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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 461–472.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Lisi Schoenbach Modernism: Evolution of an Idea , by Latham Sean Rogers Gayle . New York : Bloomsbury , 2015 . 266 pages. Modernism’s Print Cultures , by Hamill Faye Hussey Mark . New York : Bloomsbury , 2016 . 220 pages. Modernism, Science, and Technology...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 535–539.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Mark Osteen Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo , by Dewey Joseph , Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2006 . 172 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 DeLillo’s Evolution
Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo
by Joseph Dewey...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 634–639.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Vanessa L. Ryan Vanessa L. Ryan
Revisiting Evolution in 1890s Fiction
The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels:
An Entangled Bank
by John Glendening
Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. 225 pages
Vanessa L. Ryan
John Glendening frames...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 403–428.
Published: 01 December 2016
... recent authors have also found promise for Bildung in new biological theories of development and evolution. Grasping that “between one form of animal life and another, patterns are interchangeable” (612–13), Anthony has grasped more than a basic fact of endocrinology. The seemingly miraculous effect...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
... by Barry Hines, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, and David Peace, among others, I trace the destruction of a community-based form of masculinity, focusing on an evolution from earlier, more naturalistic treatments of the era into two divergent strains of late depictions: individualist, fantastic stories like...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 261–288.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Helena Feder While we are increasingly challenged to imagine a world without humans, we have also become increasingly attentive to the subject of empathy, in popular culture, the humanities, and the sciences. In The Time Machine (1895), and a number of essays on evolution or extinction, H. G. Wells...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 572–596.
Published: 01 December 2009
...,
there is a world (and an afterworld!) of difference between the agnostic
who believes evolution proceeds in a series of grands jetés and the dogma-
tist who believes biodiversity is a matter of divine mandate, but Dawkins’s
point is well taken. They are, if nothing else, structurally homologous...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 510–546.
Published: 01 December 2009
...
notoriously conflicted account of racial identity, the field of evolution-
ary psychology has seemed completely irrelevant. Similarly, the experts
busy debating evolutionary psychology’s claims would not consider it
particularly interesting that Du Bois offered a conflicted account of racial...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 423–444.
Published: 01 December 2009
... another claiming to explain
all manner of phenomena in terms of evolution by natural selection. In
the public sphere, the most visible of these disciplines was the field of
evolutionary psychology. Building on the sociobiology worked out in
the 1970s by E. O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Robert...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2013
... feminine role. H. D.’s ambivalence
about trancelike possession might thus be figured in the ways the lovers
ironically replicate heteronormative roles.
Chapter Four, “Negotiating the Racialized Body: Theories of Spiri-
tual Evolution and the ‘American Race examines the relation between...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 449–482.
Published: 01 December 2018
... the modernist novel in particular, labeling it an aesthetic and ethical failure. He prefers realist fiction, which, as he writes in his preface to Studies in European Realism in 1948, joins the ranks of epic and tragedy because it continues to envision the “unbroken, upward evolution of mankind” ([1948] 2006...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 640–644.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Daniel A. Novak Darwin’s Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution , by Prodger Philip , Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009 . 320 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Daniel A. Novak
Darwin at the Edge of the Visible
Darwin’s Camera: Art...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 101–111.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of evolution shed new light on the appeal of “primitivist” themes and techniques in modernist writing, as well as on early twentieth-century experiments in temporal pulsations and historical existence. In Modernist Life Histories: Biological Theory and the Experimental Bildungsroman , Daniel Aurelio Newman...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 556–581.
Published: 01 December 2012
... it in explicitly Darwinian terms:
The process of “natural selection,” as Mr. Darwin called it, co-
operating with a tendency to variation and to inheritance of
variations, he has shown to be a chief cause . . . of that evolution
556Twentieth-Century Literature 58.4 Winter 2012...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 445–484.
Published: 01 December 2009
... in
Everybody’s Autobiography, when she began as a writer, “evolution was still
exciting very exciting” (249). Darwin’s fundamental claim is that living
creatures are adaptable. His ontology prizes what we might call plasticity
in the face of changing circumstances.12 William James clarifies what...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 485–509.
Published: 01 December 2009
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thinks” (Moreau 49, 81). Both works represent a forced evolution from
animal to human in which a male scientist imposes foreign habits on a
female body. In their depiction of painful, callously implemented experi-
ments, the works are fundamentally similar.
Pygmalion and Moreau differ...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 142–178.
Published: 01 June 2005
... of
“Evolution,” for example, restages the West’s traditional story of poetic
vocation, analyzed in detail by Allen Grossman in The Long Schoolroom.
It bestows putative presence on Grossman himself (who has argued that
bestowing acknowledgeable presence is poetry’s function), the better...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 June 2012
... predictabilities” (114).1 These resonances are
not accidental: Seitler in fact refers to Grosz at several points. But while
Grosz, in her book The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely,
concerns herself to a large extent with the question of futurity and the
new, Seitler’s interests rest more...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 93–124.
Published: 01 June 2007
... Nietzsche did not
read Darwin himself, he was familiar with Darwinian theory and was, as
Dennett notes, a pointed critic of Herbert Spencer’s interpretation of it.
On the Genealogy of Morals, which describes a sociocultural “evolution” of
Christian morality from a premoral state, begins...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 105–113.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of place. It’s no surprise that the generation
whose childhood consisted of episodes of Voice of America is less able to
absorb the evolution of these networks than is the generation raised on
syndicated episodes of M*A*S*H. What is interesting is that the latter
generation’s optimism manifests...
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