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Monkey in the Mirror: The Science of Professor Higgins and Doctor Moreau

Laura Otis

Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 485–509.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2009-1003

Published: 01 December 2009

...Laura Otis Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Monkey in the Mirror: The Science of Professor Higgins and Doctor Moreau Monkey in the Mirror: The Science of Professor Higgins and Doctor Moreau Laura Otis In 1916, when George Bernard Shaw published Pygmalion in book form, he...

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Break, Period, Interregnum

Brian McHale

Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 328–340.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2011-4014

Published: 01 December 2011

... Woolf’s “On or about December, 1910.” 1958, advanced by the Fluxus artist Dick Higgins as the onset of what he called “postcognitive” art, once seemed compelling to me, but now seems too early, reflecting not postmodernism’s onset so much as the achievement of “critical mass” by a certain postwar...

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Autonomy to Indeterminacy

Steve McCaffery

Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 212–217.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2007-3003

Published: 01 June 2007

... influences, countermoves, and tactics are far more salient. (It’s for this reason that Fluxus artist Dick Higgins’s book Modernism since Postmodernism: Essays on Intermedia offers a valuable counterpart to Ashton’s critical position.) Equally problematic is the book’s definition of Language poetry...

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Modernist Life Histories: Biological Theory and the Experimental Bildungsroman by Daniel Aureliano Newman

Charles M. Tung

Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 101–111.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-9668923

Published: 01 March 2022

... . Sperling Alison . 2020 . “ Queer Ingestions: Weird and Sporous Bodies in Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction .” In Plants in Science Fiction , edited by Bishop Katherine E. Higgins David Määttä Jerry , 194 – 213 . Cardiff : University of Wales Press . Thacker Eugene . 2003 . “ Data...

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Indecent Modernism

Peter Nohrnberg

Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 105–114.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2008-2006

Published: 01 March 2008

..., one in which Eliza’s overactive imagination appears to have been colonized by the melodramatic narratives of female victimization disseminated by social purity activists. Calling attention to the five-pound note Eliza’s father asks of Higgins, Marshik hears a satiric allusion to Stead’s...

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Art Spiegelman’s Bounding Boxes: Mishkan, Midrash, Maus

Emmy Waldman

Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 317–366.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-11534708

Published: 01 December 2024

..., glancing sidelong at the Ark and at each other.” 29 We can understand the essential gap-space or interval between the faces above the Cover as analogous to the necessary gaps or spacings of the text within the box. As Hannah B. Higgins (2009 : 45) reminds us in her study of the tablet...

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The Evolutionary Invention of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Conservation” of Race and George Schuyler’s Black No More

Dana Carluccio

Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 510–546.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2009-1004

Published: 01 December 2009

...: Writings. Ed. Nathan Higgins. New York: Library of America, 1986. 815–26. Ferguson, Jeffrey B. The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance. New Haven: Yale UP, 2005. Gaertner, S. L., and J. F. Dovidio. “Understanding and Addressing Contempo- rary...

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