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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
...” (2010), or Brian Massumi’s “activist philosophy” (2011). In Murphy it is clear that a certain assault on anthropomorphic humanist assumptions is made through an overt satire on the conventions of fictional realism and characterization: for example, the list of Celia’s (vital?) statistics...
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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
... owing to the lurking presence of anthropomorphism in the use of human language. In her introduction to the essay anthology Speaking for Animals: Animal Autobiographical Writing , Margo DeMello articulates the problem: “Because they don’t speak our language, and we don’t speak theirs, we cannot see, nor...
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Across the Widest Gulf: Nonhuman Subjectivity in Virginia Woolf’s Flush
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 348–361.
Published: 01 September 2002
... an equine “autobiography.” H er
protagonist’s experiences could only have befallen a horse, but his voice
and emotions are recognizably human. This divided, anthropomorphic
narrative subjectivity facilitates the author’s project o f inspiring sympa
thy for the plight o f abused...
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Rewriting Nature Tourism in “an Age of Violence”: Tactical Collage in Marianne Moore’s “An Octopus”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 285–315.
Published: 01 September 2005
... for nature’s economic value, the park packages nature in ways
expected to generate touristic interest. The section of Rules and Regulations
titled “Twelve characteristic park birds” illustrates the brochure’s tendency
to anthropomorphize. Birds have “vocal versatility” and “informal man
ner,” perform...
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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
... and ethical
protections are suspended and the political subject appears as nothing
more than bare life.10
Thus two substitutive practices at the heart of the production of
humanity—anthropomorphism and sacrifice—meet in Bradshaw’s con-
sulting room. He employs the language and logic of sacrifice...
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The Objects of Ethics: Rilke and Woolf with Latour
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 330–351.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Hofstra University 2015 D. H. Lawrence Virginia Woolf modernism anthropomorphism animals As Stephen Ross argues in Modernism and Theory , early twentieth-century modernism and critical theory share an essential narrative structure, one with roots in the Enlightenment: a narrative...
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Of Beasts Blond and Damned: Fascist and Hysterical Bodies and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
....” The Lacanian account of hysteria thus points to the body’s traversal by contrary vectors directed toward positivization and negation. Projected, on the one hand, into the form of an uncanny anthropomorph—“ l’être-ange [being-an-angel]” ( Lacan 1998 : 8)—the hysteric mobilizes, on the other hand, “the body’s...
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(Re)Embodying the Disembodied Voice of Lyric: The Radio Poems of Derek Walcott and Sylvia Plath
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
... suggests that, ultimately, voices cannot be entirely abstracted from the bodies in which they originate. The play’s do invite lyric reading, prompting the audience to give voice to the lines—even troping on voice, as lyric poems often do, by means of apostrophe and anthropomorphism. And yet, even...
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Disastrous Aesthetics: Irony, Ethics, and Gender in Barthelme’s Snow White
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2005
... anthropomorphic
I impossible, insofar as such a grounding I would have to found its own
context rather than being subject to something outside itself and its ocular
horizon.
If knowledge has been dependent on sight—theorein, aletheia, ad
equation—it then depends on a relation between...
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Using the Rotted Names: Wallace Stevens’s Racial Ontology as Poetic Key
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 217–236.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., and beneath it the anthropomorphic sun likewise mimics and mocks the strike. On the one hand, he joins the protest; on the other, his agitations seem directed at the workers themselves. He “slicken[s]” them—he makes them sweat, heedless of how drenched the assembly line has left them, and by the same verb...
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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
... in a new body). The poem resists exactly the production of a new personhood by its own production of sensibility in images and forms of address, exactly that restitution by “anthropomorphic” production that Stewart sees as definitive of “poetic making.” “And again,” I am left in the repetition of elegy...
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The Grace of the Daily
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 532–539.
Published: 01 September 2012
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of poetry by Virginia Jackson (situated, generically various) and Susan
Stewart (“transcultural” and “anthropomorphic “An everyday poetics,”
she writes,“shows that when poets treat some common formal problem
of lyric, they also help to describe some common temporal problems of
living.” With its...
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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 animals never achieves the status of environmental care; her poems do not provide a “model for animal activism” (25). In poems such as “Black Earth” and “My Apish Cousins,” Moore uses highly stylized tropes of the fable—such as anthropomorphic speech, political trickery, and morality—to investigate how...
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Handwriting, Analysis
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 546–555.
Published: 01 September 2012
...—by Spiegelman’s anthropomorphic figures. In the
eyes of anti-Semites, the Jews lacked individuality and were mere bio-
logical instantiations of a concept. They became dedifferentiated “Jews,”
and their mousification, attended by the corresponding catification of
the Germans, provides a means...
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(Fl)orality, Gender, and the Environmental Ethos of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 275–305.
Published: 01 September 2006
...” and its “humanistic organization of knowledge around
the actions of humans and anthropomorphic beings rather than around
impersonal things” (74) also come to be epistemologically downplayed.
In the newly bifurcated epistemology that philosophical discourse
enunciates,“Knowledge (eidenat says...
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Colonial Rhetoric and the Maternal Voice: Deconstruction and Disengagement in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 34–55.
Published: 01 March 2000
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model of the sonorous envelope, a reimmersion in the preconscious or pre
natal, Kristeva’s “semiotic enclosure” or chora. His “baptism” seems to sensi
tize Hewet to the sounds of the forest, which “echoed like a hall.” The cries
of animals are described in almost exclusively anthropomorphic terms...
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Sentimental Posthumanism: David Foster Wallace
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 327–344.
Published: 01 September 2007
... (and acknowledges) John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a
Convex M irror” as it describes the mechanical routines o fJeopardy con
testants in a world where television has become anthropomorphized A
special grand prize chosen just for you,’ says the television” [31 This is a
cultural milieu within which...
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Integrity After Metafiction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 492–515.
Published: 01 December 2011
... be rendered
in discursive form. They seem too insubstantial for a world in which only
the written or spoken eulogy has currency. Yet to Nick’s mind, impres-
sions remain as tangible as those diminishing sunrays (anthropomorphized
by Hollinghurst here), tactile and invasive like the daylight...
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Tom Pickard and the Voices of Postwar British Poetry
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 361–384.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Imagined,” for instance, opens with a similar erotic anthropomorphism: “The shuffle and shudder of Autumn. . . . Those last thin garments, come / let’s have them off!” (1991: 132). Pickard’s poem turns elegiac, though, like many modern elegies, refusing the consolation of mourning. 21 Declining...
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