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The Modern Reader’s Dilemma: Something Old, Something New…
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 245–253.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Samir Dayal The Modernity of Sanskrit , by Sawhney Simona , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2009 . 213 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
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The Modernity of Sanskrit...
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Death Styles: The Language of Trauma and the Trauma of Language in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... story, part horror story, part detective story—is a riddle that the reader must solve, but that in doing so the reader becomes infected with the same fragmentary force that disembodies the protagonist. As such, the heuristic consequence of the novel is to instruct the reader on the influence of language...
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Hannibal Lecter as Avenging War Orphan in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Rising
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Korine Powers Beginning with Red Dragon (1981), horror icon Hannibal Lecter thrilled audiences as the ultimate unreadable reader, consuming minds and bodies behind the polished veneer of aristocratic taste and psychological expertise. Yet by the end of the twentieth century, Lecter had shifted from...
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What Bertha Knows: Proprietary Narration in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 437–465.
Published: 01 December 2022
... short story, “Bliss.” Most readers of “Bliss” assume that the protagonist, Bertha, knows nothing of her husband’s apparent affair with a guest at their dinner party and even that she is unaware of her own burgeoning homosexual desire for this same guest. And yet the persistent ambiguity of Mansfield’s...
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Elizabeth Bishop and the Mechanics of Poetic Pretence
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., these poems illuminate the historically consequential processes by which a poet is called to her subject, and by which her poetry in turn solicits the reader’s attention. Bishop invokes the imperial violence of her time to suggest that poetic description—and the reader’s collaborative concentration—engage our...
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Reading the Archival Remains of Arturo Islas’s La Mollie and the King of Tears
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 407–430.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that more purposefully imagines the role of the body—of the author, of the text, and of the reader— in constituting and reconstituting the narrative. Of course, the presence and erasure of the mediating frame is evident not in the published text but in the archive, itself always at a remove from readers...
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Perverse Attention(s): Djuna Barnes, John Rechy, and the Queer Modernist Aesthetics of Entrancement
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 273–294.
Published: 01 September 2022
... for capturing and holding the attention of their readers, shaping queer modernist aesthetics in an oft-overlooked way. In the United States, inversion was associated less with degeneration than with a kind of acquired sexual nervousness. As Alida M. Black (2001 : 106) points out, “neurasthenia” was one...
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Times of the Timeless: May Sinclair, British Idealism, and the Stream of Consciousness
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... In particular, in evoking an experience of the timeless, for Sinclair stream of consciousness draws together authors, characters, and readers, generating among them complex investments, both ethical and ontological. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 idealism modernist...
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James Weldon Johnson’s Feminization of Biraciality
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 385–406.
Published: 01 December 2021
... tendencies among readers of the novel to condemn the ex-colored man stems from an investment in the trope of the “tragic mulatto”—a plot device that at once sentimentalizes the fates of biracial characters and links those fates inextricably to biology rather than ideology. 1 For Kawash (1997 : 133...
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Zora Neale Hurston, Participatory Listenership, and Boasian Anthropology
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 127–148.
Published: 01 June 2024
... establishing a collaboration among the author, the folk characters, and the reader to help bring that “listenerly” Black community into being. The ethnographic and objective facade of Mules is, however, compromised by the textual presence of Zora herself as “a character” ( Joseph 2002 : 462), a “featured...
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Mediation, Stream of Consciousness, and the Faulknerian Voice: As I Lay Dying to The Town
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 June 2024
... opposed aesthetic effects: across three decades, character difference becomes sameness, individuality turns to collectivity, and as midcentury readers lamented, the distinctiveness of the Faulknerian voice disappears. The first half of this study identifies a shift in Faulkner’s stream-of-consciousness...
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Dismembering Remembering: Mourning with Disgust in Delbo’s Auschwitz and After
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 483–503.
Published: 01 December 2018
... unspeakability of the events, Delbo’s text oscillates between self-consciously aestheticized language and graphic physical representations of abject bodies. The irruptive visceral descriptions confront the reader with automatic, embodied repulsion in order to highlight the gaps in symbolization...
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“There Is No Such City”: The Myth of Odessa in Post-Soviet Immigrant Literature
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 121–144.
Published: 01 March 2019
...” identity and how it is received by US readers and critics. Works Cited Akhtiorskaya Yelena . 2014 . Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel . New York : Riverhead . Akhtiorskaya Yelena . 2015 . “ An Interview with Yelena Akhtiorskaya .” By Filar Diana . Blue Mesa Review , no. 31...
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Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature , by Christopher Krentz
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 225–232.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of conditions that may be physical, sensory, or cognitive; temporary or permanent; and visible or invisible” (14). Emphasizing his commitment to ambiguity, he coins the term “elusive kinship” to describe the bond between reader and disabled character, contending that literary depictions of disability promote...
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Reading Hypothetically
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 515–523.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Virginia Woolf’s Essayism is a valuable, provocative work,
both for its theoretical postulates (which, if not wholly convincing to
this reader, are highly intriguing) and for its against-the-grain readings of
various texts. Ordering the postulates for my own purposes (a readerly
project in keeping...
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Implicating the Confessor: The Autobiographical Ploy in William S. Burroughs’s Early Work
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 493–529.
Published: 01 December 2010
... and extraneous documents (40). Instead, scholars
are beginning to ask not what Burroughs’s extratextual claims are simply
about, but rather what his extratextual claims do.
By figuring his early work as confessional, Burroughs’s extratextual
claims interpellate the unsuspecting reader to play the role...
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Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain , by Heather Fielding; Modernist Soundscapes: Auditory Technology and the Novel , by Angela Frattarola
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 392–401.
Published: 01 September 2020
... into the experience of their readers, while the other aims to demonstrate how some modernist authors created works that modeled heightened forms of receptivity for their readers. While one holds up the aesthetic autonomy guaranteed by formal narrative techniques meant to distance readers from texts, the other prizes...
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Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature , by Gloria Fisk
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 299–305.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of Orhan Pamuk, who, after being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2006 for peering “into the melancholic soul of his native city,” 1 was canonized by US academia as one of the iconic authors of world literature. In the introduction, Fisk warns the reader not to expect a monograph...
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The Book of Ephraim by James Merrill
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 157–162.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Heather Cass White There is some question in my mind about which readers, exactly, are likely to be helped by Yenser. I imagine a flummoxed undergraduate, for example, appealing to the notes on section A and reading “it might be heuristic to point out the quibble here on ‘deadline’ and ‘dead...
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Imagining Rooted Cosmopolitanism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 355–364.
Published: 01 June 2012
... and Salman Rushdie
as exemplars of transnational literature. While she does not directly cite
Stanley Fish’s notion of an interpretive reader,2 she posits a reconfigured
version of this notion in order to examine the transnational experience
as a primarily fictional and imaginative enterprise. What...
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