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“One must make a distinction, however”: Marianne Moore and Democratic Taste
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 296–332.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Patrick Redding Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Patrick Redding
“One must make a distinction, however”:
Marianne Moore and Democratic Taste
Patrick Redding
The root & seed of democracy is the doctrine Judge for yourself...
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One-Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile by Alicia Borinsky
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 666–673.
Published: 01 December 2013
...John King One-Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile , by Borinsky Alicia , Trinity University Press , 2011 . 223 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 John King
One-Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile
by Alicia Borinsky
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in Gertrude Stein’s Baroque Beats: Measuring Counterpoint and the Science of Rhythm
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Figure 2 Handwritten note indicating presence of “one double-headed” photo. “Individual Analysis Card.” 1922. Eugenics Record Office, New York. Eugenics Image Archive.
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Playing the Dozens and Consuming the Cadillac: Ralph Ellison and Civil Rights Politics
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 147–172.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Nathaniel Mills This article challenges long-standing narratives of Ralph Ellison’s response to civil rights-era struggles as one of quietism, conservatism, or apolitical aestheticism. Focusing on a key episode early in Ellison’s Three Days before the Shooting …, in which a jazz musician burns his...
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“Sound, Substantial Flesh and Blood”: T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker” and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
... to express disquiet with the mechanics of the corporeal, Powell’s camera insists that we look steadily at the bodies of his lead actors—one aging before our eyes, one remaining eternally and impossibly the same—as they are worked on by the trickery of cinema, and to marvel at (rather than being repulsed...
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Dadaism and Classicism in The Waste Land
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 269–292.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Patrick Eichholz Out of the wreckage of the First World War, classicism and dadaism charted two opposing paths forward. While one movement sought to overturn the institutions complicit in prolonging the war, the other sought to buttress these same institutions as a safeguard against the chaos...
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“A Dirty Word These Days”: Anglo-Saxonism, Race, and Kinship in Go Set a Watchman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... maturity and political liberty constitute the core features of a mythologized Anglo-Saxon racial inheritance, one shared by her novel’s white characters, and over the course of the novel, as its protagonist Jean Louise Finch rejects psychologically stunted and politically naive colorblind liberalism, she...
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Marianne Moore’s Public Solitude
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 409–436.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and solitude were not only compatible but, in fact, depended on one another. Moore had a high view of public (and especially civic) virtue and responsibility, which she brought to bear on her late-life celebrity, but for her it was solitude that made both literary productivity and public life possible...
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“Interested in Big Things, and Happy in Small Ways”: Curiosity in Edith Wharton
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 March 2018
... claims, requires drawing a sharp distinction between the private-intellectual and social-practical realms or, as one of her characters puts it, between the “things you read about” and the “things you do.” Curiosity, if it is to be sanctioned by Wharton, must be quarantined to the former sphere, to one’s...
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The Plantation-Auschwitz Tradition: Forced Labor and Free Markets in the Novels of William Styron
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Danielle Christmas In William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner , and the responses to his novels, two contrasting discourses emerge: a commitment to the idea that histories of slavery and the Holocaust can be explained by economic motives, on one hand, and, on the other...
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Irreverent Intimacy: Nella Larsen’s Revisions of Edith Wharton
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
... on the originality of her own oeuvre, the younger writer took Wharton’s work and made it new. One of Larsen’s most modernist gestures is the manner in which she consistently refers to, echoes, and resituates Wharton. These adaptations of Wharton’s fiction, especially of Sanctuary (1903) and Twilight Sleep (1927...
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The Poetics of Political Failure: Eliot’s Antiliberalism in an American Context
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
...William Q. Malcuit This article argues for a reconsideration of T. S. Eliot’s early poetry—in particular “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”—as developing out of a particular American poetic tradition, one that replayed and reinforced important tenets of American liberalism and nationalism...
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Mademoiselle from Malibu: Eighteenth-Century Pastoral Romance, H-Bombs, and the Collaborative, Intertextual Gidget
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 June 2020
... voice, one blurring distinctions between its California teen daughter-protagonist-narrator and the father-author, both learned European exile and savvy Tinseltown operator. In subtly decisive ways, Kohner intervenes allusively and intertextually in the central narrative to anchor buoyant personal...
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“A World of Tomorrow”: Trauma, Urbicide, and Documentation in A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Sarah E. Cornish The World War II diary A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (2005) documents one woman’s story of survival in the spring of 1945 in Berlin, during which upward of 130,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Red Army. First, this essay introduces the politics...
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The “Better Judgement” behind the “Walk on Air”: Heaney’s Productive Misreading of Bishop
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 57–74.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., however, that view helps Heaney develop a poetics where form itself—the essential border-making and border-crossing apparatus—is emblematic of a solution to political crisis, making his misreading a highly productive one. Beginning with “Listen,” the envoi tries to harness what in Bishop’s villanelle...
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Morbid Vitalism: Death, Decadence, and Spinozism in Barnes’s Nightwood
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
... and affective space for thinking through—if not necessarily beyond—the ubiquity of despair in twentieth-century modernity. Ultimately, morbid vitalism points a way toward a broader conversation between life-oriented modernist scholarship on vitalism and affect, on the one hand, and ongoing inquiries...
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Nella Larsen’s Quicksand , Recalcitrant Subjects, and Wrong Feeling
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 359–384.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and inexplicable choices, critics tend to blame either Helga’s psyche or her environment. This essay offers an alternative approach, one that troubles the sharp distinctions between interior and exterior on which these readings implicitly rely by arguing that Helga and recalcitrant subjects like her exhibit “wrong...
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Elizabeth Bishop and the New Deal: Queer Poetics and the Welfare State in Key West
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of her work. Ultimately, the essay suggests that relocating Bishops’s work in its New Deal context helps us see that, as one critic put it, “There’s something queer about the welfare state.” [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 American literature Federal...
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A Poetics of Embeddedness: J. M. Coetzee’s Dissertation on Beckett
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 323–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Rarely have we seen an instance where one major writer is both a major influence on another but also the subject of that other’s rigorous academic study. From the infertile soil of the field of stylostatistics, this essay aims to trace the unlikely flowering of Coetzee’s doctoral work in his later...
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American Tramps: Transient Gesture and Lyric Form in Hart Crane
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... Against that background, this article offers a reading of Crane’s transient figures as linguistic performances of such doubtful and tenuous existences. In this, the article puts Crane in dialogue with one of his most admired and mimicked contemporaries, Charlie Chaplin, as well as with theories...
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