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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 147–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Elda Tsou Works Cited Chin Frank Chan Jeffery Inada Lawson Wong Shawn , eds. 1997 . Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers . New York : Meridian . Davis Rocio Lee Sue-Im , eds. 2006 . Literary Gestures . Philadelphia : Temple University Press...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 85–93.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Lise . 2022 . Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities . Oxford University Press . Winant Gabriel . 2019 . “ The Professional-Managerial Chasm .” n+1 , October 10 . https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/professional-managerial...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 436–439.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Feng Lan The Modernist Response to Chinese Art , by Qian Zhaoming , Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2003 . 274 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 American Poetry and Chinese Art:
New Perspectives on a
Cross-Cultural Relationship
The Modernist...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Sandra Kumamoto Stanley Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 w
Mourning the “Greatest Generation”:
Myth and History
in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral
Sandra Kumamoto Stanley
I n a 1973 interview about his satirical book The Great American Novel,
Philip Roth describes the 1960s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 120–127.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Joseph Conte Postmodern/Postwar—And After: Rethinking American Literature , ed. by Gladstone Jason Hoberek Andrew Worden Daniel . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2016 . 258 pages. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 The architectural theorist Charles Jencks...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 161–190.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jung-Suk Hwang Contextualizing American Pastoral within Newark’s history from the 1940s to the 1990s, including the 1967 riots and their continuing effects, Philip Roth contrasts this poor black city with the protagonist’s idealized image of America—a wealthy WASP suburb. Although largely neglected...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 145–166.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Anna Katsnelson This article argues that there are two major strains of transnationalism in works by Russian-speaking North American writers David Bezmozgis, Ellen Litman, and Gary Shteyngart. Bezmozgis and Litman focus on localism, and their short story collections Natasha (2003) and The Last...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Joseph Benatov The article argues that the transnational turn in American studies was born out of the demise of socialist Eastern Europe. To this day, the region has remained the unacknowledged generative transnational space that enabled the international reorientation of American studies...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 94–101.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Steven Gould Axelrod American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word , by Gelpi Albert . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 316 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 Albert Gelpi has now completed his critical trilogy on US poetry, a project nearly...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Eric Falci Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry , by Keniston Ann . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2015 . 228 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 Works cited Eliot T. S. 1953 . Selected Prose . Edited by Hayward John...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 472–491.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Emilio Sauri 2011 Emilio Sauri
Cognitive Mapping, Then and Now:
Postmodernism, Indecision, and American
Literary Globalism
Emilio Sauri
Mere belief is hostile to the whole idea of thinking. To wear cre-
dulity as one’s badge of intellect...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 516–538.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Caren Irr 2011 Caren Irr
Postmodernism in Reverse: American National
Allegories and the 21st-Century Political Novel
Caren Irr
Since the 1980s, the conceptual twin—or, better, dialectical counter-
part—of literary postmodernism has been the national allegory. As Fred-
ric...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 235–268.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Sharon Kunde “The ‘Nature’ of American Literature” explores how John Crowe Ransom and his less-studied contemporary Elizabeth Madox Roberts advanced a theory of literary objects that emerged from nature itself. This theory formed the basis of Ransom’s bid, in “Criticism, Inc.,” for disciplinary...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Lisa Tyler [email protected] The Green Depression: American Ecoliterature in the 1930s and 1940s , by Lambert Matthew M. . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 2020 . 209 pages. Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 Rachel Carson’s 1962 nonfiction...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
... ethnographic study of American hobo communities by Nels Anderson, “The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man” (1923), as a graduate student under the direction of Park. Anderson later published a more colloquial and accessible handbook for hobos, The Milk and Honey Route , under the pseudonym Dean Stiff...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Society 84 , nos. 1–4 : lxi – xcviii . Beecher Charles Emerson . 1898 . “ The Origin and Significance of Spines: A Study in Evolution [IV] .” American Journal of Science 6 , no. 34 : 329 – 59 . Beer Gillian . 2009 . Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 545–550.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Timothy Yu Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics , by Wilson Rob , Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2010 . 325 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
Reviews
Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 575–581.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Deborah Nelson Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories , by Cassuto Leonard , Columbia University Press , 2009 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History
of American Crime Stories...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 105–113.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Jason Arthur The Global Remapping of American Literature , by Giles Paul , Princeton University Press , 2010 . 340 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Review
Reviews
The Worlding of American Literature
The Global Remapping of American Literature
by Paul Giles...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Katherine Sugg Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America , by Adams Rachel , University of Chicago Press , 2009 . 310 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Katherine Sugg
Transamerican Transformations
and American Literatures
Continental Divides...
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