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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 118–127.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Julia Daniel Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing by Query Patrick R. , Farnham : Ashgate Press , 2012 . 257 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2015 In September 2011, José Tomás appeared before a packed audience for the final fight in Barcelona’s iconic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 461–472.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Lisi Schoenbach Modernism: Evolution of an Idea , by Latham Sean Rogers Gayle . New York : Bloomsbury , 2015 . 266 pages. Modernism’s Print Cultures , by Hamill Faye Hussey Mark . New York : Bloomsbury , 2016 . 220 pages. Modernism, Science, and Technology...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Danielle Christmas In William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner , and the responses to his novels, two contrasting discourses emerge: a commitment to the idea that histories of slavery and the Holocaust can be explained by economic motives, on one hand, and, on the other...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 92–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in consciousness and in language when permanent suffering—the historical and metaphysical injustices of twentieth-century modernity—is made to overdetermine what happens to living, thinking, and speaking in the space of literature and narrative. For Beckett’s protagonist, words, ideas, and images are instruments...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 409–436.
Published: 01 December 2022
... a useful life is made possible by nourishing one’s own solitude and valuing the solitude of others. Ultimately, this essay argues that the idea of public solitude can help us understand Moore’s poetics, the strategies and structures that defined her engagement with poetry. Although consistently important...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 167–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and (post)socialist histories—counters the idea that postsocialism, and especially postsocialist feminism, has remained invisible in the West, where Eastern Europe is assumed to be in the process of becoming like the West rather than representing an inherently different space, with its own set of (post...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 June 2020
...John Engle Mostly dismissed as a trivial entertainment, Frederick Kohner’s Gidget: The Little Girl with Big Ideas (1957) is in fact a telling aesthetic and cultural document. University of Vienna PhD, Jewish exile from Nazi Germany, and successful Hollywood screenwriter Kohner empathetically...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2021
... the ways Smith finds flatness fascinating and proposing that the language of the “flat,” in all its senses, offers an illuminating way of grappling with the difficulty of her puzzling and unsettling prose and poetry. It unpacks the idea of the “flat”—a word that claims implicitly that no unpacking remains...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 359–384.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the wrong way, about the wrong things and for the wrong reasons—tracing the workings of wrong feeling within Larsen’s first novel and beckoning toward the ways the idea might help us recognize the import of recalcitrant subjectivity beyond Quicksand itself. Granted, Helga does try to separate herself...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., finding the British Idealists’ contention that time is unreal an especially valuable insight for her literary agenda. For many of the idealists, time is unreal in the sense that multiple temporal series coexist within the universe or atemporal “Absolute.” This idea, which was debated in the journal Mind...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Chung-Hao Ku This article studies how three kinds of trans embodiment—trans-speciation, sartorial metamorphosis, and nonmedical gender transition—in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) unsettle the anthropocentric idea of nature, the genital view of sex, gender, and sexuality...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 339–361.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of those who hear a voice in their ear asking, “What kind of idea are
you?” (Satanic 95). According to Maxime Rodinson, whose biography
was a direct source for Rushdie’s novel,1 the historical Prophet
was able to identify himself with the victims of society and
make their suffering his own...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 98–104.
Published: 01 March 2005
... literature has been the historical. The
study of literature and history has of course taken many different forms
as different ideas about the ontology of the text, hermeneutics, history,
culture, and epistemology have waxed and waned. In fact, one way to
talk about the twists and turns...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 350–357.
Published: 01 September 2016
... . New York : Vintage . Zhdanov A. A. (1935) 1977 . “ Soviet Literature—The Richest in Ideas. The Most Advanced Literature .” In Soviet Writers’ Congress 1934: The Debate on Socialist Realism and Modernism in the Soviet Union , by Gorky Maxim , 15 – 24 . London : Lawrence...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 86–104.
Published: 01 March 2011
... allows. “There is a scene in the restaurant,
mainly dialogue, which we will skip” (7) we read.
It is not a good idea to interrupt the narrative too often, since
storytelling works by lulling the reader or listener into a dream-
like state in which the time and space of the real...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (4): 461–486.
Published: 01 December 2002
... looking forward to thieveries on an unheard of scale as soon
as I can find an accomplice as rascally minded as myself to read it
to me.
—-James Joyce to Harriet Weaver, 2 December 1928 (Letters 277)
Literary modernism is replete with rivalries between writers and ideas.
This essay...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 277–284.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and a dismissal of any sense of a unified self.” Victoria Harrison, too,
according to Pickard, bases her account of Bishop’s work on the idea of
“the mutuality and multiplicity of subject–subject [rather than subject-
object] relationships.” Harrison’s work, according to Pickard, “often seems
to stem from...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 510–546.
Published: 01 December 2009
... constraints on such reconceptions of the bio-
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The Evolutionary Invention of Race
logical. While we routinely conceive of the late nineteenth century as a
time of unreconstructed biological essentialism, and while we measure
that period through the eyes of a late twentieth-century idea...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 309–327.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Walter Benn Michaels 2011 The Beauty of a Social Problem (e.g. unemployment)
The Beauty of a Social Problem
(e.g. unemployment)
Walter Benn Michaels
In his new book on volume one of Capital, Fredric Jameson remarks
that in the “affluent post-war 1950s and 1960s,” Marx’s idea...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 268–282.
Published: 01 September 2004
... compares the simplest of his accomplishments— the cap
ture of a new beetle— to the publication of a poem. Taking my cue from
this remark, I would like to compare the pattern underpinning Darwin’s
work to Elizabeth Bishop’s characteristic process of epiphany. The idea is
originally Bishop’s...
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