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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
... project is a theoretical one, or historicist or contextualist or political in any of a number of ways, we still depend more often than not on close readings of texts. Even if close reading is the ladder that we kick away once we’ve climbed up it, we still climb it. “Mothers and Marimbas” undertakes...
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
... the conditions of its own production, of course, it remains haunted by what Jameson labels the “absent persistence of the body” in the value form. 20 Latimer (2002 : 339) points to the imagery of burial and resurrection in the final scene of the novel: “To climb onto the roof is like climbing out...
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
.... “Could one have such a little light like a red flower—only a little, like a rose-berry scarlet on one’s breast!—then one were singled out as Our Lady.” I flung off my cloak and my burden to climb up the face of the shadow. Standing on rims of stone, then in pockets of snow, I reached upward. My hand...
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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 (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 (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 (2021) 67 (4): 483–490.
Published: 01 December 2021
... 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” but also to the “heights...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 352–372.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., 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 the deeper coils were reached...
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 (2022) 68 (1): 53–74.
Published: 01 March 2022
... he got home he went straight to the tree that was in the yard. He climbed it. He saw a palm tree on the horizon. He imagined someone perched on top, gazing across at him. He even raised one arm and waved it back and forth so that the other could see that he knew he was there. (152) The final gesture...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 359–378.
Published: 01 December 2016
... himself: “Somewhere in the east: early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun; steal a day’s march on it. Keep it forever there, never grow old technically” (84–86). Yet as the sun continues to climb in the sky, he must call upon further resources of his imagination to chariot himself...
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 (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...
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