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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 328–359.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Liesl M. Olson HI
Gertrude Stein, William James, and Habit
in the Shadow of War
Liesl M . Olson
Sow an action & you reap a habit; sow a habit & you reap a
character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
—William...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 445–484.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Omri Moses Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Gertrude Stein’s Lively Habits
Gertrude Stein’s Lively Habits
Omri Moses
As the writer of Three Lives, Gertrude Stein tends to be excited by the
material other novelists discard. Avoiding craftsmanlike values as well...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of how “feeling flat” involves, for Smith, a diverse and complex set of emotions, the essay moves into outlining how flat landscapes offer Smith a mode of lingering habitation that derives its interest precisely from the absence of anything evidently interesting. In the process, it offers a critical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 451–474.
Published: 01 December 2017
... into a document thick with questions, jotted afterthoughts, and a longing for political intervention. The essay’s broader purpose is to consider Moore’s revisionary habits as a species of vocal improvisation and so to offer a new angle on her emerging responsibilities as a war poet. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 411–416.
Published: 01 September 2015
... contexts—has always maintained an ideal of consistency. Since Aristotle, the moral conception of a “good character” has been defined by its capacity for stability, predictability, and consistency of habit. Aristotelian ethics is grounded in the notion of character as “one’s power to legislate through self...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 720–727.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in modernist literature:
the authors’ search for release from or transcendence of the everyday,
however comfortably habitable.
As Liesl Olson reminds us, this privileging of transcendence—and
hence of psychological interiority and “extremes of self-consciousness”—
is deeply involved in our...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 403–428.
Published: 01 December 2016
... taken pains to encourage his own intellectualist tendencies at the expense of all the others. He avoids personal relationships as much as he can, he observes without participating” ( A. Huxley 1928 , 405). When Quarles describes his character’s relation to time and habit, he sounds even more like...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 277–284.
Published: 01 June 2011
... rather than her gender or
sexual preference. To argue that Bishop’s habit of fully realizing
the objects she describes implies a reduction of her self to their
level (Harrison) or an absorption of her self into them (McCabe)
simply does not agree with the evidence to be found...
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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 423–444.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of nature as open
and dynamic that informs Omri Moses’s interpretation, in this issue, of
habit in Gertrude Stein’s work). Next, by overturning anthropocentrism,
Darwin strikes an irreversible blow to what Freud later calls man’s narcis-
sistic notion of himself as holding a privileged place...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 365–369.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... The habits of mind that characterize literary scholars and philosophers in the UK and North America are very different, even if they share an interest in many of the same epistemic and linguistic problems and paradoxes. The relationship between the two is, depending on the room, one of intense hostility...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 547–571.
Published: 01 December 2009
... for an artifact.
Moore read widely and shared with Darwin the collector’s habit,
gathering quotations from diverse sources—fashion magazines, travel
guides, manuals, literary texts, and scientific treatises, including those by
Lamarck, Cuvier, Humboldt, and Darwin. If we think...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 191–212.
Published: 01 June 2017
... work,” see Cecire 2015 . 14 For an account of Stein and science, see Meyer 2002 . 13 The phrase “practice makes perfect” is customarily traced back to the vernacular Latin “ fabricando fit faber ” (“working makes the worker”) and to the discussion of habit in Aristotle’s Nicomachean...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 392–410.
Published: 01 September 2015
... or using” and, on the other, of its value as fetish, talisman, or prop for habit. The matter (both theme and material objects) of the novel therefore exposes the failed attempt of humans to pattern the nonhuman world into meaningful reflections of themselves, for, even while Dinah wants and expects...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 126–156.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., and only secondarily physiological, phenomena. They are bad
habits, nothing more and nothing less, bred of custom and example, born
of the imitation of bad models and the cultivation of false personal ideals”
(832). Among the bad habits induced by neurasthenia was inattention.
Jonathan Crary notes...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of Globalization
sponsibility it had previously assumed with regard to this contract, let
alone to the assumed contract with the wider “reading public” itself.
So it is that what had once been a critically spontaneous habit, of
aligning this sequence of textual acts within a theoretical space coordi...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 80–113.
Published: 01 March 2009
...
of pre-1914 Edwardian England in favor of the style of discursive politi
cal works like Jefferson and/or Mussolini. His curious habit of conflating
aesthetic taste with political dogma may confuse the reader not already
familiar with his idiosyncratic mode of argumentation, since it strips...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 113–119.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., and as such a great deal better than many of these men you see.’ A lot of the fellows up here even look down upon great men who haven’t had a good education, and while I’d never go that far,” he assured his mother, ‘I don’t think a year at High School would hurt a bit’” (20). His “strong habit of cursing...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 275–305.
Published: 01 September 2006
... but translates experience from one mode into another” (5), visual
primacy alters the metaphorical field that is language, installing a “new
habit of perception” (23) that permeates all linguistic translations of
experience. In Ongs’s account, alphabetic literacy’s emphatically visual
“habit...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
... message in which he describes “trying to pick up old
habits,”2 from the “Exchequering” (34) quotidian of “The Comedian as
the Letter C” to the recurrent daily syllables of“The World as Meditation”
(442), ordinary patterns are vital to both his life and his art. Stevens some
times struggled...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 329–358.
Published: 01 September 2017
... , 218). 6 The student wants to know “ whether [the narrator] found himself or not ” ( Ellison 1995a , 537). Ellison interprets the question to mean that surfacing is at issue. Adam Bradley notes Ellison’s habit of trying to control Invisible Man ’s reception (2010, 185). 7...
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