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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 273–294.
Published: 01 September 2022
... psychological work on trance, it argues that, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, queer desire was in part understood as a function of compulsively misdirected and pathologically fixed attention. Embracing rather than refuting this model of queerness, writers such as Barnes and Rechy drew...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2021
... language with which to approach other twentieth-century writers, such as D. H. Lawrence, whose work has remained elusive precisely because of its insistence that it has made its meaning abundantly available—that it has nothing to hide. © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 attention flatness landscape...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 427–450.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the composition of verse and the fabric of national narratives. Whereas Pound detects the rhythmic coherence of a robust economy beneath the surface differences of documented history, Moore’s attention to the syllabic material of the prose she read and the stanzas she composed trained her attention...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 232–263.
Published: 01 June 2015
... so, it also engages with a complex of intertexts ranging from the Qur’anic and biblical versions of the Yusuf/Joseph story to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness . This essay adds V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River to this mix by reading Gurnah’s historical attentiveness as an overwriting of Naipaul’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 436–459.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Frances Leviston The impact of Elizabeth Bishop’s maternal loss on the symbolic order of her poems is well-established, but the ways in which Bishop draws on literary tradition in exploring that loss have received less attention. This essay offers a close reading of “The Bight” that demonstrates...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... This article thus reflects on the political and social responsibilities implied by such poetry’s inscription of history as exemplary cultural memory, with particular attention to transnational connection and environmental justice. Famine memory is inscribed iconographically as “postmemory” (to adapt Marianne...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 329–358.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in publishing as a novelist and in sustained composition. Through paying close attention to Ellison’s compositional style in Invisible Man , in addition to his work in the essay form, this account shows that despite Ellison’s desire to publish the novel, his approach to novel-writing indicates his investment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., these poems illuminate the historically consequential processes by which a poet is called to her subject, and by which her poetry in turn solicits the reader’s attention. Bishop invokes the imperial violence of her time to suggest that poetic description—and the reader’s collaborative concentration—engage our...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 161–190.
Published: 01 June 2018
... by critics, African Americans are crucial to Roth’s critique of the sixties and America as a whole. By drawing attention to the black voices represented through and circumscribed in the protagonist’s white victim narrative, I examine how Roth unmasks American society’s deep-rooted but still often overlooked...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 129–160.
Published: 01 June 2018
... a dialectical relationship between the efficacy of law and the urgency of conscience. The novel’s attention to legal institutional forms ultimately challenges the view that Trilling was hostile to practical politics and offers insights for liberals and leftists interested in working with, or through, the law...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 97–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Tatjana Bijelić Although massive (post)socialist migration from Eastern Europe to the West is becoming increasingly represented in post-Soviet and post-Yugoslav writing, contemporary novels on women’s experiences of immigration have received scant attention, both in their host countries...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... The article demonstrates that the work of the New Americanists is a distinct product of the first postsocialist decade. Special attention is devoted to the methodological writings of Donald Pease, one of the founders of the new field, and to the formative influence of F. O. Matthiessen’s 1947 journey...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 261–288.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Helena Feder While we are increasingly challenged to imagine a world without humans, we have also become increasingly attentive to the subject of empathy, in popular culture, the humanities, and the sciences. In The Time Machine (1895), and a number of essays on evolution or extinction, H. G. Wells...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 June 2020
... (1979), I demonstrate that it is finally the failure of connection or solidarity that motivates Naipaul’s attentiveness to the other. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 colonial modernity ethics globalization postcolonialism trauma V S. Naipaul’s composite novel In a Free State...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 365–388.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Birger Vanwesenbeeck In the fall of 1954, enrolled in an undergraduate intermediate German course, Sylvia Plath undertook a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem “Ein Prophet.” Though this translation has received only scant attention from scholars, it represents Plath’s first poetic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 126–156.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and
science,” as the subtitle of his Irresistible Dictation would have it. Drawing
in part on his research, in what follows I will explore in her work the
correlations of writing and information. I argue that Stein’s interest in
questions of attentiveness and information saturation informs her writing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 228–236.
Published: 01 June 2017
... from early on because of the deleterious influence of Edmund Wilson, who traced modernism’s relation to late nineteenth-century Symbolist writing but ignored the connection to decadence from Baudelaire through the 1890s. Sherry draws our attention to the defects of Wilson’s influential view while...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 455–462.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to distinguish Stein in Europe from Stein as American, for at its most experimental her work exists outside of and far exceeds either context. Given the increased attention of artists, musicians, and dramatists to new productions and recordings of Stein’s work, it is welcome and quite timely that Posman...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 100–108.
Published: 01 March 2021
... attention to fascism and intolerance on the Continent was awakening. McNaughton’s study takes account of the political situation in the Irish Free State and what we know of Beckett’s youthful psychology in order to discern how his early writings work to dismantle the cynical interpretations that shaped...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 467–476.
Published: 01 December 2022
... owes itself to the growing attention paid by Irish newspapers to child imperilment, attention sparked by the tightening grip of Catholic nationalist ideologies. This developing “moral episteme” resulted in a “newly unified church-media-government complex” that took as a primary concern a “caste...
