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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
... abandonment of every anthropocentric perspective in the life sciences and the radical dehumanization of the image of nature” (2004, 39). 7 For a more detailed discussion of Woolf, Uexküll, and animal “Umwelten,” see Ryan 2014a . 6 For a wide-ranging discussion of the significance of insects...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 271–288.
Published: 01 September 2016
... canines, these works succeed in writing the human ignorance of nonhuman animal worlds, but they also expose the fissure within human autobiography itself. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 alterity animal anthropocentrism autobiography modernism Anthropocentricism, in some sense...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 352–372.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and lines of thought in Latour’s work that lead to “compositionism.” It also finds in posthumanism a general apologetics around the dismantling of “critique” and anthropocentrism, opening up textual practice to the admission of vulnerability, naïveté, error, and playfulness, which allows various readings...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
... attempts to articulate a posthuman relationship with rural place. Her marginalization of the human supports a posthuman ethics by expressing coexistence and interrelation between human and nonhuman entities. Consequently, Butts explores a mode of engagement with landscape that moves beyond anthropocentrism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 392–410.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... This consideration of the nonhuman elements (i.e., the “things”) of Bowen’s work also gives rise to a thinking about the posthuman, which this article approaches in two ways: (1) as, quite literally, a concern about the world after humanity; and (2) as a non-anthropocentric worldview, opened up by a realization...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Chung-Hao Ku This article studies how three kinds of trans embodiment—trans-speciation, sartorial metamorphosis, and nonmedical gender transition—in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) unsettle the anthropocentric idea of nature, the genital view of sex, gender, and sexuality...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 116–121.
Published: 01 March 2010
...” of the Americas. Handley is fully aware that
any invocation of the Americas as a new continent immediately conjures
up the European colonial perspective and its ignorance and erasure of
earlier human inhabitants. But Eurocentrism is only part of the problem;
anthropocentrism is another, and more easily...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 348–361.
Published: 01 September 2002
... as being
not really about a dog. The anthropocentric bias that underlies these read
ings has its discursive foundation in the Enlightenment.
Descartes formulated m odern anthropocentrism in his distinction
between humans, w ho by virtue o f reason are aware o f their experience...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 423–444.
Published: 01 December 2009
... not only religion
but nineteenth-century science as well: creationism, anthropocentrism,
essentialism, physicalism, and teleology (318); and in various ways the
demise of each principle reverberates through contemporary thinking.
The rejection of creationism still appears, in American...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 285–315.
Published: 01 September 2005
...)
Graham claims such inaccuracies perpetuate an anthropocentric ap
proach to nature and do an injustice to the integrity and authenticity
o f the specific place. However, critics like Bonnie Costello have argued
persuasively that the poem has larger ambitions than mere...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2012
... the anthropocentric moorings of
subjectivity itself.
For Woolf, as for Septimus, Darwin’s evolutionary theory provided
the conceptual apparatus for thinking “scientifically” about the natural
continuum of life, even as it supplied a vocabulary for asserting and ar-
ticulating differences within...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of
“his cheeks, his lips, his ears” (143), a sign that he recognizes and accepts a
shared emotional life with animals (220). In moving from the first to the
second version of Darwinism, Lurie sheds not only his anthropological
outlook but his anthropocentric one as well.
The novel’s interest...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 618–623.
Published: 01 December 2009
... on the world that accounts for our own
embodied anthropocentric viewpoints, enabling us to see otherwise: what
Clarke describes as, finally, a “notion of the posthuman worth the name”
(195).
Thus representing a major metamutation in the gene pool of post-
humanist discourse, Clarke’s book...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 359–364.
Published: 01 September 2017
... corpses as they are of abandoning human corpses unburied. And death practices—vigils, mourning, even versions of burial—have been observed in a range of nonhuman animals. Recently cultural anthropologists have begun to practice multispecies ethnography, decentering their own declaratively anthropocentric...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 330–351.
Published: 01 September 2015
... that constitute a livable world. 2 Latour’s sweeping intellectual project provides a contrast to the primary ethical concerns of most “posthumanist” theorists with questions of animal rights, “bioethics,” and the critique of anthropocentrism. In What Is Posthumanism? (2010), for example, Cary Wolfe...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 467–490.
Published: 01 December 2005
...: Bobby has “neither
ethics nor logos,” he is “without the brain needed to universalize maxims
and drives” (152). For Levinas, the dog is, as David Clark observes, “too
stupid, trop bête, the French condensing idiocy and animality into one
crassly anthropocentric expression” (188...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 449–482.
Published: 01 December 2018
... In contrast to Lukács, Woolf sees transcendental homelessness as the bedrock of tragedy. Her strain of modernism refuses the promise Lukács locates in dialectical materialism, and deflates anthropocentric pretensions to dominate nature with reason. Whereas Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno locate...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 June 2022
... allow. Second, it is less anthropocentric, accounting for a variety of “forms of consciousness” (245), including, as we have seen, cats. Third, it is more attuned to the claims of realism, holding that idealism must “reconcile the universe of things with the universe of thought, without doing violence...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to a skeptical, analytical intelligence and a deep suspicion of anthropocentric excesses. It’s thus not that Ammons “abandon[s]” the egotistical sublime, as he does the negative or transcendental sublime, but, rather, that he pursues its double-edged self-awareness to its logical conclusion. Viewed in this light...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 447–471.
Published: 01 December 2011
... essay, “The Mars Trilogy and the Leopoldian Land Ethic”; see also
Huston 234-39 and Markley 131-34. It should be noted, however, that this
convergence of ecocentric and anthropocentric perspectives (cf. Otto 250) is
accompanied by a good deal of pathologizing of Clayborne’s “love for rocks...
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