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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1 British Second World War propaganda poster (“Freedom” 1941).
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 11–36.
Published: 01 March 2020
...William Davies This essay explores the depiction of the degenerating male form in Samuel Beckett’s post-World War II trilogy of novels ( Molloy , Malone Dies , and The Unnamable ) in the context of Vichy France’s ideology of the body—specifically the male body—and the propaganda of the regime’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 264–271.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Brooke Horvath For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front , by Kingsbury Celia Malone , University of Nebraska Press , 2010 . 309 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Brooke Horvath
Learning to Hate the Hun
For Home and Country: World War I...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Figure 1 British Second World War propaganda poster (“Freedom” 1941). ...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 419–447.
Published: 01 December 2008
... prominent role that aestheti-
cized information plays in political decision making: I argue that it actu
ally articulates a radical riposte to the increasingly dominant discourses
of corporate- and state-sponsored propaganda and reshapes the lessons
of advertising and public relations...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 251–258.
Published: 01 June 2014
...’ narratives” (7), she shows the ways they call into question the
appeal of conformity and propaganda and in this way “challenge the
illusion of harmony and unity in Nazi ideology” (10). Early in the book,
however, Spiro’s strong characterization of Woolf, Barnes, and Isherwood
as producing “anti-Nazi...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 100–108.
Published: 01 March 2021
... O’Malley; his relationship with George Pelorson, a pupil at the École normale supérieure who would later head the Ministry of Youth’s propaganda unit in occupied France; and his support of Jérôme Lindon as the Parisian publisher coordinated protests against French aggression in Algeria. By tracing out...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 64–97.
Published: 01 March 2005
... readers
the tools for making their own decisions, his writings of the later 1930s,
such as Guide to Kulchur (1938), share a sense of purpose and method with
the totalitarian propaganda efforts of Mussolini’s cultural ministers. While
early fascist propaganda allowed and even expected a certain...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2018
... it as “anti-Fascist propaganda” (53). From this perspective, the quality of statelessness in his characters, which Buckton associates with the writer’s leftist politics, comes to signify a more specific condition of exile; Ambler’s characters are nationless because they have been displaced by the growing tide...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 247–270.
Published: 01 September 2016
...” of the war encoded in its language, such as the phrase, “a day’s march,” McNaughton proposes that “Beckett’s quirky methods of containing European war generate what might be called the propaganda of apathy” (52, 51). Reading Watt alongside the diaries and notebooks Beckett made during his time in 1930s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 526–530.
Published: 01 December 2008
... rami
fications of the entre-deux-guerres backlash against the excesses of Great
War propaganda. While she does not quite justify her risky claim that “all
major British writers of the mid-century made the guilty compromise,
knowing it to be exactly that, of supporting the Second World War...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 351–359.
Published: 01 June 2013
...: one of Miranda’s colleagues writes a fact-free gossip column
speculating about the German origins of the disease. Porter also exposes
jingoistic, pro-war propaganda circulating in the US in 1918, as Liberty
Bond salesmen invade Miranda’s office space and attempt to pressure her
to contribute...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 359–364.
Published: 01 September 2017
... significant commitments to philosophy, anthropology, and religious studies. I found myself wanting to see what Sherman might have made, in chapter 1, of Vincent Sherry (2003) on Liberal war discourse, Mark Wollaeger (2008) on modernism and propaganda, and Ravit Reichman (2009) on the cenotaph...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 224–231.
Published: 01 June 2007
..., politics,
and art, is at the root of his huge and complex legacy. Much honored in
the United States since the early nineteenth century, he was also cited
approvingly by the Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels.
It is this double-edged legacy of German romanticism in aesthetic
production...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 401–408.
Published: 01 September 2009
... status as ideological propaganda
that at some times destabilized and at other times naturalized ethnic
writers’ claims to an American identity. Although he acknowledges that
Whitman, in an 1858 editorial in the Brooklyn Daily Times, asks, “is not
America for the Whites...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 371–378.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and misrepresentation, propaganda and counter-propaganda” (116). In contrast to the first half of the book, which seeks to rethink totalitarianism as a concept that has “imaginative purchase” (101) across diverse geographies, histories, and political systems, part 2, entitled “How to Build a Socialist Modernity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... attention to the similar alignment of the individual citizen’s bodily health and the “vitality of the nation as a whole” in Vichy France. Similar ideology was rampant throughout Europe and America during the period, as was a racially charged hierarchy that provided the basis for much derogatory propaganda...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 377–384.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Summer 2013 377
Damjana Mraović-O’Hare
eight months after he landed. A Russian speaker who drew on his notes
from a research trip to the former USSR, Kosinski wrote a book that
not only “explained” the Soviet Union to Americans but also became
“everything that an American propaganda...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 43–70.
Published: 01 March 2019
... . “ Introduction: From Utopia to Propaganda and Back .” In Post-Communist Nostalgia , edited by Todorova Maria Gille Zsuzsa , 1 – 17 . New York : Berghahn . Todorova Maria . 2014 . “ Introduction: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories .” In Remembering Communism: Private and Public...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
...”—that continues to resist “the dark cold and the empty desolation” (20) of eternity. In this article I have brought together two very different cultural artifacts—a modernist poem and a film intended as populist propaganda— on the basis of their shared concern with time, perception, and materiality. Finally...
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