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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 147–172.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Cadillac on a US senator’s lawn to protest the senator’s racist pronouncements, I argue that Ellison adopts expressive strategies of black vernacular culture—the ritual of the dozens and African American automotive consumption—to explicate a singular conception of literary commitment, one that seeks...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 237–260.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the postwar institutions facilitating the production and consumption of literary fiction. In particular, O’Connor’s engagement with the phenomenological tradition and her use of irony are interrelated attempts to negotiate her position within the creative writing institutions of the postwar literary...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
... monstrous than the war crimes and subsequent Allied apathy that Hannibal fights and bites against. © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 cannibalism consumerism consumption retribution war crimes The first edition of Robert Ressler’s Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 413–442.
Published: 01 December 2006
... to the city
of signs, and the emphasis of the actual economies of major cities largely
shifted from the production of goods to the production of signs, including
advertising. Most crucially, the consumption of commodities, while never
without some semiotic function, became primarily the consumption...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 60–89.
Published: 01 March 2012
... manifestations of consumer and visual culture, such as the shop
window display and the cinema, and in light of her concerns about race.
Recent studies by Monica Miller, Daphne Brooks, and Grace Elizabeth
Hale have increased our understanding of the connections among race,
spectacle, and consumption...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 285–290.
Published: 01 June 2011
... that accompanies film and organizes its structures of signs. His
performance redirects viewers of cinema to cultures of reading which
frame, analyze, and critique media and its consumption. In the wake of
the rise of audio-visual media, then, the question of the status of the text
once again comes...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 June 2009
... has
been engaging an increasing number of critics of Joseph Conrad’s es-
pionage novel, though usually at the periphery of their main arguments.
John Lutz recently made what is becoming a typical connection between
pornography and the politics of the novel: “like the consumption of por...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 307–342.
Published: 01 December 2019
... industry.” 7 Such is the cold logic of capitalism: laboring bodies function as the key nexus for the capital-relation, acting solely as abstract vehicles for variable capital in the valorization process—that is, for commodity production and consumption in the service of profit making. For this reason...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 285–315.
Published: 01 September 2005
... relationship with nature that it locates in the
past. Rather, the rhetoric of the NPS subsumes modern nature into a
particular kind of consumptive nationalism— one based on leisure, wealth,
and the exploitation of resources. The deification of “Uncle Sam” here
mirrors a subsequent...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 702–708.
Published: 01 December 2012
... that conspicuous consumption and
leisure culture have a feminizing effect on the upper classes; thus,
leisure culture inevitably produces overcivilized men who lack
vitality and virility, traits the working class possesses in abun-
705
Yetta Howard
dance. In Gold’s literary...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 199–223.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of representation, the figuration of the body,
and the experience of everyday life are profoundly intertwined with late
capitalist production, consumption, and signification practices. Crucial to
such a zone of overaccumulation is the fantasy that life itself is becoming
ever more malleable, discursive...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): vi–ix.
Published: 01 June 2005
... in an inversion of traditional aesthetics:
Irony preserves the moment of wonder rethematized as a type
of consumption based in both knowledge and pleasure; it
preserves the privilege of the subject as the locus of the text’s
revelation; it reestablishes a notion of aesthetic distance...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 74–78.
Published: 01 March 2007
...
Operating at the intersection of recent “new modernist” revaluations of
consumption, promotion, and relations between modernism and mass
culture, Patrick Collier’s provocative study establishes a complex pattern
of negotiation between modernist practitioners and the press, centering...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 462–492.
Published: 01 December 2010
...-
tising upon the selling and consumption of novels, exploring the impact
of advertising culture upon historical conditions of novelistic writing and
interpretation. Jennifer Wicke’s Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement,
and Social Reading is among the earliest and most influential...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 218–223.
Published: 01 June 2007
... is not: “popular fiction is the opposite of Literature.” It cannot
therefore be judged by the same criteria. Popular fiction can be defined
by its relation to genre and the whole industrial apparatus of production,
distribution, and consumption, which Gelder calls “processing.” But given
the importance...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2017
... that triggers present political responsibility. Beginning with the familiar story of the landed gentry’s indifference to pervasive starvation during the Famine years, the poem sets out to explore the continuities between that past and the present through metaphors of consumption: present figures drink from...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 171–192.
Published: 01 June 2000
... by the Fordist generalization of consumption
and by Weiner’s cybernetic systems theory, the postwar period inaugurated
a totalization of economy and communication. Ironically, the resurgence of
critical and creative interest in the epistolary in the past two decades, dat
ing from Derrida’s theorizing...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
... characterization of bare life as the negation of potentiality insofar as that it is produced through the consumption of—and one’s being consumed with—one’s own continuing biological existence. Le Sueur’s reportage and short stories, writing that paved the way for The Girl , reflect a similar understanding...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 688–693.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of female genius” (20) served feminist ends at a
particular moment in history. She thus sees her project as sharing most
with Gustavus Stadler’s work on how genius talk, as he describes it, “was
ultimately most useful for rendering, on a mass scale, the consumption of
aesthetic culture...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 233–240.
Published: 01 June 2023
...). It is, however, precisely because of the “unpropitious conditions” in which poetry intervenes that it acquires its special value: “A poem can serve as a counterforce to governing cultural logics, a space in which dismal instrumentalization, constant distraction, and ceaseless consumption can be—even momentarily...
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