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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 455–480.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Stephen Schryer Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Cockroach Dreams: Oscar Zeta Acosta, Legal Services, and the Great Society Coalition
Cockroach Dreams: Oscar Zeta Acosta,
Legal Services, and the Great Society Coalition
Stephen Schryer
Early in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s 1972 novel...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 129–160.
Published: 01 June 2018
... to the rule of law or by a more skeptical relationship to legal authority. The Middle of the Journey explores this question through debates about the Moscow Trials, Herman Melville’s Billy Budd , and a controversial local crime. Drawing on archival research, the author argues that Trilling sought to depict...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 437–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Annika J. Lindskog This article places Woolf’s Night and Day (1919) in the context of the Edwardian free-union novel—works that represent and debate monogamous relationships without legal recognition. In seeking alternatives to marriage, this genre explored what modernity might mean for young...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 293–328.
Published: 01 September 2023
...” generates a dynamic interpretative space in which other configurations of the social and political in the nation might be registered. In a contemporary moment when legality and constitutionality are under attack in the name of nationalist populism, this reading suggests an alternative to frameworks...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 352–357.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Clare Eby Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons , by Siraganian Lisa . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . 288 pages. © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 When lawyers speak of legal fictions, they don’t mean novels like To Kill a Mockingbird or Bleak House...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 551–558.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Elizabeth S. Anker The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination , By Reichman Ravit , Stanford University Press , 2009 . 213 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
Law, Trauma, and Modernist Aesthetics
The Affective Life of Law: Legal...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2012
... readership. Its triangulation of copyright law,
feminist politics, and contemporary fiction, along with Irr’s remarkably
lucid prose, makes it potentially productive reading not just for feminist
literary critics, but also for legal scholars committed to more humanistic
orientations toward the law...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 217–240.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., was to prevail. The panel of three judges was concerned only with
a narrow question: whether certain passages of Ulysses could be deemed
legally obscene under New York law. The conviction came as no sur
prise, as the decision was made by merely reviewing isolated portions of
Twentieth...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): 192–206.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Miguel Mota Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 HI
What’s in a Name?
The Case of jeanettewinterson.com
Miguel Mota
If, as Michel Foucault maintains, the function of an author is “tied to the
legal and institutional systems that circumscribe, determine, and articulate
the realm...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2011
... that a term
such as “diaspora” offers a salutary attention to movement absent from
optics organized around fixed geographical entities, Adams does explore
the transnational nuances (historical, legal, political, and cultural) that
would be all too easy to miss while attending to the seemingly more...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 174–180.
Published: 01 March 2013
... that requires clarification,
explaining that he wishes to refine two familiar and, for his intellectual
project, key terms. The first is “Jim Crow,” which he uses as “a convenient,
albeit slippery, shorthand for the history of compulsory race segregation
in America” (4). That is, though its legal form...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
... that “the matter was legally resolved in India with respect to Union Carbide Corporation and its subsidiaries” (quoted in Kumar Sen 2000 ). “Dow’s Indian subsidiary” followed up on this assertion by petitioning “the High Court [in India] . . . to get a stay on the summons issued against Dow USA,” which, in effect...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... Secular confessions inherit principles of both juridico-legal
and religious traditions that attempt to redress wrongs of the past, calling
them to closure. And Conrad’s writings shed light on epistemological and
ethical limits of these traditions and their iterations in literary, political...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2006
... freedom
and the knowledge of the human that criticism of the period viewed as
its aim. Burroughs’s novel found legal and cultural vindication not because
authorial freedom of expression, regardless of the challenges it posed to
the normative order, was sacrosanct, but because its advocates were...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 538–543.
Published: 01 December 2008
...
polemic against all forms of sociological explanation. Chodat’s key ex
ample of sociology’s emphasis on the suprapersonal is Niklas Luhmann’s
social systems theory, which describes the different subsystems of modern
societies (the economic system, the legal system, the educational system,
etc...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 663–687.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... I had to prove that I was crazy to get a legal
abortion—and the abortion was the sanest thing I had ever done
in my life.”
“When you tell the man you’re pregnant, he says, ‘How do you
know it was me? I’m not the only guy you ever slept with, am I
“I was just...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 167–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Stănescu’s plays Lenin’s Shoe and Aliens with Extraordinary Skills , which appeared in her collection The New York Plays (2010), feature a range of protagonists of Romanian-Macedonian-Bosnian, Moldovan, Russian American, and Dominican American background who encounter a series of legal, economic...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 462–494.
Published: 01 September 2012
...
by a legal system guaranteeing the rights of British subjects; the
political system that had secured slavery turned into a politi-
cal system that could gradually adapt itself to the demands of
those same British subjects for political rights; the culture of the
plantocracy...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 169–196.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of the modern state took place at the historic moment when
169Twentieth-Century Literature 60.2 Summer 2014 169
Jonathan Imber Shaw
the ruler, instead of embodying the state, served a special constitutional
and legal state that it was his duty to maintain. Once real authority...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
...” (10). Such an archive takes shape against a background of “civil rights literature” as it is most often described, a category naming texts about marches, protests, or boycotts, or about the dehumanizing effects of legalized segregation and white supremacist violence. 4 That “standard” civil rights...
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