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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 439–461.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Joshua Pederson 2012 Letting Moses Go: Hurston and Reed, Disowning Exodus
Letting Moses Go: Hurston and Reed,
Disowning Exodus
Joshua Pederson
In the introduction to a 1992 edition of Legends of the Bible, Louis
Ginzberg’s collection of Jewish lore, Shalom Spiegel defines “legend...
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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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 445–484.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Omri Moses Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Gertrude Stein’s Lively Habits
Gertrude Stein’s Lively Habits
Omri Moses
As the writer of Three Lives, Gertrude Stein tends to be excited by the
material other novelists discard. Avoiding craftsmanlike values as well...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 127–148.
Published: 01 June 2024
... in Moses a figure not of liberation but an embodiment of that authoritarianism. For Erica R. Edwards (2008 : 1085), the novel criticizes “the masculinist strictures of charismatic authority” prevalent in Black political discourses, presenting Moses’s authority as the one who emancipates the silent voices...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 170–196.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of postwar consumer culture and illuminates Kerouac’s investment in nature and community. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 Moses’s legacy, of course, remains controversial. In addition to the miles of highway for which he is most famous, he greatly expanded the area of the city’s parks, developed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 317–366.
Published: 01 December 2024
... by way of a verse, a word, or even a single letter. 25 The Torah is referred to as the “testimony” of God because the Hebrew word for “testimony” is used to describe the two stone tablets that contained the Ten Commandments. In Exodus , Moses is commanded by the Lord to “put into the ark...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 423–444.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of nature as open
and dynamic that informs Omri Moses’s interpretation, in this issue, of
habit in Gertrude Stein’s work). Next, by overturning anthropocentrism,
Darwin strikes an irreversible blow to what Freud later calls man’s narcis-
sistic notion of himself as holding a privileged place...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2006
... for the Barbarians allows for the hope of
a reconstruction of the subject outside the Empire/barbarian dichotomy.
Similarly, Michael Valdez Moses looks at the novel as an expression of the
desire to escape this dichotomy, proposing that it looks forward to a new
ethical order founded on Edenic principles:4...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 465–484.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... “Then the Lord sent a plague upon the people, for what they did with the calf that Aaron made” (32:35). After Korah’s rebellion, even after Korah and his immediate followers were swallowed in the earth, people continued to complain about Moses’s authority, and then a plague began that killed 14,700 Israelites...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the narrator is careful around Dulcie is true to the heart of David’s Story : how to represent Dulcie without trapping her. 9 Michael Valdez Moses argues in “Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origins of Modernist Aesthetics” that “Conrad, via his narrator Marlow, improvises an experimental set...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 396–400.
Published: 01 September 2008
... legitimately wonder whether
Lowney has not summoned us for a late-modernist poetry version of a
Steve Allen gathering of deceased greats, where William Blake and Ein
stein will anatomize the vicissitudes of human existence alongside Shake
speare, Hitler, and Moses. It is, however, the burden...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 360–365.
Published: 01 September 2006
... here than similar
tactics do in other chapters. The title of Winchell’s other Faulkner chap
ter, “Family Values in Go Down, Moses,” also seems designed to provoke,
implying that the popular conservative idiom is more relevant to that
novel’s central themes than the more commonly discussed...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... M. Elwes or Hale White, both from the 1880s. See Boucher 2002 : 1–6. 10 For Spinoza, fear and despair are closely related: despair is fear without the element of uncertainty ( E 3:288–89, p18s2). 11 See, for example, Omri Moses’s Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2001
... wrote for the death of his brother Robert at sea;
some for the early death of Adalbert Jackson, with whom he had a close
(perhaps sexual) relationship; and many for his hopeless unrequited love
for Moses Jackson (Graves 74). Yet the objects of Housman’s mourning
and of his desire...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 March 2004
...
ative accomplishment. It is worth noting that Kahlo’s persona is now a
part of our cultural lore. Like the lighthouse keeper’s daughter, she adorns
mugs and plates for sale on the Internet (Moses 5). She is the subject of
books, films, and documentaries. Like Grimm’s true bride, Kahlo is now...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 168–195.
Published: 01 June 2010
... even responsibil-
ity for the persecuting by the persecutor. (75)
Levinas’s imagining of maternity as responsibility contains a specific refer-
ence to a biblical appropriation of maternity in the Book of Numbers,
where Moses asks God why he must bear those others whom he has “nei...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 575–581.
Published: 01 December 2010
... parallels: FDR’s New Deal and Johnson’s Great Soci-
ety, for instance; but there are also both highly specific connections: Jim
Thompson and Grandma Moses (one of the more obscure) as well as very
general contexts: the Cold War, feminism, the civil rights movement, etc.
The histories then necessarily...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 275–305.
Published: 01 September 2006
... by offering a counterpoint to the primal scene
of writing in the Old Testament. Offred’s intercourse with the speaking
garden can, in fact, be read as a telling revision of Moses’ intercourse with
the burning bush at the inception of written Judaic law.
Both Offred’s garden episode and the one...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to question federal programs that targeted animals that preyed on livestock. Along similar lines, Faulkner implies that the death of Old Ben, the bear in Go Down, Moses (1942), marks the destruction of the last American wilderness. The protagonist, Ike McCaslin, foresees the harmful effects...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2002
... to Prometheus, physicist—
Say it was Moses’ birth-year?
Exult with Shang in squatness? The sea-monster
Bulges the squarish bronzes.
(Confucius later taught the world good manners,
Started with himself, built out perfection.)
With Egypt...
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