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“So He Who Strongly Feels, Behaves”: Marianne Moore’s Ethical Detail
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 475–498.
Published: 01 December 2017
... to “fastidiousness” that characterized her early poetry, to the conscious development of a capacity for witness that became her postwar concern. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 detail ethics Jean Wahl Pontigny witness In a poetic career marked by a relative reluctance to issue general...
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“True Down to the Last Detail”: Narrative and Memory in Marguerite Duras’s “Monsieur X.”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 369–386.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Jennifer Willging Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 “True Down to the Last Detail”:
Narrative and Memory in
Marguerite Duras’s “Monsieur X.”
Jennifer Willging
arguerite Duras’s La Douleur (1985)1 is a collection of six disparate
texts...
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Multidirectional Rememory: Slavery and the Holocaust in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 191–216.
Published: 01 September 2019
... that incorporates the imaginative recovery of (often silenced) history that Toni Morrison (1987) called “rememory,” along with what Holocaust scholar Michael Rothberg (2009) calls “multidirectional memory,” this article details Williams’s daring exploration of spaces of overlap between the histories of American...
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“A World of Tomorrow”: Trauma, Urbicide, and Documentation in A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 June 2020
... by examining the diarist’s representations of the effects of rape and rubblestrewn Berlin. Third, the essay details the complicated publication history of the diary through a consideration of the relationship between the trauma sustained by the survivors of mass rape and the blows to German national identity...
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Cosmopolitanism and Environmental Ethics in Mary Butts’s Dorset
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and has significance for environmentalist ethics. This article traces the stylistic and formal influence of cosmopolitan and metropolitan experience upon Butts’s evocations of rural Dorset before looking at her work’s ethical implications in more detail. It examines some of the tensions that arise...
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“My Trespass Vision”: Disability, Sexuality, and Nationality in Hart Crane’s Versions of “The Idiot”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 56–74.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Paul Bradley Bellew American modernist Hart Crane’s poem “The Idiot” details the poet’s real-life encounters with a young man with a cognitive disability. Beginning in 1926, Crane worked on the poem through different versions through letters, manuscripts, and magazine publications until about 1932...
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Sebald’s Apparitional Nabokov
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 137–168.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., various incarnations of Vladimir Nabokov
materialize within the four segments of W. G. Sebald’s hybrid 1992 work,
The Emigrants (Die Ausgewanderten). To begin with some details: Nabokov
appears photographically in the Henry Selwyn section of The Emigrants
(Figure 1) in which Dr. Selwyn presides...
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On the Prize Essay
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): vi–viii.
Published: 01 June 2014
... thrilling read: despite its complexity, I could
not put it down. The essay builds on a few seemingly small details in
W. G. Sebald’s 1992 novel The Emigrants, several small appearances of
various incarnations of Vladimir Nabokov in the text—as “the butterfly
man” mentioned in several places...
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“Part of the War Waste”: Pound, Imagism, and Rhetorical Excess
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 80–113.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in the 1920s. Instead
of florid, obfuscating devices, he prefers the luminous detail, the radiating
historical fact, alive with autotelic significance, as he imagines it, even as
it resists being appropriated by an unscrupulous orator to nefarious ends.
And he prefers referring to past details over...
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Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath by James McNaughton, Beckett’s Political Imagination by Emilie Morin
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 100–108.
Published: 01 March 2021
... these connections, Beckett’s Political Imagination gives us the fullest picture we have of the political environment that has for so long been recognized as a relevant backdrop to his literary career, even if earlier critics have mostly ignored the finer details of the writer’s entanglements with that milieu...
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Saving Appearances: Another Ezra Pound Biography
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 130–136.
Published: 01 March 2009
... on
that score.) Easy access to the correspondence permits both Moody and
Nadel to provide a closely detailed account of Pounds literary life. How
ever, in Moody’s case this is a mixed blessing. His narrative is fragmented
by the practice of redacting details from Pound’s correspondence with a
particular...
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Young Eliot: From St. Louis to “The Waste Land,” by Robert Crawford
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 104–109.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and consulted every pertinent source to build a picture of young “Tom” Eliot. His enthusiasm for the details of Eliot’s life leads him to spend considerable descriptive effort (at which he excels) in conjuring up the St. Louis of Eliot’s boyhood, the Gloucester of his childhood summers, the rooming houses...
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“Scared sick looking at it”: A Reading of Nick Adams in the Published Stories
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 92–113.
Published: 01 March 2001
... was not about to pass over it. What appears at first to
be Hemingway’s realistic detail in describing the Caesarian is in fact the
basis for an extended system of metaphor, running through all o f the
stories and contributing greatly to their unity. Hemingway returned...
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Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Anna Lillios
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 272–276.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The
logistical details of this meeting, simultaneously courageous and awkward,
exemplify the relationship between these important literary figures of the
twentieth century.
In 1942 the two authors were, in a sense, at the pinnacle of their ca...
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Eliot in the Tropics
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Kamau
Brathwaite. As Pollard duly notes, these relationships have been acknowl
edged and occasionally disputed, but Pollard for the first time spells out
in full detail what these writers make of their model. The result is not
reducible to an influence study...
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Poetry and the Natures of the New World
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 116–121.
Published: 01 March 2010
... what
he calls the poetics of oblivion, a perspective that recognizes how, in
the Americas, both human violence and a dynamic natural world have
conspired to make history invisible. With the attention to detail and the
argumentative nuance that are characteristic of the book...
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Late Decadent Modernism and the Great War: from the Romantics to the Nineties, Pound, Eliot, and Beyond
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 228–236.
Published: 01 June 2017
... with related mention of decay, decline, and degeneration). The admirably detailed index makes it easy to find these words, but it has no entry for imaginary , which, because of its frequent mention, deserves both indexing and some defining theoretical discussion within the study, which is absent. The word...
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Hard Romping: Zora Neale Hurston, White Women, and the Right to Play
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of these bodies to pass one another cleanly or easily and without disturbance. In the opening vignette of “Colored Me,” for instance, Hurston details how both white men and women “passing through” the all-black town of Eatonville in which she grew up would pass by her front porch. The quality of Hurston’s...
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