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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... experimented with and within the temporalities of poetic form and lyric address, Keniston’s volume intercedes in current debates about lyric theory in the area in which the so-called New Lyric Studies is least well developed: the relationship between theories of lyric and contemporary poetry that, in whatever...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 343–368.
Published: 01 December 2019
... 2014 Citizen: An American Lyric , I both tease out the relationship between antiblackness and the US profile society and elaborate what literature and critical race theory can teach data studies about forms of oppositional looking and countersurveillance. After considering how neoliberal surveillance...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Christopher Patrick Miller Hart Crane’s lyrics abound with transient figures who often doubt their intelligibility or viability as persons, and his letters reflect a significant anxiety about his own ability to communicate the problems he experienced in being and remaining intelligible to others...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., that is, understand theories of the lyric that presume a disembodied, universalized lyric voice as perpetuating that flatness, especially if we consider that, where dramatic speech is performed and thus embodied, the linguistic voice, existing only on the page, is literally two-dimensional. Where, as we’ve seen, many...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 361–384.
Published: 01 September 2020
... to attend with greater diligence to what Northrop Frye called the “babble” and “doodle” of poetry—its sounds and sights. 9 For too long, Perloff argues, critics have been hobbled by “romantic lyric theory” (2), which privileges figurative readings of inwardness in poems, and she calls for renewed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 365–388.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . Ramazani Jahan . 2014 . “ Traveling Poetry .” In The Lyric Theory Reader: A Critical Anthology , edited by Jackson Virginia Prins Yopie , 589 – 603 . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Reynolds Matthew . 2011 . The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer and Petrarch...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 324–331.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Lynn Keller Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse , by Kinnahan Linda A. , Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2004 . 277 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 Lynn Keller
importance for world culture but also supplied...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 532–539.
Published: 01 September 2012
...: A Theory of Lyric Reading. Princeton UP,
2005.
Lefebvre, Henri. Critique of Everyday Life. Vol. 1. Trans. John Moore. New York:
Verso, 1991.
Lentricchia, Frank. Modernist Quartet. Cambridge UP, 1994.
Levin, Jonathan. The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 June 2002
... benign omen, against the great stag of Frost’s
“The Most of It.”
This elegant essay, with implications not only for the history
of twentieth-century poetry but for the theory of the lyric, is a
worthy winner of the 2002 Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary
Criticism...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 666–673.
Published: 01 December 2013
... him to break out of isolation in Cuba and find a receptive inter-
national audience.
Critical theory plays an even smaller part in Borinsky’s account than
does direct autobiography. Other authors might feel tempted to offer a
meta-theoretical account of the nature of exile in cultural texts...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 255–261.
Published: 01 June 2009
... Life, and the Turning World
by Bonnie Costello
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. 205 pages
Alexandra Socarides
Bonnie Costello’s newest book on American poetry, Planets on Tables:
Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World, is an ambitious journey into a place
where lyric...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 267–298.
Published: 01 September 2017
... itself” ( Joyce 1959 , 211). Stephen’s example of “the clock of the Ballast Office” in Stephen Hero is an epigrammatic or lyrical version of the aesthetic theory he develops analytically in A Portrait : “All at once I see it and I know at once what it is : epiphany.” As the capstone of a quest...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 396–404.
Published: 01 September 2010
... after wave of theory and canon-
expansion, the advent of a self-validating “formalism” as simply the next
trend is hardly something to be welcomed. Formal scrutiny of a lyric
poem—its rhythms and meter, its syntax and rhyme—can only take a
reader so far in engaging with the poem itself in a fully...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 405–413.
Published: 01 September 2014
... pages for Ramazani to dismantle—
hopefully forever—the Bakhtinian view of lyric poetry as “monologic”
by drawing our attention to poetry’s constant intercourse with its others:
“Poems come into being partly by echoing, playing on, reshaping, refining,
heightening, deforming, inverting, combating...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 472–492.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and alters the “Geographic picture” lyric
that William Carlos Williams plants early in Paterson I. I contend that the
occasional text of“In the Waiting Room,” National Geographic, participates
in the collapse of chronology on which the poem relies throughout.3 As
the speaker’s adult perspective...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... is] the most radically embodying event in which human beings ever collectively participate. —Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain Theories of conflict and theories of embodiment share a common critical vocabulary. The discourses of trauma, testimony, and witness are integral to both; both are subject...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 448–471.
Published: 01 December 2008
... on the sense of an auditor who must be
courted, cajoled, defended against, second-guessed, and so on. Lyric ad
dress and dialogue are conventions of the genre, but what distinguishes an
Ashberyan lyric from one shaped by first-person reflection is its capacity
to be interrupted from the outside...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 405–426.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Christina Pugh By looking closely at Marianne Moore’s revisions of her early poem “Half Deity,” this essay shows Moore’s journey to the lyric speech that was the hallmark of both her later poetry and the poetry readings for which she became famous as an older poet. In contrast to recent readings...
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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 413–448.
Published: 01 December 2018
...” (2000: 4–5) upon John Stuart Mill’s earlier formulation of the lyric as an utterance overheard. 10 In this respect, it is no surprise that Manju Jain sees a connection between Gadamer’s hermeneutics and Eliot’s own philosophy (not to mention his developing theory of tradition) (1992: 149–57...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 539–574.
Published: 01 December 2013
... ambitious and self-
conscious representations of the embodied mind.
From his perspective within the study of Romantic aesthetics, M.
H. Abrams generalizes that “in any period, the theory of mind and the
theory of art tend to be integrally related and to turn upon similar
analogues, explicit...
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