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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 237–260.
Published: 01 September 2019
...-disgust. As Sartre (2007 : 40) puts it, for consciousness to confront itself, the thinking self often first falls into despair. Existentialism may be a humanism, but it’s also a philosophically justified form of self-loathing. Copyright © Hofstra University 2019 academic disciplines analytic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 283–316.
Published: 01 September 2004
... that would not other­ wise have been done at all. (“History for Everybody” 890) Wells pointedly draws his public authority from remaining outside insti­ tutional affiliation with any specific academic discipline. Here history is indicated, but as his later debates with Hilaire Belloc...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in letting the poor speak for themselves. Another development associated with this growth was the emergence in the interwar years of sociology, and relatedly anthropology, as formal academic disciplines—and in particular the development of techniques that involved harvesting firsthand accounts in place...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 85–93.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in the Marxist sense; but he uses the term, and, by implication, he acknowledges that the institutions that have taken over the craft ideal have real class-crafting powers. 1 Ultimately, he leaves it for us to ask if his study offers a genealogy not only of a discipline but of one flank of the famously motley...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 317–318.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 Ul Reviews elcome to the first issue of the book review section of Twentieth- Century Literature. Why has this section come into existence? Is there a need for it? Journals in other disciplines, such as history, offer review sections...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 396–404.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Peter McDonald Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form , by Vendler Helen , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2007 . 428 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Peter McDonald Reviews Hearing the “Whoosh”: Listening to Yeats’s Lyrics Our Secret Discipline...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 239–263.
Published: 01 September 2002
... the stasis and purity that have traditionally defined academic disciplines even as they have defined the objects o f ethnographic study. Notes 1. My reference here is to Clifford Geertz’s classic 1974 defense of ethno­ graphic authority, “From the Native’s Point of View,” written...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 122–129.
Published: 01 March 2010
... workshop clichés: the experience-based “write what you know”; the creatively freeing “find your voice”; and the craft-driven “show don’t tell.” Each of these dicta in some way registers the shifting balance between self-expression and self-discipline, between reflexivity and systematicity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 164–173.
Published: 01 March 2013
... requires unwavering consistency and well-disciplined conformity. Women’s poetry of the twentieth century, according to Marsha Bry- ant’s Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture, has long suffered within the confines of narrow borders, and it is time we stopped patrolling them. It has been...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 413–448.
Published: 01 December 2018
... : Stanford University Press . Menand Louis . 2007 . Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context . 2nd ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press . Middleton Peter . 1986 . “ The Academic Development of The Waste Land .” In Demarcating the Disciplines: Philosophy, Literature, Art...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 119–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
... debate about political self-determination. He closes this section with a chapter that considers the African Writers Series (AWS) at Heinemann in the context of the rise of English as a field of study in the Commonwealth and threats to the discipline in England and the United States. Academics...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2016
... that organizational discipline required divestiture of any personal habits not directed toward revolution. Nearly all of the sixties histories I have mentioned observe the irony that the PLP’s distaste for the counterculture echoed middle American values of the fifties. Bookchin, as an anarchist counterculturalist...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 271–292.
Published: 01 September 2023
... teachers and academics were being greatly influenced by experimental theories and literature from Europe. 9 Toril Moi (2017 : 51) proposes a connection between Wittgenstein’s “longing for a clear view and his passion for detective novels.” However, as I’ve suggested, for Davis, this “clear view...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 531–537.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of writing. She is a celebrated academic literary scholar, author of Writing beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers; H.D.:The Career of That Struggle; and Genders, Races, and Religious. Cultures in Modern American Poetry. She is an innovative poet working...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2019
... becomes the new anti-space of American studies. Matthiessen’s anti-imperial critique also extended to the politics of the Salzburg Seminar. In his welcoming address to Seminar members, Matthiessen acknowledged that this new academic venture could be interpreted as the forceful spreading of American...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., they do invoke some European idea of the rhythmic chanting accompanying sacrificial ritual. Sitwell’s Africa-London landscape partly derives from her endnotes (another modernist feature of the poem), which attribute the academic sources of the poem to Georg Schweinfurth and Georg Wilhelm...
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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 (2024) 70 (2): 205–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of developing expertise and issuing emancipatory judgments to one another. The last several decades of academic criticism have certainly demonstrated literary studies’ toleration of all manner of interpretive license. But self-transformation more troublingly becomes an imperative in Clune’s account of aesthetic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2006
....” The restorative justice that the TRC seeks through the exposure of truth should be contrasted to both retributive justice and reparative justice. Retribu­ tive justice, grounded in ideas descended from Hammurabi’s code, would de­ mand a punishment comparable to or in excess of the crime. In Discipline...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 271–288.
Published: 01 September 2016
... scholars collectively. . . . It ever again crumbles away like a neglected ancestral inheritance and must laboriously be rehabilitated anew” (2005, 287). Devotion to rigorous academic disciplines and to education itself is in vain. Even science, seeming to offer a privileged access to truth in the early...