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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 222–242.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Dale Pattison © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Dale Pattison
Writing Home: Domestic Space, Narrative
Production, and the Homeland
in Roth’s American Pastoral
Dale Pattison
On September 18, 2002, as part of the Lannan Foundation’s literary
awards ceremony, author and activist...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 640–662.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Robert Volpicelli Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Robert Volpicelli
Against Things: The At-Home Objects
of Marianne Moore
Robert Volpicelli
From 1965 until her death in 1972, Marianne Moore lived at 35 West
Ninth Street in Greenwich Village. Moore’s Greenwich Village apart...
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Published: 01 December 2017
Marianne Moore at home, during a photo shoot for a feature in Life , 1953. Copyright Jean Bubley and Estate of Esther Bubley
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 57–74.
Published: 01 March 2021
... enables some of his most celebrated poetry of “home.” Since the 1990s, Bishop’s reputation has grown considerably, and recent critical assessments of newly published work have led to new ways of reading her older collections, so that the “reticence” for which she was famed now appears less as an aesthetic...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 193–213.
Published: 01 June 2000
..., and of the various homes
that frame her, are thus riven with, even blasted by, his combination of fear
and desire with respect to other, less-comforting and less-redeeming, memo
ries. Jim’s memory houses—the houses he remembers, and the home he
finds in memory—may be constructed with Antonia...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 56–77.
Published: 01 March 2000
... it had been home to eminent Victorian writers and painters and be
cause it was the haunt of Woolfs so-called “bohemian” contemporaries. To
Woolf, Chelsea and Chelseans also signified smugness, capricious and cut
ting appraisals of art, and worst of all, thorough respectability. However,
while...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of home
and domestic life, resituating his characters within the parameters of the
hotel, and thus creating new kinds of characters, representing in new ways
individual subjectivity and its relation to material space as he explores the
modern hotel in all its various incarnations. In doing so...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Street (1982) begins with a description of a crumbling home, making manifest the predicament of characters whose security and stability are under attack. The wind here freely enters the Brown household, circulating ominously throughout this novel and its successor, Blow Your House Down (1984), whose...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 180–198.
Published: 01 June 2011
... excuse to defer the expedition—as if to shut Ruth,
like the house, both up and out—Margaret paints herself a fair-weather
friend, offending Ruth, who immediately after orders the driver to re-
turn home. Margaret’s hesitation reflects a fear of the unknown. So long
as their friendship rests upon...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 264–271.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Brooke Horvath For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front , by Kingsbury Celia Malone , University of Nebraska Press , 2010 . 309 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Brooke Horvath
Learning to Hate the Hun
For Home and Country: World War I...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 150–173.
Published: 01 June 2002
... years. We can appreciate this confessional element
in his work by exploring the autobiographical sources of Merrill’s poet
ry.2 The poem Mendelsohn chooses to illustrate the influence of the
confessionals, especially Lowell, on Merrill’s style is one of the sonnets
from “The Broken Home...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 June 2009
... Conrad uses the word grotesque in a precise,
definable context) is the story of Michaelis’s professional career and the
reactions to him at his rich patroness’s home. Grotesque shows up several
times here, most prominently as Michaelis gets up to leave the room after
an informal political lecture...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 54–69.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of awakening the countervoices in
oneself and embarking upon speech with them.
––J. M. Coetzee (Doubling the Point 65)
Questions, concepts, ideas: all these must be given a home, a com-
munity, before they begin to make sense. “History,” writes the novelist
in J. M...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 97–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
... wars and the disintegration of the country in 1991. The novels by Tesich and Radojčić capture their protagonists’ prewar lives and memories, and they also trace their experiences of migration and their persisting relationships to their former home’s collective histories. Reflecting on their own...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 357–377.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., be-
cause, firstly, after spending all the formative years of my life
there I came to regard it as home, secondly, my nearest relative is
living there and, thirdly, I make my living by writing and selling
my literary production to the American public.
After recounting the facts...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 518–526.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of autoclasm respectively, the final four chapters of the book offer detailed case studies of four important comics: Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986), Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006), Charles Burns’s Black Hole (2005), and the Hernandez brothers’ (Gilbert and Jaime) long-running...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 513–518.
Published: 01 December 2017
... over their own wives and daughters, displace their own anxieties about the aberrant behaviors of their own women onto the convent women. They kill the women of the convent “to punish jouissance in the Other to avoid confronting female jouissance at home” (71). In her discussion of Love (2003...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... 2009 . Orphan . Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video . DVD . Demby William . 1950 . Beetlecreek . Edited by Hall James C. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi . Donner Richard , dir. ( 1976 ) 2006 . The Omen . Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 283–308.
Published: 01 June 2013
... fiction and also
make pointed appearances in her non-fiction. In To the Lighthouse (1927),
a “pair of shoes” has been “shed and left” in the deserted holiday home
of the Ramsays, still keeping “the human shape” which indicates “how
once they were filled and animated” (194). In the late novelThe...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 196–231.
Published: 01 June 2013
... devastating personal loss
while flying his plane, so that he lands, presumably once and for all, and
retreats into the bosom of his home, seemingly fulfilling Gray’s damning
accusation that the post-9/11 novel reduces “a turning point in national
and international history to little more than a stage...
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