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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 (2015) 61 (3): 305–329.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the figure of the hyena upon which the accident is blamed, it proposes that the novel advances an indeterminate ethics of alterity that prefigures the insights of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Tracing the cultural histories of the hyena in West and South Asia, as well as in England, it argues...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 330–351.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Gabriel Hankins The conjunction of posthumanism and ethics asks us to reconsider both the modernist legacy of critique and poststructuralist ethical rhetorics of absolute alterity. Bruno Latour’s recent reconsideration of politics and ethics through a “nonmodern” account of nature and culture...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
... attempts to articulate a posthuman relationship with rural place. Her marginalization of the human supports a posthuman ethics by expressing coexistence and interrelation between human and nonhuman entities. Consequently, Butts explores a mode of engagement with landscape that moves beyond anthropocentrism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Jeffrey T. Nealon Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 HI
Disastrous Aesthetics:
Irony, Ethics, and Gender
in Barthelme s Snow White
Jeffrey T. Nealon
The observer ought to be an amorist.
—Kierkegaard (47)
F ro m...
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“Certain Axioms Rivaling Scriptures”: Marianne Moore, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Ethics of Engagement
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 316–340.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Jennifer Leader Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 w
“Certain Axioms Rivaling Scriptures”:
Marianne Moore, Reinhold Niebuhr,
and the Ethics of Engagement
Jennifer Leader
JN^Larianne Moore’s poetry explores the strangely harmonious joys of
interconnectedness...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 40–66.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Rachel Hollander Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 m
Novel Ethics:
Alterity and Form in Jacob’s Room
Rachel Hollander
1 hough few critics would still claim that the modernist novel privileges
experimental form over engagement with social and political concerns...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 166–192.
Published: 01 June 2008
...David Sherman w
Elegy under the Knife:
Geoffrey Hill and the Ethics of Sacrifice
David Sherman
We read in sacred scripture: “And God tempted [fristede] Abra
ham and said: Abraham, Abraham, where are you? But Abraham
answered: Here am I.” You to whom these words...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 207–238.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Jon Kertzer Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 !4I
The Course of a Particular:
On the Ethics of Literary Singularity
Jon Kertzer
I n Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Course of a Particular,” the cry of win
try leaves provokes a shift in mood from robust assurance that “one is part...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 491–498.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Benjamin Paul The Novel and the New Ethics , by Hale Dorothy J. . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2020 . 360 pages. Copyright © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 In Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies , Toril Moi (2019 : 30) blames the unquestioned...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 475–498.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the symposium, this essay uses the terms established in “Feeling and Precision” to recalibrate the ethical turn Moore’s poetry took during and after the Second World War. Drawing on the lecture’s emphasis on the “compulsion to unbearable accuracy,” the essay traces the transition from the commitment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Nicole Rizzuto Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Ethical Limits and Confession in Conrad’s Under Western Eyes and “Poland Revisited”
Ethical Limits and Confession in Conrad’s
Under Western Eyes and “Poland Revisited”
Nicole Rizzuto
Through the framing narrative of an English...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 538–544.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Oona Eisenstadt Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other , by Drabinski John , Edinburgh University Press , 2011 . Reprint edition, 2013 . 224 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Oona Eisenstadt
Reviews
The Ethnic and the Ethical
Levinas...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 23–39.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Víctor Figueroa Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 m
Encomium of Helen:
Derek Walcotts Ethical Twist in Omeros
Victor Figueroa
" W h e n the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, one of the founding figures
of the négritude movement in Caribbean letters, asked in his now...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., the bombardment of a storm and the incantatory “exercise” of poetry are implicitly contrasted with a military exercise, moving us to consider the ethical dimensions of our availability to all types of discourse. During the postwar era of decolonization, Bishop uses Western imperialism’s figures of alterity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 317–346.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and the ethics of disclosure, making her engaged outsider a precursor of the twenty-first-century hacktivist. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 alternative history counterfactual narrative modernism speculative fiction spying whistleblowing Lies will flow from my lips, but there may...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 483–503.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Amanda K. Greene This essay argues that Charlotte Delbo’s deployment of disgust in her memoir Auschwitz and After (1995) challenges the ethics and possibilities of trauma representation. As opposed to beautifying concentration camp victims through elegiac memorialization or claiming the sublime...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 June 2020
... that the anomalies, dissonances, and ruptures that define colonial modernity can open up a “negative cosmopolitanism,” which locates the potential for ethical engagement in what seems like the waste products of history. For Naipaul, cosmopolitanism designates not a volitional, character-strengthening endeavor...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 329–362.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in a postsecular context as negative theodicy, the struggle to come to grips with the ethical and anthropological consequences of metaphysical horror. [email protected] © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 Arnold Geulincx happiness Leszek Kolakowski pain the absolute theodicy Hamm...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... In particular, in evoking an experience of the timeless, for Sinclair stream of consciousness draws together authors, characters, and readers, generating among them complex investments, both ethical and ontological. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 idealism modernist...
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