1-20 of 97 Search Results for

mortal

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 359–364.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Paul K. Saint-Amour In a Strange Room: Modernism’s Corpses and Mortal Obligation , by Sherman David . Oxford University Press , 2014 . 273 pages. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 What is the power of a corpse to make the room that contains it strange? What ethical...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Tim Clarke This essay frames Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel Nightwood as an attempt to overcome an impasse between the discourses of hope and the discourses of despair in an interwar period in many ways preoccupied with questions of mortality. Synthesizing Decadent aesthetics and elements of Spinoza’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... ability to compose—or recompose—ourselves after a traumatic event.” Zhao Ng’s “Of Beasts Blond and Damned: Fascist and Hysterical Bodies and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood ” extends this focus on mortality and desire into Nazi and Freudian specifics, while also troubling the idea of “redemption” itself...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 567–574.
Published: 01 December 2010
... The Mortal Storm, which sold 100,000 copies in its Penguin edition. In the wake of this success, the novel was adapted by MGM in 1940 and became a blockbuster movie with the all-star cast of James Stewart, Margaret Sullivan, and Robert Young. Although the movie tamed the novel’s radical anti-Nazi...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 September 2001
... an appearance— comically out of place and generally associated with mortality. As Stephen Greenblatt notes, Shakespeare has come to represent “‘culture’ as a whole” (1), and the theme associated with Shakespeare’s grave in Hollywood lit­ erature often invokes other canonical texts as representative...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 473–479.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Edwards’s study and David Sherman’s In a Strange Room: Modernism’s Corpses and Mortal Obligation (2014). On the one hand, their source texts are remarkably similar, both devoting extended analysis to the works of William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, and William Carlos Williams. On the other hand...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 465–484.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., inexplicable condition swept them off into death. There was nothing that could be done. That was part of the nature of human mortality. Covid gave us some reminder of this reality we had almost forgotten. As the environmental historian and classicist Kyle Harper informs us in his excellent and authoritative...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 405–433.
Published: 01 December 2000
.... In this interplay between the incorporeal purity of the ends and the violent corporeality of the means the apocalyptic body is born. It is a body whose mortal sickness is a precondition of ultimate health, whose grotesque and excessive sexuality issues in angelic sexlessness, and whose torture un­ derpins...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 239–267.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., and the poem as pearl depends on casting off the mortal body. “Pearl” responds to time with a double movement that parallels the volume’s models of geological melting and metamorphosing, chemical dissolving and crystallizing, and kaleidoscopic motion. This double move­ ment involves multiple...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
...). They must inhabit the crude form of words in ink on paper, no matter how hard to bear such a reality might be; only by acknowledging mortality and materiality can the paralyzing paradox of time and meaning be resolved. In Colonel Blimp the abruptness of this process of tearing and healing...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 351–359.
Published: 01 June 2013
... understanding in terms of its origin, its extent, its epidemiology, and its precise mortality and morbidity” (9). Media censorship in both the US and Europe contributed to the conse- quent silence in literature of the time. Even though Fisher narrows her discussion to literature written by women...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... understanding of speech and writing in relation to the open wound bears affinities with the unlicensed doctor’s avowal that he cannot really heal: “I am no herbalist, I am no Rutebeuf, I have no panacea” ( N 17). Continually solicited for help by the suffering, his attempts “to take the mortal agony out...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 142–178.
Published: 01 June 2005
... in a blaze of energy is a daunting prospect, if a breathtaking one; the peacock inter­ rupts: “ w e PAUSE TO GATHER STRENGTH 2 HERE ARE MORTAL GIVE THEM p a u s e .” Among the words distributed throughout this poem whose root meanings evoke friction—turn, erodes, strike, sleeve, rind...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 393–410.
Published: 01 December 2019
... long Haunted by stilts they clattered on when young. Giants no longer, now at mortal size They stare into that upward wilderness. The vertical reminds them what they are, And I remember I am native there. Nick Halpern (2003 : 193) observes that this poem “awakens an appetite for symmetry...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 493–513.
Published: 01 December 2008
... by blade-like roof ridges, whose angles have been sharpened, as on a whetstone, by the “stone-coloured light”) recall both the shapes of arrowheads and Damoclean wedges, ready to prise apart the couples in death. Larkin enhances this intimation of mortality through the sepulchral hint...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
... so most fully in “The Auroras of Autumn,” with its brotherhood of sleepers accepting a fateful “tomorrow” (362); here a mastery of repetition masters even a mortal dawn (355—63). The development marks Stevens’s movement from Transport to Summer and “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 436–459.
Published: 01 December 2015
...,” the poem thus suggests that the skeleton of “Danse Macabre” is also in some sense identified with the poet’s mother. Again, there are obvious parallels here with “The Bight.” It is a celebratory occasion; music is playing; a skeleton has come to ridicule and judge the mortal party; the skeleton is linked...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 June 2002
... of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, and author of On Deconstruction and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Professor Culler writes: Ordinary mortals, leafing through magazines, choose whether to read an article, if the subject interests them, or to pass...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 193–216.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., inaccessible to theoretical understanding—leads to glossing over the difference between conditions that are inevitable and those that are political. We must not forget the dis­ tinction between human mortality and infant mortality, in short, lest we become complicit in what Bauman calls the “denial...