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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
...Brandon Truett This article recovers the 1918 chapbook that the understudied Vorticist poet and visual artist Jessie Dismorr composed for the American sculptor John Storrs and his wife Marguerite. It examines the ways the chapbook reorients the aesthetic criteria by which we recognize abstraction...
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 2 John Storrs, Abstraction (1919). Painted terracotta, 4¾ × 2¾ × 2 in. © Estate of John Storrs. Courtesy of Richard Gray Gallery. Photograph courtesy of the Vilcek Foundation.
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 709–719.
Published: 01 December 2012
...-Century Literature 58.4 Winter 2012 709
Phoebe Putnam
Slowly but surely, flat is falling flat. Abstraction’s legacy of flat surfaces,
here implied by Schjeldahl as having been buffed to a perniciously “fric-
tionless” sheen by the late twentieth century, is being read as a legacy...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 220–227.
Published: 01 June 2017
... responses to the concept of cosmopolitanism that have questioned its rush to abstract universalism and global unity, while moving beyond postcolonial assessments of Irish modernism that tend to focus intently on contexts of nationalism or anticolonialism at the expense of attention to forms of transnational...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 504–510.
Published: 01 December 2018
... artists, in Rasula’s terms, long for an art that could be as abstract as music, in which an illusion of insight is gained, but we can never know what that insight is. This ambitious book professes to be about “melomania,” an excessive love of music, as manifested across multiple modernist art forms. Yet...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 164–192.
Published: 01 June 2003
... visual space of the map and the
local knowledges of narrative, finally drawing attention to the absences
inherent within each mode of representation. Cartography promises a
surveying view, but this vantage is distant, abstract, and ahistorical. Nar
rative, conversely, can project individual...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 268–282.
Published: 01 September 2004
...,
it builds toward a moment of vision at which an internal, abstract world
emerges.
As James Paradis argues, there is something counterintuitively roman
tic about this process.Though natural history does not privilege the indi
vidual moment of perception in quite the way that romanticism does...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 483–503.
Published: 01 December 2018
... something as unconditionally real (not at all as art) ” (2003: 9). Disgust forecloses the possibility of beauty and abstraction because it “penetrates the body so far as it is alive.” As an instinctual way of protecting the self from potentially harmful intrusions, disgust makes one turn away, gag...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 275–305.
Published: 01 September 2006
.../literate divide serves Gilead
as a “gender-supporting” device (129). If, as Ong and Havelock contend,
the capacity for abstract thought and a potentially revolutionary historical
perspective depend on the “perspectival distance” provided by the writ
ten word, then an imposed orality atrophies...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 255–262.
Published: 01 June 2008
... on the “open form” of the Cantos has long been a central topic
of Pound scholarship, from Hugh Kenner’s The Pound Era and Timothy
Materer’s Vortex through Maijorie Perloff’s The Futurist Moment, Charles
Altieri’s Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry, and Vincent
Sherry’s Ezra Pound...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 March 2011
... study. For Acker, the value of money emerges from free choices
and individual exchange that cannot be abstracted by macro-economic
monetary policies (such as raising or lowering interest rates). Acker’s anti-
authoritarianism, in this reading, is less a case of radical liberalism than...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): vi–ix.
Published: 01 June 2005
...
is Charles Airieri, Stageberg Professor of English at the University of
California at Berkeley. Among his works are The Particulars of Rapture:
An Aesthetics of the Affects and Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American
Poetry. His new book, The Art of Modernist American Poetry, is just out...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 307–342.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... We became commodities, all of us; imprisoned bodies of labor, holding together a patriarchal and capitalist currency so strong, it cannibalized us. —Helena María Viramontes, “Marks of the Chicana Corpus” History . . . is that ghostly (abstract in the Marxist sense) totality that articulates...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 166–192.
Published: 01 June 2008
... they share an essential concern: that we
notice the modern subject trembling at its implication in an alterity it
can neither avoid nor understand. The trembling represents Kierkegaard’s
theological critique and Levinas’s ethical critique of thought that coerces
the subject into abstraction...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 293–328.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of an alternative political future. But on his own account, the possibility of fulfilling that promise is compromised by the totalizing logic of the nation, a logic that works to homogenize the popular, instituting a civil society modeled on the “abstract principles” (18) of the state—law, universality, subjection...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 413–448.
Published: 01 December 2018
...) and, consequently, “all of our terms turn out to be unreal abstractions” (245). As soon as we begin to speak of experience as a phenomenon separable enough to be placed on the table for analysis, we demand that it make “reference to something real which lies outside of that experience” (248); but as Edmund...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 168–195.
Published: 01 June 2010
... model of ethical responsibility, Age of Iron troubles its abstractions. For
Levinas, ethics is my responsibility to the other, described as the neighbor,
the widow, the orphan, whose profound destitution places my very being
into question. But where Levinas insists that the other “orders me before...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 538–544.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., and Levinas appearing from their perspective as
another Eurocentric thinker describing ethics in the abstract without any
awareness of a history of global-political injustice. Levinas’s other stripped
of attributes is in this reading “blanched” (69) to a familiar whiteness (69).
The first great...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 492–515.
Published: 01 December 2011
... abstract. As Jesse Matz observes,
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David James
“unlikely as it may sound, impressions were, from the start, just as much
abstractions” (“Pseudo” 118). Hence, in instances where
Woolf, James, or Proust refer to an impression they mean an in-
tuition that is also a removal...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., immanent in “everything,” the surfeit already involves elements of the third or “recovery” phase of the positive sublime, when the mind “displac[es] its excess of signified into a dimension of contiguity.” Indeed, the abstract language here gestures toward that moment of egotistical fulfilment when...
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