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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
...) and Hannibal Rising (2006) into a World War II orphan-avenger, whose first experience of cannibalism is the forced consumption of his younger sister at the hands of Slavic Nazi collaborators, and how his subsequent cannibalistic murders are positioned as an “ethical response” to his wartime trauma. This essay...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 345–351.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Daniel Aureliano Newman Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II , by Seiler Claire . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . 290 pages. © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 In The Sense of an Ending (1967), based on his 1965 Mary Flexner...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 247–270.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Anna Teekell By reading Samuel Beckett’s famously “unreadable” novel Watt (1953) in context as a novel of the Irish Emergency, the neutral Irish Free State’s euphemism for World War II, this essay argues that Watt ’s unreadability and encodedness are embodiments of the languages of post-traumatic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Lisa Mullen The shocking defamiliarization of the everyday that took place during World War II created a crisis in modernist aesthetics. This crisis emerges both in Eliot’s anguished meditation on time, space, and infinity in “East Coker,” and in Powell and Pressburger’s playful satire about...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Malina as an allegory of the process of writing itself: that is, a means of exploring the attempted expression of the pain and fragmentation of the embodied subject that resulted from the atrocities of World War II. Using Blanchot’s reflections on anguish and language, I argue that the novel—part love...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 11–36.
Published: 01 March 2020
...William Davies This essay explores the depiction of the degenerating male form in Samuel Beckett’s post-World War II trilogy of novels ( Molloy , Malone Dies , and The Unnamable ) in the context of Vichy France’s ideology of the body—specifically the male body—and the propaganda of the regime’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Sarah E. Cornish The World War II diary A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (2005) documents one woman’s story of survival in the spring of 1945 in Berlin, during which upward of 130,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Red Army. First, this essay introduces the politics...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Writers’ Project was cut short by World War II and by the sort of conservative backlash to the New Deal that drove the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate events leading to the postwar construction of an apolitical Bishop, abstracted from the politics that in fact conditioned much...
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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 (2022) 68 (4): 409–436.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., public solitude took on new urgency for her in the World War II years and beyond, when Moore developed from an obscure champion of modernism to a widely read national figure. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 American poetry literary fame modernism World War II...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 96–105.
Published: 01 March 2006
... suggests that, for the
wealthy elite of Britain, the memory of the empire lives on as part of the
heritage of privilege. That Prince Harry wore a Nazi uniform suggests
that although Britain and Germany were on opposite sides in World War
II, there were similarities between them in their position...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 526–530.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Debra Rae Cohen Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Modernism and World War II , by MacKay Marina , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2007 . 192 pages. Modernism’s Passage through the Blitz
Modernism and World War II
by Marina MacKay
Cambridge: Cambridge University...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 371–378.
Published: 01 September 2018
... debates about totalitarianism have tended to focus on Europe during World War II or to compare the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in a manner that precludes discussion of the racial injustice stemming from democracy’s entanglement with colonialism and the slave trade. Race and the Totalitarian Century...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 328–359.
Published: 01 September 2003
... habits for Stein; and this renewed emphasis on habit
becomes the subject matter for her World War II writings. Habits seem
both to mask the disruption that war creates, dissolving the consequences
of the world into the space of the home, and paradoxically to work as a
way in which war itself can...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
... . “ Theories of Trauma .” In The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II , edited by MacKay Marina , 194 – 206 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Wallop Harry . 2014 . “ Why French Chefs Want Us to Eat This Bird—Head, Bones, Beak and All .” Telegraph , September...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 196–231.
Published: 01 June 2013
... was figured as a crucible that
once again revealed the indomitable national spirit.8
But Lee does not resurrect his suburban everyman simply because
he is lacking. In her discussion of several post-World War II films that
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depict physically and psychically wounded veterans...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 June 2018
... ‘Here!’ and ‘Here!’ and wake us here where are unwanted love, conceit, and war?” ( Bishop 1983 , 36) Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 American poetry description imperialism modernism World War II On the rare occasions when Elizabeth Bishop felt compelled to defend...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 472–492.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., coincided
with Williams’s post—World War II resurgence. The appearance of Paterson
I in the spring of 1946 marks the precise moment at which Williams’s
popular homegrown American image cohered. After World War II, “Doc
Williams” came to be seen as a kind of latter-day Walt Whitman bravely
setting...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 720–727.
Published: 01 December 2012
... experience of the commonplace. To explore how
this has been variously attempted, Olson devotes the next four chapters to
four representative modernists: Joyce (Ulysses), Woolf (principally Mrs. Dal-
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loway), Gertrude Stein (her World War II work, in particular Mrs. Reynolds...
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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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