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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 453–469.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Edward J. Ahearn Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 The Modern English Visionary: Peter
Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor and Angela
Carter’s The Passion o f New Eve
Edward J. Ahearn
he popularity of Peter Ackroyd and Angela Carter, and the (sometimes
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 June 2023
... by Harry Braverman, Kathi Weeks, Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello, and John Roberts. Depicting artist Klara Sax’s project as rooted in her 1970s observations of the remnants of skilled labor, and her embrace of what she calls the “graffiti instinct,” DeLillo suggests, pace Roberts, that the vestiges of lost...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 88–91.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Nicole L. Sparling Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought , by Weinbaum Alys Eve , Durham : Duke University Press , 2004 . 348 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 The Race/Reproduction Bind
in Modern Transatlantic Thought...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 575–595.
Published: 01 December 2013
... as a substitute for love relationships that
would be unthinkably engulfing. Consistent with Eve Sedgwick’s model
of homosociality, the women are treated as conduits through which
Gabriel and the law student can puzzle out their relationships to the men
who preceded them. We can see, however...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of an independence
movement on a fictional Greek island, and Eve, who is uninterested in
his politics and seeks to prioritize their love at the cost of all else. Sack
ville-West represents Eve as the type of the seductive, ultrafeminine gypsy
woman, a suitable foil to her masculine Julian:
A cloak...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 448–454.
Published: 01 December 2016
... . 2015 . “ Waiting for the Bomb to Drop .” New York Times August 3 , www.opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/waiting-for-the-bomb-to-drop . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . 2003 . Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Williams...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 239–260.
Published: 01 September 2024
... is the poem’s response to Milton’s Paradise Lost , but its achievement lies partly in Moore’s convergence of a variety of origin stories—religious, poetic, national, and genetic—to bewildering effect. The speaker begins by wondering “what Adam and Eve / think of [marriage] by this time” (115), adopting...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 362–387.
Published: 01 September 2008
... resistance to
human desires, and of ourselves as trespassers, may lead not to irony and
further violence but to gentling. While nature may not conform to our
abstractions, “Never Again” suggests that language, and therefore human
meaning, coincides with nature through the sounds of sense. Eve’s “tone...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 524–531.
Published: 01 September 2012
... (e.g., Beerbohm, Waugh, Gibbons), terms (e.g., satire,
irony, perversity, melancholy, nostalgia), and texts (e.g., Georg Simmel’s
“The Metropolis and Mental Life” (1903), Eve Sedgwick’s Epistemology
of the Closet (1990), Jessica Burstein’s “A Few Words about Dubuque:
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Review...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 606–639.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and the Library of Congress. Referring to a just-
completed reading of “Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great
Success” in the December 2, 1962 reading, Frost informs his Harvard
audience that the poem was really “countrified,” and that “I said ‘cow’ like
a Vermonter,” suggesting how staged Frost...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 545–554.
Published: 01 December 2014
... was outlined most famously by Eve Sedgwick in her
essay “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading.” As Sedgwick observes,
the hermeneutic of suspicion informing high theory’s worldview—which
insists on interpreting everything as a sign of some implicit systemic
domination—is both “entirely circular...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 247–258.
Published: 01 June 2018
...” that call “into question the self-defeating logic that has traditionally posited East and West, hetero- and homosexuality, premodern and modern, as mutually exclusive terms” (xxiii). It is in this spirit that Boone turns to the enduring legacy of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose writings are especially attuned...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 459–487.
Published: 01 December 2007
... as a problem of flow is a new conception of the fat body as a
psychologically readable site of spillage or waste. Michael Moon, in his
dialogic celebration of director John Waters with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
emphasizes the manner in which fat subjects in the twentieth century
circulate in public...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 99–110.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of “Marriage,”
looking at Eve:
Below the incandescent stars
below the incandescent fruit,
the strange experience of beauty;
its existence is too much;
it tears one to pieces
and each fresh wave of consciousness
is poison. (Complete 63)
In “When I Buy...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 December 2009
...-
sion as narrator: “And I did nothing. I did not save you,” a self-obsessed
comment summarily dismissed by Lucy with “an impatient little flick of
the hand” (157–58). As she later says to her father: “You behave as if ev-
erything I do is part of the story of your life. You are the main...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Trinidad was recorded in colonial documents and came to be imagined as part of the romance of El Dorado. But the phrase also implies a second moment—of Naipaul’s touching those documents, discovering, reading, reorganizing, and copying them out. We can associate this later moment with what Eve Kosofsky...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 345–349.
Published: 01 September 2016
... with Eve Sedgwick’s “antidual[ist]” scholarship and “affective art” (266). Walter further suggests that this new optical theory could supplement some of Brian Massumi’s and affect theory’s more problematic arguments, such as “the vexed temporal issue of the prepersonal” (273). With the notion...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 243–272.
Published: 01 September 2022
...: “CODY: ―you know. We’ve got to break loose out of that man ( meaning recorder )” ( Kerouac 1972 : 147). 9 By hobosociality, I mean male-male relationality characterized by mimetic desire and rivalrous bonding, predicated on mobility and classed abandonment of domesticity. The neologism links Eve...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 385–406.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of Paradise Lost , Eve recounts to Adam the dilemma she faced before she agreed to become his wife. After falling in love with her reflection in a lake, she nearly decides to ignore Adam’s summons and tarry with her image indefinitely. Initially, Eve makes moves to abandon her reflection, but pleased I soon...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 150–173.
Published: 01 June 2002
... and Merrill had
with Mrs. Merrill in her New York apartment when Merrill defiantly
insisted that he would always love Kimon. Yet his defiance did not ex
tend to renouncing his family’s authority.
Merrill’s early poetry resembles the fiction of Marcel Proust, as Eve
Kosofsky Sedgwick describes...
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