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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 465–493.
Published: 01 September 2013
... uncover an association between two sources of knowledge: hearing and reading. The association of hearing with reading in Eva Trout is in line with a claim made about Victorian fiction by Jennifer Esmail. Accounting for the dearth of signing deaf characters in Victorian fiction, she suggests...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 437–466.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... Then she switches scenes, thinking, “And another clock was ticking.” In the published novel, this scene seems more coherent, distinguishing what appear to be two time frames with the line “And the clock was ticking loud, like that time when I lay looking at the dog in the picture Loyal...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2021
... visual aesthetic—its juxtaposition of translucent, glowing color with opaque line that holds and tempers it—and its power to shape psychological interiors by shaping exterior surroundings. Especially in narrating moments when a character struggles to comprehend her relationship to another person...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 317–346.
Published: 01 September 2018
... would “give us each a good ducking” (192) before throwing the party overboard. Despite these close calls, the British navy fell for the ruse—hook, line, and sinker. In fact, the officers were so friendly that Virginia began to feel “slightly ashamed” (193). A few days later, official tempers flared...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 352–372.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... In a moment of Mallarméan poetics, it is as if language speaks, or demands that Murphy speak it. The words arrive as lines, like stray, untimely fragments from (surely) Beckett’s later work. Bare resources are recycled; cadences and line-length funnel down towards the solipsism of “himself.” Three further...
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Published: 01 June 2024
Figure 1 A page from the As I Lay Dying manuscript. Note the faint edge of a pasted section in the top paragraph. On other pages, Faulkner made smaller revisions in the large left-hand margin, while simple elisions were noted by crossing out lines, as seen here ( Faulkner 1918–59 ). More
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 264–291.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Boundary Line. All else after that, in all History, is but Sub-Division.” — Mr. Edgewise (Mason & Dixon 360-61) And wherever you may stand, given the Convexity, each o f you is slighdy pointed away from everybody else.. . . Here in the Earth...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 396–404.
Published: 01 September 2010
... lyric that, once noticed, need to be remembered. Not that this is always a case of registering particular felicities of line or rhyme: rather, it is the ability to bring ques- tions of Yeats’s  formal thinking into play in approaching areas of close, complex density of meaning and reference...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 393–410.
Published: 01 December 2019
... work. And gone, too, was their derivative bent, as, no longer beholden to her male predecessors and contemporaries, Rich was able to find liberty in the free verse line. “In tone and style, the new poetry is far freer,” Cheri Langdell (2004 : 42) observes: “The poem here is not a means of containment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 492–515.
Published: 01 December 2011
...” (Schappell 81), just as James trod that fine line between laboring for the “rarest finish” (“The Future” 105) and his acknowledgment that there are no reliable “rules” by which “perfection” can be achieved. What can such affinities with this earlier modernist ideal of integrity tell us about how...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 371–395.
Published: 01 September 2010
...: “Once I get started, get a line, like ‘Rudolph Reed was oaken’—well, the rest just follows automatically,” she told Terkel (“A Conversation” 10). But such fluidity would be precisely what estranged her from the form after 1967. In a characteristically ambivalent moment in a 1986 interview...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 431–454.
Published: 01 December 2021
... poetry set theory T. S. Eliot In reality our whole view of life is at stake in the finest shred of logic that we chop. —T. S. Eliot, Philosophy 21, Course Notes The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot’s only poem to appear in his various editions and collections with line numbers. 1...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 433–435.
Published: 01 December 2015
... it as a birthday poem, evidently composed sometime around her thirty-seventh birthday in February 1948; and its last line, “Awful but cheerful,” is one that she asked to be carved on her gravestone. (It is, in fact.) She evidently considered this the best line she had ever written, which sounds so implausible...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 245–270.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., and psychiatry’s before his. But we need only turn to Apollinaire’s (2009 : 125) own two-line bar scene in “Zone”—“You are standing at the counter of a dirty bar / You have a cheap coffee with the rest of the riffraff” (Shattuck’s translation)—to glimpse his importance both to Ginsberg’s imagery and to his...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 296–332.
Published: 01 June 2012
... a concise formulation of this line of argument in his polemical remarks about Walt Whitman in “The Poetry of Barbarism”: Democracy was not to be merely a constitutional device for the better government of given nations, not merely a movement for the material improvement of the lot...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 March 2001
... continues this line of inquiry. Twentieth-Century Literature 47.1 • Spring 2001 • 72 It sees the novel’s events as being shaped by a recurring story-of-wounding pattern. This brief, three-part sequence o f action starts with going to, traveling to, a place of threat— usually climbing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 606–639.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Outright” in a voice that Frost’s biog- rapher Lawrance Thompson calls “firm and unfaltering” and a reporter for the Washington Post termed “natural” (qtd. in Thompson 282), though he dramatically revised the poem’s final line, “Such as she was, such as she would become.” Thompson describes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 March 2021
... for the finality one might expect at the end of a poem; the end of a process, “mooring,” turns out to be a beginning, a “starting out.” 27 Reversing this pattern, metalepsis abounds throughout the body of “Clepsydra” but is abandoned in its final line. Where “Soonest Mended” pictures the end as a refreshed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in the sunken inkpots McGuckian writes the ships as inkpots, inert materials to be transformed into the poetry of memory or “false time.” Where for Boland the poetic line evokes the line of the map and the line of the Famine road, in McGuckian’s poetic line we see the lines of lost people she preserves only...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 343–368.
Published: 01 December 2019
... feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background” (25). A “sharp white background” might refer to tennis itself, often called the “lily-white sport,” but in Citizen it also comes to represent various instantiations of the color line, Williams’s position reflecting the systemic...