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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
...” ( Jones 2007 : 108). Jones postulates that, in spite of the intellectual historical relationship between philosophy and poverty, such as that which Greaney explores in modernist thinkers, the profound physicality of deprivation resists ontological theorizing (11). The aesthetic significance of poverty, he...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 419–447.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Matthew Stratton Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 !4I
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Irony, Public Opinion, and the
Aesthetic Politics o f US.A.
Matthew Stratton
Irony is perhaps democracy’s best instrument.
— Public Opinion Quarterly 1938 (T.V. Smith 19)
I n...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 379–402.
Published: 01 December 2016
... meaningful connection with the art of the past by privileging establishment—and, implicitly, masculine—authority. In H.D.’s World War II epic Trilogy (1944–46), this desired private relationship with aesthetic objects motivates the recovery of an aestheticized female god, the Lady, from the margins...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Alexandra W. Schultheis Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Postcolonial Lack
and Aesthetic Promise
in The Moor’s Last Sigh
Alexandra W. Schultheis
I n his documentary film The Riddle of Midnight, Salman Rushdie re
turns to India 40 years after independence to see...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 119–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Jennifer P. Nesbitt Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics , by Kalliney Peter J. , Oxford University Press , 2013 . 336 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Review
Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 298–326.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Sean McCann Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 HI
Training and Vision: Roth, DeLillo, Banks, Peck,
and the Postmodern Aesthetics of Vocation
Sean M cCann
W hat is hastily called deconstruction as such is never a technical
set o f discursive procedures, still...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 365–369.
Published: 01 September 2017
...John Gibson Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience , by Altieri Charles . Cornell University Press , 2015 . 262 pages. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 This is an ambitious book. Its goal is to offer a reenchantment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 273–294.
Published: 01 September 2022
... on the language and imagery of homoerotic entrancement to cultivate a mesmerizing—and distinctly queer—aesthetic, incorporating entrancement into their writing at the levels of both form and content. The article thus suggests that sexology provided writers such as Barnes and Rechy with an unexpected method...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 551–558.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Elizabeth S. Anker The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination , By Reichman Ravit , Stanford University Press , 2009 . 213 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
Law, Trauma, and Modernist Aesthetics
The Affective Life of Law: Legal...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Jeffrey T. Nealon Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 HI
Disastrous Aesthetics:
Irony, Ethics, and Gender
in Barthelme s Snow White
Jeffrey T. Nealon
The observer ought to be an amorist.
—Kierkegaard (47)
F ro m...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 239–266.
Published: 01 September 2017
...)—certifies their hardboiled radicalism. Female aesthetes are likewise modern only insofar as they reject gendered sentiment. “If you go sentimental, you have only yourself to blame,” young Bruno warns adolescent Elizabeth in one of her flashbacks to 1920s suburban Chicago: “Throw out the notions that possess...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 271–292.
Published: 01 September 2023
... “grammatical investigations” that attempt to work against what Toril Moi has described as the “generalized doubt” that characterized the theoretical and aesthetic “skepticism” of postmodernism. Davis’s commitment to this process situates her work within post-postmodern debates about doubt and belief...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2021
... visual aesthetic—its juxtaposition of translucent, glowing color with opaque line that holds and tempers it—and its power to shape psychological interiors by shaping exterior surroundings. Especially in narrating moments when a character struggles to comprehend her relationship to another person...
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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 (3): 305–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Brian Gingrich This article locates the place of Willa Cather’s work in literary history by revealing its relation to a central tradition of aesthetics. If at times her work has seemed to waver between romanticism and realism, if today it seems destined to be associated with modernism, yet another...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 463–484.
Published: 01 December 2020
....” The possibility, indeed desirability, of unification in Between the Acts , that is, is complicated by a political moment that puts an aestheticized version of “unification” in service of both nationalist and totalitarian ideologies. Woolf’s response to this dilemma was both aesthetic and political: henceforth...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 436–459.
Published: 01 December 2015
... how the poem unites the key elements of danse macabre —skeletal imagery, musical procession, grisly humor—with apprehensions of the absent mother, an approach founded upon but aesthetically distinct from original symboliste works such as Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal , or the work of American...
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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 (2021) 67 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2021
... to be done—foregrounding the diversity of flatness’s associated emotions, as well as the ways it remains compelling. Drawing out the breadth of aesthetic and interpretative connotations that flatness holds for her, the essay argues, provides a coherent way of reading her work. Beginning with an examination...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Tim Clarke This essay frames Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel Nightwood as an attempt to overcome an impasse between the discourses of hope and the discourses of despair in an interwar period in many ways preoccupied with questions of mortality. Synthesizing Decadent aesthetics and elements of Spinoza’s...
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