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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2019
... live it every day. Columbia University Press seems to agree with this assessment, as it has recently included two monographs, Jeremy Rosen’s Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace (2016) and Theodore Martin’s Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to contain the threat of resistance and perpetuate dominant power relations. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 antiapartheid resistance historical materialism historicism novelistic form This essay places Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story (2000) into dialogue with Walter Benjamin’s “Theses...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 391–422.
Published: 01 December 2011
.../Winter 2011 391
Adam Kelly
much of the work cited above, Amy Hungerford remarks on “the solid
dominance of historicism” that informs contemporary critical practice,
a dominance that “now seems less a critical movement than a simple as-
sumption about literary-critical work,” best figured...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 98–104.
Published: 01 March 2005
... that a number of people noticed in Our America
(and others have raised as a general criticism of the New Historicism with
which Michaels has sometimes been identified)—is one of the reasons.1
Michaels asserts in The Shape of the Signifier that “the end of history is just
another name for the end...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 688–693.
Published: 01 December 2012
....
This seems a remarkably trenchant point, in its acknowledgment of
the enduring appeal of Romantic notions of subjectivity and, indeed,
of Romantic rather than liberal construals of politics in particular. Years
ago, Winfried Fluck made a similar point about the initial move toward
new historicism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 345–351.
Published: 01 September 2021
... how much historicism can benefit from a thoroughgoing attention to form and technique—and vice versa. Doing enough work for two chapters, the introduction persuasively embeds the upcoming studies of individual authors in a larger cultural context, supporting the need for a specifically midcentury...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 85–93.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and “critical thinking” in Andrews’) on the form and content of the poetry they read. The books have complementary strengths. Kempf’s reigning concept is more naturally coherent, and thus easier to historicize; the power of that historical intervention renders the close readings of that concept’s impact...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 414–420.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in the social, political, and gendered implications o f texts.
M cDonald claims that understanding w om en’s initial reception o f Eliot
requires historicizing their position in academic culture: the same keepers
o f tradition w ho excluded women from higher education deplored Eliot’s
poetry. W om en...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 259–264.
Published: 01 June 2018
... with Enlightenment ideas about language and the early Romantic period. Mufti follows the to-and-fro between colonial spaces and European thinkers: philosophical historicism was shaped by the newly available bodies of writing from the Orient, and these were in turn interpreted through newly formed ideas of cultural...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 461–472.
Published: 01 December 2019
... influence of modernist ideology is more wide-ranging and ubiquitous, extending beyond the study of modernism itself. I make this case at greater length in Pragmatic Modernism (2012) . 2 Accounts of modernism have tended to go beyond the standard oscillation between formalism and historicism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 448–454.
Published: 01 December 2016
... for a rereading of trauma-inflected theory through the lens of queer temporality, a phenomenon influentially described in a 2007 GLQ roundtable discussion as a “refusal of linear historicism” (Dinshaw 178). This refusal of linear historicism is one of the key theoretical energies of Tense Future , and Saint...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 273–297.
Published: 01 September 2007
....
— Georg Lukács (“Thoughts” 16)
I f we agree with Fredric Jameson that historicizing works o f literature is
always necessary (Political Unconscious 9), recent fiction poses a particular
challenge, not so much because o f the difficulty o f gaining critical dis
tance on our own times...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 120–127.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in relief such critical concepts as break, sincerity, irony, formalism, and historicism but also risks complication when conflicting values are attributed to postmodernism; for example, postmodernism was resistant to politics (217), but it expresses a politics of resistance to the world-system (14...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 511–517.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Maurizia Boscagli At several points Vicks seems open to the necessary historicization of her problematic. In the introduction, for example, she mentions a number of artists and their aesthetics in terms that call for a discussion that goes beyond formalism and philosophy: post–World War I Dada...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 403–404.
Published: 01 December 2020
...: Fantasy, Space, and Imperialism in Rebecca West,” is exemplary in more ways than one. It makes a wide-ranging and richly historicized claim on behalf of an undertheorized genre: fantasy. It does so by redrawing the architectural as well as geopolitical maps of literature, putting London and Belgrade...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 283–308.
Published: 01 June 2013
...,
and selection which underpin exemplification emphasize the artifice and
arbitrariness of that practice. What I see as Woolf’s historicization of mu-
seum culture is elaborated by the entry of the observer and her umbrella,
by which she signals that the epistemological questions of exemplification
occur...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 241–243.
Published: 01 September 2023
....” Fredric Jameson has urged, “Always historicize!” This year’s Kappel Prize–winning essay, “Standard Forms: Modernism, Market Research, and ‘Howl,’” demonstrates the rich levels of interpretation and analysis made possible by a creative adherence to Jameson’s exhortation. The author argues that Allen...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 128–136.
Published: 01 March 2014
... synthesis of
historicism, philosophy and close-reading—starting with the archive
to demonstrate the presence of an erasure, whose logic then grounds a
reading with wider implications—is flexible enough to distinguish as
well as connect the texts under discussion. It is, in this sense, a viable...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 175–198.
Published: 01 June 2006
... “vision of the terrors of the child’s inner world was as situated in
the uncertainties and brutalities of the aftermath of the First World War
as was the literature, the movies, and the architecture.”
Historicizing Klein’s psychoanalysis in this context will enable us to
explore what Stonebridge...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 494–503.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of escapist
texts—and historicizes it as a cognitive mode and experiential horizon
in which reason and reverie, pragmatics and play interpenetrate. Another
way of putting what Saler does is to say that he conceives of fantasy as a
mode of social practice with an extended genealogy. “On the one hand...
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