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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of educational training or managerial discipline, as if the naughtiest thing a white-collar worker could countenance was professional failure, a crisis in the production and reproduction of human capital. In these narratives, the death of the subject appears so scandalous and so enticing because it represents...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and imagining on the attempted reembodiment or, in this case, eventual disembodiment, of the body in pain. Works Cited Achberger Karen R. 1995 . Understanding Ingeborg Bachmann . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press . Anderson Mark . 1990 . “ Death Arias in Vienna...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
... . 2000 . A Life in Movies: An Autobiography . London : Faber and Faber . Powell Michael Pressburger Emeric . 1994 . The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp . Edited by Christie Ian . London : Faber and Faber . Sansom William . 1963 . Stories . London : Hogarth...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
... vitalist philosophy, Barnes produces a “morbid vitalism,” exemplified by Dr. Matthew O’Connor, by which life and death are conceived as variant expressions of a single force, and the subject is modeled as an assemblage of affects, impersonal but inherently social, that can be understood primarily through...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Will Edmonstone The Caribbean-born, Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond is beginning to receive increased attention among scholars interested in transnational modernisms, Black diaspora cultures, and postcolonialism. Although he died in obscurity, his collection of short stories, Tropic Death...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 365–388.
Published: 01 December 2022
... engagement with German, an engagement that extends all the way to the six poems she wrote about the untimely death of her German-born father. Taking that early work seriously, then, this essay explores the relationship between mourning and translation in Plath’s work from the Rilke translation through...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Derek Ryan This essay argues that a posthumanist ethics is at the heart of modernist aesthetics. Drawing connections between literary ethics and posthumanist theory, it reads D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Snake” and Virginia Woolf ’s essay “The Death of the Moth” as examples of nonanthropocentric ethical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Jay Rajiva This essay argues that at the center of Coetzee’s reading of Robinson Crusoe lies the exposure of the Christian secret in both the colonial enterprises of the characters and the authorial presences of Defoe and Coetzee. My argument draws on Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death , which...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2016
... postmodern relationship between the author and his or her characters. Such a newly envisioned dynamic has been understood as fiction’s response to the theoretical debate about the so-called death of the author and, more broadly, to the posthumanist discourse on the dissolution of the liberal-humanist subject...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 405–436.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Copyright © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 anxiety Dasein death ontology philosophy But since “Care” first shaped this creature, she shall possess it as long as it lives. And because there is now a dispute among you as to its name, let it be called “homo,” for it is made out of humus (earth...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 414–422.
Published: 01 September 2014
...: the death of the author. Widiss insists that “we have never stopped caring about authors as intentional beings,” a fact that has required of those of us in the business a degree of doublethink, given not only the proscriptions regarding intentionality but also the modernist dicta...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 359–364.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to a shift in the late-modern way of death: from a time when most people died at home and were prepared by family members for burial nearby, to a time (still our own) when most people died in hospitals and were prepared, after autopsy, by professionals for burial farther from home. This shift roughly...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 483–503.
Published: 01 December 2018
... this dilemma is summed up concisely in one stanza, in which the transfiguring mythos of death is straightforwardly, almost casually, revised: Actually there’s nothing to dying decently but in diarrhea mud blood a slow drawn-out dying (136) The mud, diarrhea, and blood immediately bring the reader...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 513–519.
Published: 01 December 2020
... proven grim. Published a century after the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, Viral Modernism makes the first sustained study of how interwar writers reckoned with the physical ravages, atmospheric fears, mass death, social destruction, and psychic agony the flu wrought. At the core of the book, Outka...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 166–192.
Published: 01 June 2008
... of the cogito even in Descartes’s thought: “In meditating upon the idea of God, Descartes sketched, with an unequaled rigor, a thinking going to the point of the breaking up the I think” (God, Death, and Time 215).The Cartesian self, after Levinas, ruptures under the thought of God that “overflows...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 405–433.
Published: 01 December 2000
... between divine punishment and man­ made disaster. On the one hand, unlike nuclear war or ecological catastro­ phe, pandemic has a venerable historical pedigree that leads back from cur­ rent bestsellers such as Pierre Ouellette’s The Third Pandemic (1996) to the medieval horrors of the Black Death...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 239–267.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., like Blake’s, Merrill’s innocence “dwells with Wisdom” (697).4 Like Stevens in “The Auroras of Autumn,” Merrill pursues innocence through confrontations with change and death. But Stevens struggles to find or imagine an inno­ cence outside of time, “innocence / As pure principle” (361...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 465–484.
Published: 01 December 2023
... cause of death among all human populations was infectious disease. People did not die, by and large, of heart disease, cancer, COPD, or diabetes complications. Whether young or old, strong or frail, at some point, some “influence” (cousin to the word influenza ), some god or God or spirit or adverse...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 467–509.
Published: 01 December 2001
... a deadly force that exerts centripetal and centrifugal pressure simultaneously: needles buried inside the body. Although only Vasco Da Gama carries an actual needle, his death is emblematic of all the deaths in that novel. Working its way inward, the instrument finally punctures Da Gama’s heart...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 473–479.
Published: 01 December 2019
... with visual and aural media in an effort to humanize his black subjects, whether in life or death. In the introduction, Edwards explains how modernity’s media, chief among which are the photographic image and phonographic sound, served to rupture notions of finality and death in the modernist imaginary...