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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 18–58.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 w
Reading Word, Image,
and the Body of the Book:
Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin s Cave Birds
Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux
From Yeats and Pound to Stein and Williams and the writers of
the Harlem Renaissance...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 157–162.
Published: 01 March 2020
... myself needed either to learn or brush up on in order to read the non-Merrill parts of the book include “apricity,” “chiropteran,” “congeries,” “Cratylean,” “eldritch,” “gallimaufrey,” “macaronic,” and “transmundane.” Hard enough, my inner pedagogue complains, to get students looking up the words...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 269–276.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Alison Shonkwiler What America Read , by Hutner Gordon , Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2009 . 432 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
The Books They Read
What America Read
by Gordon Hutner
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 191–212.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Matthew Sandler This paper poses the work of Gertrude Stein as a challenge to contemporary scholarship centered on theories of failure. Demonstrating that Stein’s notion of failure as a precondition for success derived from nineteenth-century selfhelp books, I follow her work with this paradox from...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 223–246.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Michael S. Begnal Witter Bynner (as Emanuel Morgan) and Arthur Davison Ficke (as Anne Knish) published the anthology Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments in 1916. Although conceived of as a hoax, it constituted a quite striking body of poetry. Despite its parodic origins, Spectra included some...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... with Hurston’s eruptive representations of her relationships with white women in her controversial 1942 memoir, Dust Tracks on a Road . Hurston devotes an inordinate amount of room in this book to describing her repeated—and repeatedly strange—encounters with white women who largely served as her employers...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 213–238.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Gavin Jones Zora Neale Hurston’s autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road , has generated controversy since its publication in 1942. Critics either dismiss the work for its alleged celebration of liberal individualism and its denial of race consciousness, or else they argue that the book deconstructs...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 53–74.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Francisco E. Robles This essay argues that Tomás Rivera’s seminal Chicano text . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra is a polyvocal and deeply communal work whose formal inventiveness illuminates the imaginative lives of migrant workers. Contesting the dominant critical reading of the book...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 241–243.
Published: 01 September 2023
... American literature, US literary radicalism, and Marxist literary criticism. Her most recent book is Marxist Literary Criticism Today (2019). She is past president of the Radical Caucus of the Modern Language Association and currently serves on the editorial board and manuscript collective of Science...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 317–346.
Published: 01 September 2018
... inadvertently drawn into wartime intrigues, forcing her to turn vigilante in an effort to expose abuses of power at the highest levels of government. Although farfetched, these pulp fictions may, in fact, contain a kernel of truth. Following (the real) Woolf’s theory that “bad books are not the mirrors...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 317–366.
Published: 01 December 2024
... (slippery), metaphor of comics panels as built boxes to link the book to Jewish traditions, surrounding the material preservation and transmission of historical texts., Reconsidering Maus through and as “boxes,” whether humble cardboard or, wooden coffin, reveals Spiegelman’s survivor’s “tale” as a text...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 121–146.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Neal Dolan Because it portrayed Atticus Finch as a racist and a segregationist, when Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman was published it caused much public dismay. But the book’s classism has not yet aroused such dismay. This essay argues that the antiracism of its main character—an adult Jean Louise...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 217–240.
Published: 01 June 2001
.... As one outraged court in Pennsylvania ob
served, this rule, if strictly applied, “renders any book unsafe, since a mo
ron could pervert to some sexual fantasy to which his mind is open the
listings in a seed catalogue. N ot even the Bible would be exempt” (Com
monwealth v. Gordon 124).2...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 518–526.
Published: 01 December 2018
... coming to maturity. In his book Arresting Development , Pizzino attempts to provide a corrective to the prevailing attitude that the medium has fully matured. Proceeding from the purposefully iconoclastic attitude that “the medium is still considered illegitimate, despite the rise of the graphic novel...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 545–554.
Published: 01 December 2014
... over Pynchon’s nine
volumes now.
That shift is part of what makes Luc Herman and Steven Weisenburger’s
new book, Gravity’s Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom—the first major
monograph this century devoted exclusively to Pynchon’s greatest
novel—so intriguing, though its publication would...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 317–318.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 Ul
Reviews
elcome to the first issue of the book review section of Twentieth-
Century Literature. Why has this section come into existence? Is there a
need for it?
Journals in other disciplines, such as history, offer review sections...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 March 2005
...,
and Kamau Brathwaite
by Charles W. Pollard
University of Virginia Press, 2004. 231 pages
Laurence A. Breiner
Probably the most important recent book in the field of Caribbean lit
erature is The Other America (1998), a study of Caribbean modernisms by
a leading scholar, Michael Dash. Charles...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 94–101.
Published: 01 March 2017
... fifty years in the making. The trilogy—composed of The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet (1975), A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910–1950 (1987), and this present book, American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word (2015)—is a rare scholarly enterprise...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 85–93.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Mountain is treated at length in the third chapter—one of the book’s best. Whereas the prior chapter considers the invocation of craftsmanship “as an instrument of proletarian revolt,” this one shows the artists at Black Mountain “invok[ing] craftsmanship . . . as an exercise in self-transcendence” (104...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 280–286.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Thomas Cook Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction: Environment and Affect , by Houser Heather , Columbia University Press , 2014 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Heather Houser’s first book, the third title in Columbia University’s Literature Now series...
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