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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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 392–410.
Published: 01 September 2015
... that “things” have a life outside the realm of the human. Bowen’s fiction expresses an obvious need for objects to mean something or to represent the human, but her fiction also recognizes their inability to do so. In The Little Girls , this obsession with objects is coupled with the threat of extinction...
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in Decadent Dinosaurs: Directed Evolution in British and North American Literature, 1890s–1970s
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1: Erna Pinner, “Restoration of the Extinct Deer Synthetoceras .” Illustration for The Corridor of Life , by William Elgin Swinton (1948) . Reproduced with the kind permission of Frances Kitson, Jacky Oldham, and Peter Oldham.
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Figure 1: Erna Pinner, “Restoration of the Extinct Deer Synthetoceras .” Illustration for The Corridor of Life , by William Elgin Swinton (1948) . Reproduced with the kind permission of Frances Kitson, Jacky Oldham, and Peter Oldham. ...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2016
... authorial omnipotence. It is only through its gradual extinction that metalepsis serves the postmodern attempt to rethink the author and chart anew its peculiar subject position. In place of the clearly signposted ontological hierarchy on which the device depends, the postmodern promotes a single...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 385–404.
Published: 01 December 2017
... with extinction began to reverse course in 2003, when Grace Schulman reprinted it in The Poems of Marianne Moore . This reappearance would have been cause for celebration but for a catastrophic lapse in proofreading: Schulman’s edition reprinted only just over half of the poem. The paperback edition of 2005...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 547–571.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., / civilian pigeon” blurs with fanciful and geographic names recog-
nized in scientific treatises: the Pelew, the Nicobar, the Papuan, the Samoan
“tooth-billed pigeon fortunately / survives also—” (104). Moore diverges
to examine the near relatives of the pigeon, the extinct Dodo, as well...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
... and half-forgets, is half-composed and half-decomposed. But unlike Robin, who seeks in this state a refuge from social relation as well as a self-extinction, O’Connor integrates apriority into affective relations that have determinate pasts and presents, performing the pulsions of a prepersonal, anonymous...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 405–433.
Published: 01 December 2000
... concern here
is not so much with the difference between “good” and “bad” apocalypses
(is total extinction “better” than selective genocide?) as with the interplay
of eschatology and politics in the construction of the apocalyptic body.
The basic narrative script of an apocalypse strives to reach...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 337–344.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of species extinction and biodiversity loss at the start of the twentieth century. Some critics, Schuster writes, see the “literal depletion of animals” in modernity as “compounded by a figurative loss—the vanishing of animal imagery” (22). Schuster complicates such accounts by arguing that while the absence...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 475–498.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the way the reindeer has adapted. The poem’s first reading of the situation, in other words, provided by the poet’s friend, is a check and balance on the implications of the second reading of the situation, given by Jackson, where what the second reading tended toward historically was extinction, which...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 629–633.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and phenotypes) engages in long-term interaction with the
environment (survival or extinction).
The evolutionary logic of cooperative behavior is the logic of this
ultimate domain—the logic of genes, phenotypes, reproduction, fitness,
and the environment. What follows from this logic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 32–45.
Published: 01 March 2003
... the extinction of the great literary critic
but France should know more about the average of so-called literary
criticism in other countries before she depreciates her own.The gener-
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Edith Wharton and Ernest Renan
ation of Sainte-Beuve is gone, that of M. M. Anatole France, Jules...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 235–240.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and extinction” (11). This explanation points to Cole’s main project, wherein she addresses several aspects of Wells’s work: his authorial voice, his civilian perspective on world war and international politics, his imaginative attention to the nature of time, and his conviction that biology was fundamental...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 447–471.
Published: 01 December 2011
... either of them to Waterman, since Navajo are
not descended from Anasazi (Shape 53).7 There is a good deal of truth in
this diagnosis, but if we take Bova’s fictional universe at face value, the
inconsistencies are far more staggering than that. The scientific dating
of the Martian extinction...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 193–218.
Published: 01 June 2003
... career he conceived of self-loss as intrinsic to poetic devel
opment. In “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” he asserts: “The progress
of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of person
ality” (Prose 43). This statement, along with the equally famous, related...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 280–286.
Published: 01 June 2015
.../AIDS diagnoses as a platform for discord, here she considers the extinction of bird species (a cornerstone of the plot of The Echo Maker ) in order to establish a framework for the analysis of Powers’s novel. Instead of physical sickness in the human body, however, this chapter focuses on “ecosystemic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 June 2018
... in the treatment of historical material and structural ruins, they undermine the epistemological, codifying drive of mapping and archival projects while bringing to the surface the inherent contradictions of sanctioned archives. Together with his penchant for idioms of decline and extinction, this refusal...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
... is the occasion of a renewed quest for meaning, not a capitulation to extinction; “The Dry Salvages” opens in the realm of sturdy materiality, presided over by a “strong brown god”: not a misty pool but a river of human discourse and temporality. In “East Coker,” the poet—Eliot was at this point in his mid...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 105–113.
Published: 01 March 2011
...” that war-born technologies made extinct, these
contemporary writers map the “volatile and virtualized” communities that
thrive within a nation whose military innovations have effectively led to
its own deterritorialization. These writers’ fiction has imagined a parti-
tioned California (Gibson...
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