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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Mark David Kaufman Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900: The Changing Enemy , by Buckton Oliver S. . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2015 . 351 pages. Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film , by Lassner Phyllis . Edinburgh...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 42–60.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Robert Chodat Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 Jokes, Fiction, and Lorrie Moore
Robert Chodat
T h e opening sentences of Lorrie Moore’s “You’re Ugly,Too” present a
superbly comic picture of the contemporary intellectual faced with the
arid, earnest culture of middle America...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 128–137.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Samuel Cohen The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction 1962–2007 , by Bachner Sally , Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2011 . 172 pages. Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995–2010) , by Pozorski Aimee , New York : Continuum , 2011 . 175...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 280–286.
Published: 01 June 2015
... the content of the diagnosis of treatment might be, the person can determine the form and meaning that illness assumes. Dramas of disease and illness certainly energize ecosickness fiction, but I give preference to sickness to emphasize the relational dimension of dysfunction in contemporary narrative...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 June 2016
... and communicated by literature, and “in this way fiction becomes an alternative metaphorical space rather than a vehicle of realistic spatial depiction” (106). While the chapter references Derek Walcott’s and Homi Bhabha’s difficulties in identifying Naipaul as a Caribbean writer, one might still wonder why...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 540–545.
Published: 01 September 2012
...David H. Evans On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds , by Grausam Daniel , Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2011 . 196 pages. 2012 David H. Evans
Is Postmodern Fiction da Bomb?
On Endings: American...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 251–258.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Karen Leick Anti-Nazi Modernism: The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction , by Spiro Mia , Northwestern University Press , 2013 . 308 pages. Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel , by Brown J. Dillon , University of Virginia Press , 2013 . 246...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 267–272.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Alex Miller American Fiction in Transition: Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism , by Kelly Adam , Bloomsbury Academic , 2013 . 147 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Review
Conceptualizing Change in Late Twentieth-Century
American Fiction
American...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 218–223.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Scott McCracken Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field , by Gelder Ken , Abingdon : Routledge , 2004 . 179 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 The Field of Popular Fiction
Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field
by Ken Gelder...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 371–393.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Samuel Cohen Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 w
The Novel in a Time of Terror:
M id d lesex , History, and
Contemporary American Fiction
Samuel Cohen
I effrey Eugenides’s 2002 Middlesex, a critically acclaimed historical novel,
nas been praised as an expansive, epic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 388–395.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Karl Kroeber Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual , by Treuer David , St. Paul : Greywolf Press , 2006 . 212 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 w
Reviews
A Turning Point in Native American Fiction?
Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual
by David Treuer
St...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2016
... postmodern relationship between the author and his or her characters. Such a newly envisioned dynamic has been understood as fiction’s response to the theoretical debate about the so-called death of the author and, more broadly, to the posthumanist discourse on the dissolution of the liberal-humanist subject...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Mary McGlynn Focusing on one of the most frequent and explicit targets of Thatcher’s economic policies, working-class men in traditional heavy industries, I explore representations of the dissolution of both unions and private space under Thatcher. Looking at fiction, films, and screenplays...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 43–70.
Published: 01 March 2019
... in multiple languages, which circulates widely and thus raises questions about the way the geography of the former Eastern Bloc is represented culturally and historically, or imagined fictionally for the benefit of global audiences. Penkov, Vapnyar, and Hemon all create communities of reading about...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 363–371.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Joshua Gang [email protected] Novel Sensations: Modernist Fiction and the Problem of Qualia , by Day Jon . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2020 . 208 pages. Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative , by Armstrong Paul B. Baltimore : Johns...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and social effects on families and individuals.” Wright’s close work with psychologists and psychotherapists is reflected in Rite of Passage , as he carefully traces Johnny’s consciousness through a “documentary” (64) approach to juvenile delinquency, offering Johnny’s story as a kind of fictionalized case...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 634–639.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Vanessa L. Ryan The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels: An Entangled Bank , by Glendening John , Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Ltd. , 2007 . 225 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Vanessa L. Ryan
Revisiting Evolution in 1890s Fiction...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 214–237.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Robert M. Greenberg Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 Anger and the Alchemy of Literary
Method in V. S. Naipaul’s Political
Fiction: The Case of The Mimic Men
Robert M. Greenberg
. S. Naipaul’s fiction and nonfiction since the 1960s have reflected...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Christopher Ames Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Shakespeare’s Grave:
The British Fiction
o f Hollywood
Christopher Ames
All sorts of English oddities turn up in Hollywood.
—P. G.Wodehouse, The Old Reliable (51)
I have a favorite quote...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 139–162.
Published: 01 June 2021
... problematic through its handling of history and time. Examining this struggle in Lessing’s writing can shed light on how the interplay of space and time informs the intertwined histories of realism and modernism in twentieth-century fiction, and on how Lessing’s work contributes to current debates about...
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