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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 217–236.
Published: 01 September 2019
... with the “vast ventriloquism / Of sleep’s faded papier-mâché” that the rising sun and “scrawny cry” (534) pierce through. As the dreamer’s dreams forfeit their reality, he loses his too, and is left to face a vaster unbecoming—a familiar ontological threat, though not this time cast in racial terms. Tracking...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 273–297.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Timothy Bewes Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 E4I
Against the Ontology of the Present:
Paul Auster’s Cinematographic Fictions
Tim othy Bewes
In the “cinema” . . . man has lost his soul; in return, however, he
gains his body...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Clare Callahan This article reads the vocabulary of “being” scattered throughout Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl as exposing the ontological dispossession underlying the economic and political abandonment of the poor. The Girl’s search for a way “to be,” however, also disrupts the economy...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 243–272.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Aaron Chandler Placing Jack Kerouac’s representations of poverty in dialogue with the work of anthropologist Oscar Lewis, originator of the “culture of poverty” thesis, this essay demonstrates that their disparate modes of allegiance with the poor share roots in the same unstable poverty ontology...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 405–436.
Published: 01 December 2023
... is, in Heidegger’s terms, a “pre-ontological testimony” to Dasein’s groundedness in care, Kafka’s story “The Cares of a Family Man” (1919) and Blanchot’s novel The Most High (1948) may be called “post-ontological testimonies” of care. Both texts thematize the slipping away of the temporal horizon of care...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2017
... similarities between postmodernist ontological instability and queer resistances to teleology. Building on the theoretical work of Brian McHale and Lee Edelman, I argue that Pynchon’s representations of sadomasochism in Gravity’s Rainbow become a destabilizing narrative force that queers Pynchon’s poetics...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 267–298.
Published: 01 September 2017
... different ontologies; the “thingness” or quality of being essential or “noumenal” that belongs to the object or word as object is not available for human perception, which must settle for the brute being of the object as given. He tries to understand what lies beyond this given reality, the quidditas...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2016
... authorial omnipotence. It is only through its gradual extinction that metalepsis serves the postmodern attempt to rethink the author and chart anew its peculiar subject position. In place of the clearly signposted ontological hierarchy on which the device depends, the postmodern promotes a single...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... In particular, in evoking an experience of the timeless, for Sinclair stream of consciousness draws together authors, characters, and readers, generating among them complex investments, both ethical and ontological. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 idealism modernist...
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The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form by Audrey Wasser
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 370–375.
Published: 01 September 2017
... be. Such assumptions are the critical focus of Audrey Wasser’s recent book The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form . Starting from this question of newness, Wasser investigates the ontological status of literature while “aiming to disrupt the metaphysical assumptions...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 277–285.
Published: 01 June 2010
... claims—a story such as David Foster Wallace’s
“The Depressed Person,” not to mention Infinite Jest, makes it clear that
several models of depression can vie for cultural dominance at the same
time—her readings will spur a stimulating debate about the ontology of
mental illness.
Cheever’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 September 2015
... a provocative encounter between the two. He celebrates the vibrancy of matter, the volatility of bodies, and the primacy of ontology while at the same time seeking out “the material underpinnings” of contemporary capitalism’s “avatar fetishism”—that is, our fetishization of immaterial transcendence (21, 22...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 92–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... into a world where the ontological supports of narrative and finitude are no longer available. In other words, Texts gives us the desolation of speech in a world where death no longer functions as the horizon of metaphysical value and experience. “This is a speech,” Blanchot writes in The Infinite...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 150–158.
Published: 01 March 2012
... this division, Izenberg proposes
a new distinction—based on “ontological commitments” and “intention-
ality” (10) and less marred, in his opinion, by a superficial “impressionism”
(31)—through which we might survey the twentieth century. In one
corner, we have the poetry of “aesthetic splendor,” poetry...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 421–432.
Published: 01 December 2004
... about the representation of
the Final Solution move him to call for a recognition of the specificity
of historical traumas over and against the “structural” or “ontological”
understandings of neurosis and the aphanisis of identity that general
ize trauma in Freudian and Lacanian...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 346–368.
Published: 01 September 2000
... an ontology of depression. Is depres
sion an illness or an identity, a disease or a way of life? The lack of a unified
theory that explains what depression is—in combination with the remark
able advancements in treatment of the last decades—has resulted in a vari
ety of theorization. Writers...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the political unconscious of Nazism and the surrealist resistance, elements of which find their way into Nightwood . The body in pain, in Scarry’s account, involves nothing less than ontological stakes. “Wounding,” she claims, can “open up a source of reality” ( Scarry 1985 : 124). As she writes: “The outcome...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 125–152.
Published: 01 June 2007
..., includes a patient explanation of the ontological
distinction between the subjects of fiction on one hand and documentary
on the other:
In a novel, a house or person has his meaning, his existence, en
tirely through the writer. Here, a house or a person has only the
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Ella Zohar...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2002
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be” (Permanence 14). An acknowledged relationship between two objects
in a social field is not a reflection of reality but an interpretation of real
ity, a social and linguistic construct inherited from a community of dis
course. Such orientations not only provide an ontology of the social but
also...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 259–266.
Published: 01 June 2014
... the ideological
certainties that attend the representation of differently-abled persons,
and, taken together, they conceive of an endlessly mutating subjectivity
that renders disability as an ontological category utterly moot” (xix). One
might infer that the mid-eighties euphemism “differently-abled...
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