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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 453–469.
Published: 01 December 2000
... flares up and throws deep shadows
across the room. ’’Then the first-person narrative of Nicholas Dyer, architect,
religious fanatic, and murderer, is interspersed with a seemingly omniscient
recounting concerning murders at the sites of seven London churches. In
part 2 of the novel, the detective...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 504–512.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Dyer’sBut Beautiful:
A Book about Jazz to make a compelling analogy. Graham draws on Dyer’s
description of jazz pianist Thelonious Monk’s idiosyncratic style of play:
Monk’s “habit of structuring pieces around known melodies without
ever actually playing those melodies straight.” Dyer describes...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 333–360.
Published: 01 September 2020
... between white and black subject matter, and the ideological implications of this technique, see Richard Dyer’s essays “White,” “Lillian Gish: A White Star,” and “Into the Light: The Whiteness of the South in The Birth of a Nation” in The Matter of Images (2002). In his monograph, White , Dyer (1997...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 20–33.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., finally, into a self-parody. Geoff Dyer, between retrospective
plaudits for Disgrace, averred that Youth lacks a “transforming imaginative
dimension,” and because of this is “not wholly satisfactory as either novel
or memoir.” And Derek Attridge, though more positively disposed towards
it himself...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 248–272.
Published: 01 September 2007
... is amplified by the conditions o f contemporary globalization,
w hich have resulted in the dispersal and intensification o f economic
disparities. But globalization has also given rise to new modes o f protest
that N ick Dyer-W itheford labels the “new combinations” and Giovanni
Arrighi...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 414–440.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of whole, coherent, continuous
bodies, those of its female stars being the studio’s most valuable properties.
Theorizations of the Hollywood star by film scholars such as Richard
Dyer have articulated how the star’s body is constructed or edited much
in the same way as are the strips of film...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 495–514.
Published: 01 September 2012
... in the
Attic” have a great many more photographs of unclothed dark male bod-
ies. Similarly in the cinema, as film historian Richard Dyer has shown, it
was quite rare in this period “to see a white man naked,” while non-white
male bodies were “routinely on display” in the western, the plantation
drama...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 268–292.
Published: 01 June 2001
... typical of
realist prose fiction” (111).
7. An example of critical work moving in this direction is Tamsin Wilton’s
collection. See also works by Dyer; Silverman; and Gever, Parmar, and Greyson.
8. Sedgwick’s definition of homosocial desire is based on ideas formulated by
Freud, Lévi-Strauss...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
... sparked a great deal of critical attention, much of it focused on questions of globalization and immigration, especially on the end of colonization and the new developments within the center of the waning British Empire in London ( Dyer 2004 ; Fernández 2009 ; Marcus 2013 ; Trimm 2015 ; Bergholtz 2017...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 367–396.
Published: 01 September 2014
... with a face any power which we
imagine to be responsible for our lives and behavior; vice versa,
we tend to deprive of their faces any persons whom we believe
to be at the mercy of our will. In both cases, we are trying to
avoid responsibility. (Dyer 62)
Prosopopoeia...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 246–275.
Published: 01 June 2003
... of the “forward-looking Utopian,” Auden wrote
in 1948, is at odds with the passive fatalism of the “Arcadian dreamer” (“Ding-
ley Dell and the Fleet” in The Dyer’s Hand 410). Raymond Williams’s descrip
tion of a decisive “moment” in the progress of any radical movement apdy
describes the spirit of British...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 510–544.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Dyer banned public gatherings.”Then,“upon learning that a
meeting was to be held in Jallianwala Bagh Dyer marched his Gurkha and
Baluchi rifles across the narrow entrance to that otherwise walled field and
ordered them to open fire without a word of warning__ Some four hundred
Indians were left...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2005
... a national ideal, for the Swede is an entrepreneurial pioneer on a
New World errand:
9
Sandra Kumamoto Stanley
But the Swede, rather like some frontiersman of old, would not
be turned back Next to marrying Dawn Dyer, buying that
house and the hundred acres and moving out to Old...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 436–459.
Published: 01 December 2015
... with danse macabre ( Herbert 2007 , 682). 3 Mihaela Irimia writes that two of W. H. Auden’s volumes, The Dyer’s Hand and Another Time , can be found in the personal library of Elizabeth Bishop held in the Houghton Collection, both bearing “the traces of Bishop’s reading” (1994, 361). 4...
