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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 307–342.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the value form and the products of labor under capitalism—what Karl Marx suggestively calls “all the magic and necromancy” shrouding capital accumulation. Capitalism inescapably conjures its own phantoms and so remains haunted by the spectral figures of “dead labor” occulted under the sign of value...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 37–58.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Palmer Andrew . 2018 . The Remembered Dead: Poetry, Memory, and the First World War . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Piette Adam . 2007 . “ Keith Douglas and the Poetry of the Second World War .” In The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry , edited...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Paul Stasi Ordinary Culture in ‘The Dead’” reads James Joyce’s short story through the lens of Raymond Williams’s essay “Culture Is Ordinary.” Each work represents the gap between education and social solidarity in narratives about the return of an educated protagonist to his place of origin...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 518–529.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Robert Boyers w Reviews Modernism, Dead or Alive Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay NewYork:W.W. Norton, 2007. 610 pages Robert Boyers The word modernism no longer calls to mind a simple singular aesthetic or a particular set of ideas. To think about what it means is to ask...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 56–77.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Andrea P. Zemgulys Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 “Night and Day Is Dead”: Virginia Woolf in London “Literary and Historic” Andrea P. Zemgulys [We] don’t want the [Hogarth] Press to be a fashionable hobby patronised and inspired...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 396–404.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Elinor Fuchs Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 The Apocalyptic Ibsen: When We Dead Awaken E l in o r Fu c h s And four great beasts came up from the sea The second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 387–412.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Chad Bennett This article reveals the formative interplay between the queer art of gossip and poetic practice in James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover , a sprawling verse trilogy composed with the unlikely assistance of a Ouija board. The poem’s extensive gossip with the dead is often...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 359–364.
Published: 01 September 2017
... losses do we incur when we’re seldom if ever in rooms with the dead? And how might the virtual spaces of the aesthetic give quarter to the strangeness of the corpse’s demand? Luminous and serious in treating these questions, David Sherman’s In a Strange Room looks at how Anglophone modernism responded...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 166–192.
Published: 01 June 2008
... elegies have at stake the self’s singularity as it is reckoned, in different ways, by Kierkegaard and Levinas—implies that the modern subject achieves its nonsubsumable singularity in its capacity to pay witness to suffering and memorialize the dead. Mourning as Hill represents...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 407–430.
Published: 01 December 2021
... scholarship would ask us to attend to the ways Islas’s absent body—marked at various times and places as Chicano, homosexual, disabled, and dead—is also similarly constituted and marked via the materiality of the archive. Such a turn also, though perhaps more quietly, asks us to acknowledge the way questions...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 473–479.
Published: 01 December 2019
... in the first lines, which enact a roll call of famous— and infamous—dead bodies in the modernist canon. Thus abandoning the verb, the opening paragraph rushes to reawaken the corpus and its corpses, summoning As I Lay Dying ’s Addie Bundren, Their Eyes Were Watching God ’s Tea Cake Woods, The Sun Also Rises...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 421–448.
Published: 01 December 2003
... the central narrative challenge of Testament of Youth is Brittain’s effort to resolve the tension between the conflicting roles of active participant (as nurse) and passive spectator (as mourner of the dead)—though, as we will see, mourning cannot be un­ derstood simply as a passive activity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 575–595.
Published: 01 December 2013
... rewrites the epiphany of lovelessness that concludes “The Dead.” When Gabriel learns about Michael Furey’s sacrifice for Gabriel’s own wife, his eyes fill with “generous tears. He had never felt like that himself towards any woman but he knew that such feeling must be love” (194). “Brief Interview...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 389–408.
Published: 01 December 2022
... coordinating, forms, the space where the cipher Derrida saw in Celan’s septembre —sept, seven—returns: “seven / dead stars in your sky.” Inhabiting “your” space means, in this inorganic poetic economy, becoming inanimate. Reading Hill’s conjugation of “ice-facets” means investing in his “split selfhoods...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the “unrealistic” aspects of mourning (nothing the mourner does can aid the person who is dead), Spargo also asks: “Might not the mourner’s wishful revisioning of the past, through which she unrealistically sustains relationship, also signify profoundly an ethical openness to the other? Or more specifically...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 March 2001
... The Waste Land—with its archduke, canals, rats, dead men, its “setting of blasted landscape,” its “fo­ cus on fear”— is more profoundly a “memory o f war” than one had thought (325-26). He cites similar remarks by Hugh Kenner on some of Pound’s early cantos (326...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 269–284.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of his beholding. Yet the tone of “Follower’s initial persona suggests something different from longing or regret: relief, maybe even accomplishment. Homages to the dead can also serve the in­ 269 TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE terests of the living, and it is not unusual...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 246–275.
Published: 01 June 2003
...). Because it cannot accept tradi­ tional religious and ethical certainties, it disowns “the . . . propensity of the [elegiac] genre to translate grief into consolation” (Zeiger 15).7 It rejects the valuation of mourning that would see “the obliteration of 247 Patricia Rae the dead...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 223–246.
Published: 01 June 2018
... by the cessation of all that has been “life” as he understood it, there was no reason why we should not have had more of his work and his company. He is as much “dead of the war” as if he had died in the trenches, and he left with almost the same words on his lips. “Nothing is being done in Paris, nothing can...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 414–440.
Published: 01 September 2013
... thematization of death in terms of a general attack on post-war American culture, where “the perfectability of the dead body has removed the fact of death” (211) from view. It’s that notion of removal from view that I would like to pick up on here in thinking about the relationship between Hollywood...