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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 467–490.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Tom Herron Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Ml
The Dog Man: Becoming Animal
in Coetzee’s Disgrace
Tom Herron
Crossing borders or the ends of man I come or surrender to the
animal—to the animal in itself, to the animal in me and the ani
mal at unease...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Daniel Aureliano Newman Animal Subjects: Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism , by Hovanec Caroline . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 225 pages. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 In one of the great essays on literature and science, Stephen Jay...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 305–329.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., the political philosophy of the Frankfurt School stands clearly as modernist: it articulates, perhaps more clearly than they could have done themselves, the spirit of critique that animated the formal experiments of those we have for nearly a century now thought of as the modernists. In what may have been...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Justin Omar Johnston This article examines Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People , an engagement with the consequences of the 1984 toxic chemical spill in Bhopal, India, in order to critique the humanist discourse of Dow Chemical’s massive rebranding effort, “The Human Element,” that began in 2006...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Vicki Tromanhauser Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Mrs. Dalloway’s Animals and the Humanist Laboratory
Mrs. Dalloway’s Animals
and the Humanist Laboratory
Vicki Tromanhauser
Mrs. Dalloway’s sustained critique of the structures of hierarchy and
dominance that underpin...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 271–288.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Joseph Anderton Focusing on Franz Kafka’s “Investigations of a Dog” (1922), Samuel Beckett’s Molloy (1955), and Paul Auster’s Timbuktu (1999), this essay reflects on how these works represent the fundamental unknowability of animal perspectives while at the same time suggesting how dogs and humans...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
... encounters between human and animal. In particular, the essay explores how the use of figurative language in these modernist texts opens up the imaginative possibilities of an anthropomorphism that paradoxically unsettles human-centered worldviews and instead seeks to more intimately engage with nonhuman...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 352–372.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and Bruno Latour, it uses Murphy as a means of inquiring into what a literary textual practice founded on a posthumanistic ethics of peace might look like. It locates in Murphy forms of agency and animism that dismantle the human-nonhuman divide and suggest affinities between modernist experimentalism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., and addresses it directly in her French Ways and Their Meaning . Part of the agenda of that slim primer was to illustrate, on the basis of the French example, that (if properly handled) curiosity and reverence are not antagonistic but mutually animating cultural values. Achieving this ideal state, Wharton...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 389–408.
Published: 01 December 2022
... poetics of the inanimate. This doubled incorporation of the inanimate puts under pressure concepts of poetic form and of reading that are structured by organic animation. Hill’s poems emerge as structured by a principle of inorganic production that finds its aesthetic paradigm in Kant’s concept...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 513–537.
Published: 01 December 2014
... not (as Waugh’s could) be “kept in
farcical shape by avoidance of comment.”
Animal Farm: “nothing to laugh at”
The book in which Orwell said he had “first . . . tried, with full conscious-
ness . . . to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose” was Animal Farm
(18.320)—which, as it happens, raises...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 485–509.
Published: 01 December 2009
... a conversion and a conviction of sin comparable to the
most sensational feats of General Booth.2 (115)
In the formulaic tales of Salvation Army founder William Booth, degraded
workers recovered their humanity when they were dragged back across
a boundary between animal and human. Shaw’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 June 2012
... to one of Freud’s
most classic cases, Sergei Pankejeff, otherwise known as the Wolf Man.
In discussing Freud, Seitler suggests that residual animality “enacts” the
condition of atavism as a “return not to but of the past” (33). The Wolf
Man case functions as an introduction to the image of being...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): ix–x.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Michael Ryan Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Twentieth-Century Literature’s
Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism, 2012
The winner of this year’s prize is Vicki Tromanhauser’s “Mrs. Dalloway’s
Animals and the Humanist Laboratory.” The judge is Michael Ryan, pro-
fessor...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 337–344.
Published: 01 September 2016
... aspects of an environment that do not fit within the frame. This dynamic of self-consciously framing certain features of an environment while concealing others drives each of the artistic styles Schuster analyzes. These styles include Marianne Moore’s animal fables, Gertrude Stein’s ambient approach...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 June 2022
... bestseller Silent Spring , an extended discussion of the harmful effects of synthetic chemical insecticides on human and nonhuman animals, has traditionally been credited with launching the environmentalist movement. In Green Depression , Matthew Lambert complicates that conventional wisdom. Drawing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 348–361.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... The present essay will
attempt to reassess that judgm ent by viewing the text in relation to re
cent developments in the study o f animal behavior and nonhum an sub
jectivity, by assessing the reasons for critical hostility toward the book,
and by analyzing W oolf’s own conflicted views...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 261–288.
Published: 01 September 2019
... our interest increases as their material basis decreases or is culturally disavowed: missing links and cryptozoology, extinction narratives and ancestry research. The archeological search for links in our evolutionary history continues even as kinship with nonhuman animals is increasingly repudiated...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of life across
species, promoting a view similar to that of Charles Darwin’s seminal
work The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872). In this
book Darwin traces a flow of sympathy between humans and animals, a
bond of fellow feeling manifest in the expression of humanlike emotion...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 572–596.
Published: 01 December 2009
... critique of
his Darwinism.
In what does this critique consist? For my purposes, I’d like to focus
on four elements, which can be laid out schematically:
1. I see Ape and Essence as troubled by the absence of a robust
ethical distinction between humans and animals in the Darwin...
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