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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 413–448.
Published: 01 December 2018
... intellectual, artistic, and personal development. As Eliot moves from analytic philosophy in his doctoral dissertation through the philosophically invested poetry that culminates in The Waste Land (1922) and, finally, to the autobiographical and participatory idiom of Four Quartets (1943), his work...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 365–369.
Published: 01 September 2017
... tinkering, a number of terms that contemporary literary theory has largely tossed aside, terms essentially concerned with the axiological and phenomenological dimensions of reading poetry: the language of value, experience, and imaginative absorption. Altieri sees in the strand of high analytic philosophy...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 237–260.
Published: 01 September 2019
... an “artificial” stereotype as a symbol for artistic self-reflexivity? By addressing such issues in O’Connor’s work, this essay in turn poses questions for the discipline and institutionalized procedures of literary criticism. Copyright © Hofstra University 2019 academic disciplines analytic philosophy...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 June 2022
... framed out of the picture. At the time, its detractors—most notably, G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell—attacked British Idealism as a pointless and unverifiable metaphysics (theorizing about the abstract nature of “Absolute” reality, in contrast to analytic philosophy’s emphasis on concrete, empirical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 101–110.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Greg Chase Kafka and Wittgenstein: The Case for an Analytic Modernism , by Schuman Rebecca . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2015 . 220 pages. Wittgenstein and Modernism , edited by LeMahieu Michael Zumhagen-Yekplé Karen . Chicago : University of Chicago...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 128–136.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of investigation of US literature’s
interactions with US philosophy that has long been standard in work
on the nineteenth century. On the other hand, LeMahieu challenges
postmodernism’s putative ahistoricity in the manner of less specifically
philosophical books by Daniel Grausam (on the looming nuclear...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 283–304.
Published: 01 September 2020
... analytical philosophy by attempting to escape the confines of individual subjectivity to narrate a world not dependent on a subject. Yet in focusing on the epistemological problem of the “knowledge of the unobserved,” Banfield (2000 : 48) envisions a world in which the impersonal and the intimate are simply...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 93–124.
Published: 01 June 2007
... as evolutionary
psychology in the 1990s, the deployment of Darwinian ideas and models
has been steadily on the rise in a wide variety of academic fields—Brian
Boyd offers a list that includes ethology, linguistics, artificial intelligence,
neurophysiology, anthropology, analytic philosophy...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 538–543.
Published: 01 December 2008
... responded to a challenge posed by a 2002 article
by John Guillory. Addressing Alan Sokal’s 1996 hoax article in Social Text,
Guillory argued that the resulting scandal highlighted the “spontaneous
philosophy of the critics”: the assumption that
an antirealist epistemology (alternatively expressed...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 262–268.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of the “Circe” episode in Joyce’s Ulysses, the focus of her second
chapter. Ulysses was the object of the most famous and influential obscen-
ity trial in modern literary history, and Joyce’s formal innovations and
aesthetic philosophy provided a precedent that deeply informs the objec-
tives of the other...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 442–458.
Published: 01 December 2007
... in “Sirens”
overlooked by much of the Joyce criticism that takes sensuality to be the
adversary of a reason it consistently posits as wicked. I propose that the
very separation of art (mimesis/sensuality) and philosophy (cognition/
identification) produces the undesirable—that is, crude...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 275–305.
Published: 01 September 2006
... to consider the effects of the “analytic, dissecting tendencies” of
“the inscribed, visualized word” as it amplifies that inaugural interposition
over and against the “aggregative (harmonizing) tendencies” of what Ong
calls a “sound-dominated verbal economy” (Orality 73—74)—or the oral,
mythological...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Avram Alpert This essay considers the postmodern engagement with Buddhism as a philosophy and a practice through the lens of Severo Sarduy’s Cobra (1972). It argues that a closer alignment of contemporary Buddhist studies with literary criticism can help us to better understand both contemporary...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 401–409.
Published: 01 September 2008
...-critical and emancipatory force” (xii). Po
litically engaged and intellectually astute, Woolf distinguished herself “as
powerfully analytic, critical, and imaginative a proponent as the EngHght-
ment project has had in the last century” (xii). Able to connect the high
ideals of civilization...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 494–503.
Published: 01 September 2013
...,” similar to “lucid dreaming” (32).
The effect of this double-mindedness is the “as if” mentality that
gives Saler his title. Saler derives his title from the 1911 “Fictionalist”
manifesto of philosopher Hans Vaihinger, The Philosophy of “As If.” Work-
ing from Vaihinger, Saler describes...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and Wittgenstein
tainty. One reason for doing this is to make a case for the importance of
thorough applications of Wittgenstein in literary studies, where references
to his philosophy, even in the work of astute critics, are often cursory and
misleading. Take, for example, Angus Fletcher’s claim...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of disciplines from literary studies
and philosophy to the social and biological sciences has focused attention
on complex ethical issues regarding medical research, zoological captivity,
the consumption and production of food, and environmental sustainibil-
ity. As Margot Norris explains, “In the process...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2023
... an immanentist (meta)physics amenable to the positive and egotistical sublimes, Ammons approaches those modes with caution from the very start. Viewed in this light, Sphere ’s skepticism about its own “privileged moments” doesn’t reject the earlier work so as much it offers a more complete analytical...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 559–566.
Published: 01 December 2010
... imbalance in Hemingway studies by focusing on craft;
providing a set of analytic tools for analyzing short fiction more generally;
situating Hemingway’s work within the development of the modern short
story; and, most ambitiously, reconfiguring the place of the short story in
literary studies...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 309–342.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Longworth has demonstrated, Wil-
liam Stanley Jevons’s logical empiricism, Herbert Spencer’s evolutionism,
John McTaggart’s idealism, and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalism.
Thus, it is hardly surprising that critics tend to read Pilgrimage through the
lens of philosophy. Jean Radford has...
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