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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 128–137.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Samuel Cohen The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction 1962–2007 , by Bachner Sally , Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2011 . 172 pages. Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995–2010) , by Pozorski Aimee , New York : Continuum , 2011 . 175...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 September 2015
...John Lowney Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem , by Marcoux Jean-Philippe . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2012 . 233 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 In the introduction to this compelling account of 1960s African American jazz poetry...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 255–261.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Alexandra Socarides Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World , by Costello Bonnie , Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2008 . 205 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Review
Reviews
Bringing History to the Table
Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 401–408.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Christopher McVey Ethnic Modernism , by Sollors Werner , Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2008 . 336 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Review
Border Trouble:
American Modernities, Ethnic Modernisms,
and the Politics of Literary History
Ethnic Modernism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 520–527.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Abram Foley Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review , and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde , by Glass Loren , Stanford University Press , 2013 . 272 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 Abram Foley
Literary History and its Incorporations...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 199–230.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Hillary Chute Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 B4I
“The Shadow of a Past Time”:
History and Graphic Representation in Mans
Hillary Chute
Because I grew up with parents who were always ready to see
the world grid crumble, and when it started feeling...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 371–393.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Samuel Cohen Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 w
The Novel in a Time of Terror:
M id d lesex , History, and
Contemporary American Fiction
Samuel Cohen
I effrey Eugenides’s 2002 Middlesex, a critically acclaimed historical novel,
nas been praised as an expansive, epic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 110–117.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Rachel Trousdale The Cambridge History of American Poetry , edited by Bendixen Alfred and Burt Stephen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 1326 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 The History has a lot of possible uses. Individual chapters could...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 504–510.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Enda Duffy History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism , by Rasula Jed . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 345 pages. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 For Jed Rasula, in History of a Shiver , all the modernist arts are post-Wagnerian. Modernist...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 427–450.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the composition of verse and the fabric of national narratives. Whereas Pound detects the rhythmic coherence of a robust economy beneath the surface differences of documented history, Moore’s attention to the syllabic material of the prose she read and the stanzas she composed trained her attention...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 567–574.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Phyllis Lassner The Constant Liberal: The Life and Work of Phyllis Bottome , by Hirsch Pam , London : Quartet , 2010 . 296 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
Liberalizing Twentieth-Century
British Literary History
The Constant Liberal: The Life and Work...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 575–581.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Deborah Nelson Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories , by Cassuto Leonard , Columbia University Press , 2009 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History
of American Crime Stories...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Emma Parker Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 A New Hystery:
History and Hysteria
in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Emma Parker
I n “The Laugh of the Medusa” (1981), Hélène Cixous states that “The
new history is coming” (253), and with Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 137–168.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Rob Doggett Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 H I
Writing Out (of) Chaos:
Constructions of History in Yeats’s
“Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” and
“Meditations in Time of Civil War”
Rob Doggett
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 268–282.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Zachariah Pickard Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 BAI
Natural History and Epiphany:
Elizabeth Bishop’s Darwin Letter
Zachariah Pickard
riting in his Autobiography about the joys of beetle collecting and,
particularly, the pleasure of discovering a new...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 283–316.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Lisa Fluet Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 Ml
Modernism and Disciplinary History:
On H. G. Wells andT. S. Eliot
Lisa Fluet
Gutman stopped whispering. His sleek dark eyes examined
Spade’s face, which was placid. The fat man asked: “Well, sir, what...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Sandra Kumamoto Stanley Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 w
Mourning the “Greatest Generation”:
Myth and History
in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral
Sandra Kumamoto Stanley
I n a 1973 interview about his satirical book The Great American Novel,
Philip Roth describes the 1960s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Thomas S. Davis © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 The Historical Novel at History’s End: Virginia Woolf’s The Years
The Historical Novel at History’s End:
Virginia Woolf’s The Years
Thomas S. Davis
It seems as if there were no progress in the human race, but only...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 101–111.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Charles M. Tung [email protected] Modernist Life Histories: Biological Theory and the Experimental Bildungsroman , by Newman Daniel Aureliano . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2019 . 248 pages. Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 In 2008, having...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 139–162.
Published: 01 June 2021
... problematic through its handling of history and time. Examining this struggle in Lessing’s writing can shed light on how the interplay of space and time informs the intertwined histories of realism and modernism in twentieth-century fiction, and on how Lessing’s work contributes to current debates about...
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