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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 582–605.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Regina Martin Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Regina Martin
The Drama of Gender and Genre
in Edith Wharton’s Realism
Regina Martin
Edith Wharton’s depiction of the socially ambitious Undine Spragg’s
peregrinations through New York and French “society” suggests...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 688–693.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Jennifer L. Fleissner The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 , by Olwell Victoria , University of Pennsylvania Press , 2011 . 304 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Jennifer L. Fleissner
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The Genius...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 694–701.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance , by Preston Carrie J. , Oxford University Press , 2011 . 357 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter
Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre,
Solo Performance...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 275–305.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Deborah Hooker Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 w
(FI) orality, Gender, and the
Environmental Ethos of
Atwoods The Handmaid’s Tale
Deborah Hooker
1 3 efore the revelation in the “Historical Notes” that what we’ve been
reading is a transcript of tapes discovered...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 482–488.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Timothy Parrish Philip Roth—Countertexts, Counterlives , by Shostak Debra , Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2004 . 332 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 You Must Change Your Life:
Gender, Desire, and Philip Roth
Philip Roth—Countertexts...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Jeffrey T. Nealon Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 HI
Disastrous Aesthetics:
Irony, Ethics, and Gender
in Barthelme s Snow White
Jeffrey T. Nealon
The observer ought to be an amorist.
—Kierkegaard (47)
F ro m...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 97–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
... migrant’s uneasy relationship with transnational feminism in ways that anticipate her later entrapment in neotraditional gender roles, Radojčić illustrates patriarchal gendering under socialism to describe her own resistance to the gender confines of capitalism. The article focuses on the novels’ different...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Chung-Hao Ku This article studies how three kinds of trans embodiment—trans-speciation, sartorial metamorphosis, and nonmedical gender transition—in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) unsettle the anthropocentric idea of nature, the genital view of sex, gender, and sexuality...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 437–460.
Published: 01 December 2019
... novels strive to conceive of madness in terms of Laing’s antipsychiatric thought, this article will argue that they in fact serve to reveal that Laing’s “lived body” (but gender-neutral) theory of schizophrenia failed to account for the discursively constructed, “inscribed” bodies of Lessing’s female...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 167–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Oana Popescu-Sandu In her transnational plays Lenin’s Shoe (2010) and Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (2010), Romanian American playwright Saviana Stănescu explores discourses of capitalist market economies, democracy, postsocialism, and gender that overlie the geographies of Central and Eastern...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 197–222.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Michelle N. Huang Readings of Catherine Barkley, the female protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms , have focused on her gender without fully considering her medical vocation. In contrast, this article foregrounds Catherine’s work as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse through...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2017
.... With a focus on Margherita Erdmann’s sexual practice, this revisionary reading of gender and female sexuality in Pynchon complicates previous criticism, which has largely condemned the heteromasculinity of high postmodernism and elided the power of female sexual agency in such texts. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 187–189.
Published: 01 September 2019
... in order to examine changing cultural interpretations of gender and race. Her most recent scholarship is especially interested in how racial perception impacts outcomes for health, wealth, and social justice. Copyright © Hofstra University 2019 Sometimes when I pass a bunch of Jews and hear quiet...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 437–465.
Published: 01 December 2022
... free indirect style, at the least, allows Bertha to be read as knowing, deliberate, and complicit in her apparent ignorance. In conjunction with the text’s critique of gender roles and expectations, Mansfield’s free indirect style implicitly criticizes her reader’s willingness to sideline Bertha’s self...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 271–292.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., in the 1980s and 1990s. It goes on to explore the gendered labor involved in these kinds of grammatical investigation, labor that is often excluded from the institutional mainstream but crucial in devising “therapies” for problems of linguistic skepticism. [email protected] © 2023 Hofstra...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in the face of a real catastrophe. Three Women invites the audience to interpret its speakers lyrically, but then undermines the possibility of such interpretation by pointing to the ways that these voices belong to specific, gendered bodies. In this way, Plath highlights the ambiguity in how the term “voice...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 June 2020
... addresses its stealth core subject, a postwar America with its Western philosophical baggage and political and historical burden fumbling awkwardly forward toward new social and gender models. Works Cited Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story . 2011 . Directed by Brian L. Gillogly . Los...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the bad seed narratives’ determinism, drawing on many of the same discourses that inform both novel and film to offer an alternative perspective on race, gender, heredity, and adoption from the 1940s and 1950s. © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 heredity narrative race Richard Wright Rite...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 75–93.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and the personal force of individual desire plays out on a broader structural level as Baldwin’s gay plot is drawn toward the magnetically forceful heterosexual love triangle in Hemingway’s tale. Hemingway and Baldwin address gender normativity and sexual inadequacy from a particular American perspective that must...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... promise encoded in this relation. © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 eschatology Freud gender psychology I want you to subdue your genital solution for everything—but everything ! —Djuna Barnes, letter to James Scott, April 1, 1972 Subsequently, the most sustained account of Nightwood...
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