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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 473–479.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Clint Wilson, III The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous , by Edwards Erin E. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2018 . 240 pages. Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 The coda to Erin E. Edwards’s The Modernist Corpse cites Gertrude Stein’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 327–344.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Paul Giles Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 Sentimental Posthumanism:
David Foster Wallace
P au l G iles
I f , as Edward W. Soja argued in 1989, postmodernism involved “the re
assertion o f a critical spatial perspective in contemporary social theory”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 287–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the overcoming of ethics. This special issue themed on “Modernist Ethics and Posthumanism” sets out to explore more widely the potential for ethical readings of modernist texts that, like Derrida’s, are not centered on the human. In doing so, it claims that across the span of its work modernism ethically...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 379–404.
Published: 01 December 2023
... biopolitics reveals sovereign capacities that are distinctly posthuman. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 animal studies biopolitics Ezra Pound Italian fascism Virginia Woolf Pisa, Italy, 1846: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, recently married...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 618–623.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Colin Milburn Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems , by Clarke Bruce , New York : Fordham University Press , 2008 . 242 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Colin Milburn
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Beyond Posthuman
Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
... attempts to articulate a posthuman relationship with rural place. Her marginalization of the human supports a posthuman ethics by expressing coexistence and interrelation between human and nonhuman entities. Consequently, Butts explores a mode of engagement with landscape that moves beyond anthropocentrism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
... environmentalism, this article thus suggests, searches out the possibilities and limitations of a posthuman postcolonialism. Works cited Alaimo Stacy . 2010 . Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . Broad William . 1984...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 330–351.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Gabriel Hankins The conjunction of posthumanism and ethics asks us to reconsider both the modernist legacy of critique and poststructuralist ethical rhetorics of absolute alterity. Bruno Latour’s recent reconsideration of politics and ethics through a “nonmodern” account of nature and culture...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 352–372.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and lines of thought in Latour’s work that lead to “compositionism.” It also finds in posthumanism a general apologetics around the dismantling of “critique” and anthropocentrism, opening up textual practice to the admission of vulnerability, naïveté, error, and playfulness, which allows various readings...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 392–410.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... This consideration of the nonhuman elements (i.e., the “things”) of Bowen’s work also gives rise to a thinking about the posthuman, which this article approaches in two ways: (1) as, quite literally, a concern about the world after humanity; and (2) as a non-anthropocentric worldview, opened up by a realization...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 391–422.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of her identity
onto a notion of the subject defined from without. This division of the
self—in which, as we have seen above, the invasive materiality of writing
increasingly plays for Charlotte the role of a posthuman prosthesis—is
nonetheless uncannily familiar to her: “The feeling brought...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 120–127.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Katherine Hayles—otherwise described as network culture or posthumanism—seems likely to dominate our appreciation of twenty-first-century literary culture. Hayles summarizes her important arguments in books on electronic literature and digital media in this brief article, in which she contends...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 June 2012
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posthuman. Indeed, it is the other characters’ desire for phallic identity
and the conventionally “human” that Barnes’s extraordinarily complex
narrative renders pathological. It is thus more accurate to read Nightwood
as a text that proffers a profound critique of degeneration theory...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 291–308.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Derridean
construction of posthumanism and scholars, such as Brian Massumi, who
draw on the works of Gilles Deleuze and other theorists to posit virtuality
and affect as central terms in contemporary culture, retain much of the
theoretical and aesthetic discourse first introduced under the name...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 280–286.
Published: 01 June 2015
... focusing on “contemporary literature and the way we understand its meaning,” exists at the intersection of environmental humanities and the affective turn in cultural studies. Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction draws on materialist, postmodern, and posthuman theories to define a new category...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 511–517.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of Democritus and Lucretius, to Spinoza, Vico, Marx, as well as to certain aspects of Heidegger’s thought, as Louis Althusser explains in Philosophy of the Encounter (2006). In turn, this line of immanent materialism takes us to the more recent speculations of new materialism and posthuman theory...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., the author figure simply cannot be euthanized. Despite theory’s advances into the posthuman, despite our critical and philosophical negotiations of a new subjectivity, a new voice that will undermine the foundations of the liberal-humanist subject, the human haunts us still—the text must be the product...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 105–112.
Published: 01 March 2023
... is to bring together critical disability studies and critical animal studies by evaluating how various novels construct moral issues related to disability and animality. The book engages with moral philosophy, biopolitics, and posthumanism, all of which Linett suggests can be encompassed within a broader...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 199–223.
Published: 01 June 2011
... figuration of a posthuman being, completely
transformed by addiction. Mugwumps “have no liver,” are addicted to
“sucking translucent, colored syrups through alabaster straws,” and in
turn “secrete an addicting fluid from their erect penises which prolongs
life by slowing metabolism” (46). The fluid...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 101–111.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Made Flesh: Biotechnology and the Discourse of the Posthuman .” Cultural Critique , no. 53 : 72 – 97 . Thacker Eugene . 2004 . Biomedia . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . 5 On the European Bioinformatics Institute’s storage of 154 poems in Shakespeare’s Sonnets...
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