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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 352–357.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Clare Eby Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons , by Siraganian Lisa . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . 288 pages. © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 When lawyers speak of legal fictions, they don’t mean novels like To Kill a Mockingbird or Bleak House...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 431–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Quartets , The Family Reunion , and other works. This article surveys the contents of the long-awaited Eliot letters archived at Princeton University, focusing on Hale’s role in the poet’s personal and imaginative life. In addition to clarifying long-standing questions about their relationship, from...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 413–448.
Published: 01 December 2018
... intellectual, artistic, and personal development. As Eliot moves from analytic philosophy in his doctoral dissertation through the philosophically invested poetry that culminates in The Waste Land (1922) and, finally, to the autobiographical and participatory idiom of Four Quartets (1943), his work...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 213–238.
Published: 01 September 2024
... universalism, based on patterns of likeness and relationality. Moreover, by appreciating the ways this discourse fails—as evidenced in the many textual contradictions and inconsistencies of Dust Tracks —we gain a fuller sense of a process in which universalist ideals bear the marks of Hurston’s personal...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2021
... visual aesthetic—its juxtaposition of translucent, glowing color with opaque line that holds and tempers it—and its power to shape psychological interiors by shaping exterior surroundings. Especially in narrating moments when a character struggles to comprehend her relationship to another person...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Garrett Bridger Gilmore This article examines the function of Anglo-Saxon racial kinship in Harper Lee’s 2015 novel Go Set a Watchman , arguing that it obscures the relationship between personal family dynamics and national struggle over desegregation in the late 1950s. For Lee, psychological...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jordan S. Carroll This essay examines the US literary publisher Grove Press from 1951 to 1970. During this period, Grove promoted an aesthetic that Susan Sontag termed the “new sensibility,” one that valued impersonal sensations over personal expression. Grove thus became a key mediator between...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Christopher Patrick Miller Hart Crane’s lyrics abound with transient figures who often doubt their intelligibility or viability as persons, and his letters reflect a significant anxiety about his own ability to communicate the problems he experienced in being and remaining intelligible to others...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 239–266.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Heather Arvidson This essay traces a critique of anti-sentimentalist leftist impersonality in the critically underestimated and best-selling novel The Unpossessed (1934). Tess Slesinger’s satire parodies the deadened affect that results from programmatic refusals of subjectivity and personal life...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 75–93.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and the personal force of individual desire plays out on a broader structural level as Baldwin’s gay plot is drawn toward the magnetically forceful heterosexual love triangle in Hemingway’s tale. Hemingway and Baldwin address gender normativity and sexual inadequacy from a particular American perspective that must...
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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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 409–436.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in the first place. As her own social life suggests, solitude need not be synonymous with isolation. But if, as in her view, public life is defined by service to a community, such service is rooted in a reserve of solitude. In Moore’s poetry, then, a public is constituted of solitary persons, and living...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 538–543.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wilfrid
Sellars, John Dewey, andW.V. O. Quine. These approaches begin from a
perspective that Sellars refers to as the “manifest image”: our folk psy
chological tendency to attribute agency to embodied persons acting in
vaguely defined and constantly shifting social networks...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 419–424.
Published: 01 December 2024
... introduction, such reading typically depends less on what the person wearing the face wishes to express and more on the interpretive “script” that “simultaneously alters or exceeds the original image or pose of the body” (7). This highlights how the construction of a “personality,” the “master template” (6...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 448–471.
Published: 01 December 2008
... on the sense of an auditor who must be
courted, cajoled, defended against, second-guessed, and so on. Lyric ad
dress and dialogue are conventions of the genre, but what distinguishes an
Ashberyan lyric from one shaped by first-person reflection is its capacity
to be interrupted from the outside...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 531–537.
Published: 01 December 2008
... autobiographical flour
ishes like this in introductions to their books (or, more often, in prefaces),
DuPlessis maintains this mixture of registers throughout Blue Studios.
Her style is personal, always self-reflexively grounded in her experience
of reading and thinking. She does not shy away...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 345–349.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., especially when the text relates to a well-known concept such as modernist impersonality—yet Christina Walter has fashioned just such a text. She issues a call for scholars to reevaluate the traditional understanding that impersonality is merely a negation of personality, a view that “align[s] modernism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 346–368.
Published: 01 September 2000
... providing the most extreme example. While few argue that
suffering from cancer creates a different person, Styron understands de
pression to alter fundamentally the person of the depressed.1 Not just be
haviors change; the individual suffering from depression is, in a crucial...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 493–529.
Published: 01 December 2010
... is identical to the narrator/protagonist (that is, they
share the same name and therefore are, for all intents and purposes, the
same person) or the author is not identical to the narrator/protagonist.
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The Autobiographical Ploy in William S. Burroughs’s Early Work
An autobiography, in other...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 411–416.
Published: 01 September 2015
...-control or strength of will” (Moses 356), thereby presupposing a fixed self or will inherent to character in the first place. So too, in the wake of personality psychology and psychoanalysis, does our current understanding of character maintain that we have an essential identity or set of “personality...
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