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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Marina MacKay Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 w
Catholicism, Character,
and the Invention
of the Liberal Novel Tradition
Marina MacKay
O ne issue that preoccupied novelists in the decades after the Second
World War was how to reconcile their inherited idea of the self...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 411–416.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Nell Wasserstrom Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life , by Moses Omri . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2014 . 296 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 In Western cultural history, the concept of “character”—in both psychological and literary...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Mitchum Huehls Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present , by Martin Theodore . New York : Columbia University Press , 2017 . 250 pages. Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace , by Rosen Jeremy . New...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 437–465.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Kezia Whiting How do we know what a character knows? What assumptions do we make about a character and their awareness when we read a text? How, in fact, does a text codify and construct knowledge, character, and thought? This essay addresses these questions in relation to Katherine Mansfield’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 173–208.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Elizabeth Steedley Concentrating on characterizations of Catholicism in The Good Soldier , “Fordian Confiteor” argues that Ford Madox Ford’s characters turn to religious stereotypes and unauthorized forms of confession in a disastrous attempt to secure themselves against monumental changes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2016
... postmodern relationship between the author and his or her characters. Such a newly envisioned dynamic has been understood as fiction’s response to the theoretical debate about the so-called death of the author and, more broadly, to the posthumanist discourse on the dissolution of the liberal-humanist subject...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 449–482.
Published: 01 December 2018
... or anthropological, heritage—when she represents characters’ undeserved, uncompensated pains. Woolf’s thinking aligns her with Charles Darwin in the natural sciences. Like Darwin, Woolf makes tragic chance inseparable from the theater of life. This essay reads Woolf’s oft-cited rejection of teleological form and her...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 June 2020
... that the anomalies, dissonances, and ruptures that define colonial modernity can open up a “negative cosmopolitanism,” which locates the potential for ethical engagement in what seems like the waste products of history. For Naipaul, cosmopolitanism designates not a volitional, character-strengthening endeavor...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2021
... formal features, such as the adopted/fostered characters’ abrupt discovery of their adoptive status and the presence of psychological discourses in representing the distress of learning that new information. They come to very different conclusions, however, about the root cause of the adopted characters...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 385–406.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Rafael Walker In considering fictions centered on characters of mixed Black-and-white parentage, critics tend to assimilate these stories into African American literary paradigms—in much the same way that, in real life, America considers biracial people as simply black. Working against...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2021
... visual aesthetic—its juxtaposition of translucent, glowing color with opaque line that holds and tempers it—and its power to shape psychological interiors by shaping exterior surroundings. Especially in narrating moments when a character struggles to comprehend her relationship to another person...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 232–263.
Published: 01 June 2015
... to Gurnah’s parodic response to Naipaul, critiquing his insistence on the gratuitous, even anachronistic racialization of all his characters. When Naipaul’s novel repeatedly falls back upon Hegelian paradigms to characterize the peoples of Africa—they are outside History, stuck in perpetual childhood...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Jay Rajiva This essay argues that at the center of Coetzee’s reading of Robinson Crusoe lies the exposure of the Christian secret in both the colonial enterprises of the characters and the authorial presences of Defoe and Coetzee. My argument draws on Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death , which...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... humanism and antihumanism, publishing many of the major literary works cited by poststructuralist thinkers. This editorial sensibility found its roots in the class character of the press, which was headed by affluent radical Barney Rosset. Drawing on close readings of key publications, as well...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 March 2018
... claims, requires drawing a sharp distinction between the private-intellectual and social-practical realms or, as one of her characters puts it, between the “things you read about” and the “things you do.” Curiosity, if it is to be sanctioned by Wharton, must be quarantined to the former sphere, to one’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 145–166.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and the spread of Russian corruption abroad through a focus on immigrants and their visitors. Bezmozgis’s and Litman’s characters are prevented from going back to former Soviet Republics by their intense dislike of the moral corruption in their former homeland. In Absurdistan (2006), by contrast, Shteyngart...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 167–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of socialism and capitalism in the post-9/11 moment. These female characters drive change as well as navigate it, showing that gender is central to the creation, embodiment, and performance of knowledge. The focus on women protagonists as primary producers of a transnational knowledge—one that bridges US...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 437–460.
Published: 01 December 2019
... characters. Lessing’s madness novels deconstruct Laing’s phallocentric approach to schizophrenia by rewriting his theory of madness as a gendered and embodied experience. Where the two dominant models locate madness, in either the body or the mind, Laing instead focuses on the patient’s experience...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... maturity and political liberty constitute the core features of a mythologized Anglo-Saxon racial inheritance, one shared by her novel’s white characters, and over the course of the novel, as its protagonist Jean Louise Finch rejects psychologically stunted and politically naive colorblind liberalism, she...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... In particular, in evoking an experience of the timeless, for Sinclair stream of consciousness draws together authors, characters, and readers, generating among them complex investments, both ethical and ontological. 8 Sinclair’s treatises were “treated respectfully and admired” ( Johnson 2006 : 112), even...
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