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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 709–719.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review
Nothing Flat Nothing Quite Flat
Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle
Between the Arts
by Ellen Levy
Oxford University Press, 2011. 260 pages
Deep Skin: Elizabeth Bishop and the Visual Arts
by Peggy Samuels
Cornell...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Noreen Masud Critics of Stevie Smith’s work often lean on the word “flat.” Usually, the term is meant to evoke Smith’s “simplicity” and lack of ornamentation, her refusal to lift into “poetic resonance,” or her unreadable tone. This essay attends more closely to flatness in Smith’s work, exploring...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by contrasting images of roundness and flatness. Throughout, women, especially pregnant women, are associated with roundness—with the moon, the earth, hills and mountains. Men are flat. In her office full of male coworkers, the Secretary tells us, I watched the men walk about me in the office. They were so...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 306–329.
Published: 01 September 2006
... gliding stars, stationary shutters, swaying palm trees that
produce shadows equated to a fluttering heart). The consciousness of the
observer hovers between these spaces—as near (and flat) as the shadows
on the wall and as far (and deep) as the stars.9
Other observations made from inside...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 111–144.
Published: 01 June 2006
... is not predicated on a private interiority but on
“parroting” the formulae of social interaction. Following Manet, Eliot
links flatness—painterly and psychological—with meaningless imitation.
All three “portraits” entertain a conception of subjectivity based on reflec
tion and imitation rather than...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): vi–vii.
Published: 01 June 2006
... demonstrates how it
instances a flatness that will eventuate in postmodernity’s notorious
emphasis on two-dimensional surfaces. Deploying the work of Mi
chael Fried and other art historians, the author incisively teases out
the painting’s central ambiguity, which in turn shapes Eliot’s poem:
the flat...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 101–111.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of heredity against the soft process of evolutionary progress by the flat-footed succession of “terminal addition,” and rewrote the script of development for offspring. By overturning the averaging of qualities and the narrow evolutionary specialization implied by the Haeckelian model, Mendelism turned...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of Cartography Is Limited”: Relief Committees gave the starving Irish such roads to build. Where they died, there the road ended and ends still and when I take down the map of this island, it is never so I can say here is the masterful, the apt rendering of the spherical as flat, nor an ingenious...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 193–216.
Published: 01 June 2008
... treatment of the lower-middle-class character
Leonard Bast.2 It is ironic, given the narrator’s scolding of Helen Schlegel
for deeming Leonard “not a man, but a cause” (246), that Forster himself
is widely scolded for doing the same thing.
Leonard has conventionally been viewed as a flat...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2014
... appear—as many have argued—flat and unconvinc-
ing, and critics have found the virulent racism of the white citizens of
Lewis’s otherwise mild Midwestern town of Grand Republic wildly
extreme and implausible. In his well-known dismissal of the novel (and
the talents of Lewis himself), for example...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 283–304.
Published: 01 September 2020
... loses the sense of depth, of a world-within-the-world offered him by their conventional intimacy. “After three weeks of such intimacy,” he feels that “all the usual occupations were unbearably flat and beside the point” (387), but this flatness is not simply boredom. Instead, it is a reduction...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 437–466.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Heart’’ (184). This
picture hung in the room she rented from Ethel Matthews. When Anna
remembers,“I kept saying,‘Stop, stop,’ so that Ethel wouldn’t hear” (184),
it seems as though the whole scene, introduced by the reference to the
other clock, refers to a scene in Ethel’s flat...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 78–99.
Published: 01 March 2000
... to integrate fragmentary memories
in her design. While her brush flickers across her canvas, scoring it with run
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TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
ning lines, the boat travels upward on the visual plane, vanishing toward the
horizon, as the sea is tilted upward like the flat surface...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 455–480.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., highlighting how “material relationships defined as beyond legal
consideration are crucial to the functioning of the law” (74-75).16 In
particular, he shows how clients and lawyers’ race and class status influence
the outcomes of court cases. For instance, in his defense of the Tooner
Flats Seven...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
... (1984) 9 begins with the protagonist’s wife washing in a portable plastic baby bath situated on the hearth of the couple’s kitchen, one of two rooms they share with their four-year-old son in a tenement flat. The couple frequently discusses whether to move or wait for the infested, dangerously...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 305–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
.... It was as still as sculpture—and something like that. It all hung together, seemed to have a kind of composition: pale little houses of stone nestling close to one another, perched on top of each other, with flat roofs, narrow windows, straight walls, and in the middle of the group, a round tower...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 189–195.
Published: 01 March 2013
...
turmoil and “neurosis” (108) in a particular era through the vehicle of
these often flat, easily reproducible images of the Muslim terrorist, rather
than true engagement with Muslim characters. For Nash, writers who
trade in such representations “operate within a horizon of discourse that
does...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 100–114.
Published: 01 March 2000
... as flat—
the sameness becomes empty, for all of it is seen through memory shaped
by war. Aimlessly, like a patrol without direction, he wheels his father’s “big
Chevy” on its seven-mile loop around the lake. The lake itself is flatly pro
saic—a nondescript midwestern lake that was “a good audience...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 493–513.
Published: 01 December 2008
... to the
proem of “The Vanity of Human Wishes” and Young’s vista “Half round the
globe” than it does to the actual view from Larkin’s flat in Pearson Park.
The Local Studies Library of Kingston upon Hull, in answer to a query
about the elevation of this view, told me that “Hull is very flat and low...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 117–149.
Published: 01 June 2002
... years of study, / it is
all so difficultI sincerely desire to be / a serious sacaca” (107travel
ling as fast as a wish / with my magic cloak of fish / swerving as I swerve”
(108). The flatness of the voice in this poem is the flatness of a bad imi
tation. The poet is inhabiting the riverman’s...
