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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 341–348.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Travis Rozier Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism , by Forter Greg , Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 217 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review
Mourning, Melancholia, and Textual Scapegoating
Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 483–503.
Published: 01 December 2018
... and the difficulties of witnessing. Yet, as opposed to merely marking the limits of what can be witnessed, disgust offers an alternative, affective way of encountering the pain of others that still challenges the more soothing logic of mourning and meaning-making. It has a particular countermemorial capacity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 421–448.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Richard Badenhausen Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 Mourning through Memoir:
Trauma, Testimony, and Community
in Vera Brittain s Testament of Youth
Richard Badenhausen
A s she first began to sketch out a plan for writing Testament of Youth,
Vera Brittain (1893-1970...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Sandra Kumamoto Stanley Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 w
Mourning the “Greatest Generation”:
Myth and History
in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral
Sandra Kumamoto Stanley
I n a 1973 interview about his satirical book The Great American Novel,
Philip Roth describes the 1960s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 365–388.
Published: 01 December 2022
... engagement with German, an engagement that extends all the way to the six poems she wrote about the untimely death of her German-born father. Taking that early work seriously, then, this essay explores the relationship between mourning and translation in Plath’s work from the Rilke translation through...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Erin Kay Penner In The Wave s, the 1931 novel she called a “playpoem,” Virginia Woolf enacts a drama of modern elegy, using multiple elegists and elegiac subjects to challenge the terms by which speakers and subjects worthy of poetic mourning are defined. In doing so, Woolf frees the genre from...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2010
... The Waves sug-
gests that even a critic of empire should pause to mourn this decline. In
her portrayal of Percival, a figure clearly allied with imperial Great Britain
and both loved and despised by his friends, Woolf explores the obstinate
bonds of attachment that bind us even to dysfunctional forms...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 389–408.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in a sympathetic circuit with matter (27–45), indicates the shape of the elegiac encounter I am trying to detail here. 2 In this animation of inorganic body at the end, what happens to poetic form? Understood as a poem of mourning, elegy is generated as compensation for an object both addressed and lost...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 246–275.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., where the expected loss is of a familiar
kind. Its occasion is the need for “psychological rearmament” in the face
of a threat, its opening strategy the pragmatic one of marshaling resources
already known to be useful in the work of mourning. It records and
responds imaginatively...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 166–192.
Published: 01 June 2008
...—that Hill’s elegies have at stake
the self’s singularity as it is reckoned, in different ways, by Kierkegaard
and Levinas—implies that the modern subject achieves its nonsubsumable
singularity in its capacity to pay witness to suffering and memorialize the
dead. Mourning as Hill represents...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 401–409.
Published: 01 September 2008
... that might
“veer from symbolic expression to actual murder or suicide” and “pervert
symbolic consolation into sacrificial violence in the failed mourning of
revenge tragedy” (89). It is interesting that Woolf’s holograph draft of
“The Prime Minister,” the urnarrative of this elegiac novel...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 359–364.
Published: 01 September 2017
... corresponded with the rise of statistics and the actuarial sciences, the birth of the insurance industry, and the waning of the church’s monopoly on dying, death, and mourning rites. Above all it produced a crisis in what Sherman calls “mortal obligation,” the question of what kinds of attention and attendance...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 207–238.
Published: 01 September 2004
... for any subsequent understanding. The second, recuperative moment
is characterized in various moods as interpretation, objectification (13),
nostalgia, and justice (70), but also, since the past is gone forever, as mel
ancholy, mourning (79), and catastrophe (96).
Modernist poetics...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 369–392.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the conventions of English elegy, Peter Sacks (1985 : 6) has argued that elegies are traditionally structured so as to accomplish what Freud identifies as “the healthy work of mourning.” A crucial step in this process is “a withdrawal of affection from the lost object and a subsequent reattachment of affection...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 197–222.
Published: 01 June 2016
... or physically wounded to the same degree as soldiers, they did nevertheless suffer serious psychological damage. For Catherine, the practice of nursing both reinforces and ameliorates the loss of her fiancé, showing that survival itself can be traumatic. Sigmund Freud’s 1917 essay “Mourning and Melancholia...
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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2007
... memory’s
textual history, which is to say memory’s differentiation in the service of
mourning represented.
“North Haven” began as a short sketch in one of Bishop’s notebooks;
the sketch is undated, so it may have preceded Lowell’s death. It shares no
language or imagery with the many drafts...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and present
for another reason—not Conrad’s announced conscious refusal to mourn,
but rather an unannounced, unconscious failure. Depicting his reaction
to his father’s death as a “revolt” and a loss of “trust in the government
of the universe”—in the language of politics, not sentiment—his phrases...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 92–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Blanchot Maurice . 2001 . Faux Pas . Translated by Mandell Charlotte . Stanford : Stanford University Press . Boulter Jonathan . 2004 . “ Does Mourning Require a Subject? Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing .” Modern Fiction Studies...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 67–73.
Published: 01 March 2007
... “it” English, the writers Wirth-
Nesher gathers under this banner register the degree to which English is
not merely a language to be used but a problem, an aspiration, an object
of mourning, a reification. What Wirth-Nesher traces in her collection
of readings of works ranging from the short...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 448–471.
Published: 01 December 2008
... to “be moving on” and accepts the need
for sacrifice, in “Syringa” Orpheus counters a similar attitude by advising,
a diffident yet stubborn refusal to accept what the poem imagines to be
the blithe forgetting to which normal mourning leads. Attempting after
terrible grief both to practice...
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