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The Dog Man: Becoming Animal in Coetzee’s Disgrace
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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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Animal Subjects: Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism , by Caroline Hovanec
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Daniel Aureliano Newman Especially remote from the book’s main concerns, at least initially, is the first chapter, “H. G. Wells, Charles Elton, and the Struggle for Existence,” which focuses on questions of where to situate animals vis-à- vis humans in a post-Darwinian world. The chapter...
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Mrs. Dalloway ’s Animals and the Humanist Laboratory
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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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Thinking Modernist Ethics with Animals in A Passage to India
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 305–329.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the element of pudeur , moral knowledge, and biblical origin of the human/animal binary Derrida engages for the rest of the book. 5 Though, as Derek Ryan has pointed out, Levinas is far from decisive on this point: One cannot entirely refuse the face of an animal. It is via the face that one...
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Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human by Maren Tova Linett
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 105–112.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Michael Lundblad [email protected] Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human , by Linett Maren Tova . New York : New York University Press , 2020 . 213 pages. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 Let’s try a thought experiment. Animal-rights...
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Fascist Racism and Modernist Animals: Toward a Posthuman Sovereignty
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 379–404.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Chris Hall This article reads modernist animals against the dominating strategies of fascist racism, examining the hierarchization of bodies along the human/nonhuman divide in Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos and Virginia Woolf’s Flush and how the animals in both works challenge the integrity of the human...
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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...
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Decadent Dinosaurs: Directed Evolution in British and North American Literature, 1890s–1970s
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Richard Fallon Despite paying concerted attention to evolutionary mechanisms, literary scholars have rarely focused on forms of “directed evolution” like orthogenesis (evolution along a linear track) and phylogeronty—the parallel between the lifespan of an animal group and the lifespan of an aging...
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Dogdom: Nonhuman Others and the Othered Self in Kafka, Beckett, and Auster
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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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Murphy and Peace
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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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Elegy, Form, and the Inorganic: Geoffrey Hill, Paul Celan, Ice
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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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“Interested in Big Things, and Happy in Small Ways”: Curiosity in Edith Wharton
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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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A diagrammatic demonstration of the analogy between spiny skin on an elderl...
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in Decadent Dinosaurs: Directed Evolution in British and North American Literature, 1890s–1970s
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 2: A diagrammatic demonstration of the analogy between spiny skin on an elderly individual animal and in an “elderly” species ( Beecher 1898 : 355). Reproduced courtesy of the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
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Orwellian Comedy
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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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Monkey in the Mirror: The Science of Professor Higgins and Doctor Moreau
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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...
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Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science in American Modernity , by Dana Seitler
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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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On the Prize Essay
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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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The Green Depression: American Ecoliterature in the 1930s and 1940s by Matthew M. Lambert
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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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The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics by Joshua Schuster
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 337–344.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of nonintentionality whereby human authority is expelled from the space of performance in order to make room for the traffic of noise from unexpected forms of elemental, arboreal, animal, and machinic agency. By thus relinquishing authorial control, Cage adds an ethical component to his entropic sonic ecologies...
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