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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 329–358.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in publishing as a novelist and in sustained composition. Through paying close attention to Ellison’s compositional style in Invisible Man , in addition to his work in the essay form, this account shows that despite Ellison’s desire to publish the novel, his approach to novel-writing indicates his investment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 323–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Coetzee later distanced himself both from Beckett and from the mathematics important to his dissertation but seemingly at odds with his later creative practice as a novelist. In this essay I provide an account of the literary-critical and literary-historical context of Coetzee’s postgraduate research...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to contain the threat of resistance and perpetuate dominant power relations. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 antiapartheid resistance historical materialism historicism novelistic form This essay places Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story (2000) into dialogue with Walter Benjamin’s “Theses...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 86–104.
Published: 01 March 2011
... taking regret-
ful leave of their bodies. This late sequence is a literature of leave-taking,
a trilogy of novels in flight from homeland, from the body, and from the
very comforts of novelistic form. Novels against the novel. This is a kind
of aesthetic exile that implies a deliberate self...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 365–375.
Published: 01 June 2012
... the
relationship between shame and form at some length. Instead of offering
an unequivocal corrective to the perceived shortfalls of postcolonial criti-
cism, Bewes is more interested in layers of implication (both the novelist’s
and the critic’s) in the very structures of colonial apprehension...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 39–71.
Published: 01 March 2001
.... In this final section, I would like to
explore Woolf’s early revisions to received novelistic forms, particularly
her allusions to romance and her use of fantasy. Both genres offer ways
to capture the “ truths” of a woman’s life, truths that otherwise escape
from the ideologically...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 273–304.
Published: 01 September 2014
...
of the Unconscious, Lawrence directs his experiments with form toward the
concrete political goal of comprehensive educational reform.4
Articulating a model for childhood development was one of D. H.
Lawrence’s major intellectual projects. It was a project he undertook
first in novelistic form...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 363–371.
Published: 01 September 2023
... precedents in the nineteenth century as well, with the rise of psychophysics and experimental psychology. 1 And these things all pressed on the development of novelistic form and reading practices. The histories of novel writing can’t be disentangled from the histories of philosophy and psychology (nor...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 283–316.
Published: 01 September 2004
...- and soft-boiled differences, Dashiell Hammett and H. G.
Wells do share a crucial, underexamined creative interest in the novelistic
depiction of world-weary, underpaid men who represent both emergent
forms of lower-level white collar work and the professional face of state
power...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 93–124.
Published: 01 June 2007
...: in Enduring Love the reader’s effort to evaluate the theoreti
cal claims of evolutionary psychology is complicated, even frustrated, by
a novelistic form in which philosophical positions appear as symptoms
of underlying emotional conflicts—emotional conflicts that, moreover,
themselves are founded...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 291–308.
Published: 01 December 2011
...” and exuberance at the possibilities offered by
exhaustion rests on the novel’s obsolescence and the ways in which this
frees the writer to focus on form rather than content. In Barth’s essay,
metafiction signals a revitalization of the novel as the novelist is able to
examine the text’s own status...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 419–447.
Published: 01 December 2008
.... strikingly does not. What kind of truth could Bar
busse’s novel tell in 1916 that was no longer possible when Dos Passos
invented a radically new novelistic form in the 1930s? Why would Dos
Passos reproduce, rather than openly denounce or expose, many of the
patently false newspaper headlines...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 429–447.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and the potential force of silence, the ways in which these novelists write the silent voices of war come more clearly into focus. Barker and Djebar entreat their readers, as Adrienne Rich put it, not to “confuse” silence “with any kind of absence” but instead to recognize that “it has a history a form [ sic...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 491–498.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to its form. The result is “a novelistic aesthetics of alterity that can be distinguished from aesthetics understood invidiously as the pleasure derived from ‘mere’ form” (181). This distinction saves the Jamesian legacy from the formalist orthodoxies Moi laments, and encourages a critical understanding...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 114–136.
Published: 01 March 2001
....” In his 1967 essay by that
title, Barth describes the literature of exhaustion as representing “the used-
upness of certain forms or exhaustion of certain possibilities” in litera
ture (70). Novelistic fiction, Barth argues, has already said, done, and
imagined everything...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 364–371.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of the contemporary novelist,
or Clarence Major and Percival Everett, who parody the expectation
that realism guarantees the social purpose of fiction. The dense narrative
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Post-Postmodernism Realism?
form of Toni Cade Bambara’s experimental novel, The Salt Eaters (1980),
nearly implodes from...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 515–523.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and fiction, as The Pargiters set out to do, was doomed to fail-
ure. But Saloman sees both the fact/fiction issue and questions of form
as red herrings, instead attributing Woolf’s “failure” (Saloman’s word) to
the incompatibility of novelistic and essayistic voices and to their “prem-
ises about...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 421–432.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Leverkiihn
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Karyn Ball
as mediated by his biographer Zeitblom. Eisenstein chooses instead to
locate the novel’s ethical credentials as a venue of historical witnessing in
“the Leverkiihnian form written about in Doctor Faustus but ultimately
contained by Mann’s (ironic) fidelity to novelistic...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2008
... of the Edwardian ‘normal,’ i.e.
novelistic realism” (130). Ultimately these “elements” (Greek gods, dell
like spaces, Rickie’s writing of fantasy stories) are not, Miracky argues, a
success in the novels (143-44), but he does not identify the fantastic as a
form in itself, or address Forster’s short...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 492–515.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to
serve as a climax to the case he makes for the writer’s investment in that
dissoluble link between and integration of “story and the novel, the idea
and the form”—concepts that are equivalent, in his view, to “the needle
and the thread.” But James doesn’t seem content merely to bang the drum...
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