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Modernity, Information, and the Management of Life
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 624–628.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., Information,
and the Management of Life
The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time,
and Information in American Biological Science, 1870–1920
by Phillip Thurtle
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. 381 pages
Justus Nieland
Thurtle’s ambitious and far-ranging study seeks...
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Still Life in Motion: Mortal Form in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 423–454.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Cara Lewis Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Still Life in Motion: Mortal Form in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Still Life in Motion: Mortal Form
in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Cara Lewis
Late in the evening on March 28, 1918, a government car rolled to a
stop at the bottom...
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“White-Life” Literature Reconsidered
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 397–404.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Mollie Godfrey Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel , by Charles John , Rutgers University Press , 2012 . 280 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Review
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James Merrill: Life and Art by Langdon Hammer
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 272–279.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Ben Leubner James Merrill: Life and Art , by Hammer Langdon , New York : Knopf , 2015 . 944 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 For those familiar with James Merrill’s poetry, reading Langdon Hammer’s James Merrill: Life and Art for the first time is like reading...
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Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life , by Omri Moses
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 411–416.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Nell Wasserstrom Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life , by Moses Omri . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2014 . 296 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 In Western cultural history, the concept of “character”—in both psychological and literary...
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You Must Change Your Life: Gender, Desire, and Philip Roth
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 482–488.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Timothy Parrish Philip Roth—Countertexts, Counterlives , by Shostak Debra , Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2004 . 332 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 You Must Change Your Life:
Gender, Desire, and Philip Roth
Philip Roth—Countertexts...
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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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“Sound, Substantial Flesh and Blood”: T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker” and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
... . 2000 . A Life in Movies: An Autobiography . London : Faber and Faber . Powell Michael Pressburger Emeric . 1994 . The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp . Edited by Christie Ian . London : Faber and Faber . Sansom William . 1963 . Stories . London : Hogarth...
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Modernist Life Histories: Biological Theory and the Experimental Bildungsroman by Daniel Aureliano Newman
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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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Life During Wartime: Domestic Surrealism in Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 399–418.
Published: 01 December 2024
... and the everyday is an attempt to represent the extent to which daily life has come to seem unreal. And the way out of this prison-fantasia, the book implies, is what Chase himself has begun to learn he too needs to do, which is to focus hard on what’s real, or, as James Peacock (2012 : 156) has put it, “to shut...
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Eliot’s End and Beginning: Scholarship, Poetry, Forms of Life
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 413–448.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Kaiser refreshingly invests older readings of Eliot’s endnotes with new life by stepping back and reflecting on the ways in which “readings of the notes—and of the poem—have changed precisely because the notes represent a particular conflict in professional literary critical discourse in the 1920s” (1998...
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Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson: A Biography by Elizabeth Maslen
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 463–470.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Charles Andrews Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson: A Biography , by Maslen Elizabeth . Northwestern University Press , 2014 . 556 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 After decades of neglect, at best making cameo appearances in lists of “little-read writers...
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Marianne Moore’s Public Solitude
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 409–436.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Alex Mouw Critics have long attended to Marianne Moore’s paradoxical drawing together of such opposites as freedom and discipline, commonality and quiddity, and celebrity and celibacy. This article explores another paradoxical vein in her poetic career: public solitude. For her, public life...
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Figure 1: Erna Pinner, “Restoration of the Extinct Deer Synthetoceras .” Illustration for The Corridor of Life , by William Elgin Swinton (1948) . Reproduced with the kind permission of Frances Kitson, Jacky Oldham, and Peter Oldham.
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May the Record Speak: The Correspondence of T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 431–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Quartets , The Family Reunion , and other works. This article surveys the contents of the long-awaited Eliot letters archived at Princeton University, focusing on Hale’s role in the poet’s personal and imaginative life. In addition to clarifying long-standing questions about their relationship, from...
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Morbid Vitalism: Death, Decadence, and Spinozism in Barnes’s Nightwood
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
... vitalist philosophy, Barnes produces a “morbid vitalism,” exemplified by Dr. Matthew O’Connor, by which life and death are conceived as variant expressions of a single force, and the subject is modeled as an assemblage of affects, impersonal but inherently social, that can be understood primarily through...
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Fascist Racism and Modernist Animals: Toward a Posthuman Sovereignty
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 379–404.
Published: 01 December 2023
... category. Through this analysis, these texts raise urgent biopolitical concerns regarding the regulation of life and the “properly” human, each deploying nonhuman animals in responses (pro and con) to mid-twentieth-century European fascism. Yet the nonhuman exceeds human representation, even as it comes...
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Julian Mayfield and Alternative Civil Rights Literatures
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Steven Belletto This essay focuses on the life and writing of African American novelist, playwright, and activist Julian Mayfield, whose under-studied work and extraordinary life tell a story about race and civil rights in literature that challenges familiar accounts. By analyzing Mayfield’s...
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True Lies: Virginia Woolf, Espionage, and Feminist Agency
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 317–346.
Published: 01 September 2018
... but the vast distorted shadows of life,” this essay argues that such counterfactual narratives do not impose the world of the thriller onto Woolf; rather, they allegorize a spy-function already present in the writer’s life and work. From her participation in the 1910 Dreadnought Hoax, during which she...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
... life. In experimenting with a “nonanthropocentric anthropomorphism,” it is claimed that modernist ethics is founded on the attempt to respond to the demands, in both content and form, of “unrecognizable” creatures. Works cited Agamben Giorgio . 2004 . The Open: Man and Animal . Translated...
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