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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...