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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Mark David Kaufman Buckton and Lassner each make important contributions to our understanding of how spy fiction not only depicts the “enemy” but also productively intervenes in political discourse. Today, as we grapple with the phenomenon of “fake news” and competing narratives of nation...
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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 (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 (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 (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 Review Conceptualizing Change in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction American Fiction in Transition: Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism by Adam Kelly Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. 147 pages Alex Miller Adam Kelly’s American Fiction in Transition...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 128–137.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Press . Cohen Samuel . 2009 . After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press . Corry Stephen . 2013 . “ The Case of the ‘Brutal Savage’: Poirot or Clouseau? Why Steven Pinker, Like Jared Diamond, Is Wrong .” Survival International...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 280–286.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Thomas Cook Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction: Environment and Affect , by Houser Heather , Columbia University Press , 2014 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Heather Houser’s first book, the third title in Columbia University’s Literature Now series...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2021
...: The American Way of Adoption . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Novy Marianne . 2005 . Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Oh Arissa H. 2015 . To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins...
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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 (2019) 65 (1-2): 43–70.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Communism: The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Wanner Adrian . 2011a . Out of Russia: Fictions of a New Translingual Diaspora . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press . Wanner Adrian . 2011b . “ The Russian Immigrant Narrative...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Allyson Salinger Ferrante Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction , by Radović Stanka . University of Virginia Press , 2014 . 192 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction goes beyond...
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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 (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 (2003) 49 (3): 277–297.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Laura Green Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Hall of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Modernist Fictions of Identity Laura Green I n 1928, as she was preparing to appear as a defense witness in the pros­ ecution of Radclyffe Hall’s novel...