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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 June 2020
... history in larger philosophical and political questions, in a cosmopolitan resistance to American puritanical norms, and in knowing reflection on contemporary discussions of representation and image. Gidget is a surprisingly postmodern textual space of disruption and juxtaposition that compellingly...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 485–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to those of his New Critical mentors, such as John Crowe Ransom, for whom the individual of the liberal political order is entwined with the history of Puritan iconoclasm and Romantic views of the poetic subject. It argues that Ransom’s critique parallels those of later critics, such as Marjorie Perloff...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 94–101.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... It closely examines high points in American poetic history from Edward Taylor to Susan Howe. I can think of a handful of similarly ambitious projects over the years: Roy Harvey Pearce’s The Continuity of American Poetry (1961), Hyatt Waggoner’s American Poets: From the Puritans to the Present (1968...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 110–117.
Published: 01 March 2016
... English.” The advent of English-language American poetry comes with two chapters on the Puritans, Robert Daly’s “The World, the Flesh, and God in Puritan Poetry” and Jeffrey A. Hammond’s “Confronting Death: The New England Puritan Elegy,” followed by Jim Egan’s “The Emergence of a Southern Tradition...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2003
... obsession and the conformity of the puritan and the consumer. On the other, American envy of the French so fashionably dark in their refined intelligence or bathed in a sunny sidewalk-cafe love of the moment, then irritation with their rudeness, cowardice, caprice. Etc. The Married Man in Edmund...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 373–377.
Published: 01 September 2005
... extent literature itself have been altered by feminism. Felski s introduction briefly reviews the caricatures of feminists—as “remorseless Puritan[s “hatchet-faced harridans,” “member[s] of the thought police,” humorless, “utterly irrational,” and doctrinaire— that were reiterated...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 545–550.
Published: 01 December 2010
... with trope over truth” (178), destabilizing ideological fixity through a constant reinvention of the self—thereby heeding the seventeenth- century Puritan minister Thomas Shepard’s call to “be always convert- ing.” Dylan’s ongoing “conversion,” far from shoring up a conservative 548 Review...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 316–340.
Published: 01 September 2005
... as it resonates in the contexts of Pauline sensibilities. In a more general sense, both Andrew J. Kappel and Jeredith Merrin have argued at length for the broadly religious influence of Puritan and Renaissance writers on Moore’s poetry. Merrin’s An Enabling Humility offers valuable insights into Moore’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2005
... embracing a Puritan work ethic and climbing the ladder of capitalistic success—his daughter’s strategy of pastoral disengagement aims to destroy that consensus ideol­ ogy, ejecting her father out of his pastoral Eden into the “American ber­ serk.” Appropriating the rhetoric of the myth and symbol...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 99–110.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of their 103 Ellen Levy neighbor, just returned home after her graduation from Bryn Mawr. Moore’s mother’s decade-long affair with Norcross is one of the book’s major pieces of news. The poet’s artist-friends’ stories about both Mary and Marianne always stress their sexual puritanism; the latter’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 264–291.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of God (in England, A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Row­ landson). A first-person narrative o f Rowlandson’s captivity, it provides a historical record o f Puritan attitudes toward the Indians, including both the missionaries’ desire to convert them...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 287–321.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Place and Fourth Street? Oh! out upon it, this silly reputation about the impossible people liv- ing here. Because we let you see us . . . must you play forever the part of the simpering puritan who never heard of sex relations. (227) Barnes reveals unease over...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 292–323.
Published: 01 September 2002
... to the people.” . . . Lenin is here repeating the fallacies o f Tolstoy. (Criticism 5,7) Though MacNeice was intrigued by the intellectual possibilities o f com­ munism, he remained dubious about the translation o f such theories into practice. Accordingly, Lenin’s socialist puritanism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2021
... twice. It is puritanical: hard, one meager pillow, no headboard or footboard, but left perfectly and starkly prepared. Without anything to focus on, the bed still seduces us with a chanted cycle of repeating detail: high, flat, flat, high. There is nothing more to say. And indeed, early in the novel...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 472–493.
Published: 01 December 2003
... the primrose path. As she claims that truth is great, she seems to refer us to antiquity. But she is not quoting an ancient Latin author. “Magna est veritas et praevalebit” is a quotation from a sermon of Edmund Brooks, a Puritan divine of the seventeenth century; and Brooks’s phrase is actually...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 75–93.
Published: 01 March 2017
... into a symbol of the Negro, thus making of David the puritan face of Baldwin himself as an American” (1991, 205). For Jean Méral, “James Baldwin chooses to make all his characters white, in order to remove any possible racial interference” (1989, 223) with the story’s treatment of homosexuality. But even...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2017
... on the parallels between Robinson Crusoe and Augustine’s Confessions , Lynne Walhout Hinojosa, for example, confines her analysis to Crusoe’s own revelations. Arguing that “the troubled relation of Crusoe’s Puritan religion and his secular worldly enterprises has been and remains the central quandary...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 327–344.
Published: 01 September 2007
... light on the old Puritan legend o f a sanctified 339 Paul Giles nation. Infinite Jest thus not only critiques the idea o f American excep- tionalism experientially, showing how US citizens are becoming more uneasy as their borders become m ore permeable, but also...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 217–240.
Published: 01 June 2001
... as “Ulysses” in this puritan-ridden country.. .. I don’t think that anything can be done. I’ll fight for you, but it’s a lost cause. You’re idiots, both of you .You haven’t an ounce of sense. — Margaret Anderson, My Thirty Years’ War (215) A s it turns out...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 444–466.
Published: 01 December 2001
... its Puritan detractors, that the poet (or storyteller) “nothing affirms, and therefore never lyeth” (111). Rashid’s intention is not to relay “facts” or tell the “truth,” so he can hardly be accused of an intention to mislead. “Nobody ever believed anything a politico said,” Haroun observes...