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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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 465–484.
Published: 01 December 2023
... is life . . . the plague is death . . . the plague is the fundamental cruelty and senselessness of the cosmos . . . the plague reveals the ethical obligations placed on every human being at all times. At the same time, most readers are aware of the more specific historical context of the novel—that Camus...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 166–192.
Published: 01 June 2008
... singularity, its uniqueness derived from its untransferable obligations and unrepresentable commitments to an alterity that cannot be reduced to the terms of the self.1 It is a sense of this ethico-theological trembling of the modern subject that I want to pursue in Geoffrey Hill’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 377–398.
Published: 01 September 2012
... care as universal. But as Munro’s stories demonstrate, the gendering of caregiv- ing has serious ethical and political implications. For her characers, the inevitable realignment of power structures that accompany dependency and obligation arising from relations of care has serious consequence...
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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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2014
... influence on identity, than about the political conception of membership in a democracy and the rights, obligations, and expectations that come with it.8 Kingsblood Royal, that is, gestures toward a new phase of the struggle for civil rights. Lewis articulates this changing attitude when he writes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 207–238.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the impenetrability of the work for thought. It is precisely to the level of this enigma that the artist obligates the philosopher to place or displace his thought, and this is so whether the artist is aware of it or not. It is up to the philosopher, in the awareness of his debt...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 25–54.
Published: 01 March 2024
... “undoneness as a way of life,” an undoneness that nevertheless variously obligates or commits us to recognizable forms. Highlighting the issue in “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” and often returning to it, he insists that formalization—a re-binding —is necessary for the emergence and sustenance of lived...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 551–558.
Published: 01 December 2010
... and protected previously unrecognized networks of social obligation reaching far beyond the courtroom to “conceivably structure every random encounter” (41). To correlate such advances in tort law with Woolf’s aesthetic innovations, Reichman analyzes Mrs. Dalloway alongside the seminal case Palsgraf v...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 121–146.
Published: 01 June 2023
... untenable universalism attenuated the primordial, local, and historically particular social attachments by which the psyche had been nourished and maintained. 6 As Sandel (1996 : 14) argued, The liberal attempt to construe all obligation in terms of duties universally owed or obligations...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): vi–viii.
Published: 01 June 2008
... and Liter­ ary Culture at Midcentury” satisfies this obligation with real flair. It takes up a subject—the place of homophobia in the American literary culture of the middle of the twentieth century—that might well have generated a simple, pious “politics of representation” essay...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
... an ethics or a moral prescription obligate us only to those like us … i.e. man, or else does it obligate us with respect to anyone at all, any living being at all, and therefore with respect to the animal?” (2009, 244). Derrida’s reading of Lawrence reveals the ethics of “unrecognizability” that he...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 269–284.
Published: 01 September 2000
... withstanding the confidence many people have in their judgment, the pro­ cess of identifying performatives is notoriously perilous. In the case of imagi­ native literature, matters are even worse. Literary works oblige readers to identify performatives mainly on the basis of internal cues, yet...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2017
... into three sequential phases: demonic (orgiastic) irresponsibility, Platonic (ethical) responsibility, and, finally, Christian conscience or the mysterium tremendum (trembling mystery). The origin of the demonic lies precisely in the absence of responsibility: one has no obligation to respond to the other...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 22–41.
Published: 01 March 2006
... ALSO have—or have had—a mercantile and financial sense DUTY means DEBT, a perfectly Christian notion of a debt man has never finished repaying. This duty, which primarily profits the holder of obligations, is itself called OBLIGATION. Its fulfillment, the ethical manual tells...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 212–217.
Published: 01 June 2007
...). There is much in this polemical work on which to comment. Given the limitations of a short review, let me engage a couple of matters: the period terms themselves and Ashton’s handling of Language poetry. Like Brian McHale in his fine book The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole, Ashton treats the term...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of representative samples or surrogates for its human beneficiaries: experimental subjects at once sufficiently similar to serve as substitutes but appreciably different so as not to obligate our full ethical consideration or elicit our compassion. The moment he proscriptively defines the human, issuing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 437–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
... as to the destructiveness of the family system. . . . ‘I’m convinced,’ he said, ‘that there are cases in which perfect sincerity is possible—cases where there’s no relationship, though the people live together, if you like, where each is free, where there’s no obligation upon either side’” (354). While Katharine contends...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 299–305.
Published: 01 September 2019
.... If this is the case in US academia, it calls for resistance rather than acceptance and integration. Going back to the central question of Fisk’s book—namely, “What is the good of world literature?”—one feels obliged to voice the same concern: How can we hope to create a better world if we agree to surrender art...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 385–390.
Published: 01 September 2005
... essays are, Duncan is not obliged to quote and summarize every essay that anyone has ever written on speech and silence in Kogawa, unless they are needed to clarify her own views. (Duncan’s argument did persuade me that Goellnicht’s argument was persuasive and grounded in the text...