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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 346–368.
Published: 01 September 2000
... as diverse as Walker Percy, William Styron, and,
most recendy, Peter Kramer and Elizabeth Wurtzel, have all directly or indi
rectly addressed the question of the relation between depression and its
sufferer. Is it an obstruction to be overcome, a technology to be utilized or
a lifestyle...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in Southern Literature (2012), Lambert analyzes the false nostalgia of Southern apologists in works such as John Crowe Ransom’s essay “Reconstructed but Unregenerate” (1930) and William Alexander Percy’s 1941 autobiography Lanterns on the Levee . Percy’s work draws on the trope of the South as a contentious...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 720–727.
Published: 01 December 2012
... their audiences by awakening them to
how far in their day-to-day lives they had strayed from God’s desires and
so shaking them free of habitual behaviors. Similarly, in the 1961 novel
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy’s Binx Bolling is still lamenting our inability
to transcend “the everydayness” of life...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 343–350.
Published: 01 June 2013
... for whom “discretion”
was essential. Percy Lubbock had to agree not to include James’s gush-
ingly amorous dotings upon younger men in the edition of letters pub-
lished in 1920. That edition simply stripped many letters of language the
James family found embarrassing—a remarkable violation...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 277–285.
Published: 01 June 2010
... discusses,The Bell
Jar counsels “that compromise [with the community] requires capitula-
tion but that capitulation is acceptable as long as it is freely elected” (78).
Cheever then turns to Walker Percy’s The Thanatos Syndrome, arguing that
this novel depicts a conspiracy to eradicate social...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 307–338.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in a (heretical) sense that all values are
relative. John M. Bradbury, writing in 1969, goes further and castigates
both Barth and Walker Percy for betraying the southern literary heritage,
presenting a “modern South, which is no longer a cultural entity” (321)
but a “tragicomic absurdity” (329...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 279–285.
Published: 01 June 2009
... their successors have availed themselves of those
rich resources? There is little or no mention in this book of writers like
Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, the
Christian W. H. Auden, the early Robert Lowell, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey
Hill, or even parts of Seamus Heaney. I cannot...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 488–517.
Published: 01 December 2007
... the possibility of a different ac
count altogether: names can actually achieve a rich relation to objects in a
context of receptivity and intersubjective affirmation. What gives a name
depth is its shared association. Novelist and philosopher Walker Percy
writes:
Naming or symbolization may...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 285–314.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Library , London . Russell Percy . 1886 . The Literary Manual; or, A Complete Guide to Authorship . London : London Literary Society . Saint-Amour Paul K . 2003 . The Copywrights . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Salmon Richard . 2013 . The Formation...
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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 443–473.
Published: 01 December 2006
...
such as the habits of the cuckoo or plant growth: Romance in a Pond, for
example, investigates the life cycle of newts. In their 1933 book Secrets of
Nature, Mary Field (“the only Englishwoman at present directing talking
pictures” [4]) and Percy Smith (“an expert on micro-cinematography”)
remark...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 228–236.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Land . The third interchapter, “Reforming Decadence: Late Romanticism, Modernism, and the Politics of Literary History,” is difficult to describe and, for me, to understand. Sherry evokes within it Percy Shelley, Wyndham Lewis, György Lukács, and Theodor Adorno, among others. It includes what must...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 159–168.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of Flannery O’Connor or Walker Percy, but rather to
help explain how he “ultimately transfers a version of mysticism from the
Catholic context into the literary one” (53). DeLillo’s novels, she claims,
“translate religious structures into literary ones without an intervening
secularism,” a thing...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 128–136.
Published: 01 March 2014
... either orbit university settings or star
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PhD-holders and scientists. The secondary cast of fiction-makers who
flesh out the chapters—William Gass, Ronald Sukenick, Iris Murdoch,
Mary McCarthy, Walker Percy—only compound this issue. Even were
LeMahieu to acknowledge...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 439–461.
Published: 01 September 2012
... reviewers damned it with
faint praise. In the New York Times Book Review, Percy Hutchinson called
it “homespun” and noted the novel’s allure for the Negro’s “primitive
mind.” One of Hurston’s first biographers, Robert Hemenway, called it “a
noble failure . . . the victim of its own aspirations...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 368–393.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Percy, who served under Nelson in the wars against
Napoleon. Her uncle, Henry Percy, was aide-de-camp to Wellington at
Waterloo, and the gloves that the Iron Duke wore at Waterloo are in her
possession. How better to remind the reader of British superiority over
the French than by invoking...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2015
... to Yeats . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Schenck Celeste . 1986 . “ Feminism and Deconstruction: Re-constructing the Elegy .” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 5 , no. 1 : 13 – 27 . Shelley Percy Bysshe . 2003 . Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works . Edited...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 283–316.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and procedures from Roman Catholicism.
10. In addition to the three books that comprise the Wells-Belloc feud, Eliot is
also reviewing The Life of Jesus by John Middleton Murry, The Anglo-Catholic
Faith by T. A. Lacey, and Modernism in the English Church by Percy Gardner. The
reviews of these “brilliant...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 493–513.
Published: 01 December 2008
... Dover Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1969.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Selected Poems. Ed. Timothy Webb. London: Dent, 1977.
Thomson, James. The Tragedy of Sophonisba. Acted in the Theatre-Royal in Drury-
Lane. By His Majesty’s Servants. London: A. Millar, 1730.
Webster, John. The White Devil. Ed...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 389–408.
Published: 01 December 2022
... : Johns Hopkins University Press . Shelley Percy Bysshe . 2003 . The Major Works . Edited by Leader Zachary O’Neill Michael . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Sherman David . 2009 . “ Elegy under the Knife: Geoffrey Hill and the Ethics of Sacrifice .” Twentieth-Century...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 362–387.
Published: 01 September 2008
....
New, Elisa. The Regenerate Lyric. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.
Perkins, David. “Sympathy with Nature: Our Romantic Dilemma.” Harvard
Review 9 (1995): 69—82.
Ruskin, John. The Works of John Ruskin. Vol. 5. Ed. E.T. Cook. London: Allen,
1904.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Shelley’s Poetry...
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