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...Thomas Heise © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Degenerate Sex and the City: Djuna Barnes’s Urban Underworld Degenerate Sex and the City: Djuna Barnes’s Urban Underworld Thomas Heise In a remarkable but largely overlooked 1918 interview with New York City Police Commissioner...

...David Sergeant This essay argues for a fuller recognition of the key transitional status of The Four-Gated City (1969) in Doris Lessing’s career. As an attempt to recalibrate the basic coordinates of the realist inheritance, the novel develops a strongly spatial narrative mode that coincides...

...Harry Thomas Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Harry Thomas “Immaculate Manhood”: The City and the Pillar, Giovanni’s Room, and the Straight-Acting Gay Man Harry Thomas Eight years separate the publication of Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar (1948) and James Baldwin’s...

...Adrian Wanner The city of Odessa has gained prominence in twentieth-century literature as a symbolic hub of sensuality, irreverent humor, and criminal ingenuity. While Odessa’s storied ethnic diversity is now largely reduced to a Russian/Ukrainian binary, the multicultural and Jewish Odessa lives...

...Sarah E. Cornish The World War II diary A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (2005) documents one woman’s story of survival in the spring of 1945 in Berlin, during which upward of 130,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Red Army. First, this essay introduces the politics...

...Lee Rozelle Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 w Ecocritical City: Modernist Reactions to Urban Environments in Miss Lonelyhearts and Paterson Lee Rozelle e can no longer dismiss ecocriticism as a marginal mode of literary and cultural practice. Academic presses...

...Paula E. Geyh Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 From. Cities of Things to Cities of Signs: Urban Spaces and Urban Subjects in Sister Carrie and Manhattan Transfer Paula E. Geyh However the city may really be, beneath this thick coating of signs...

... the predominantly realist norms of mainstream journalism. The essay begins by examining Dunne’s fictional True Confessions (1977) and his report on Cesar Chavez’s farmworkers’ campaign, Delano (1967); moves to Davis’s history of Los Angeles, City of Quartz (1992); and closes with Didion’s “Some Dreamers...

...Kerry Myler In The Golden Notebook (1962), The Four-Gated City (1969), and Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), Doris Lessing examines the inadequacies of traditional models of madness and considers in their stead an antipsychiatric model championed by R. D. Laing. While ostensibly the three...

...Jung-Suk Hwang Contextualizing American Pastoral within Newark’s history from the 1940s to the 1990s, including the 1967 riots and their continuing effects, Philip Roth contrasts this poor black city with the protagonist’s idealized image of America—a wealthy WASP suburb. Although largely neglected...

...Patrick Kindig This article examines the representational slippage between queerness and entranceability in two queer modernist novels, Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and John Rechy’s City of Night . Highlighting the historical and conceptual overlap between early sexological work on inversion and early...

...Malcolm Woodland Working with Thomas Weiskel’s definitions of the “positive” and “egotistical” sublimes, this essay traces A. R. Ammons’s engagements with these modes from some less read earlier poems to major, later works like “The City Limits” and Sphere . It argues that, despite maintaining...

... first urban poet” (1980, 107). 4 For example, Hugh Kenner asserts that Eliot “was always a city poet, not a country poet, his affinities rather with Baudelaire than with Wordsworth” (1973, 23). 5 Badenhausen traces a trajectory in Eliot’s thought from early hostility to Whitman...

... in the globalization era, particularly as the critique outlined here has emerged as a more persuasive reading of events. In the sequence of works from The Four-Gated City (1969) to The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974), Lessing foresaw this shift with remarkable clarity. In these postmodernist novels she ran far...

... for Baltimore’s decline, The Wire here suggests that it is black criminality, and not the collusion of capital and political power, that offers the greatest threat to the city and its residents. James Lee’s striking new study of American fiction in the 1980s fore­ grounds the way...

... that refuse to acknowledge the burden of meaning” (106). The signature of this interstitial art is the port city—Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Derry, but also smaller ones like Sligo—a space that in the nineteenth century was a site of global linkage and of Ireland’s layered participation in imperial economies...

... on the living-room sideboard. The samovar conjured up stories in the young girl’s imagination of heroic flights from persecution, of past wealth, of closed Jewish communities in other lands. Her father, who adapted to life in the city of Buenos Aires with amused irony, was still drawn three times a week...

... and technology. At the Fair, General Motors’ exhibit Futurama, which simulated air travel for its visitors, celebrated the technological city of the future. By contrast, documentary filmmakers and science fiction writers of roughly the same period articulated concerns about the harmful effects of technology...

... capital city. It’s only proper that an urban novelist should be well acquainted with the gates of the city” ( DLK 163). For him, the practice of getting acquainted entails manufacturing passages from blindness to insight, often according to established literary patterns. Kubo ’s enactments...