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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 352–357.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Clare Eby Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons , by Siraganian Lisa . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . 288 pages. © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 When lawyers speak of legal fictions, they don’t mean novels like To Kill a Mockingbird or Bleak House...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and patrons. By depicting her encounters with these women as scenes of transcendence, odd staring, and rough contact, Hurston poses eruptive play as a risk all bodies, even those of black women who have historically been denied corporeal sovereignty, must consider taking. Hurston turns the strange mechanics...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 June 2023
... working-class skill appear in the art groups in the novel’s present. Such valorizations of the artist’s labor are offset both by the absorption of the former artist Jesse Detwiler into Nick Shay’s corporate workplace and by the novel’s neglect of gentrification. In turn, with Underworld ’s representations...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
... to express disquiet with the mechanics of the corporeal, Powell’s camera insists that we look steadily at the bodies of his lead actors—one aging before our eyes, one remaining eternally and impossibly the same—as they are worked on by the trickery of cinema, and to marvel at (rather than being repulsed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Zhao Ng This essay engages in a critique of soteriological desire, alongside its corporeal and affective correlates, mobilized in different ways in German fascism of the thirties and Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel, Nightwood . In contrasting the “fascist body” with the “hysterical body,” I seek...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 441–464.
Published: 01 September 2013
... year history of Clare, Inc., a fictional Ameri-
can corporation, and the story of the final few months in the life of Laura
Bodey, a Lacewood, Illinois woman stricken with ovarian cancer, probably
due to exposure from the local Clare chemical plant. Interspersed between
the two narratives...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
... fiascos, including the production of Napalm during the Vietnam War and the continued production of Dursban in India (outlawed as toxic in the United States), Dow’s 2001 acquisition of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) proved especially controversial. Even though Warren Anderson, the CEO of Union Carbide...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 259–266.
Published: 01 June 2014
...” and Pudd’nhead
Wilson. Whereas Twain’s Capello brothers—one fair, one dark, having
different characters but sharing a single body below the chest—have
long been read as figures for an America divided by race or by civil war,
Blyn emphasizes their relevance to the institution of corporate person-
hood...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of “resistance” to include the conflicted strategies of defiance, opposition, and noncooperation via abjection, suffering, fragmentation, and indeterminate embodiment. Our contributors examine how modes of physical abjection and nonconforming corporeality were frequently rewritten as a potential mode of “bodily...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 419–447.
Published: 01 December 2008
... aesthetics to
refer not only to the conventional, formal study of art and beauty but in
the full etymological sense, to refer to certain kinds of sensory, corporeal
responses to certain representations, signs that do not just fall upon but
actually constitute perception. This notion of aesthetics...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 459–487.
Published: 01 December 2007
...)
Armstrong points to important links between the corporeal, the eco
nomic, and the aesthetic in James’s writing. The bodily forms at play in
The Ivory Tower are, however, more complex and various than this reading
suggests. Armstrong cites but does not explain James’s conjoined “elephan
tine...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 405–433.
Published: 01 December 2000
....
In this interplay between the incorporeal purity of the ends and the
violent corporeality of the means the apocalyptic body is born. It is a body
whose mortal sickness is a precondition of ultimate health, whose grotesque
and excessive sexuality issues in angelic sexlessness, and whose torture un
derpins...
Journal Article
Materialities of Abstraction: Jessie Dismorr’s Poems , Transatlantic Modernism, and Feminist Poetics
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2021
... pressure of things” prompts Dismorr to abstract and exteriorize the inner lives of the object world, including the elements of the human body. Where in Tarr Lewis rejects interiority and corporeality, Dismorr departs from Lewis’s classically modernist emphasis on the hardness of statue, focusing instead...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., Walrond’s writing is notable for his focus on the plurality and polyglot nature of “New World” Black cultures and experiences, a focus at least in part representing his reaction against an expanding US empire derived from Southern models. Throughout Walrond’s work, marines and policemen as well as corporate...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 December 2001
...
ish colonization but earlier invaders as well as recent corporate neocolonial
powers. Countering this patriarchal genealogy of conquest and modern
ization, which is rendered suspect and fallible in the novel, is a vision of
Indian unity represented by competing images of Mother India. On one...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 327–344.
Published: 01 September 2007
... stories take issue explicitly w ith the reflexive di
mensions o f postmodernism, seeking to use human perspectives to subvert
a culture o f corporate images in which the legends ofT V advertising have
become naturalized. “Little Expressionless Animals,” set in California in
1986, makes use o f...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of deviance”—that is
new forms of the regressively abnormal—and expanded “categories of the
visible body, creating new ways for people to look” (74). Seitler emphasizes
in this section the peculiar state of atavism as a “living embodiment,” a
“material, corporeal recurrence of the past” (66-67). She...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 405–413.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., and national differences, and
notwithstanding critical tendencies that for decades read their
work as asexual and practically disembodied, representing the
past was for both [Eliot and Woolf] a sensuous endeavor that
repeatedly turned to the erotic and the corporeal for some of its...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 March 2013
... be
more important than ever before in alerting us to the realities of the new
global order and teaching us how to resist it” (Russell 163), since his “op-
positional art . . . challenge[s] the standardized consciousness imposed by
multinational corporate enterprise” (McDaniel 134). David Banash...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 199–204.
Published: 01 June 2024
... to Mark McGurl’s magisterial book The Program Era , which argues that the curriculum of the Iowa Writers Workshop has shaped American fiction since the program’s inception. McGurl (2009 : 236) contends that, for writers of color, “the imperative to find your voice was an even more conspicuous corporeal...
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