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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 448–454.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and critique the present. In this manner Saint-Amour does not so much participate in a form of reparative reading as offer up a new paranoid reading where the answer is always interwar. My only other quibble with this book, and it is slight, is a stylistic choice that seems to ignore how academic books...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 441–464.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Ryan M. Brooks © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 “Clean Hands”: Post-Political Form in Richard Powers’s Gain “Clean Hands”: Post-Political Form in Richard Powers’s Gain Ryan M. Brooks Richard Powers’s 1998 novel Gain is composed of two main narra- tives: the nearly two-hundred...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 423–454.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Cara Lewis Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Still Life in Motion: Mortal Form in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse Still Life in Motion: Mortal Form in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse Cara Lewis Late in the evening on March 28, 1918, a government car rolled to a stop at the bottom...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 40–66.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Rachel Hollander Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 m Novel Ethics: Alterity and Form in Jacob’s Room Rachel Hollander 1 hough few critics would still claim that the modernist novel privileges experimental form over engagement with social and political concerns...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 125–152.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Ella Zohar Ophir Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 Ml Romantic Reverence and Modernist Representation: Vision, Power, and the Shattered Form of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Ella Zohar Ophir 'W h e n John Grierson coined the term documentary, he identified “things...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Ben Leubner Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 w Bedrock, Erosion, and Form: Jorie Graham and Wittgenstein Ben Leubner Few phenomena gave me more delight than to observe the forms which thawing sand and clay assume in flowing down the sides of a deep cut...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 370–375.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Matthew Gannon The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form , by Wasser Audrey . Fordham University Press , 2016 . 216 pages. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 In his call for artists to “make it new,” Ezra Pound voiced...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 513–518.
Published: 01 December 2017
... is not heavy-handed but playful. It takes form, for example, in Home as “an impossible colloquy between character and author, a transgression of the boundary sacred to literary works” (190). Wyatt is referring here to the moment in Home when Frank seemingly addresses Morrison to criticize her rendering...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 389–408.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Jacob McGuinn This essay considers the problematic presence of the inanimate in elegiac form. Focusing on Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) as translator/elegist of Paul Celan (1920–1970), this essay argues that Hill’s poetry responds to the challenge of addressing the nonliving by way of Celan’s own...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 477–485.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Brigitte N. McCray The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form , by Murray Rachel . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2020 . 210 pages. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 Rachel Murray’s The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the “ecstatic” form of Crane’s lyrics as a challenge to both “institutionalized heterosexuality” (4) and “America” (6) as a coherent, mythical construct that underwrote his peripheral status in literary histories. 7 In the final section, I examine a range of Crane’s early lyrics in relation to 1920s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 86–104.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Julian Murphet Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Julian Murphet Coetzee and Late Style: Exile within the Form Julian Murphet Let us trace a theme, but more than a theme, an enactment, of exile as it has come to inform the recent work of J. M. Coetzee. Exile I mean...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 511–518.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Ulka Anjaria The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India , by Shingavi Snehal . London : Anthem , 2013 . 235 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Snehal Shingavi’s complex book, The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Aware of her responsibility to Dulcie, the narrator questions the narrative impulse and wonders about how to preserve Dulcie from more suffering. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 antiapartheid resistance historical materialism historicism novelistic form This essay places Zoë...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 413–448.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., as my wife observed at once, how closely my own prose style was formed on that of Bradley, and how little it has changed in all these years. It was she who urged me to publish it; and to her I dedicate it. (2014, 1:240) It isn’t terribly surprising that the work seems strange to the older Eliot, who...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 245–270.
Published: 01 September 2023
...” or “age” or “revolution,” and the special place within it occupied by the growing market research sector, see Robins and Webster 1999 : 95–102. 3 The symmetry between art forms and office forms has a longer history: the bureaucratic sense of “form,” Caroline Levine (2015 : 98) notes in her study...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 207–232.
Published: 01 June 2020
... hierarchies. Marshaling various forms of speech, including his own vernacular, into traditional patterns of poetry, Harrison interrogates classist notions about nonstandard speech and its relation to that tradition while exploring the disturbances produced by class separation. Where poetry scholarship...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 283–304.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Aleksandr Prigozhin This essay demonstrates the centrality of impersonal intimacy to Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics. In contrast to the major forms of intimacy—marriage, friendship, and family—the “minor” intimacies to which Woolf attends generate a sense of significant relation...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 460–483.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and postcoloniality pervading mid-twentieth-century Irish culture and politics through negative epic forms, forms that reconfigure both realist and modernist conventions. In The Last September , landscape description reframes the scope of epic conventions and challenges narratives of geopolitical development, while...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of representation by which the state monitors and assesses, through a rhetoric of uplifted subjectivity, the behaviors of the women who depend on state relief programs. In The Girl , homeless women’s discovery of forms of being within precarious living conditions constitutes an ontological repossession through...