furr
From the British Romantic period through the first decades of the
twentieth century, the literary ballad was a commonly practiced form,
some...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 485–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to those of his New Critical mentors, such as John Crowe Ransom, for whom the individual of the liberal political order is entwined with the history of Puritan iconoclasm and Romantic views of the poetic subject. It argues that Ransom’s critique parallels those of later critics, such as Marjorie Perloff...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 235–268.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., however, this rarified relationship was grounded in and served to reinforce racial hierarchy. Even as the discipline turns away from the cultural elitism associated with New Criticism, Ransom’s understanding of the literary object as natural and thus subject to disciplinary study continues to inform...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 71–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of socialism and capitalism has enabled the two writers to intervene in unique ways in contemporary debates about history and memory. In its choice of themes, protagonists, and locations, their writing strongly advocates for a new transnational literature, while also asking for the development of new critical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to US-Mexico cultural exchange, Malcolm Cowley’s influential narrative of US modernism in Exile’s Return , and Porter’s own eventual canonization by the New Critics. Porter’s more visible incorporation into the universities and the early postwar literary canon, however, masked a more subtle way...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 387–412.
Published: 01 December 2018
... but as a mode of fostering and preserving nonnormative voices, converting the privacy imposed on the homosexual into the conditions for creating queer worlds. Gossip concomitantly provides Merrill with a model of poetic self-performance that at once pushes against and embraces New Critical ideals of lyric...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 237–260.
Published: 01 September 2019
... suffering for us all” ( HB 78). In both her letter to a reader and her response to one of the leading New Critics who exerted significant influence on the shape of postwar fiction, O’Connor positions herself as an outsider whose fiction criticizes white mainstream America and its view of race...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of her work. Ultimately, the essay suggests that relocating Bishops’s work in its New Deal context helps us see that, as one critic put it, “There’s something queer about the welfare state.” Works Cited Ashbery John . 1977 . “ Second Presentation of Elizabeth Bishop .” World Literature Today...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2016
... their assessments of the novel to historical studies of sixties radicalism, which often cite Pynchon, and Vineland specifically, as examples of the New Left’s shortcomings. Showing that Pynchon’s fourth novel itself makes exactly these criticisms, I uncover in the second section its engagement with the New Left...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 393–410.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Florian Gargaillo Adrienne Rich’s early poems have long been criticized for their apparent stylistic conservatism. Reconsidering Rich’s first two volumes, this essay aims to offer a new understanding of their place in her poetic development as a whole. Far from traditional forms functioning for her...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
... indebtedness to Southern plantation codes. As the relationship between capitalism and slavery comes under new scrutiny, Walrond’s fiction offers one avenue into a long-established Caribbean critical tradition, the key figures of which are C. L. R. James, Fernando Ortiz, and George Beckford, who insist...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 121–144.
Published: 01 March 2019
...” identity and how it is received by US readers and critics. Works Cited Akhtiorskaya Yelena . 2014 . Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel . New York : Riverhead . Akhtiorskaya Yelena . 2015 . “ An Interview with Yelena Akhtiorskaya .” By Filar Diana . Blue Mesa Review , no. 31...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 57–74.
Published: 01 March 2021
... enables some of his most celebrated poetry of “home.” Since the 1990s, Bishop’s reputation has grown considerably, and recent critical assessments of newly published work have led to new ways of reading her older collections, so that the “reticence” for which she was famed now appears less as an aesthetic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 239–266.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of the Month.” Review of The Unpossessed, by Tess Slesinger . New Outlook , June : 53 – 57 , 64 . Castro Joy . 2004 . “ ‘My Little Illegality’: Abortion, Resistance, and Women Writers on the Left .” In The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction , edited...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 217–236.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Mark Mayer This essay takes up Adrienne Rich’s unexplained assertion that Wallace Stevens’s racial and racist language is a “key to the whole” of his poetry. Focusing mostly on Stevens’s 1941 diptych “The News and the Weather,” the essay begins an anthology of critical approaches to the racial...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 53–74.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to create a communal text. Ultimately, the essay argues that the literary can help illuminate the workings of ethnic identity by exploring new forms for imagining community belonging. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 Chicano/Chicanx literature ethnic American...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 409–436.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Moore’s success as a woman poet, the new generation of feminists accused her of repressing her sexuality in order to achieve [her] success.” The editors of Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore: “A Right Good Salvo of Barks” (2005) and those of Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore: Essays from...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 239–260.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Celine Shanosky In 1963, Marianne Moore tells an interviewer, “I never ‘plan’ a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.” Six decades earlier, when Moore first learned about chromosomes, the concept was relatively new. Her education at Bryn Mawr from 1905 to 1909 placed...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 260–282.
Published: 01 June 2013
... thought of—owing to the poets’ university affilia-
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Jesse Zuba
tions, their friendship with the New Critics, and their preoccupation with
matters of form—as the academic style of the Lowell-dominated middle
generation” (2). Shetley goes the farthest to substantiate the opposition
between...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 159–168.
Published: 01 March 2012
...) with the same confidence
she displays when recontextualizing the New Critics or noting a renewed
interest in the literariness of the Bible in the 1970s and 1980s; she offers
similarly nuanced readings of writers such as J. D. Salinger, Allen Ginsberg,
Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne...
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