Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 50 Search Results for
climb
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 March 2001
...William Adair Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 The Sun Also Rises:
A Memory of War
William Adair
When strong enough to climb the hill behind Harlech [Wales]
and revisit my favourite country, I could not help seeing it as a
prospective batde field...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 433–435.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that we kick away once we’ve climbed up it, we still climb it. “Mothers and Marimbas” undertakes an exemplary close reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Bight.” It attends scrupulously to details of sound and sense; it excavates wordplay and etymologies; it brings to bear wide literary-historical...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 239–267.
Published: 01 September 2004
... let us not
Act like children.These are the Alps. High time
For the next deep breath. My hand. Hold. Concentrate.
Although, as Vendler observes, these lines suggest Wordsworth’s crossing
of the Alps in book 6 of The Prelude, Merrill’s climb is different from...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 307–342.
Published: 01 December 2019
... calculations while the piscadores climbed the flatbed trucks. ( UF 57) For Marx ([1867] 1977 : 296), capital cannot concern itself with the qualitative particularities of the labor, its “content” and “character,” but “merely with its quantity.” Thus, here, the “patch quilt of people charred by the sun...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 285–315.
Published: 01 September 2005
... impressive features—
some of which, in actuality, are quite dangerous.
297
Jennifer K. Ladino
Throughout Rules and Regulations, danger is flirted with but safely
contained. The primary road runs “perilously” close to the abyss yet
climbs “gently”; even as it “plunges...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 396–404.
Published: 01 December 2000
... explored.
An aging artist, his spirited young wife, his spectral former model, and
a blood-and-guts bear hunter—a foursome that reconfigures throughout
When We Dead Awaken into shifting romantic and allegorical pairings—climb
upward on a mountain range pursuing their differing visions of ascent...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 46–81.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., a British follower) constituted the Gurdjieff study group
known as the Rope. Likening his program to a high mountain climb,
Gurdjieff told participants they would need to be roped together for safe
ty—hence the groups name (Hulme, Undiscovered 92). Among them, the
group’s writers published 17...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to climb up the face of the shadow. Standing on rims of stone, then in pockets of snow, I reached upward. My hand was red and blue, but I could not take the stuff. Like color of a moth’s wing it was on my hand, it flew on the increasing snow. I stood higher on the head of a frozen man, reached higher my...
FIGURES
| View All (5)
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 179–209.
Published: 01 June 2005
... as the poem
evolved. In one draft, he poignantly describes the sadness of Bishop’s
childhood:
Motherless since the age of five
You’d wake, climb to the attic window, watch the bay
Shrug off her sables, bare her breast to the moon
192
Mirrored Lives: Elizabeth Bishop...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 423–454.
Published: 01 December 2014
... and the torches lol-
loping red and gold. . . . Thus brought up suddenly into the light
it seemed possessed of great size and depth, was like a world in
which one could take one’s staff and climb hills, she thought, and
go down into valleys, and to her pleasure (for it brought them...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 122–129.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., quickly learned that these types of stories were most likely to meet
with peer approval. But young people did not just want to copy Raymond
Carver’s prose; they wanted to copy his career. A son of the working class,
Carver’s Algeresque climb up the educational ladder—which began with
studying...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 123–131.
Published: 01 March 2011
... and by
the persistence of the values and forces that made it possible and sustained
it.” In the end, Scheingold argues that the novels of political estrangement
responding to the Holocaust’s legacy provide bridges to those that express
distrust in the democratic politics that seemingly allowed Nazism to climb...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 483–490.
Published: 01 December 2021
... vehicles. . . . He is nifty in bed and, if appearances can be believed, more than a little devoted to One” (205). Strato is the subject of Merrill’s famous love poem “Days of 1964,” which describes the poet’s days in Athens before Strato as climbing into a “world of wild / Flowers, feasting, tears...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2010
... main characters, The Waves traces their experiences from childhood
through old age, often as these experiences relate to the death of their
friend Percival. Facing the loss of his beloved friend, Neville says, “I will
not lift my foot to climb the stair” (152), recalling an image that reap...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 352–372.
Published: 01 September 2015
... or human. Scraps of bodies, of landscapes, hands, eyes, lines and colours evoking nothing, rose and climbed out of sight before him, as though reeled upward off a spool level with his throat” ( M 141). Naked and lying in the wet grass, Murphy knows this is a crisis, of sorts, and must be arrested “before...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 92–113.
Published: 01 March 2001
... through a series of experienc
es that involved climbing a hill: leading the infantry attacks up Mount
Grappa with Captain Paravicini, driving an ambulance up the mountain
to retrieve wounded, and ascending the hill o f Montmarte to the Sacre
Coeur in a taxi, but having to step out...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 359–378.
Published: 01 December 2016
... as the sun continues to climb in the sky, he must call upon further resources of his imagination to chariot himself away from the direction his fears incline, envisioning things previously unseen along Eccles Street in “the shadows of the mosques among the pillars: a priest with a scroll rolled up. A shiver...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 53–74.
Published: 01 March 2022
... : 17) argue that Rivera presents “a protagonist whose existential crisis leads to a personal liberating freedom rather than to oppressive resignation or social activism.” At the end, “his only action is to climb a tree and wave to an imaginary playmate so as to confirm his own existence. Apparently...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 388–419.
Published: 01 September 2003
... tempos that
correspond to progressively descending levels of caves. Each cavern pres
ents scenes from different periods in African-American history, forming
a subterranean palimpsest within the song. Similarly, the Invisible Man’s
hurried climb back out of the caves, punctuated by a collision...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 23–39.
Published: 01 March 2007
...:
Didn’t I want the poor
to stay in the same light so that I could transfix
them in amber, the afterglow of an empire,
preferring a shed of palm-thatch with tilted sticks
to that blue bus-stop? Didn’t I prefer a road
from which tracks climbed into the thickening...
1
