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Published: 01 September 2024
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 247–270.
Published: 01 September 2016
... he wrote in France. Confusing its position further is the fact that Watt , though written during the Second World War, was not published until 1953, and so appeared to the public after Godot (1952) and the first two novels in the Trilogy had already begun to shape the author’s critical reception...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the atrocities of the Second World War—including freezing, starvation, immolation, and enslavement—to mitigate Lecter’s cannibalistic classism and restore his humanity. Lecter is rendered mute by the trauma of consuming his sister, the patrician Lecter Castle becomes a Soviet orphanage, and Lecter’s eventual...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Figure 1 British Second World War propaganda poster (“Freedom” 1941). ...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 475–498.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the symposium, this essay uses the terms established in “Feeling and Precision” to recalibrate the ethical turn Moore’s poetry took during and after the Second World War. Drawing on the lecture’s emphasis on the “compulsion to unbearable accuracy,” the essay traces the transition from the commitment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 June 2020
...,” in Berlin’s Lilienthalstrasse Cemetery (Friedhof Lilienthalstrasse). The stone’s inscription reads, “Against war and violence for the victims of expulsion, deportation, rape, and forced labor, innocent children, mothers, women, and girls, their sufferings in the second world war should be unforgotten...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 25–54.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of World War II and engaging the work of Richard Wright and Albert Camus, Baldwin identifies in fascism. The seductions of fascism are obviated by the “acts of creation” by which “the individual” emerges. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Hofstra University 2024 binding Black studies...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 345–351.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Sweeney (2020) , and Mary Esteve (2021) . If so, Seiler’s book will be one of the field’s seminal works, providing a historical and conceptual framework that links disparate works of fiction, poetry, and drama under a broad but discrete experience of inhabiting the years after the Second World War...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 526–530.
Published: 01 December 2008
... inwardness. But she
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argues that the Second World War has been the unacknowledged elephant
in the room of modernist studies, and she sees it as perhaps the key mo
ment in the reformulation of modernism as a literary movement. In her...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 477–485.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in the novel Palimpsest (1926) must live with her traumatic experiences, but those experiences, and the emotions that come with them, allow the character to move from poetry writing to fiction writing, a creative move H.D. made herself, born out of her own traumatic experiences. In H.D.’s Second World War...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 100–108.
Published: 01 March 2021
... that the narrative calls into question precisely for what they neglect or omit. It has long been held, as a kind of critical orthodoxy, that Beckett’s writing is intimately related to the ordeal of the Second World War and its aftermath, even if critics have too often failed to specify the precise nature...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and government departments. The professional spy is first and foremost a creature of the Cold War, a product of both the normalization and bureaucratization of espionage, especially as represented by the CIA, the dominant force in the Western intelligence community after the Second World War. The era’s most...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 387–395.
Published: 01 December 2000
..., for the nature of things is, just now, being transformed
into something utterly different. This seems an accurate description of the
attitudes of European and American modernist writers before the Second
World War. For Yeats, it just so happened, fortuitously, that the twentieth
century marked the final...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 416–422.
Published: 01 September 2009
... in the 1990s
by Samuel Cohen
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. 237 pages
Steven Wandler
Like the decade that followed the end of the Second World War, the 1990s
are beginning to look like a decade that might best be characterized as
transitional. Just as the wars between nations...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Press . Tumblety Joan . 2012 . Remaking the Male Body: Masculinity and the Uses of Physical Culture in Interwar and Vichy France . Oxford : University of Oxford Press . Wasson Sara . 2010 . Urban Gothic of the Second World War: Dark London . London : Palgrave 3...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 460–483.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Landscapes: Bowen and the Terrain of North Cork .” Estudios Irlandeses : 141 – 47 . Wills Clair . 2007 . That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland during the Second World War . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . 32 For a discussion of the Shannon scheme in relation...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 463–470.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., and it clearly attempts to redress the problem of insufficient context. Yet the contextualizing histories Maslen provides can sometimes sound a bit potted, as in her occasional effort to make Jameson’s political work seem more grand. For example, Maslen tells us about PEN policies following the Second World War...
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“Certain Axioms Rivaling Scriptures”: Marianne Moore, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Ethics of Engagement
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 316–340.
Published: 01 September 2005
... these issues through a construction of selfhood as necessar
ily open-ended and process-oriented. Working apart from each other,
Moore and Niebuhr came to similar conclusions during the buildup to
the Second World War concerning the imperative need for individual and
national resistance...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 37–58.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Palmer Andrew . 2018 . The Remembered Dead: Poetry, Memory, and the First World War . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Piette Adam . 2007 . “ Keith Douglas and the Poetry of the Second World War .” In The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry , edited...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 393–400.
Published: 01 September 2009
...-correspondents, their
cameras at the ready to record other people’s moments of crisis” (Poetry
Matters). Born in 1935, he was too young to serve in the Second World
War, but before he went up to Oxford University to read English he was
appointed second lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire...
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