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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
... not on reversing imperial categories but on rejecting them altogether. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Hofstra University 2024 binary logic colonialism historical fiction propaganda Second World War Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) illustrates the way total war radically revised...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2013
... as a powerful scientific, spiritual, and erotic force
but were worried about that force’s ability to penetrate the body. Unlike
Lawrence, who figured desire as a celebrated electric or magnetic posses-
sion, Loy occasionally used the binary logic common in electromagnetic
discourses to critique...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 401–408.
Published: 01 September 2009
... politics: while some writers resisted experimen-
tal form, he demonstrates how their narratives nonetheless enunciated
and occasionally challenged a binary logic that naturalized old world/
new world differences. He structures Ethnic Modernism around a series of
case studies of works by Gertrude...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 431–454.
Published: 01 December 2021
... with the logical calculus of his day. Why do we so often tend to think of (and in) numbers when we think of The Waste Land ? One answer to that question itself presents a binary. On the one hand, the poem feels grandiose, at “more than four hundred lines” plus notes, and enumerating its integral portions...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 275–305.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., rational hierarchy that is the distortion
of a binary logic effected, in part, by literacy’s visual dominance.
Like the subversive code word May Day, Offfed’s frequent surprise
that “flowers are still allowed” (7), that they had not been “rooted out”
(153), also points to flowers as inherently...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 323–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., an opposition to rationalism that often seems to manifest as a humanist defense of culture. In “On Literary Thinking,” for example, he writes that, “If God will not keep our children from the single vision of YES or NO,” the binary logic structuring rational thought in a digital age, “then it is up to the poets...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2009
... distinction—whether in the binary understanding of
race present in passing or in the idea of authenticity present in the mi-
gration narrative—and move instead toward the ideal community yet to
exist, which Weate locates in Fanon’s essay. It is to the intertwined logic
of passing and migration that I...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 175–208.
Published: 01 June 2009
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there are no heterosexuals, and therefore no oppression of one side of the
binary by the other.7
Sedgwick appropriates this logic in an effort to deconstruct the gay/
straight binary, particularly in discussing the relationship of same-sex de-
sire to the literary canon. She asks, “Has there ever been a gay...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 369–392.
Published: 01 December 2019
... logic, her texts are loci of singularity and surprise; they are among those which, in Attridge’s (2004 : 82–83) terms, baffle full explanation on the part of critics. Readers and critics of her poems thus move in the confluence of systems that affect one another but that cannot reduce to a unity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 218–223.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Scott McCracken Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field , by Gelder Ken , Abingdon : Routledge , 2004 . 179 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 The Field of Popular Fiction
Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field
by Ken Gelder...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 437–460.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Trouble , Judith Butler argues that the “‘coherence’ and ‘continuity’ of ‘the person’ are not logical or analytical features of personhood but, rather, socially instituted and maintained norms of intelligibility. . . . ‘Intelligible’ genders are those which in some sense institute and maintain relations...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of a past culture
but also represents the “fundamental characteristics of the race” through
the African diaspora. Even the modern British “African” is understood in
terms of this European fantasy of a degenerate and inferior race.
Though much of the poem assumes a binary between “civilized...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 267–295.
Published: 01 June 2012
... embodies the indiscernible within the
Axona community. While the troubling circumstance of his birth from
his mother’s dead body marks him as ill-omened and his indefinite sex as
a child proves an irreducible complication for the Axona’s binary gender
categories, it is his pigment that ultimately...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 582–605.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and realism
Examining the rhetoric surrounding realism and sentimentalism dur-
Wharton’s lifetime, Hildegard Hoeller identifies a number of binary op-
positions used to differentiate the two genres (1-37). That rhetoric, for
example, relies on a classic opposition between the material and spiritual...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 241–247.
Published: 01 June 2006
... to “accept
perspectivism” and to “claim grounds beyond perspective” (175). In the
context of American literature, the “scaping” of the land is politically as
well as epistemologically fraught: “The land was ours before we were
the land’s” is Frost’s gnomic formulation of the chiastic logic...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 293–328.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and Colonial Modernity, 1800–2000 (2011) as providing a compatible but more developed framework for reading the politics of Joyce’s text. 3 For a range of alternative readings that work outside of the monocular/binocular binary, see, for example, Gibson 2002 : 107–26, Colson 2015 : 75–93...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 341–348.
Published: 01 June 2012
... ambivalent about his own place as
an artist in the new, rigid gender binary. He figures Gatsby as Fitzgerald’s
attempt to work through these anxieties, arguing that Tom Buchanan rep-
resents “the new style of manhood” opposed to what Forter calls Gatsby’s
“residual masculinity” (28). While the novel...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 504–512.
Published: 01 September 2013
...,
to be “a great popular artist . . . because she was capable of connecting
with crowds and inspiring them to sing along with her.” With this distinc-
tion between active and passive engagement, Graham disrupts the binary
conception of modernism as simply opposed to popular culture. But as
Graham emphasizes...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2016
... between members. Everyone there recognizes central power structures as inherently oppressive—lumping together fascists, Democrats, Republicans, and even organized crime—but this recognition doesn’t induce the binary logic that swayed Rex and Frenesi, by which an oppressive force requires an equally...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 421–432.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of the Eurocentric and patriarchal Continental tradition.
I share Eisenstein’s sense that part of the reluctance to read Hegel rests
as much on his notorious difficulty as it does on a failure to accept the
formalized critical ambivalence of the logic that culminates in the Aujhe-
bung. In the Aujhebung...
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