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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Marie Franco Offering a queer reading of Gravity’s Rainbow , this project reevaluates the sexual politics and narrative poetics at work in Thomas Pynchon’s paradigmatic postmodernist novel. Moving beyond a thematic reading of sexuality, the article articulates the unacknowledged theoretical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 513–518.
Published: 01 December 2017
... . Home . New York : Knopf . Morrison Toni . 2015 . God Help the Child . New York : Knopf . Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Later Novels , by Wyatt Jean . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2017 . 246 pages. Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 363–371.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Joshua Gang [email protected] Novel Sensations: Modernist Fiction and the Problem of Qualia , by Day Jon . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2020 . 208 pages. Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative , by Armstrong Paul B. Baltimore : Johns...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 222–242.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Dale Pattison © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Dale Pattison
Writing Home: Domestic Space, Narrative
Production, and the Homeland
in Roth’s American Pastoral
Dale Pattison
On September 18, 2002, as part of the Lannan Foundation’s literary
awards ceremony, author and activist...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 249–274.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Trevor Dodman Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 HI
“ Going All to Pieces” :
A Farewell to Arms as Trauma Narrative
Trevor Dodman
Bullet wounds do not cause severe bleeding unless they hap
pen to injure some large trunk or smash one of the larger bones.
Wounds...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 369–386.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Jennifer Willging Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 “True Down to the Last Detail”:
Narrative and Memory in
Marguerite Duras’s “Monsieur X.”
Jennifer Willging
arguerite Duras’s La Douleur (1985)1 is a collection of six disparate
texts...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 511–517.
Published: 01 December 2018
... are introduced as predecessors of the twentieth-century interest in nothing, without any specific reason suggested for the appearance of such narratives in the middle of the nineteenth century in two very different countries. A few questions are in order: Why does the book focus on the twentieth century...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 372–378.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Robert Azzarello [email protected] Journeys of Transformation: Searching for No-Self in Western Buddhist Travel Narratives , by Barbour John D. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . 334 pages. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 One of the most central...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 663–687.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Meg Gillette Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Modern Abortion Narratives and the Century of Silence
Modern American Abortion Narratives
and the Century of Silence
Meg Gillette
“I finally found a doctor in West New York, New Jersey. The
doctor was very sweet. He had...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 174–180.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Gary Edward Holcomb Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature , by Norman Brian , University of Georgia Press , 2010 . 214 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Gary Edward Holcomb
Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Ajitpaul Mangat The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity , by Berger James . New York University Press , 2014 . 320 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 James Berger’s second book has been published in New York University Press’s Cultural...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 470–491.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Teresa Heffernan Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 Apocalyptic Narratives:
The Nation in Salman Rushdie’s
Midnights Children
Teresa Heffernan
The radically performative laying down of the law by the legislator
must create the very context...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of Language . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Caruth Cathy . ( 1996 ) 2016 . Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History . Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press . Caruth Cathy . 2013 . Literature in the Ashes of History . Baltimore : John Hopkins University...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-twentieth-century American adoption narratives suggests, however, that inherited traits were not the only concerns, an argument this essay pursues by considering March’s novel and its film adaptation alongside Richard Wright’s posthumously published novella Rite of Passage . All of the texts share certain...
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in Mediation, Stream of Consciousness, and the Faulknerian Voice: As I Lay Dying to The Town
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 June 2024
Figures 4–6 A comparative view of the same section of text in three phases. Excerpt from the printer’s setting copy shows Faulkner’s multiple attempts at the water tank metaphor, in which he switches between pen and typewriter until he crafts the “we” statement that defines the narrative voices
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in Mediation, Stream of Consciousness, and the Faulknerian Voice: As I Lay Dying to The Town
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 June 2024
Figures 4–6 A comparative view of the same section of text in three phases. Excerpt from the printer’s setting copy shows Faulkner’s multiple attempts at the water tank metaphor, in which he switches between pen and typewriter until he crafts the “we” statement that defines the narrative voices
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in Mediation, Stream of Consciousness, and the Faulknerian Voice: As I Lay Dying to The Town
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 June 2024
Figures 4–6 A comparative view of the same section of text in three phases. Excerpt from the printer’s setting copy shows Faulkner’s multiple attempts at the water tank metaphor, in which he switches between pen and typewriter until he crafts the “we” statement that defines the narrative voices
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 411–436.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Chris Roulston This article explores the relations among childhood innocence, queerness, and nation-building in Rosemary Manning’s boarding school narrative, The Chinese Garden (1962). Recent scholarship by Lee Edelman and Kathryn Bond Stockton has questioned the innocence we invest in the figure...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 359–378.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Teresa Winterhalter This article argues that although James Joyce’s Ulysses faces us with an overarching verbal complexity, we need not allow the insights into Leopold Bloom’s voicing grounded in Bakhtinian analysis to delimit the endpoint in exploring Joyce’s narrative technique. Stressing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 June 2020
... fictionalized his teenage daughter’s adventures with the original Malibu surf crew and in the process vividly signaled the emergence of a rebellious postwar youth culture. Just as interesting is the way Kohner’s entertaining comic drama of feminist awakening plays out through an intriguingly complex narrative...
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