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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 279–285.
Published: 01 June 2009
...George S. Lensing © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 The Return of Christian Humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the Romance of History , by Oser Lee , Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2007 . 190 pages. Review
Seeking Christian Humanism
The Return...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 105–112.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Michael Lundblad [email protected] Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human , by Linett Maren Tova . New York : New York University Press , 2020 . 213 pages. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 In the end, Linett concludes, “All sentient beings...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 225–232.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Alexander C. Dawson [email protected] Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature , by Krentz Christopher . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2022 . 198 pages. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 Reflecting on the “compelling...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 629–633.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Apprehension of Human Living
Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and
Other Biological Components of Fiction
William Flesch
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 252 pages
William Benzon
One inevitably approaches a new book with one’s mind stocked with
various...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 213–238.
Published: 01 September 2024
... its apparent meanings or is essentially ironic in tone. Countering such polarized reactions, this essay takes seriously Dust Tracks ’ overt sentiments by placing them in the context of the abstract humanism that developed at midcentury to understand the particular forms of Hurston’s transracial...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 379–404.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Chris Hall This article reads modernist animals against the dominating strategies of fascist racism, examining the hierarchization of bodies along the human/nonhuman divide in Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos and Virginia Woolf’s Flush and how the animals in both works challenge the integrity of the human...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 392–410.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... This consideration of the nonhuman elements (i.e., the “things”) of Bowen’s work also gives rise to a thinking about the posthuman, which this article approaches in two ways: (1) as, quite literally, a concern about the world after humanity; and (2) as a non-anthropocentric worldview, opened up by a realization...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 271–288.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Joseph Anderton Focusing on Franz Kafka’s “Investigations of a Dog” (1922), Samuel Beckett’s Molloy (1955), and Paul Auster’s Timbuktu (1999), this essay reflects on how these works represent the fundamental unknowability of animal perspectives while at the same time suggesting how dogs and humans...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 261–288.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Helena Feder While we are increasingly challenged to imagine a world without humans, we have also become increasingly attentive to the subject of empathy, in popular culture, the humanities, and the sciences. In The Time Machine (1895), and a number of essays on evolution or extinction, H. G. Wells...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 March 2024
... individual—analogical concepts reflecting a paleontological manifestation of a wider interest in human decadence. This essay analyzes how these concepts are explored in three areas: popular adventure fiction, social reform novels by Marie Stopes and H. G. Wells, and writings by paleontologists. Across...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
... attempts to articulate a posthuman relationship with rural place. Her marginalization of the human supports a posthuman ethics by expressing coexistence and interrelation between human and nonhuman entities. Consequently, Butts explores a mode of engagement with landscape that moves beyond anthropocentrism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... humanism and antihumanism, publishing many of the major literary works cited by poststructuralist thinkers. This editorial sensibility found its roots in the class character of the press, which was headed by affluent radical Barney Rosset. Drawing on close readings of key publications, as well...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
... an aging soldier. The curious parallels between these two works are articulated through the figure of the failing human body; in both poem and film, flesh becomes the avatar of a modernist sensorium that struggles to conjoin the perceiving subject with a fugitive and unreliable object world. Specifically...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
... encounters between human and animal. In particular, the essay explores how the use of figurative language in these modernist texts opens up the imaginative possibilities of an anthropomorphism that paradoxically unsettles human-centered worldviews and instead seeks to more intimately engage with nonhuman...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 403–428.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and bodily formation, I propose that Huxley’s novel adapts this nonlinear model in order to rethink human development in a modern world beset by overspecialized education and political tyranny. Of particular importance is one of the results of heterochrony: neoteny (the adult retention of juvenile...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Justin Omar Johnston This article examines Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People , an engagement with the consequences of the 1984 toxic chemical spill in Bhopal, India, in order to critique the humanist discourse of Dow Chemical’s massive rebranding effort, “The Human Element,” that began in 2006...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 267–298.
Published: 01 September 2017
... different ontologies; the “thingness” or quality of being essential or “noumenal” that belongs to the object or word as object is not available for human perception, which must settle for the brute being of the object as given. He tries to understand what lies beyond this given reality, the quidditas...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 187–189.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Michele Elam The winner of this year’s prize is Mark A. Tabone’s “Multidirectional Rememory: Slavery and the Holocaust in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues.” The judge is Michele Elam. Elam’s scholarship and teaching in interdisciplinary humanities research spans literature and social science...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 369–392.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Claudia Ingram Facing a world of mutually impinging processes, of which climate and economic systems are only the most worrisome, critics in several disciplines suggest that human actors reimagine our inevitable implication in plural, shifting, evolving networks. Steve Mentz suggests a model...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the atrocities of the Second World War—including freezing, starvation, immolation, and enslavement—to mitigate Lecter’s cannibalistic classism and restore his humanity. Lecter is rendered mute by the trauma of consuming his sister, the patrician Lecter Castle becomes a Soviet orphanage, and Lecter’s eventual...
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